True. Fear of competition and survival is what keeps companies honest. When that disappears, they become slow, complacent and lazy.

Which describes Microsoft’s culture. Facebook has the culture of make lots of changes fast, which does keep it moving forward, but it also causes a lot of breakages the way they do it too, lol. There’s some good middle ground no doubt.

They didn’t “lose” anything. The guy just slept through a series of important prompts and stubbornly banged on the keyboard in the manner of “I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING DAMN IT!” when he, in fact, didn’t know what he was doing.

He admits it himself in the article: he thought he was changing the settings of another repo. Well, sucks to be him but it’s not very hard to pay half-attention to these things.