[HN Gopher] Upsides and Downsides
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       Upsides and Downsides
        
       Author : nohide
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2025-07-24 21:23 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | igor47 wrote:
       | The worst start -up I ever joined (and this is saying something!)
       | had this problem that this article really describes well, of
       | focusing on downside problems while in the upside phase. It
       | looked like the founder insisting on literally 100% unit test
       | coverage (the code would set a constant to 5 and the tests
       | asserted the constant was set to 5), even while the product had
       | literally no users (in fact the growing code base had never been
       | run outside of test).
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       | The founder was ex-Google so this also tracks with the article.
        
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