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Unless your income is depending on carrying out the exact demands of some money guy that's most common phrase while using a computer is "it won't let me" and th
by citizenpaul 4y ago
Unless your income is depending on carrying out the exact demands of some money guy that's most common phrase while using a computer is "it won't let me" and they want "big data".
Then you just suck it up and build one of the totally unnecessary big data systems that have been excreted all over the business world these days. I don't think the problem is that devs are over-engineering.
I wonder what its called, makes me think of tragedy of the commons but probably not quite right.
- tomrod 4y agoHierarchy on bueracracies, by Jean Tirole. I know because this was the phenomenon I wanted to study in grad school only to find he scooped me (on this an several items) by several decades. Edit: Tirole, Jean. "Hierarchies and bureaucracies: On the role of collusion in organizations." JL Econ. & Org. 2 (1986): 181.
- melagonster 4y agoif this research is so old, did world tried any thing to ameliorate this problem? I guess it doesn't happen yet...
- tomrod 4y ago36 years is not old in terms of research. 2,223 cites on Google Scholar and many in the past year. Seminal research often identifies the problem but not all solutions.
- morelisp 4y agoMaybe like 20 years ago you were right but today there's a generation that's been working for 10 years on systems built like that. They don't know any better, and in most cases nobody is around to teach them otherwise.
- BeefWellington 4y agoWhat gets me is how many companies paid through the nose to push their data into things like Hive and slowed down 99% of their queries to make one "run once a quarter" report run about 25% faster. At least that was my experience a number of years back.