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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by kazinator on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:49PM (#10927886)
This stack fallacy sounds very familiar. Oh, we will just have a few system calls like open, close, read and write, some TTY and credentials related stuff, a bit of signal handling, process control with fork, exect and wait ... writing a shell language on top will practically just be a footnote.
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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by anshublog on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:19PM (#10928043)
Yes many open source projects suffer from this too. We as engineers (even former ones) often assume the what to build is "obvious". This is often not true, if ever.

The best open source projects are ones where engineers are the end users (customers).

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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by marshray on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:34PM (#10928100)
Perhaps this is a feeling that, as experienced implementers, we have a big head start on the hard parts.

Maybe this is another form of the "solution looking for a problem" phenomenon.

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