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The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators
maffstephens writes "Have you noticed how difficult it's become to develop software? Not because software is more complex, but because there seems to be an army of administrators standing in your way - sys admins, network admins, database admins, runtime admins - the list is endless. They should be there to help us, to make our lives easier, but the reality is often very different. This thought-provoking article from Software Reality is all about the emerging culture of spiteful, dog-in-the-manger prevention amongst corporate IT administrators. Software development has become so inefficient as a result, it's no wonder so many companies are outsourcing."
Blame outsourcing on IT admins, not on Bush.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Bullshit, American's were always Lazy. When was slavery used to build up Germany? Or the Soviet Union? You didn't even build up your own country! Everyone else built it for you and you claimed credit. I admit Americans do come up with the best ideas, they just are too lazy to use them. You invented electronics and you let the Japanese companies like Sony out work you. You invent the car and you let every country including Germany make better cars than you? You invent the computer and then you let India and China out work you and make better products? Thats lazy.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Since I've never been a sysadmin, I can safely say all SAs morons who have a God complex. They get a couple of passwords and they think they rule the earth.
Now I agree that developers should have their own database, network, servers or whatever - anything else is madness, but quite often SAs don't do their job and are too arrogant to take direction, especially from a developer. Like when the production database running your call-centre stops because it has run out of log space. I tell the SA that we need more disk space immediately. He says he has to look into it, blah blah blah. Or when they get things wrong: the training system has this parameter set wrong. Please fix it I have X students staring at the ceiling. SA: oh well the manual said that this blah blah blah. They can't get through their heads that developers generally know more about the systems they develop on than them.
They're supposed to enable work, not stop it, but they act like little Hitlers: no access for you!
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And, as this reply suggests, why don't you give them root access on a test machine?
John.
I beg to differ. The Americans all want to be chiefs, and so they bring the Indians in to do all the work!
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Developers don't need root access. Simple.
For what? Give me one good reason why.
strace for one.
I'm sure there are others. You're attitude reminds me of a school principal who employs a zero tolerance policy out of sheer laziness.
On my dev box, I am root. You cannot predict my every need. To assume so is either supremely arrogant, or stupid.