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throwaway5752 • yesterday at 7:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

"We consider it an outage if we don't ship every hour" is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

I really mean this. Does it benefit the business? Does it benefit the users? When you optimize for the wrong thing, you inevitably fail.


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signatoremo • yesterday at 10:48 PM

That’s an uncharitable take. They didn’t say anything about optimizing for it, just that it was a signal for them. Maybe one of the signals.

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