A computer is as stupid as the person controlling it
All customers want the magic button.
What should it do?
"Whatever I want it to do".
They also have no idea how complicated it is to keep it simple, and will deliberately try and cut complexity out of a project to try and simplify things, then use brute force and workarounds to mash the cases they couldn't be arsed to think about when they ordered the software into a system that wasn't designed to cope with them.
I have the misfortune to be working for a software company who offer a cloud product
which can be customised to no end to perfectly suit a business' requirements, like Sir C and customer-focused messiahs such as yourself suggest. This is of course a brilliant idea.
I wish I was dead.
I think what you're saying Doc, is that we the coders, are now the masters of
everyone's destiny and all others are, to a man, cvnts.
Both should be able to write some code, is it a language distinction?
Do the IT people resent the way we make things look nicer?
We're supposed to be on the same side but these guys are so often the f**king breaks on anything. Any simple project gets looked over by the 50+ short-sleeved shirt with a tie c**t who has an MCSE qualification from 1994, and who's default mode is disengage, and he nixes it on the ground that he doesn't understand it. Of course, he can't admit that he doesn't understand it so he mumbles something about "security and compatibility issues" and the rest of the middle management blackberries around the table nod sagely whilst repeating the latest buzzword.
You have to admire the whole cloud thing, literally a triumph of nebulous marketing
I very much doubt that, if you replaced the word "cloud" with "some place on the internet that sort of exists", people would be quite so up for it.
When you say 'backwards and narrow-minded', could you have used the word
'reactionary'? :cloud9:
I've made a decent living from such a condition, j :-(
