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There's nothing that makes me sadder in the world. How a lack of understanding can poison what could otherwise be in our reach, and moves it again further away
by slx26 6y ago
There's nothing that makes me sadder in the world. How a lack of understanding can poison what could otherwise be in our reach, and moves it again further away from our understanding. It's almost as if we love "simple" because it's the perfect platform to start complicating. I mean, it's everywhere, not just IT systems. And part of it is unavoidable, but... when you start looking at it, it becomes impossible to unsee. So many absurd roadblocks, so much wasted potential.
- Sodman 6y agoBut $LARGE_CLIENT told our sales guy that if we were to just implement $ARBITRARY_CHECKBOX_FEATURE in our advanced configuration they'd sign a 7 figure deal!
- staticassertion 6y agoUh, yeah, if you have millions of dollars lined up and you turn it down to maintain some sense of technical purity, I hope your revenue is in the billions.
- ganafagol 6y agoBut that's not how this works. Customers order a feature. They don't order how messed up your implementation of that feature is. In other words, the agreement with the customer is the spec. But this discussion is about the implementation. Conflating these two is one of the major problems in our industry.
- Terr_ 6y agoOn the other hand, there may be comfort in the fatalism that it's just a feature of the universe. Cell biology, for example, seems littered with stuff that just happens to work 51% of the time due to what appear to be crazy sideways interactions.