[npsimons]

> There should be a Tell HN that is just an 800-comment-long thread full of these stories because I love them.

As gratifying as they are, they get repetitive. Once you've heard one, you've heard them all.

I'd much rather hear about the place that fixed a policy problem that was blocking such progress in the first place. Software is easy, getting people (and orgs) to change is hard, tedious, boring, but absolutely necessary, and more enduring than a lot of software fixes.

[smokel]

I agree that software is easy, and managing (human) processes is hard. Just the other day I advocated for a Free Management Foundation [1], in the same vein as the Free Software Foundation. Anyone care to spend their life on that?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37968979

[dmvdoug]

For some reason that reminded me of the professor I had for administrative law in law school. He was a member of something called the Administrative Office of the United States Courts or something like that. Their entire job was to be a government run think tank that produced reports about government administration.

He really, really loved administrative law.

[dmvdoug]

I believe that about repetitiveness. It’s just that I’m not in software or computers, so I haven’t been subject to them all.

Although I was a lawyer, and I can tell you that human beings come up with an infinite variety of ways to do weird things, which gives me hope that there may be a weird software story out there for you, that you’ve never heard. :)

[JohnFen]

I've been a dev for a very long time, and I still regularly hear weird software stories from colleagues that are not just "the same old thing" again. They're a pretty small percentage -- maybe 2-5%? -- but despite the low flow rate, the well never seems to actually empty.