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This is a great list.

When micro services work, it's because they made it easy to verify each of these [obvious] bullet points. For some jobs, file this under premature contemplation.

When other methods work... My top two are "clarity of focus" and "[relative] lots of unnecessary labour". "Lifecycle" takes a coalition third.

Per capita spending is a little misleading here, is it not? Ceteris paribus, http://www.novinite.com/articles/143867/Bulgarian+Teachers+w... suggests Romania gets Bulgaria's educational results at nine tenths the cost, and Bulgaria achieves Luxembourg's results at a[n adjusted] seventh of the cost. I have no doubt that adjusting for teacher salaries leaves the rest of your analysis in tact, but I imagine the process would be educational in itself.

Capitalism leads to some unfavorable outcomes. Algorithms do capitalism better, leading to more unfavorable outcomes. Therefore, algorithms are the problem.

I don't know what I missed, but it looks like algorithms merely provide the reductio for something you already don't like.

Calm down, Kent.

Please correct me: The Triple Package says successful individuals are in some sense drawn from populations that inculcate certain traits. The article discusses success as an individual trait, and not a group trait. Narrow reading, misreading...?

Aha. This is a nice motive for the no-more-Linus-in-Linux conspiracy theory, if one thinks that it takes a Linus-level principled stand to keep openness on this issue.

Why not look at the areas where people in engineering and product management came from? It takes very few steps before we start expecting all metrics to resemble global metrics.

Which makes this circular comment a little ironic.

So three coin flips leads to a gender disparity- I guess if you don't observe any of them, no discrimination of heads or tails could occur...

I think you need to draw a better comparison to http://io9.com/5691604/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-future-for-60... for this crowd.

I'm asking if managerial information is a strict superset of engineer information. Control of admin passwords to software seems useless or illegal w.r.t. the concept of information here.

Is there any meaningful sense in which a tech-tracker has more official or unofficial access to information?

This kind of architecture is akin to surgery, and there aren't enough cadavers available for practice. (Zombies, on the other hand, maybe.)

The Conway's Law factors are also harder to treat "fairly" in a theoretical sense relative to some of the real team-related difficulties that exist in any large enough organization.

Do you really need to fact-check a metaphor?

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen

You're telling us a lot more about how you use speech in an attempt to shame other people and a lot less about how shaming and insulting 'stupid' is relative to 'so stupid'.

He covered this:

> I'd usually speed read

So television interviews...?

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Thus, follow your heart- dwell not on what you did, nor on what you do, but listen to what you need. Long after, look back, and see, more clearly, what you need now.

Lip service is the first step.