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    Dan Luu‏ @danluu 27 Apr 2019
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    Dan Luu Retweeted Gary Bernhardt

    A fun thing about being in a cloud sales org at MS was getting a front row seat to lots of stories like this The company would often be renowned for having great business practices, w/many books written on how to run your business like theirs b/c that would make you successfulhttps://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1122243831615741952 …

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    Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt
    I'd probably dismiss a Hacker News comment like this as unreliable if I hadn't been watching this exact same story play out over and over again since the 90s. This is an outrageous level of incompetence and it's also totally normal. https://mobile.twitter.com/lissijean/status/1122114140129112065 …
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      2. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 27 Apr 2019
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        And of course, I was in a cloud sales org, in a building full of salespeople and evangelists (except for me, my manager, and the rest our little team) while working on Bing infra for reasons not so different than the reasons in the linked comment.

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      3. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 27 Apr 2019
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        One thing I find funny about a lot of contemporary tech commentary is that you'll often see people say "X must be good and/or efficient because BigCo A is doing it", as if there are BigCos that only make good decisions.

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      4. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 27 Apr 2019
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        People love talking about network effects and winner-take-all/most markets in tech, but of course a side effect of that is, if you're dominating such a market, you can make a massive number of bad decisions and still own the market for quite some time.

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      5. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 28 Apr 2019
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        This is the kind of thing I think of when people say you should do X because some company does X It's become trendy to say that you shouldn't do X because you don't have the same scale, but I think this misses the more common reason you shouldn't copy another company's decisionpic.twitter.com/HR7gg8yy9s

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      6. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 28 Apr 2019
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        Likely, the decision ultimately came down to connections, not technical "merit". Even if you have the same scale or are even literally the same company, copying the outcome is nonsensical because the decision making process doesn't make sense out of the context of trading favors.

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      7. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 28 Apr 2019
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        There are a lot of infamous stories about this kind of thing (e.g., re-writing a working chat app on top of the wrong database so that it could no longer reliably send messages), but the thing I think is often missed is that "good" decisions are often made for similar reasons.

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      8. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 28 Apr 2019
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        Like when there are two competing proposals, both eminently reasonable, and some VP has to decide which one to pick. They don't have the time to really evaluate the proposals (no one does), so they pick the person they trust. Why should anyone copy the outcome of this process?

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