| ▲ | jeremyjh 3 hours ago |
| What concerns me about this is that as these stories multiply and circulate people will just completely stop buying software/SAAS from startups, because 90% or more will be this same thing. It will completely kill the market. |
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| ▲ | pjc50 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Oracle have routinely had multimillion pound contract failures and people keep buying from them. Big vendors are too big to fail. |
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| ▲ | jeremyjh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Those are custom software or heavily customized implementations of ERP and similar systems for very large organizations. I’m talking more about the SMB market where today it’s possible for a small team to carve out a niche and make a nice living or even bootstrap a venture that competes with a large player that has poor UX or antiquated feature designs. The reason Oracle can continue failing at those massive projects is simple: everyone fails at them routinely and often it’s the customers fault. | |
| ▲ | tosti 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Same with Deloitte | | |
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| ▲ | billywhizz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > It will completely kill the market. it will kill all the people in that hospital too |
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| ▲ | rcoveson 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What is this, Humanitarian News? | | |
| ▲ | salawat an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The real Hackers were the ones actually trying to minimize suffering all along. Not reproduce it at scale. | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | But the Torment Nexus is such an interesting technical challenge! and I don’t personally torment people: I just move protobufs around! - Software Engineer #1 and #2 excuses |
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| ▲ | jatora an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | thankyou |
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| ▲ | jameshart 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean, the stories about how stuff was getting built in the late 90s/early 2000s aren’t much worse. |
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| ▲ | jatora 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | slopinthebag 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Or you end up with a certification process, which will of course introduce it's own problems but startups doing things the right way and not just "moveing fast and breaking things" can thrive. |
