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What's astounding is that the regional government can fund something to the tune of millions of dollars, then red tape it to death. Almost makes me wonder if th

by nmrm2 11y ago

What's astounding is that the regional government can fund something to the tune of millions of dollars, then red tape it to death. Almost makes me wonder if the project failed due to the vicissitudes of political climate. Those sorts of politics happen in companies too, which makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software.

brc 11y ago
Looking at it simply, it's obvious that it was never designed to be opened. Seems as though large amounts of public money have been in play. If you look at the results it would seem to be that it was designed to siphon off funds.
- danieltillett 11y ago
  It would seem that this was a success then. It take real skill to be able to siphon of funds for the same building 4 times.
digi_owl 11y ago
The only red tape issue i see is the one were they forgot to ask for the funds. The drainage thing reminds me of a recent story about an airport in Germany (iirc), or for that matter how many highrises in Dubai are without a sewage connection, so each day 100s of tanker trucks transport sewage to a dump.
- peterfirefly 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/12/germanys-star-building-projects-morph-national-disgrace-268385.html http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/12/germanys-star-building-pr... http://istderberschonfertig.de/ http://istderberschonfertig.de/ Machine translation works quite well with the last link.
philbarr 11y ago
> makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software. Absolutely there are. I worked on one project with ~30 other devs on one project for 3 years, then a change of management high up somewhere brings in a new guy who wants to make an impact, so he kills it and has the whole thing rewritten on a newer platform.

by nmrm2 11y ago

brc 11y ago

Looking at it simply, it's obvious that it was never designed to be opened. Seems as though large amounts of public money have been in play. If you look at the results it would seem to be that it was designed to siphon off funds.

danieltillett 11y ago
It would seem that this was a success then. It take real skill to be able to siphon of funds for the same building 4 times.

digi_owl 11y ago

The only red tape issue i see is the one were they forgot to ask for the funds. The drainage thing reminds me of a recent story about an airport in Germany (iirc), or for that matter how many highrises in Dubai are without a sewage connection, so each day 100s of tanker trucks transport sewage to a dump.

peterfirefly 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/12/germanys-star-building-projects-morph-national-disgrace-268385.html http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/12/germanys-star-building-pr... http://istderberschonfertig.de/ http://istderberschonfertig.de/ Machine translation works quite well with the last link.

philbarr 11y ago

> makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software. Absolutely there are. I worked on one project with ~30 other devs on one project for 3 years, then a change of management high up somewhere brings in a new guy who wants to make an impact, so he kills it and has the whole thing rewritten on a newer platform.