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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Thu Sep 29 20:25:55 2016, in response to Re: W coming back November 7, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Sep 29 13:54:08 2016. The problem is that most high-tech engineering today is done by twenty-year-olds because they are less expensive. When they turn thirty, the cheapskates in management bring in a new crop of twenty-year-olds who are still at the point in their lives when they think that anything older than they are is obsolete and needs to be redone from scratch because they are smarter and more enlightened than the people who went before them. Even if they wanted to build on what was done before them, they don't understand it, so starting fresh is easier. Hence, repeated incompatibility. This is a particular problem with software, but it extends to other forms of engineering too. They'd have us rebuilding the subway tunnels every five years to adjust the clearances or change the track gauge if they could get away with that. "Why does it have to be 1435 mm? That's soooo old-fashioned! Can't we make it 1470? It has so many advantages and it's the new wave..." |
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