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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by codetrotter on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:11PM (#34839843)
> I was pretty sure I knew what most of the problems were, so I got in touch with the developers, and everything got sorted out in a few days (they were already aware of some issues).

Yeah but like, I get that startups are better at listening to customers and adjusting quickly.

But I can confidently say.. if John Carmack himself legit sent me an email pointing out some problem with something I made. You bet your ass I would respond and listen to what was on his mind. Regardless of the size of my company and the amount of work on my plate :p

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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by stonemetal12 on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:40PM (#34840247)
Yeah but at a big corp it is more than just you. Even if you fixed it are you authorized to get a build out, out of cycle? If you work on an App, can you get it through the app store approval process?
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by jayparth on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:15PM (#34839902)
But he was doing that daily at Meta, and it still took 6 months for things to happen!
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by bombcar on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#34839980)
Something something ancient Chinese parable the only person not impressed by the General/Emperor/Mystic Sage is his wife.
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by bmitc on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:38PM (#34840210)
Do we know that the things he wanted to fix were important enough to fix?
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by nh23423fefe on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:59PM (#34841166)
Yes we know that.
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by lukefischer on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:17PM (#34850618)
Yeah they were. We are writing a blog about it so everyone knows.
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by Kranar on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#34839976)
But his entire point is that's not what happened at the big company he worked at.
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by yuppie_scum on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:29PM (#34841501)
I bet more than half the kids working there weren’t even born when Quake came out
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by kraseng on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:24PM (#34851251)
This is actually pretty funny :) I can verify if the percentage is really more than 50.
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by lukefischer on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:16PM (#34850611)
We took Action right away. I think many companies wouldn’t have aces as fast. Not everyone gets it
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Re:John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups by kraseng on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:20PM (#34851216)
You are right! Respond and listen - absolutely! It will be just silly not to do that.

However, being able to implement it, having the infra to facilitate, and the internal quality of the deliverable not to incur more tech debt by being quick … this is just not as simple as size of company and work on plate.

Yes, I am not humble but we work hard :)

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