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0 pointsmabbo5y ago0 comments

Nah man, I won't criticize too hard. There but for the grace of god goes I, you know?

I've had flakey dependencies. I've thought "maybe fail open is okay in this one case". You're growth hacking your company and you don't want to be held back because a dependency can't handle your scale. And hey, if a few fraudulent accounts get in, we'll just clean them up later. Cost benefit analysis here, right?

But the road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.

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kwertyoowiyop5y ago

“The road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.”

A thousand engineers just got PTSD from reading that!

enkid5y ago

Isn't that exactly what the above comment is saying?

user-the-name5y ago

So, you agree with what I said.

mabboOP5y ago

Yeah, but you said it with what looked like a lot of sarcasm and criticism.

I said it with a tone of "Oh shit, I could have done exactly the same thing". Empathy.

But it's a fun point of the nuances of language, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstood you.

user-the-name5y ago

Maybe your takeaway there should be, "oh shit, I would have exactly the same thing, I need to rearrange my priorities so that I don't hurt people".

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arcbyte5y ago

You're exactly right. I love your attitude. But for the grace of God there go I.

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myWindoonn5y ago

Well, having empathy with growth hackers is reprehensible and worth critiquing. The idea of growing a business for the sake of having a big business is horrifying; it's the desire to explicitly build a large social institution and use it to damage and oppress people.

From that perspective, you're the one lacking in empathy; you would like us to have our sympathies lie with the few who build businesses, rather than the many who are harmed by the business.

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0 pointsmabbo5y ago0 comments

Nah man, I won't criticize too hard. There but for the grace of god goes I, you know?

But the road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.

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kwertyoowiyop5y ago

“The road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.”

A thousand engineers just got PTSD from reading that!

enkid5y ago

Isn't that exactly what the above comment is saying?

user-the-name5y ago

So, you agree with what I said.

mabboOP5y ago

Yeah, but you said it with what looked like a lot of sarcasm and criticism.

I said it with a tone of "Oh shit, I could have done exactly the same thing". Empathy.

But it's a fun point of the nuances of language, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstood you.

user-the-name5y ago

Maybe your takeaway there should be, "oh shit, I would have exactly the same thing, I need to rearrange my priorities so that I don't hurt people".

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arcbyte5y ago

You're exactly right. I love your attitude. But for the grace of God there go I.

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myWindoonn5y ago

From that perspective, you're the one lacking in empathy; you would like us to have our sympathies lie with the few who build businesses, rather than the many who are harmed by the business.

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