is there a better term than "folk integration" (which I just made up) for when 2 incompatible software systems are bridged by human labour?
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example is cutting something out of 100 web pages and pasting into a spreadsheet
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data entry is too complex/intensive; I'm thinking little tech crap joblets shotgun-blasted throughout the day.
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German translators sent content as Word, I opened in gdocs, them pasted into html in WP. 50-footnote-fixing schlep
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getFileLines("/in.csv").map(_.split(",")).map(l => (l(1), l(5))).groupBy(_._2).map(p => (p._1, p._2.map(_._1).distinct))
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I wrote that today to process a csv file
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that incantation reduced one layer of folk integration.
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I've done things like that, but threshold is high. Won't think hard 1 hour to save 2 easy, but will for saving 200
ah see I've done so much of that kind of thing it literally does take me 5 minutes
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I need to introduce you to some very hairy yaks.
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