Comment by dboreham

14 days ago

This is Tay Bridge syndrome: all the people who know how to ship an OS properly have retired.

What is "Tay Bridge syndrome"? There are no Google hits. If you're going to use an obscure term (or make one up) then please define it.

Is it a reference to the Tay Bridge disaster? Looking at the Wikipedia article [1], it didn't seem to have anything to do with losing organisational knowledge due to retirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster

  • Funny enough, this comment is now the top result (for me) when searching “Tay Bridge syndrome”. Crazy how fast Google indexes this stuff

How does this explain all the fails when shipping the OS when those people were working?