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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by listenallyall on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:39AM (#32188907)
If you were building a nuclear reactor, would you err on the side of too much documentation, oversight, and code review, or too little?
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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by nazka on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:20PM (#32198799)
I was just sharing the story.

Now 2 weeks for a simple change in a if. Some changes can take months and the software is not just a few line of code so if you do the math you may start to have rust on your hardware even before the v1.0 is out. Also nobody is going to read this type of “doc” but another schema spec coder if that’s the name.

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