Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
by Natsu on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:00AM
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All they did was to add another layer of bureaucracy over the top of existing departments, as I understand it. Ideally, they would eliminate redundancies post-merger, but this is government we're talking about.
If we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs and source control would also be an anathema, in particular because of the 'blame' command.
Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
by wladimir on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:16AM
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If we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs
Wow, that sounds a lot like some places I've worked. Nothing was ever removed out of fear that something somewhere might break. Refactoring, hence, is forbidden. Just add more code and special cases.
Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
by sgift on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:18AM
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http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architect...
There are parallels. Sometimes.
Isn't that pretty much what the Department of Homeland Security is? ICE, Customs, TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, the SS and a few others under one umbrella? Doesn't look like it actually made anything better.