OpenDrapery

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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Right on. Can we cut the bullshit about how a wage worker is supposed to care about the customer, the business, or any of that? Does the person working in the drive through at McDonalds care about the customer? Of course not. Now, if I w
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I guess generic-ware like Microsoft Dynamics CRM is putting this to the test. Written once, configured for whatever domain you wish.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Sometimes, as a developer, I ask higher level questions about the business. Who is the customer? What problems do they have that we are trying to solve? How does this business make money? How are the executives measured? These are quest
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Every line of code you write or modify is potential technical debt that someone will have to own. With the turnover rate in this industry, I'm not sure anyone plans to be around when the monstrosity that they wrote starts to become a
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
This is why the demo should just be a pre-recorded video that you can narrate live. Seriously.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
what about people who just want to make money and don't care about the patient?
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I imagine even the most Type A extrovert gets worn down after spending 3 consecutive days with the same people? I don't think the introvert/extrovert thing really factors in. If you spend X amount of time with person Y, you need
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Attention everyone! Attention! I just wanted to make sure that you all know that I don't care what you think of me. As you were.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
You may be more likely to be promoted if you display a backbone. Real straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Problem with this is the feature that is used by some external actor once every 18 months. You'll pull the plug, and when 6 months go by, you'll think you're safe. Then when shit blows up, you'll have no context and sp
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Anyone remember "Drawing with Friends"? It was all the rage for about 15 minutes.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Productive according to what measurement? The problem is that the tech industry is still failing to measure productivity, even when people are onsite. So the lazy fall back is "butts in seats". If I can see you sitting in you&#
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Most all of us work for companies that would like to make us obsolete. Payroll is a necessary evil in the enterprise, as far as "the business" is concerned.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
"Interesting" is in the eye of the beholder. If you don't think it's interesting, then it's not. Don't ask the internet to help you form an opinion.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I used to enjoy the thrill of the refactor, especially on applications where there weren't a lot of users or the product didn't generate much revenue. Or better yet, refactoring before the product has even been released. When th
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Agreed. It's another instance of making a tech to finance analogy that just doesn't hold up. It's really nice when you can just put a number on something. And it really sucks when you can't, but that doesn't prev
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Didn't click link. Just came to comments. I would have guessed Japan.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I was thinking more in terms of this http://www.daedtech.com/the-gravitational-force-of-wage-labo...
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Yeah, as I read many comments in this thread I'm left thinking that either these people are very naive or I'm severely jaded (or both). But the notion of work hard and you'll be rewarded is kind of silly when you're wor
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Willingness to do grunt work is a fast track to becoming a manager who says "I haven't coded in years". No good deed goes unpunished. When you step up to be a team player and do that grunt work, you open yourself up to getti
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I think the difference between line of business software and companies that are actual software companies is so huge that it starts to make no sense to compare them. I've worked on technology that goes out the door and contributes to t
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
This is something I'm coming to grips with. Massive inefficiency is not just the domain of government agencies. There are plenty of firms in the private sector that have teams sitting idle, and the kicker is they are hiring! It is no
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
"Why do we hire hourly wage labor as if though its was permanent?" Could you give an example of this? Are you talking about using contractors to get through a project, and then keeping them on indefinitely after the project is ov
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Ha! The team that "loses" gets to go try something new, and the team that "wins" gets to take their new product into maintenance/bug fix/enhancement mode? Looks like the joke is on the winning team.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Has anyone had much success with negotiating the health care benefits out of the equation? For example, if your spouse carries the benefits, then you don't need them. I'm guessing most employers don't have the luxury of sub
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
This is a fairly common scenario across the industry. But I'd venture a guess that usually the guy/gal who had a large role in writing the original system is long gone. In other words, while the rewrite is common, having the orig
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Interesting co-workers is a big one. Very hard to vet before accepting a job, however. You won't know how uninteresting they are until after you start.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Same holds true for functional programming & languages. If you believed that HN forums were a reflection of reality, you'd be shocked when you looked for Haskell jobs.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Seems to me that most technical people in this business have no career strategy. They settle into a job and inertia takes hold, and a body at rest tends to stay at rest until a force is applied to move it. So they will sit their butt in a

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