TheOtherDave comments on The Black Team - A Parable of Group Effectiveness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 22 April 2011 01:06:49PM * 4 points [-]

"...With the Terminal Values of Their Employer"

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Of what employer are you presuming quality code is a terminal value?

EDIT: Or, if I've misunderstood you... what employer terminal values are you presuming, here?

Comment author: randallsquared 22 April 2011 04:21:54PM 2 points [-]

Uh, I think he's saying exactly that it wasn't.

And the things they did to software went beyond all bounds of rational use testing and were more akin to software torture.

That suggests that they spent way more time on ensuring quality that was actually merited by the goals of helping users.

Comment author: Vaniver 22 April 2011 04:52:15PM 4 points [-]

If you read the whole article though (it's a page long!) it's clear that management loved it.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 April 2011 07:33:00PM 2 points [-]

Yes, this was what I meant.

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