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Just goes to prove my ol' personal favourite maxim: "If you think you can computerise it, do it on paper first. Then, see if you still need to computerise it."
by mmjaa 8y ago
Just goes to prove my ol' personal favourite maxim: "If you think you can computerise it, do it on paper first. Then, see if you still need to computerise it."
80% of the time, you don't.
- thoughtspile 8y agoThis) I do sometimes feel it's a bubble, as in "where else can we stuck a computer? and now?" And most problems are not solved by computerising in and on itself — the processes just move faster.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThis is true, and it's because people doing that are not in it to solve your problem - they're solving their problem, which is "how to make money", with a solution that's shaped like a computer system.
- thoughtspile 8y agoI like this one quite a lot)
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat's how a lot of computer systems started, except that instead of paper, it's an excel sheet emailed back and forth.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAnd ironically, that Excel sheet is often the peak of productivity.
- mmjaa 8y agoThus, another maxim: It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you've got a User, the computer is doing the work, and as long as the computer is doing work for someone, there is a User. Alas, which leads to this: Programmers are often the worst kind of User.