Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
by pdpi on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:44PM
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Something I love about the frozen pizza setup is just how much of it is about being sloppy and recovering gracefully. Cut rectangular dough band into circles and circulate the off cuts back into the start. Rain cheese everywhere and let it fall into a recovery tray. These are techniques that also work well in software — it’s often easier to design a system that builds a bad result and fixes it after than it is to build a good result from first principles.
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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
by starmftronajoll on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:37PM
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The brilliance of the cheese process struck me as well – we see a mess and then, the reveal of the amusingly simple cleanup. (This is an effectively edited promotional film, too. The story of the equipment is beautifully told.)
Your insight re: the parallel to software design is a valuable one, thank you.