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As software developers we can probably empathize. I know I have been working on production code and found years old comments written by me along the following
by slg 7y ago
As software developers we can probably empathize. I know I have been working on production code and found years old comments written by me along the following lines:
//Hacky solution to get a working prototype, should be refactored before deployment.
Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt.
- Ericson2314 7y ago> Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt I really wish there was more appreciation for this outside of tech. I'm disdainful of a lot of SV libertarianism, to say the least, but will gladly make common cause on this one point.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoDebt implies that we know there is a shortcoming and want/need to fix it, but don't have the time or knowledge. The healthcare situation in the US may have started out as a hacky WW2 era fix, but has been explicitly and aggressively lobbied against for years at the highests levels of government. Framing it in a technocratic context as "technical debt, but for laws and stuff" completely misses the intense crusade against it in the US.
- Ericson2314 7y agoI'm not sure it misses the point. Technical debt is always poltical too, whether it's system admin / database admin work being automated away (or not!), or manager<->engineer friction on costs and deadlines.