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On 2018-02-15, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> As computers have become more powerful, we have lost certain positive
> things we had when they were much weaker.

Like knowing how not to create bloated, incomprehensible systems.
Nowadays, good design has been replaced by brute force.
"Who cares if it's a bubble sort?  I have a fast processor."
The worst part is that there's now enough power to make
payroll sytems even more convoluted than ever; it's a
bureaucrat's wet dream but everyone else's nightmare.

There are so many horror stories about hundreds of millions of dollars
spent on computer systems that don't work.  I dream about a day when
people get so fed up about things like not getting paid (e.g. the
Canadian government's Phoenix payroll system, which only fulfils
the first half of the legend by going down in flames) that the
KISS principle will one day re-emerge.

> Having those things while retaining the much greater power and economy
> of today's computers, though, isn't an easy puzzle to solve.

The worst part is that some people don't want it solved.
See Lynn's posts about the success of failure.

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