The internal bureaucratic consequences of admitting that the first site didn't work are probably too horrible to contemplate, so any subsequent site has to be arrived at by modifying the one that doesn't work.
There are lots of ways to make computers not work that really aren't recoverable by a neat sequence of sequential modifications. (Booch's Law, somewhat paraphrased.) So it can take years for people to be forced to admit that the site never worked in the first place.
I'm most glad you've got health insurance and goodness but that puts having to stand in line for five minutes to update the address on my health card into perspective. (One used to be able to use an automated kiosk for this, and then the kiosks had fatal security issues.)
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Date: 2014-12-18 06:54 pm (UTC)There are lots of ways to make computers not work that really aren't recoverable by a neat sequence of sequential modifications. (Booch's Law, somewhat paraphrased.) So it can take years for people to be forced to admit that the site never worked in the first place.
I'm most glad you've got health insurance and goodness but that puts having to stand in line for five minutes to update the address on my health card into perspective. (One used to be able to use an automated kiosk for this, and then the kiosks had fatal security issues.)