Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:44:36 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Minutes of the Thursday, April 13th core team meeting in Berkeley. Message-ID: <23337.798504276@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Apr 95 10:39:50 MDT." <9504211639.AA03566@cs.weber.edu>
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> With respect, S^3 is something that students fall prey to. You > might argue that companies do so as well; I susbmit that these > are not successful companies. Just to note for the record: I've seen S^3 in both old and new companies, good ones and bad ones, domestic and foreign ones. I've seen it happen with young engineering pups fresh out of college and I've seen it happen with old and hairy development groups who really should have known better. You're discounting the second-order effects that set in when even the most seasoned and successful group is doing a project it _really feels strongly about_. Some groups successfully combat the suction and go on, and some fall willing prey to it. It all depends on the strength of the attraction and how many truly uninteresting projects preceeded it. It's definitely overly simplistic to say that it's something only students suffer from! :-) Jordan
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