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> It's not evil, it's just incompetent and embarrassing.

And anyone who has worked in the industry over a long period of time will know that for big projects this closer to the norm than the exception.

I've personally worked on one massive banking project in the 90s that turned into a billion (in today’s terms) dollar right-off and in that time I read of many other such disasters.



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