Comment by wrong_variable
9 years ago
oh my god, this is depressing sad.
She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.
but she went with the cheapest option.
this is going to keep me upset for a while.
"She" did nothing of the sort. She told someone she wanted her email available. They said, ok, we'll just host it ourselves. "Whatever, I want my daily suduko and make sure I stop getting those damn linked-in spams". "Ok boss".
Seriously, how could anyone really believe she specc'd this out herself? Her staff probably threw it together as a MVP with the full intention of revisiting the implementation "really soon".
And then they lost interest.
She asked and they gave her options she didn't like and then worked around it. Big difference
That's implying she understood the implications.
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> She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.
Or instead of reinventing the wheel, installed an existing spam detection product like SpamAssassin on the email server.
Or, truly the craziest of possible scenarios: simply followed the instructions given to her by the people administering her access to the government's IT infrastructure.
I don't disagree with you. Just seemed like we were getting into the bizarre talking about teams of grad students to create something that already existed, unless I just didn't detect the sarcasm.