Admittedly I've only worked in medium-sized shops, but I've never seen a rack jammed full of batteries.
I've seen the bottom third or so full, and they told me to go any higher would invite stability problems. It's been a few years since I had the discussion, these days do they bolt the racks to the floor and fill 'em with batteries?
Totally correct, and people get nailed to the wall for it.
There used to be a ginormous accounting firm called Arthur Anderson LLP, until Enron imploded. What used to be a prestigious firm employing 85,000 people worldwide is now a smoking crater, because Anderson OK'd the Enron books, and they were held accountable (get it?) for signing off on bullshit.
Lawyers get disbarred every day. Sometimes for crime, sometimes for incompetence.
IT people don't get hammered the same way for incompetence.
99% of the time it's incompetence or they're filling their own pockets.
They don't stick their neck out for the CLIENT's incompetence, or the CLIENT's pockets, because they will be personally held accountable.
When a lawyer fucks up bad enough to get the disbarment process running, the other lawyers can't throw him under the bus fast enough, because he's making the rest of them look bad.
If someone wants to be e.g. a welder, he needs x amount of school, followed by y amount of apprenticeship before he can call himself a welder.
There are things in the building code/etc. that require a certified welder to sign off on. Welders/pipefitters/steamfitters/etc have it much better then IT workers.
I'm not sure if you can lose your certification because of fuck-ups, anyone know?
I'd love to see an school + apprenticeship model in IT btw.
One thing about being a professional is that every guy in the field is chained to the same code of conduct.
Imagine this conversation with a lawyer or an accountant -
Boss - please do %dodgy_thing%.
Lawyer/Accountant - Hell no, I'm not getting disbarred/whatever for you guys, and furthermore there's not a lawyer/accountant in the country who will put their name on %dodgy_thing%.
In the IT world there's lots of people who would happily install pirated software, the company can just turf the original poster and hire someone else off the street.
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I didn't think you'd be a fan of the McDonald's coffee verdict.
As stated in a dozen comments in this topic, the article is about disability insurance to replace wages, not about access to health care.
If this person ends up a destitute bag lady, she'll still be covered by the Canadian universal health care system.
Canadian courts don't award spectacular punitive damages.
One would think the insurance company would be interested in the person recovering.
The insurance company doesn't care if you live or die, so long as they don't have to pay out.
Simple reality.
All software sucks, it's just a matter of matching strengths and weaknesses to your own needs.
Exactly. Let's stop wasting money on all that water diversion to California, those guys can go back to their natural state of dying of thirst.
If you want Slackware you know where to find it.
Admittedly I've only worked in medium-sized shops, but I've never seen a rack jammed full of batteries.
I've seen the bottom third or so full, and they told me to go any higher would invite stability problems. It's been a few years since I had the discussion, these days do they bolt the racks to the floor and fill 'em with batteries?
How much does a rack full of water-cooled blades weigh?
Never thought I'd see the UPS become the lightest thing in the server room.
It's an old joke but a good one -
Q: How do you become a millionaire?
A: Start out a billionaire and buy a pro sports team.
Yeah but I'm sure someone here can point to hilarious failures of any methodology, or tool, or language.
Let's face it, software sucks. Writing software is hard.
I'd been writing batch files for quite a few years before downloading my first set of Slackware floppy images... now get off my lawn.
And managers are held in such esteem...
Totally correct, and people get nailed to the wall for it.
There used to be a ginormous accounting firm called Arthur Anderson LLP, until Enron imploded. What used to be a prestigious firm employing 85,000 people worldwide is now a smoking crater, because Anderson OK'd the Enron books, and they were held accountable (get it?) for signing off on bullshit.
Lawyers get disbarred every day. Sometimes for crime, sometimes for incompetence.
IT people don't get hammered the same way for incompetence.
Exactly, when they get caught they get disbarred and can't be lawyers anymore.
IT people just find another IT job.
I'm not saying professional associations are a silver bullet, but wouldn't it be remove the very worst people from the field?
Lawyers get busted for dodgy shit all the time.
99% of the time it's incompetence or they're filling their own pockets.
They don't stick their neck out for the CLIENT's incompetence, or the CLIENT's pockets, because they will be personally held accountable.
When a lawyer fucks up bad enough to get the disbarment process running, the other lawyers can't throw him under the bus fast enough, because he's making the rest of them look bad.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=lawyers+disbarred+2009
This year, how many IT people were permanently booted from their line of work because of negligence/malfeasance?
If someone wants to be e.g. a welder, he needs x amount of school, followed by y amount of apprenticeship before he can call himself a welder.
There are things in the building code/etc. that require a certified welder to sign off on. Welders/pipefitters/steamfitters/etc have it much better then IT workers.
I'm not sure if you can lose your certification because of fuck-ups, anyone know?
I'd love to see an school + apprenticeship model in IT btw.
That's great, but they could easily hire someone for your position who isn't in the ACS.
There's lots of occasions where you're legally obligated to uses a lawyer/acc't/engineer in good standing.
One thing about being a professional is that every guy in the field is chained to the same code of conduct.
Imagine this conversation with a lawyer or an accountant -
Boss - please do %dodgy_thing%.
Lawyer/Accountant - Hell no, I'm not getting disbarred/whatever for you guys, and furthermore there's not a lawyer/accountant in the country who will put their name on %dodgy_thing%.
In the IT world there's lots of people who would happily install pirated software, the company can just turf the original poster and hire someone else off the street.
There's one difference between IT and janitors - sometimes the users LIKE their janitors.
I.T. is the farthest thing from a profession.
No barriers to entry, no professional society to get bounced out of.
Accounting, engineering, law, medicine are professions - we're computer janitors.
Having a bad day?
Yes, if only someone would invent a way to transmit data using light, maybe over a long fibre of some transparent material...
Why can't people stop biting on lame cut'n'paste trolls?