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It's like we spent 20 years building houses out of wood, and then suddenly someone discovered fire.

Goodness you just described my current work situation that's causing me to rip my hair out. This is a deeply human problem, and I've spent a year trying to mitigate it, but each time the discussion comes up I leave the conference room feeling like certain actors have a personal financial stake in wool fibers.

(No I don't work for Intel)



At work the issue-tracker has open bugs from 2011 detailing how to do SQL injection attacks using some common search interfaces, but noooooo, the sales team just has to update the visual style of the generated contract PDFs... <sigh>




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