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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by smitty1e on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:27AM (#31822669)
Compulsive over-engineering is by no means an IT-centric problem.

It takes substantial wisdom to arrive at an 80% solution and cease fannying about.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by xyproto on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:34AM (#31824405)
And the people that brings this wisdom also brings few or no metrics that are appreciated by management.
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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by fisf on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:53PM (#31826197)
The people who push the other direction also bring few or no metrics. I.e. there is often no reason to add <bag of features>, except a customer (who didn't buy the product yet) mentioned them as nice to have during initial sales talks.
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