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"But the website will be online, serving customers"

..., frustrating them, leaking their data, and wasting their time.




Oh yes. We tend to wrongly assume the goal of most companies is to do correctly their job. It's not. Their goal is to make money.

And a lot of businesses do so while providing terrible services or products. Plus people working for them have their own agendas : family, play, not get blamed, etc and won't do anything about it.

It's not specific to software. How many of you have experienced :

- a completely broken by design shower

- those "easy to open" packages that are impossible to open

- kitchen ware taking centuries to wash because obviously nobody designing them never bother to use them

- laptop with horrible sound

- shoes that destroy you feet after 2 hours of using them

?

Doing your job well is the exception, not the rule.




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