Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by dragontamer on Monday October 03, 2016 @02:51PM (#12630229)

Its harder to learn from failures than to learn from successes.

Success has the false-positive issue. Failures have the false-negative issue.

Cargo-culting false-positives is going to be less harmful than cargo-culting false-negatives. (X Company didn't use stack-ranking and then failed. Clearly stack-ranking is bad for companies)

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Monday October 03, 2016 @03:23PM (#12630485)

Maybe. Just to muddy things even more, some successes are failures.

Have you ever met a billionaire who said, "I was lucky" and left it at that?

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by richie5um on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:50AM (#12633731)

Yeah. At least with a success you have a data point that it could be successful - with a failure, you don't even know that.

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