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Discussion on: I hate making dashboards #1

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Pejman Yaghmaie

I loved the part you said data never stays the same unlike the shipped code :)) it's people being afraid of releasing new code so they ship less often

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Cathrine

Oh yeah, thanks!
I can give you another perspective for this: data analysts don't have code review, solid tests or QA engineers, we have to do it all by ourselves, every man for himself. So it makes sense to ship less.
But it backfires either way :)

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Pejman Yaghmaie

Sure, that's right. But I was thinking a bit more general.
In my opinion, the brilliance of the sentence is how it humorously describes one of the biggest problems with software so simply in a few words! Software is fragile and it's important to understand.

Data doesn't stay the same (like users, technologies, vulnerabilities, regulations, etc.) so the code goes obsolete and broken.

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Cathrine

Oh, didn’t think of that, thank you.
That an inspiring way to read that sentence.