Re: Why we lost Uber as a user - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alfred Perlstein
Subject Re: Why we lost Uber as a user
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Msg-id DA33E74C-DF3C-4BED-B0C0-DB81A87EB7A2@freebsd.org
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In response to Re: Why we lost Uber as a user  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Why we lost Uber as a user  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>)
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> 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
helpis one.  






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