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This blog is no longer active, you can find my new stuff at:
[5]george3d6.com, [6]epistem.ink, [7]ontologi.cc, and
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Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
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Most companies like having a sales guy who pitches potential customers,
negotiates prices, and outlines possible features. They also have a
[6]people person to discuss more in-depth requirements and details with
the customer, usually another sales guy, but with a slightly different
title. Then there’s the internal chain of command, various levels of
management, and possibly some hierarchy, within the technical team.
[10]people person to discuss more in-depth requirements and details
with the customer, usually another sales guy, but with a slightly
different title. Then there’s the internal chain of command, various
levels of management, and possibly some hierarchy, within the technical
team.
When a list of client requirements goes through so many people, even if
those people have the best of intentions, some things will inevitably
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migrating major banks to their amazing infrastructure.
Probably you haven’t heard of them, because they don’t exist. There
are, however, plenty of teams of [7]thousands of developers, who are
are, however, plenty of teams of [11]thousands of developers, who are
unable to grasp simple concepts such “rollbacks,” perpetually creating
banking software.
The storage and transfer of numbers is not a particularly hard problem.
Indexing the whole content of the internet and providing relevant
results to natural language queries, in sub second times, is a hard
problem. [8]But just a few smart guys managed to solve that problem.
problem. [12]But just a few smart guys managed to solve that problem.
The persistent problem for online banking is that the banking ecosystem
has become really good at preserving its own money-grabbing hierarchy.
Its leaders are [9]corrupt leeches who prey on society — but the
Its leaders are [13]corrupt leeches who prey on society — but the
leaders in an organization are just a symptom of its members.
I wouldn’t suggest that most underling workers for banks are evil or
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problems — real problems which, once pointed out, would threaten the
jobs of other people. To focus on these real problems could lead to
getting fired, or, in the case of some particularly nasty
“institutions” like Goldman Sachs, [10]getting a few life-ruining brown
“institutions” like Goldman Sachs, [14]getting a few life-ruining brown
envelopes sent to a few FBI officers and prompting a strange suicide.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his
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— Upton Sinclair
The [11]C-suite ignores the fact that their upper management workers
The [15]C-suite ignores the fact that their upper management workers
spend 90 percent of their time on “client meetings” that involve
tropical islands and million-dollar budgets for “other expenses.” Upper
management, in return, turns a blind eye to corruption in C-suite.
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If you enjoyed this article you may also like:
* [12]The Red Queen
* [13]Stop future proofing software
* [16]The Red Queen
* [17]Stop future proofing software
Published on: 2019-04-29
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1. https://cerebralab.com/feed.xml
2. https://github.com/George3d6
3. mailto:george@cerebralab.com
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