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Hard lessons2024-02-23 · Archive

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

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“So whenever something breaks upstream, the first place customers notice the problem is in the system I maintain.”

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

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