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I hope the irony of this topic being discussed on a (mostly) software-related forum isn’t lost on anyone.
by wrs 8y ago
I hope the irony of this topic being discussed on a (mostly) software-related forum isn’t lost on anyone.
- oilman 8y agoI must be a bit dense today, what irony?
- abduhl 8y agoI assume he's referring to platform lock-in ala Microsoft Office, AWS, Oracle, or Apple's walled garden driving future decisions. So the first software decision is a down payment until your technical debt hole is so big you can't do anything but throw money down it.
- coldtea 8y agoHuh? No, I think he's referring to large scale software projects costs being high, and such projects being often late or even failing.
- ams6110 8y agoBig software/systems projects being notoriously difficult to estimate and manage, cost overruns the norm, etc.
- toephu2 8y agoIt is lost on me. What do high construction costs have to do with HN?
- vpribish 8y agoinability to predict the time and effort needed
- klyrs 8y agoThe title itself is deficient -- this isn't an article about general construction costs, it's specifically about rail transit construction.
- coldtea 8y agoAs ams6110 wrote above, it's ironic to have an article criticizing the high costs of construction projects on a developer website -- given that large software project costs are the same or worse. It's like having a post about how ecologically unfriendly the fast food industry is on Exxon's website.
- arthur_pryor 8y agoha, i did not see this comment before posting mine, but the irony was not lost on me. or rather, is it even ironic? it seems totally germane to a forum full of geeks with a wide spectrum of interests, many (most?) of whom are software devs.