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Imagine congress passed a law funding software upgrades for the IRS that came along with a bunch of tax code changes to "streamline" the upgrade process.
by jedberg 4y ago
Imagine congress passed a law funding software upgrades for the IRS that came along with a bunch of tax code changes to "streamline" the upgrade process.
- dhosek 4y agoOh man, I can remember product owners asking for something that wasn’t what they really wanted because they thought what they wanted would be hard to implement, but of course what they really wanted was easier to do than what they asked for.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoThis happens all the time. A decade ago, a family friend with a band wanted help with burning their CDs. Timidly, "hat in hand, eyes down", they asked if I could maybe, possibly, add 2 seconds of silence in front of their recorded tracks? It's OK if I couldn't, they'd understand. "I finished it while we were talking" "Really?? Amazing!! That's awesome! Didn't know you could do that!! Now, can you also remove John's guitar from this song?" They really had no clue that removing an instrument from a finished mix is HARD, as opposed to adding 2 seconds of silence (and for context this was years before the current deluge of "AI Powered" apps that might conceivably actually do that).
- increscent 4y agoReminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/
- nonrandomstring 4y ago> As much as 20 million lines of the IMF's code is reportedly written in Assembler – a major obstacle to any modernization That's literally jobs for life for some (un)lucky team.