PhilGoetz comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 21 March 2010 08:25:40PM *  1 point [-]

So would I, but that would be a research project.

You know what's funny - My bosses have a "research project bad" reaction. If I say that fixing a problem requires finding a new solution, they usually say, "That would be a research project", and nix it.

But if I say, "Fixing this would require changing the underlying database from Sybase to SQLite", or, "Fixing this would require using NCBI's NRAA database instead of the PANDA database", that's easier for people to accept, even if it requires ten times as much work.