("Yeah, I've made millions out of this web service, who cares that I store customer credit card details in plain text").
The European Union. If you have any of their residents in that database, then you have about 3 weeks to fix that...
Unless they don't audit you.
In which case you can continue not to care.
From my own experience talking with CEOs, I really think that will continue to be the case. If you're asking them to accept a large concrete loss now to prevent a hypothetical even large loss at some point in the future, they won't care.
Re:Be likeable or get fired
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:25AM
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> No, believe it or not some people prefer dignity.
Nobody ever ran a successful business on dignity.
You'd be surprised.
It might be true that nobody ever made a hugely profitable business on dignity.
But it's absolutely false that that aren't businesses that are successful with dignity.
So, depends on your definition of success.
If it is "supports me and my workers and can even moderately grow and produce good stuff for my customers" then many did.
If it is "I want to eat the world like Uber" perhaps no one die.
s/no one die/no one did/
"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack." - Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #109
Re:Be likeable or get fired
by Regardsyjc on Saturday April 21, 2018 @02:06AM
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Yvon Chouinard built his billion dollar business Patagonia with dignity. One of the best things I learned from reading his book, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, was to grow sustainably and only when necessary. It surprised me because it seems to be the exact opposite advice of mainstream startup culture, exponential growth.
No, believe it or not some people prefer dignity.
>The last developer I fired worked for me for 4 days. On day 4 he presented me a list of things I had done wrong in a tiny 2000 lines of business logic application with over $300,000 of revenue earned on it.
Whether it had $300,000 or 10M revenue, doesn't change the fact that it might had 300 things wrong.
Not to mention that a single thing done wrong could still result on some large embarrassing outage, customer data exposure or deletion, etc, and result in costs/fines worse then those $300,000.
("Yeah, I've made millions out of this web service, who cares that I store customer credit card details in plain text").
>I have dozens of applications in production
Any specific names, so we can avoid them?