clarkdever

I like how when PG writes an article, there about about double or triple the comments on hackernews compared to any other random submission.

The line I found most valuable, is the reason I first decided to start a company. 'Markets don't "reduce headcount."' the most security you can have is working for yourself... or the government... but I think most of the "startup types" dread the idea of the bureaucracy. We like the freedom to rise or fall based on our own abilities, the freedom to make something that is going to change the world. The majority of hackers I know are revolutionaries, not reformers.

Whenever I read articles like this, it makes me wonder why half of it even needs to be stated; then I go and look at the code base for some of the companies that I do development for. At that point I realize that, planning, documentation, and "fixing broken windows", are all activities that you need to build into the core values of your company from the start. They need to be so ingrained in the culture, that people participate in them on an intuitive level, instead of it being a after-thought. The time spent working around "known bugs" far (exponentially) exceeds the time it would have taken to fix them before they were part of the current stable release.