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		nikanj 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch Nobody will walk to a bridge site and ask them to build twice as many lanes and change one of the endpoints to be in New Jersey instead. IT projects are unique in the absolutely churn of requirements

aenis 26 days ago [–]

That, and computer systems have significantly more states, which makes unpredictable states and state transitions more likely.

(Which of course also means that until all eternity the first thing to do when something misbehaves is to try and reset it).

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