Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Zeus hates the NSA

The NSA's new massive spy center in Bluffdale Utah is on the slowest fast track in recent history. Engineers and contractors bypassed many quality standards and practices to get the site up and running as fast as possible. Unfortunately for them, huge lightning bolts tear between components causing 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months. I find myself scoffing at these "clearly unintelligent" contractors while they scramble to get the facility online. For shame. How often to I find myself trying to "fast-track" a project by cutting corners only to find myself cursing, debugging, and cursing? Giving into the lie of "finish it now, deal with the consequences later" only causes pain and personal anguish. Stop the nonsense and think, plan, enact, and repeat.

5 comments:

  1. I think that we all cut corners. We want to finish the task at hand but we need to realize that quality is more important than pushing out a product.

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  2. Very interesting post. Funny title

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  3. The real question: why Bluffdale????

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  4. Good point! We are setting ourselves up for failure when we work like that.

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  5. I agree in a real life scenario, but as far as school projects go waiting till last minute has proved effective.

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