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You've really seen a web software product die because of performance issues?
The $32M Hertz scandal The $480M bug that killed a trading company in 12 secs Challenger Probably a bunch of stories from healthcare
It was a flag reuse issue. Nothing related to "performance"
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> ...it's better to be a goat than a cow. That's the first time I've heard that idiom. What does it mean?
I made it up on the hoof (pun intended) Cows are the most common animal on the farm, and overall they produce the most value. But they are very replaceable. When times are bad, you slaughter them. Cows are like your rank-and-file application developers: you scale them up and down with the times. Goats are more niche. You don't have many of them on your farm. But they solve important problems (eating weeds), and they…
Chickens?
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sure, does your dad also work at Nintendo?
One is verifiable, if you don't believe maybe you should ask others in the field too. Or maybe you're just wrong and won't admit it, clutching to your preconceived notions.
> maybe you're just wrong and won't admit it, clutching to your preconceived notions.
I assume in your world this is only something other people do, but your judgement is perfect right?
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This is such a tired take. Aerospace engineers who build rockets do not have some certification body allowing them to be called engineers. Same with most electrical engineers working on almost everything. If you think a government deciding who is an engineer is a *good* thing then maybe you should ask yourself why the United States which doesn't require this for the two non-software engineering disciplines has the be…
> has the best engineers in the world Really? What evidence do you have for that? Are you saying that companies like Airbus, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, ASML, Leonardo, Rolls-Royce, Dassault Aviation, Toyota, Bosch, Komatsu, Siemens, ABB, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Alstom, Vestas, Samsung, Sony, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding etc. don't have world class engineers?
Outside of some exceptions which don't really exist in the US (shipbuilding and heavy forging) the American companies in those industries are highly competitive and often market share leaders.
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European countries, historically known for their dominance in the field of software.
Your mobile phone runs on a CPU architecture designed in Europe (ARM), manufactured by a machine that only a European company can make (ASML), using a number of protocols invented in Europe (Bluetooth for example), using protocols invented in Europe to browse the internet (HTML/HTTP), based on a very long history of computer science ideas and programming languages invented in Europe or by Europeans. Give credit where…
Obviously there are good engineers in Europe. There just aren't as many as there are in the US, in large part because the US encourages immigration with much higher salaries.
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I made it up on the hoof (pun intended) Cows are the most common animal on the farm, and overall they produce the most value. But they are very replaceable. When times are bad, you slaughter them. Cows are like your rank-and-file application developers: you scale them up and down with the times. Goats are more niche. You don't have many of them on your farm. But they solve important problems (eating weeds), and they…
>Cows are the most common animal on the farm Chickens?