Technology

59652 readers

4818 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

470

Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

99 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, and being forced to redo it is probably a good thing in the long run.

Maybe they'll get a developer to build it into a reusable product instead of relying on Jim in accounting to fix the macros to get it working after an update. Or maybe they'll realize they could get the same result with a pivot table and clever formulas.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but nothing is more permanent than temporary solutions.

Your response is the rational one, but rarely the one taken.

It works and the new solution would cost time and money, we can't have that.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, this is government, not a nice FOSS project. :)