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> There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.

That should be one of those Tech culture “laws.”

I suspect that the dependapocalyse is a significant factor. When every part of an operation has multiple context rebuilds, and resources are not shared across module boundaries, you get inefficient behavior.

But I’m skeptical that there’s a will to rethink that.



> That should be one of those Tech culture “laws.”

We already have something:

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Milton Friedman, Tyranny of the Status Quo


Thanks for that.

I feel that there is a bit of a difference, though, because that’s really a cynical (and probably accurate) observation on the behavior of bureaucracy, and I feel the temporary fix thing is of a “finer granularity,” and applies to basic human nature.




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