{"text":"lnxw48a1 favorited something by maiyannah: @bob @lnxw48a1 @edwardtorvalds I think that when you get into that kind of thinking, you very much play into Sunk Cost Fallacy, and it's rather late-capitalist thinking. \u00a0Anything worth having has failed at least once, sometimes spectacularly. \u00a0Hell, Challenger happened, and we're still going to space. \u00a0The fact is, you can't recover lost investment money, but you can continue to improve or change a product into something marketable. When software companies talk about \"agile\" development, one of the core precepts to that model originally was less \"move fast and break stuff\" which it has kind of turned into now (many a truth is said in jest after all..), but rather, it was born out of the idea that the actual valuable end product may not be what you originally invisioned, and you should be able to change and modify your plans to accept new directions.","truncated":false,"created_at":"Sat Oct 13 12:51:39 +0000 2018","in_reply_to_status_id":"2494603","uri":"tag:nu.federati.net,2018-10-13:fave:2:comment:2494603:2018-10-13T12:51:39+00:00","source":"unknown","source_link":null,"id":2494604,"in_reply_to_user_id":76,"in_reply_to_screen_name":"maiyannah","geo":null,"user":{"id":2,"name":"LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}","screen_name":"lnxw48a1","location":"{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}","description":"Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert.\r\n\r\nI save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks.\r\n\r\nI invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .","profile_image_url":"https:\/\/nu.federati.net\/avatar\/2-48-20170112021558.png","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/nu.federati.net\/avatar\/2-48-20170112021558.png","profile_image_url_profile_size":"https:\/\/nu.federati.net\/avatar\/2-96-20170112021558.png","profile_image_url_original":"https:\/\/nu.federati.net\/avatar\/2-48-20170112021558.png","groups_count":24,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":null,"protected":false,"followers_count":756,"friends_count":273,"created_at":"Tue Jan 10 03:35:41 +0000 2017","utc_offset":"0","time_zone":"UTC","statuses_count":37834,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"https:\/\/nu.federati.net\/lnxw48a1","favourites_count":14470},"statusnet_html":"lnxw48a1 favorited something by maiyannah: @bob<\/a> @lnxw48a1<\/a> @edwardtorvalds<\/a> I think that when you get into that kind of thinking, you very much play into Sunk Cost Fallacy, and it's rather late-capitalist thinking. \u00a0Anything worth having has failed at least once, sometimes spectacularly. \u00a0Hell, Challenger happened, and we're still going to space. \u00a0The fact is, you can't recover lost investment money, but you can continue to improve or change a product into something marketable.
When software companies talk about \"agile\" development, one of the core precepts to that model originally was less \"move fast and break stuff\" which it has kind of turned into now (many a truth is said in jest after all..), but rather, it was born out of the idea that the actual valuable end product may not be what you originally invisioned, and you should be able to change and modify your plans to accept new directions.","statusnet_conversation_id":1860337,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}