On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:29 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Honestly the take-away I see in the Uber story is that they apparently
>> had nobody on staff that was on -hackers or apparently even -general
>> and tried to go it alone rather than involve experts from outside
>> their company. As a result they misdiagnosed their problems based on
>> prejudices seeing what they expected to see rather than what the real
>> problem was.
>
> +1 very true.
>
> At the same time there are some lessons to be learned. At the
> very least putting in big bold letters where to come for help is
> one.
+1
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