How Software Companies Die (1995)
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How Software Companies Die (1995)
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Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#2We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#3We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
Irrelevant.
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#4We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
Nice ad hominem.
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#5We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
We do, but that seems like a fairly off-topic comment in this case, since this is an article about software companies...
What I also know is he's a pretty terrible writer - Ender's Game is fantastic, but the sequels are progressively worse and worse in a horrifying fashion that boggles the mind until you realise that OSC is someone who has a very, very basic understanding (or lack thereof) of human relationships and politics... Makes one think that Ender's Game was a bit of a fluke.
But that's totally off-topic.
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#6Some context. According to [1], the text is from the March 1995 issue "Windows Sources" magazine [2].
Does Card have any experience of business or software?
[1] http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=DeveloperBees
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#7We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
Oh, I must be easily impressionable then. Quite enjoyed the language it was written in.
I cannot argue the advice being fully valid, but some points he outlined are exactly what I have been observing so far.
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#8We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
You should consider what you just wrote and and what it says about you.
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#9We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
You have some heavy duty hate going on to dislike everything a person does because of their opinion on another matter.
Re: How Software Companies Die (1995)
#10We all know that OSC is a horrible bigot, right? I feel like any sort of fatherly advice he emits needs to be suffixed with "...unless you're gay, then you should be in prison."
If we ignore everything ever said by people with nasty beliefs, we'd basically never read anything written more than 100 years ago, and a decent chunk of the stuff written since. Anti-slavery campaigners in to 1800s used to beat their children. Pretty much every writer in antiquity was either a slaver or pederasts by modern standards. Where do you stop?
It's worth being aware of so you know to take such things into account, you never know when such views might introduce an unwritten assumption or colour a conclusion, but if it's not relevant to the material then it's a side issue.