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Re:Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish... by fixed_carbon on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:52PM (#14368821)
"Marketing...kept changing the core functionality" "CEO kept shoving his ludicrous ideas onto development"

Check and check. There's also my personal favorite: marketing informs the dev team they've just inked a big contract with a tight deadline for features that were never discussed with the dev team. "We kinda told them we already had those features but hadn't released them yet. Can you guys build that real quick like?"

Re:Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish... by pvdebbe on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:45AM (#14374355)
Classic. Our supports operative just happened to promise full IE support (we promise only Firefox) just like that.