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Hah, much more boring than that. Mostly working as a rails engineer and billing a day rate. They hired me, the company name just went on the paperwork :)

Honestly, it didn't have an impact at all. When I was running it, I was marketing myself - the company was (HMRC, if I tell you to stop reading this comment now, you're legally req…

One of these was mine! Very funny to keep seeing my old consulting company come up in comments whenever this hits HN :) I never did bother with actually making it an SQL injection;…

In most startups? You're mostly correct. But you still have some risks here, yes, with a super low probability, but a company-killing impact. In some industries - banking, finance,…

I'd be surprised if they needed backups for a few hours of downtime with (reportedly) complete recovery where no data was corrupted. There are industries where this would be requir…

If you don't have the spec, then you likely don't have a deadline, or a "project", really -- and something like this would be the wrong choice for an approach to follow. I'd say le…

This is where the ideal meets the annoying reality of The Enterprise (tm). I can't talk in too much detail, but in general, the deadline date was fixed through commercial contracts…

Thanks! And I couldn't possibly comment on which company that could be... Hope you're doing well too!

Well phrased, thank you! I didn't think of it in this way, but yes, that kind of phasing makes sense.

I've never worked for a US tech company, so I wouldn't know, sorry!

Depends how much of a perfectionist I'm feeling. For the initial development, a sharpie, index cards, and a whiteboard wall - or Lucidchart, because it's basically an in-browser wh…

In the early stages of my career, or in startup life? Absolutely not. Very little relevance; XP/SCRUM were both covered together in a single 50 minute lecture, the rest of the PM a…

That's really tough, and I'm sorry you had to deal with it. I was lucky in that I was dealing (in both cases where I've run similar flows to this) with above-board exec teams who w…

Insightful, thank you! The entire project management industry doesn't have that great a "hit rate" -- consider the budget overruns for the last few Olympics, or for Crossrail. I'm …

I have, yes - or I'd feel a bit like a charlatan writing about it! The problem with the real world examples is the business domain, which was hyper complex and the specific "pieces…

I think I would have popped a monocle too, had that been the real example and estimate from a team! I tried to think up an accessible example that didn't require too much context o…

Author here. I've been lucky enough in my career to hold some senior positions, and I thought I'd give a step-by-step on an approach I took with an "enterprise-scale" software proj…

I did read the article. I understand the desire to "do something", but the certification and testing process for something like this is how you find out if this actually improves p…

> the choice is between an unaffordable certified solution and not having any monitoring. No, this isn't _necessarily_ the choice. Without a "false sense of security" that an imper…

I apologise for this comment, you've done some great coding, but this scares the shit out of me. There's a reason medical certifications are so hard to get, and medical software is…

Interesting. Yes, this is certainly a possibility (and far worse for people who are impacted).

No

Have just checked; we're seeing both Visa and Visa Debit having problems.

No failures on Mastercard or Amex. Occasionally a spike up to 10% failure rate of all our card transactions (sorry, misunderstood your Q). ~80% of our transactions are VISA of some…