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This isn't new and your example is a good one. Craftsman tools have always been cheaply made with poor metallurgy. They got by with the lifetime warranty because they marketed them…

This is completely cultural. I had a manager that I didn't meet in person for over a year and he was constantly sharing stuff like this with me, frequently multiple times a day. As…

It's a tradeoff, though. For 99% of LOB applications the odd details of specific database implementations are irrelevant and can be ignored by even a team of mediocre developers. M…

The main point of accepting returns is to reduce the cognitive overhead and friction of a potential customer's purchasing decision and make them more likely to spend money with you…

I have seen a few environments like that and they can be just as corrosive. I have seen middle school kids that were great artists or writers or musicians told that they were failu…

I have worked or consulted for a few that went too far the other way and it wasn't that great either. If the company is too loyal, then it can create a corrosive environment becaus…

It isn't that they have no way of knowing, it just isn't worth the tech's time (in their mind) to validate the status of every connection. If they are like most other telecoms, the…

This used to be the case in the US after the Telecom Act of 1996. However, the FCC decided on their own to give the ILECs a grace period of a year to implement LLU and then kept ex…

Trucking deregulation occurred between 1978-1980 during the Carter administration. Plus, the way it was regulated makes modern regulatory capture look consumer friendly. If you wan…

Detroit's mismanagement goes back long before 1967. It goes back at least to the 1920s and very likely much farther than that. The success of the auto industry in the area just pap…

Don't bother. It is many times larger and slower than any of the frameworks listed. Their code is also broken in "interesting" ways and there are lots of undocumented and semi-docu…