You Can’t Have a Rollback Button

Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by csense on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:47PM (#13799312)

The blurb about the company at the end of this article made me wince:

> Skyliner is an AWS platform for continuous delivery. We’re trying to build a straight jacket that you can wear to stop hitting yourself in the face.

I'm usually one of those guys with an instinctive distaste for marketing, but it seems like this is one startup that badly needs some professional help in the way they talk to potential customers...

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by DrScump on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:39PM (#13799599)

  a *straight jacket* that you can wear

You shouldn't be allowed to sell a metaphor if you can't even spell it properly.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by kelnos on Monday March 06, 2017 @04:25AM (#13801599)

Yes, and it's worse that they're trying to sell their deployment solution by taking a hard-line stance against a common deployment practice that they have a flat-out incorrect opinion about.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by Terr_ on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:39PM (#13799595)

I imagine it polls very well with developers who somewhat-distrust the flailings of "the business guys", but if the phrase gets past that layer...

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by debaserab2 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:56PM (#13799958)

Why would you ever buy a strait jacket in real life, though? The metaphor doesn't even make sense.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by skyrw on Sunday March 05, 2017 @08:10PM (#13800001)

Well I guess if you're the type of person that can't stop hitting themselves in the face you may be in the market for one. Limited market though however.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by davidhariri on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:18AM (#13802197)

Finally someone will prevent me from hitting myself in the face.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by bbcbasic on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:33PM (#13799852)

Yes. 'trying to build' sounds like you might not succeed.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by skyrw on Sunday March 05, 2017 @08:08PM (#13799995)

I catch myself almost saying things like this to customers all the time. I think its a dunning-kruger related component of engineering humility. Constantly have to watch my words and think in marketing language.

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Re:You Can’t Have a Rollback Button by DenisM on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:37AM (#13800896)

"s/trying to/on the mission to/g"

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