foosoft

Outcome: The women working as programmers at FooSoft make on average 10% less than the men working there.

Outcome: Women working as programmers at FooSoft comprise 10% less of the workforce than men working there.

Let's be specific and replace FooSoft with Google.

The one that has different links about how FooSoft can help for each different industry, and you have to go to wikipedia to find out what the product really does?

Though the function signature looks the same, foosoft is an enumeration of some kind but step is actually an integer— This sort of change requires an audit of all call sites, as the meaning of one of the arguments has changed.

Specifically, he’s using the failed outcome of this hypothetical refactoring to argue that new_sequence_number should never have been broken out into a separate function in the first place because it separated the foosoft==3 case from the conditional, which made the bad refactor more likely to happen.

Here is how I see it working out: Lets say that Foosoft is a rapidly expanding unicorn, and Microgle is a cash cow which is going nowhere, and the employees are being squeezed by bad managers brought in by private equity.

Calling the software division of Foo company “FooSoft” seems entirely logical to me.

People start posting that "Foosoft makes terrible software" because they downloaded a version that is terrible, and you get all the blame for that - do you think they'll even remember that they downloaded their binary from free-foosoft-binaries.com.net.mx.biz.cc?

It's very common practice for a company to do some SEO articles with comparing them to their competitor like "FooSoft vs BarSoft", with things like "FooSoft has instant support 24/7, Barsoft has tickets that take 24 hours.."

They can justify this by pointing to observable evidence that, if they mail 100 Bobs, statistically Bobs actually do start using the FooSoft, and (anecdotally) their customer support team gets emails and blog posts saying "Thanks for being so attentive to my needs!!1" I can say from experience that this is exactly this line of thinking that lead to Zynga's viral behavior on Facebook.

Foosoft only has to check that the team is a good fit (it's a backend team, say, with capabilities they want).

Foosoft is wants to expand rapidly to take advantage of their huge opportunity, so the are setting up entire new teams.