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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by alblue on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:16AM (#26409376)
Absolutely. Plus, and organisation can do dumb things because a single wrong person in the hierarchy of such a system can make a bad decision that takes hundreds of man years to undo.

The reason small startups can innovate faster than large enterprises is that they can’t afford to make stupid mistakes. There’s no such evolutionary pressure on enterprises, unless it until the scale of the stupid mistake becomes life threatening for the company.

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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by KajMagnus on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:50AM (#26412472)
> wrong person [...] a bad decision that takes hundreds of man years to undo

Makes me wonder if there's a real life story behind that

> small startups [...] can’t afford to make stupid mistakes

Yes, well, I'd say all companies do stupid mistakes?

And the small ones need to be good at noticing when they do it, and revert, undo :- )

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