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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Software Development Thinking Applied to the Real World, Part IX

The conclusion of the story arc but not the end of the comics.
The boss stands in front of an aerial photograph of a crater explaining that the plan didn't fail: it worked too well. While the bag of money was destroyed the blogosphere is buzzing about the fact that the plan would have worked perfectly if only they had gone for a big enough bag of money on top of a big enough hill. A city-sized bag is shown on top of a mountain as an example.


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