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		tehnub 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How good engineers write bad code at big companies >Management can't evaluate the value of maintenance work, so it doesn't value it at all. So it's the McNamara fallacy?

stoneforger 32 days ago [–]

Was McNamara really thinking that's how you win a war and people just went along with it or was it just another excuse in a long line of excuses to keep the gravy train going?

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