luthfur

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Engineer Manager to take over the Frontend platform team at Ordergroove. If you love building great self-service Control Panels or Admin Panels, you will thrive at this role.

Ordergroove is a fast growing SaaS that enables DTC merchants to provide their products as a subscription. We are used by some of the top brands in the industry such as Dollar Shaving Club, P&G, L'Oreal, KIND, and many more!

Feel free to apply here: https://www.ordergroove.com/jobs/?gh_jid=6653210002

Or email me directly if you have any questions: [email protected]

Comment · 5 years ago

Reminds me of Josh Waitzkin's concept of "investment in loss". Such a great and rewarding approach if you are able to suspend your ego and practice it.

Hints for Computer System Design (July 1983, Butler W. Lampson)) [pdf] microsoft.com

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Comment · 5 years ago

Got a chuckle out of this.

"Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away."

How many of us had to hardcode those one off "if" blocks to handle an annoying special case and get the damned thing shipped. Maybe the section has a nice TODO comment that stays in the repo for posterity. No one wants to take the effort to clean it up lest there be a hidden dependency somewhere that would break.