Comment by Animats

Comment by Animats 2 days ago

It's reasonable, but it belongs to the era when the world ran on tracks of printed paper.

A useful line for process improvement today - "You should never have to tell the computer something it already knows." That was a Steve Jobs line that got lost somewhere.

nicbou 2 days ago

It would still be useful for Germany then

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niemandhier 2 days ago

I think paper is a good test for complexity: Never let administration become so overarching that you cannot do it with the same amount of people and purely based on paper.

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- Animats 2 days ago
  
  Right. Amazon, run like Sears pre-computer.
  
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jon_richards 2 days ago

And yet we still enter zip code after the rest of the address.

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pjc50 2 days ago

Huh. In the UK we usually enter postcode plus house number and have the computer look up the rest of the address (even though that's a paid API).

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- dambi0 2 days ago
  
  A UK post code is much more specific than a five digit zip code which might be one reason why.
  
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- graemep 2 days ago
  
  Good point, but because the postcode database was privatised it will always have to be a paid service which is why not everyone uses it.
  
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  robertlagrant 2 days ago
  
  It's still paid even if it's public. The difference is now the people who use it pay for it.
  
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wat10000 2 days ago

A lot of sites these days have some sort of live search functionality that apparently knows about all addresses. There, I can type in my house number and maybe the first three letters of my street name and it somehow manages to find me.

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drewcoo a day ago

FTFA:

> it centers on citizen experience rather than administrative convenience

There is not paper, real or implied, involved in that goal.

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