the full story of ACRONYM, SHADOW, the App, the (lack of) expertise of those developing the app, the motives of those contracting for the app, the need for the app in the first place (attempt at transparency based on complaints from Sanders in 2016 when he thought he was cheated by Hillary) -- on and on, perfect poster child for the sad state of software engineering and a concept and approach for software development.
davew On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, at 6:21 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > < We say the app failed because the systems failed – humans failed. > Humans built a system too complex to handle simple tasks. We often fool > ourselves into thinking that speed and convenience are paramount > values. So we maximized speed over reliability, data over truth, > attention over depth. > > > It is necessary to be involved in how a thing works and have some skin > in the game. Management doesn't work. Delegation doesn't work. > Technology that people use but don't understand just makes people > stupid. > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
