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by UseYrIllusion11 3480 days ago
They could retitle this "In Defense of Cowboy Coding". Engineers that code this way become the owners of their codebase because nobody else wants to deal with their insane decisions.
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tedmiston 3480 days ago
Forget cowboy coding, this is cowboy data analysis. At best, it's misleading; at worst, it's dangerous.

This is embarrassing from a YC co.

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sitkack 3480 days ago
They sell metrics, this blog post has us talking. This is a blog post, a PR piece, not a news paper story.

Source metrics are the new panopticon of Software is Eating the World.

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