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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 04:51:51 JST Paul Cantrell

   You have a business problem.

   You try to solve it with software.

   Now you have 32,768 problems.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 04:55:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     The number of problems is rising fast, and all the problems have problems. All you can see is problems. You have forgotten what your original problem was. You have forgotten what your business does. You have forgotten your own name. Now you are a software company. Time is not a flat line; it is a hall of mirrors, and all you can see is the endless infinity of your own hubris, your own human fallibility, now reified, grown mighty, and turned upon you.

     Time to build more software.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 04:57:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ryan McCuaig

     @rgm
     “We have only one hope now: to build more software as fast as we can, and exacerbate the situation until the issue count overflows.”

     “It’s…it’s so crazy it just might work!!”

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     Ryan McCuaig (rgm@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 04:57:53 JST Ryan McCuaig

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     @inthehands or do you have -32,767 <dun dun duuunnnnn>

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:00:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dan Seitz

     @Dseitz
     Well, maybe — or if not, at least what your problems lack in quality they make up in quantity

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     Dan Seitz (dseitz@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:00:29 JST Dan Seitz

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     @inthehands

     Yeah but they are better problems than my old problems.

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     mypalmike (mypalmike@macaw.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:48:49 JST mypalmike

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     @inthehands ffff that

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:48:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • mypalmike

     @mypalmike
     Ha, yeah, should’ve said 65,535. Really failed to set you up for that joke!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:31:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Evelyn :grape_heart: :donor:

     @EvieAlways yup, and (1) is already well over half of those problems

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     Evelyn :grape_heart: :donor: (eviealways@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:31:27 JST Evelyn :grape_heart: :donor:

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     It's 1) People, 2) Process, and 3) Technology for a reason

     @inthehands