These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    11 months ago

    I had heard about these two patients years ago, and I still can’t believe the doctor’s death was this much of a set back. Did he write nothing down? Or did the company itself simply mismanage everything about this shit? This article makes it sound like the latter.

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      11 months ago

      It’s pretty common for people to have specialized knowledge that’s only in their heads. In the software biz it’s pretty much assumed that losing an engineer means losing some important knowledge, too.

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        11 months ago

        if the company is functioning properly this is absolutely not the case

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          11 months ago

          I guess I’ve never worked for a company that functions properly, then. They must be pretty rare.

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          11 months ago

          Even if absolutely everything is documented there is still the loss of familiarity and comfort working with a given system.

          Having perfectly documented processes still might mean that a new engineer could take multiple hours following instructions to do what the person who originally built the system managed off the top of their head in fifteen minutes.

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          In these advanced and complex spaces loosing an employee and starting someone new is like starting a university degree. Shure, the knowledge exists and you can “just read the books”. But that takes a fuckton of time in which the new guy is not productive AND needs someone else time to teach them.

          So it’s a really big loss.

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          Oh shit where can I get a job with one those properly functioning companies? Because my job right now I got was because I was able to figure out on the interview what the guy before me was doing and the same thing happened with my previous employer.