You want this to be illegal? Get to work on it.

The subtle underlying problem is all the people out there curating cogent arguments about the problem on social media, meaning countless hours spent avoiding the legwork.

Hi HN. Hi Reddit. Hi Facebook. Hi tech workers who have to constantly re-invent the wheel.

I’m sick of “both sides” and every one in between projecting and deflecting.

You all want to look at the problem in society, look in the mirror, cause you’re a part of it too. Say and do other things rather than demand other people do and say other things.

American people and politicians are on the same page: nothing is my fault, and it’s only my problem if I get paid for fixing it.

The problem of data confusion you describe is resolved by replacing management. That’s not an engineering issue that requires new technology (consider the source of social power for author; selling technology).

That’s an engineering issue that needs new engineering management who don’t enable wasting company resources making incompatible APIs in the first place.

We already did the monolithic DB design, I used to name those hosts “ocean”. And we already know the math. “Data lake” is just more jargon by a salesman to obfuscate peddling the same old abstraction, and wow fresh grads with new words for hyping the same old habits.

While not the author of this piece, Bezos is quoted as pointing out how circular social behavior is.

What do you think the odds of this author being on a similar page?

Have humans evolved much in 100 years? Or does the con simply get rewritten for the next generation to hide a simple truth?

What’s keeping people going in this circle isn’t logistical necessity. It’s us.