Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> writes:
On 9/6/21 5:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote:
Well, I come from a software background, so in my world the whole thing is held together by duct tape and string anyway ;)
Don't forget bailing wire.
Heh, true, although I think the baling wire-to-string ratio tends to be a bit higher in the US than over here in Europe :)
And while I can agree in principle, the nice thing about hacks is that you can actually get those to *work*, whereas tilting at windmills to get providers to do the right thing is much harder. So ideally you could do both: deploy the hack(s) while waiting to get the proper fix deployed a decade or two from now...
Yes, it's usually possible to get one or more hacks to work well enough to achieve the desired immediate goal -- $NextStreamingService to work on $SignificantOthersDevice.
But, how much time and effort ins required for each $NextStreamingService that comes down the pipe and the associated ill-will of $SignificantOther?
Yeah, I do realise that that particular workaround probably has (had?) an expiry date :(
When is the proper time to give up on hacks and take one, relatively simple, step backwards to avoid all subsequent time / effort / ill-will?
Well, this is more a question for the philosophy department I'd say... :) -Toke