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Bad code leads to bad business

This makes me think of hosting departement; You know, which people who are using vmware, physical firewalls, dpi proxies and whatnot;

On the other edge, you have public cloud providers, which are using qemu, netfilter, dumb networking devices and stuff

Who got eaten by whom, nobody could have guessed ..




> Bad code leads to bad business

Bad business leads to bad business.

Bad code might be bad, or might be sufficient. It's situational. And by looking at what exists today, majority of code is pretty bad already - and not all businesses with bad code lead to bad businesses.

In fact, some bad code are very profitable for some businesses (ask any SAP integrator).


It is the survivor bias: "by looking at what is still alive today, majority of code is pretty bad"

It eludes all of those who died in the process : those still alives are here despite bad IT, not due to a bad IT


The vast majority of code that makes money is pretty shitty.




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