The Programmer's Paradox

I have been reminded quite recently of a very common software operations problem. You have to do a big upgrade to an existing system. For th...

We can take a set of ‘inputs’ and grind through that information to produce a set of ‘outputs’. If the grinding is 100% repeatable, barring ...

In software, if something is really easy to do, that seems great. You don’t have to spend a lot of time, effort, or thought on it. But it is...