<story><title>Arkham Quixote (2020)</title><url>https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;A young computer engineer, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough’s basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be desired. There, at night, disguised by mop and broom, he sneaks into the offices of the company’s engineers and corrects the designs on their blackboards and desks.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of A New Machine</text></comment>
<story><title>Arkham Quixote (2020)</title><url>https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrich</author><text>Well done, for finding the problem with analysis tools and especially lots of experience and even fixing it without source code.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s puzzling why the studio couldn&amp;#x27;t do this. The problem itself is easy to spot by a performance engineer, and avoided in the first place by an experienced developer. Did all the leads leave after implementing the prototype? Did management fire the whole team after the release? Were sales good enough that nobody really cared?</text></comment>