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readams on Feb 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizon...

You'd need a configuration system that is so general it would become a programming language. And then nobody could configure it except the original programmers because now your rules are written in the weird badly-designed programming language you developed.

oftenwrong on Feb 23, 2021 [–]

AKA The Inner-Platform Effect

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect

I have worked on a few systems that would serve as prime examples.

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