An MBA writing a complex spreadsheet might save him from hiring a programmer today. But it will cost him 3 programmers tomorrow to fix the mess he makes.
There are a few commodities companies that understand that they just have to produce for cheap. But 99% understand (or think they understand) that as they make an identical product to their competitors that marketing is everything.
It's only natural that insurance companies (for example) are run by and for the benefit of their commissioned sales staff. Your job, as a technical person, is to work for a business where your work matters. Of course that means you won't be the 'star' you might be now, but you will be out of the digital ghetto.
It only took me one job in such a place before I realize what was up. Never again. Marketing will continue to run places where only marketing matters.
Automatic fail and 'the boot' for academic dishonesty.
After which, no school would admit you. It was also 'the boot' for failing to list any previous academic institutions you attended.
Cheating used to be a _really_ big deal. Most teachers didn't make official reports, especially in the soft subjects, but I saw a dude busted and his academic life ended.
I asked if I could use a calculator on a HS English test.
Teacher looked at me like I was crazy. Said yes.
Calculator was an early Casio with about a k of memory and text.
Turned out not to matter. We knew he was fired before he did. He found out when he walked into class, we had written 'Your Fired' in 5 foot letters on the blackboard. Tried to flunk everybody in all his classes. Including the hard working cheaters.
But it changes, in some cases, when software is bread and butter, not overhead.
Never, never, never work in an industry with commodity products (e.g. Insurance), not only is IT pure overhead but marketing runs everything. They will try to convince you that's the 'way of the world'. That is bullshit. It's the way of their world, you must escape.
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By extension. If you have a lock on your door, that I can break, you are fine with me taking all your shit?
They need strong AI to work. Which is why they won't be driving in 'auto' anywhere but divided highways for decades.
Do you have any idea how much money is spent every year fixing/replacing brain dead spreadsheets some MBA put into a mission critical place?
The problem isn't the tools, it's the tool users. If they thought logically etc they would not need us. But they don't, so they do.
An MBA writing a complex spreadsheet might save him from hiring a programmer today. But it will cost him 3 programmers tomorrow to fix the mess he makes.
No you dimwit. Show me any one corporation that controls 50%+ of GDP. Until you do you are full of shit.
T-bones/porterhouses are such large steaks they are usually cut too thin. Hence overcooked (not raw in the middle).
They are not all the same. Lower % of GDP spent by the government == better.
Yes, but it will be an ID pony. You will be required to have it with you at all times.
Sense women got the right to vote, the taller candidate with the better hair wins 90% of the time.
Leftest never want totalitarianism,, but they always end up getting it anyhow.
The key flaw in socialism remains excessive concentration of power. The end.
So, by extension: The Subway perv was 'a bit grey' because the underage girls were whores?
The bitchy women. Duh.
How long do you think a gringo will have four tons of quarters in Belize? I bet he wouldn't make it through Mexico.
To say nothing of the % of effort that starts going into 'communication and management' as project headcounts go up.
Yet you want to give them assemblers, likely full featured macro assemblers.
Just give them a hex editor and a hard copy of the CPU instruction set and tech manual.
I know, luxury, let them copy con: program.exe and use alt-keypad to enter op codes and data, like a Klingon coder.
A fleshlight app? Link or it doesn't exist.
We're talking about software projects.
Why not? There are men named Loretta.
Taking a metaphor a little too literally?
It was on purpose. Still remember to look on his face. Not quite as funny looking back as it was at the time.
He really did need to find another job. This was apparently the second school where he failed.
Even in that case. They would have saved much time just painting it gold and covering it in glitter.
It's a symptom of making commodities.
There are a few commodities companies that understand that they just have to produce for cheap. But 99% understand (or think they understand) that as they make an identical product to their competitors that marketing is everything.
It's only natural that insurance companies (for example) are run by and for the benefit of their commissioned sales staff. Your job, as a technical person, is to work for a business where your work matters. Of course that means you won't be the 'star' you might be now, but you will be out of the digital ghetto.
It only took me one job in such a place before I realize what was up. Never again. Marketing will continue to run places where only marketing matters.
Automatic fail and 'the boot' for academic dishonesty.
After which, no school would admit you. It was also 'the boot' for failing to list any previous academic institutions you attended.
Cheating used to be a _really_ big deal. Most teachers didn't make official reports, especially in the soft subjects, but I saw a dude busted and his academic life ended.
I asked if I could use a calculator on a HS English test.
Teacher looked at me like I was crazy. Said yes.
Calculator was an early Casio with about a k of memory and text.
Turned out not to matter. We knew he was fired before he did. He found out when he walked into class, we had written 'Your Fired' in 5 foot letters on the blackboard. Tried to flunk everybody in all his classes. Including the hard working cheaters.
You sort of nailed it.
But it changes, in some cases, when software is bread and butter, not overhead.
Never, never, never work in an industry with commodity products (e.g. Insurance), not only is IT pure overhead but marketing runs everything. They will try to convince you that's the 'way of the world'. That is bullshit. It's the way of their world, you must escape.