Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
by smj-edison on Friday November 28, 2025 @06:33PM
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I'm hoping to do a startup in molecular simulation. Granted, a startup has its own set of headaches, but it does dodge that particular issue :)
Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
by t43562 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @04:30AM
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It obviously will do but with any luck you'll be so successful that you'll grow enormously and perhaps not have complete control in the end. Hopefully you'll have enough money not to mind too much!
Your company's root priorites are probably at odds with writing good software.
One Japanese company, not going to name names, kept trying to treat software as a depreciating asset. I didn't really understand well but the long and short was that fixing things that were supposed to be "done" was bad for the accounting. New things, however were good.
How can you run a software company like that? But they did and got the kind of outcome you'd expect. Japan made the laws this way and gets software to match.