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I’m not saying I don’t believe you (laws like this are famous for accidental side effects), but I’m having a hard time understanding how a law targeted towards

• jrockway 16y ago
  Any communication between employees must be archived and stored in some super-special repository. Any tool that doesn't store its data in said super-special repository is a crime to use. I'm surprised we don't have to record our in-person chats with a wearable video camera.
  • mburns 16y ago
    Do these super-special repositories have a decent API?
    • patio11 16y ago
      This type of tool puts the capital E in Big Freaking Enterprise. Not only do they not have decent APIs, to the extent that they do have APIs at all they're written in whatever the best practice was for Java architecture astronauts 10 years ago (I say that with as much love as I can muster, having been one), and the API is not laid out according to programmer utility but rather according to ossification of business practice and/or the whims of twenty-something Congressional staffers who would not know a program if it bit their Blackberry. Basically, it is the same story as almost all enterprise software: abandon all hope ye who enter here.
      • pw 16y ago
        Why does enterprise software so rarely have good APIs?
        • jrockway 16y ago
          Because it's designed and implemented by a huge team with no vision except for how far away payday is.