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Sometimes I think if software was a physical product, it would be a bag of screws and bolts and an outdated incorrect description of how to assemble it.
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Still, people would spend sometimes years to learn how to assemble it, and proud themselves to have mastered it, and be admired by many.
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In reality, a more polished and thought out product packaging and interfaces would allow many people to just use it, but now people are already invested in all the time they spent learning how to assemble it.
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This reminds me to a blog post I wrote in 2014: blog.mikiobraun.de/2014/10/parts-…
Parts But No Car
When people ask whether some thing can be built on Hadoop or
some other Big Data framework, they often overlook what building
really means. So let's...
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And if you're really unlucky, whoever dares to question whether all this complexity is not just bad design is judged for not having enough edge to learn it.