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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Controlling complexity is.” I’m not the one to say.)

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The abtest service should be used across your entire system, for all experiments that touch a customer. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

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