The easy wins everyone wants to claim, picked so often there's no fruit left and the tree is completely bare.
Six teams went for the low-hanging fruit. The actual hard problem is still up there, alone.
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Short for 'degenerate.' Someone who throws money at the riskiest possible bets for fun, and wears it as a badge of honor.
Aped his rent money into a coin named after a dog. Full degen.
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When a big company buys a small one mainly to get its employees, then immediately shuts down the product they spent years building. Sold to the team as a 'soft landing.'
We got acqui-hired! Everyone has a job. The job is turning off the thing we built.
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Keeping all the company's code in one giant repository. Either elegant unification or a single repo that takes 20 minutes to clone. No in-between.
The monorepo is 14 gigabytes and still contains code for a product we sunset in 2019.
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