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I had heard about these two patients years ago, and I still can't believe the doctor's death was this much of a set back. Did he write nothing down? Or did the company itself simply mismanage everything about this shit? This article makes it sound like the latter.
It's pretty common for people to have specialized knowledge that's only in their heads. In the software biz it's pretty much assumed that losing an engineer means losing some important knowledge, too.
if the company is functioning properly this is absolutely not the case
I guess I've never worked for a company that functions properly, then. They must be pretty rare.
it's so rare that it basically only exists in well run companies and well run FOSS projects (which are few and far between)
We have daily meetings in the software team just to battle this
Daily what? 😪
it is
They stopped existing when the relationship between companies and their employees became a directly adversarial one.