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A comment on Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08).

Re:Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08) by wicknicks on Monday March 28, 2011 @04:20PM (#2379901)
Suffering-oriented programming: A great mantra for startups. If you don't face the problem yourself, then there is no point in building software for it -- chances are no one else has it too.
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Re:Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08) by ruycer on Monday March 28, 2011 @07:31PM (#2380596)
I agree. Only when you know how the pain feels, you are capable to create products that alleviate that pain.
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Re:Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08) by herdrick on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:13AM (#2381612)
Actually, that's not what he's talking about. He's saying that they only do something about lack of process or messy code or whatever when it starts to hurt them. It's strictly internal.
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