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New sweat, tears and duct tape solutions are being created every day. Let's start by focusing on the ones coming down the pipe.

• macintux 6y ago
  Which would still face the same problem: the government would rather pay multiple times for crappy software at a lower price than one big bill for quality software the first time.
  • ashtonkem 6y ago
    That's not a problem unique to governments, although the consequences in that realm tend to be worse.
  • jimbokun 6y ago
    Or you can pay one big bill and still get crappy software. It's difficult to evaluate the quality of software development contractors.
• bobthepanda 6y ago
  What matters to the bean counters is if it can be done without expensing something new, everything else be damned. Unless you can get a clear, popular government mandate to spend money to make things more efficient, this is not a palatable solution. Given how large refactors tend to go in general, this also doesn't necessarily lead to good outcomes; even with a relatively technocratic administration led by Mike Bloomberg (relative to comparable mayors, at least), upgrading NYC's 911 system massively spun out of control: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/911-overhaul-2b-disaster-report-article-1.2105176 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/911-overhaul-2b-disaste...