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> I think the best thing to do is merge as many departments as possible Isn't that pretty much what the Department of Homeland Security is? ICE, Customs, TSA,
by uxp 16y ago
> I think the best thing to do is merge as many departments as possible
Isn't that pretty much what the Department of Homeland Security is? ICE, Customs, TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, the SS and a few others under one umbrella? Doesn't look like it actually made anything better.
- Natsu 16y agoAll they did was to add another layer of bureaucracy over the top of existing departments, as I understand it. Ideally, they would eliminate redundancies post-merger, but this is government we're talking about. If we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs and source control would also be an anathema, in particular because of the 'blame' command.
- wladimir 16y agoIf we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs Wow, that sounds a lot like some places I've worked. Nothing was ever removed out of fear that something somewhere might break. Refactoring, hence, is forbidden. Just add more code and special cases.
- sgift 16y agohttp://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architectural-best-practices.html http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architect... There are parallels. Sometimes.
- PostOnce 16y ago"The SS" means the Secret Service, not the Schutzstaffel, if it takes anyone a second to figure that out.