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Re:How Software Companies Die - by Orson Scott Card by cancelbubble on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @06:38PM (#1866833)
"You're building something intricate and fine."

Odds are, you're not. Well, intricate yes, but fine, no.

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Re:How Software Companies Die - by Orson Scott Card by pjscott on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @08:36PM (#1867092)
That's "fine" as in "fine motor skills", or "fine sandpaper", not as a synonym for good.
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Re:How Software Companies Die - by Orson Scott Card by thwarted on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @09:36PM (#1867225)
Yeah, but a lot of software, some of it MVP, is extremely coarse.
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