When it all comes crashing down: the exponential cost of deferred software maintenance - a 🧵 about outages and meltdown
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“The most vital debate in America today is between those who believe there is something fundamentally broken in America, and that it’s an emergency, and those who do not.”
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“Scientific progress should not depend on the resilience of rebellious scientists.”
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Science today is a zero sum, publish-or-perish, novelty-chasing status game.
Science needs to borrow from web3 to align participants towards positive sum behaviors. Less gatekeeping, more sharing and transparency.
Here's how "Science 3" could work: postfuture.substack.com/p/why-science3
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Would love to meet deep & frontier tech ecosystem folks in Cape Town & Southern Africa. (Founders, Angels, VCs, Academia/labs, etc.). 📩 open.
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Thank you for democratizing knowledge! More. of. this. 😎❤️🔥
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Founders should never have to “pay to pitch.” But some predatory VC firms try to scam founders by “offering an investment,” after they have completed their paid course.
Today I want to name and shame NewChip and warn others about behavior I have heard about:
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“Building is a political philosophy. It is neither red nor blue, progressive nor conservative. It is averse to the political short-termism and zero-sum thinking that permeates our aging institutions that won’t protect us in this era.” 🔥
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Today, make maintenance a regular part of your #softwaredevelopment practice. Tomorrow, consider #quantum 🤓: twitter.com/qctrlHQ/status
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#Software may have eaten the world, but what good is it if it all comes crashing down?
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was born from this very idea, that #software #maintenance and #modernization is crucial to the health and sustainability of organizations.
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Technical debt *can* be transformed into technical wealth - there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Legacy code can be nurtured, and suffering software systems can be turned around. review.firstround.com/forget-technic
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The systems worst plagued by tech debt (& running on #legacycode) happen to be the infrastructure that our entire society runs on, and upon which millions of people depend. Transportation. Banks. Healthcare. Supply chains. What if things simply grind to a halt?
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Technical debt is maintenance, deferred. Deferred maintenance IS tech debt.
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#Technicaldebt is a metaphor that was developed by to describe how certain development activities can make a codebase more difficult to work with. What isn’t discussed as often within the context of technical debt is the cost of deferred maintenance.
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This won't be the last. The problem will only be exacerbated if organizations keep putting off pesky upgrades and bug fixes - if they keep deferring crucial maintenance to their software systems.
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The crisis illustrates what can go wrong when a company that millions of people rely on moves too slowly to invest in crucial, but unglamorous parts of its operation, turning what might have been a manageable disruption into a catastrophe.
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was hit the hardest, delaying >1,700 flights & canceling ~350 flights. This simply worsened the company's grief after it canceled >16,700 flights during a meltdown of its network in Dec '22. Severe storms overwhelmed their scheduling system, stranding thousands.
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On Wednesday morning, blamed a corrupted database file for a system outage, while major U.S. airlines including , , , and , continued to deal with the fallout from thousands of delayed and canceled flights over the following days.
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NY Founders, there is a new program that is giving you matching funds (up to $250K) for pre-seed and seed rounds
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What are the best meetups & events in the Bay Area for nerding out about #legacycode, and #software maintenance and modernization?
Introducing the Spinout Playbook, a free guide to spinning a startup out of academia.
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Why is this needed? The process of “spinning out” science from universities is broken 👇🧵
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ICYMI we are thrilled about our partnership with and here’s a fantastic recap from to catch you up!
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What is the best book you read this year?
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Female reproductive science is on 🔥🔥🔥
We've received 300+ highly competitive applications for and still have 1 more day to go!
Stay tuned for the first grant announcements😉
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Even if not a “Wright Brothers moment”, the breakthrough could certainly be the start of a series of highly anticipated breakthroughs in fusion science. Here for it. ⚡️
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At least 27 women in venture capital rose to partner or higher in 2022. We have the full list.
Notably, a number of women launched their own funds, and hired five female check-writers.
Cheers ladies 🥂
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Exciting news! We're looking for the next generation of space innovators to join our team as summer interns (both engineering and non-engineering). Check out our job listing here:indeed.com/job/summer-202
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SF, you kill me. 💀
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From tomorrow, @qctrlHQ is releasing something that will change #quantumcomputing...we can't wait to bring it to you.
Shine a light in the dark...
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If you’re an emerging fund manager that’s starting to raise or continuing to raise your fund in Q1 2023, comment below or DM me!
I want to help you get more LP intros & am building a community of people who want to help you too! 🙏
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GPTchat can build quantum-classical neural nets 
It's so over...
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… and things were never the same again 😅
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POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing.
Frantically, you open ChatGPT.
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