| Author | Message | < Software general ~ Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake | | tech | | Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake | | | | Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 42207 | | theodp writes "No doubt many will nod knowingly as they read Paul Graham's The Other Half of Artists Ship, which delves into the downside of procedures developed by Big Companies to protect themselves against mistakes. Because every check you put on your programmers has a cost, Graham warns: 'And just as the greatest danger of being hard to sell to is not that you overpay but that the best suppliers won't even sell to you, the greatest danger of applying too many checks to your programmers is not that you'll make them unproductive, but that good programmers won't even want to work for you.' Sound familiar, anyone?" 
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