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> You don't need It's very easy to criticize something by saying you don't need it. There are very few things in life that you absolutely need. Yet there are
by jamesrcole 9y ago
> You don't need
It's very easy to criticize something by saying you don't need it. There are very few things in life that you absolutely need.
Yet there are things that add convenience, greater efficiency, etc, and people will pay for them.
- btschaegg 9y agoCompletely agree with you here, but I see it most of the time from another angle: If you're working on a project where you can't just plug in external tooling for certain things, there might be tooling that's rather subpar and slows everybody down. And yet - when you try to convince management that someone should spend a couple of hours bringing them up to snuff the reaction usually is "meh, that already works.", ignoring the manhours you throw away every week because the thing is organized so terribly. You'd think from an expenses standpoint alone it would be pretty easy to decide to "fix" things like this if you do a napkin calculation of how much of a black hole for money the whole situation is...