Klaus

Software acumen is the new norm

 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:50:25 +0200 
#^Tom's Top Ten Things Executives Should Know About Software - ACM Queue
A friend of mine is an accountant at a large company. The CEO and other executives don't know what accounting is, and that's OK. Everyone works around it.
OK, that's a lie. No company like that exists.


This is my favourite ;-)
Bonus item 2. Spammers and abusers ruin everything.
Fighting spam and abuse is an arms race. If you can build an online app in a week, you'll spend a year figuring out how to prevent spammers from ruining it. Google Sheets has anti-abuse detection because criminals make spreadsheets full of links to scams and then send the links to people who think any link that mentions Google is safe. The amount of anti-abuse work required to run online communities such as Twitter, Facebook, or other social networks would make you cry.