{"id":229463,"date":"2021-04-18T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229463"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T04:16:39","slug":"everyone-is-still-terrible-at-creating-software-at-scale-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229463","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But if you really want to fully understand then you need to keep following that trail of incentives. Your bosses boss doesn&#8217;t optimize for those metrics &#8220;just because&#8221;. There are reasons and persuading them requires understanding those reasons. A company has only so much revenue. Wasting that revenue in the best case reduces profits. In the worst case it kills the company. Changing a perverse incentive requires understanding whether it is actually perverse or not and then proposing a compelling alternative<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26759680\">Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale | Hacker News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But if you really want to fully understand then you need to keep following that trail of incentives. Your bosses boss doesn&#8217;t optimize for those metrics &#8220;just because&#8221;. There are reasons and persuading them requires understanding those reasons. A company has only so much revenue. Wasting that revenue in the best case reduces profits. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229464,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229463\/revisions\/229464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}