wpaprocki

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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Stay classy.
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
How do you not notice an extra 100 TB worth of traffic on your network?
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Mid-sized telecom company. SF is too simplistic for our complex pricing needs.
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Yeah, Salesforce might just be the best of these types of systems. But even then, it is the best-dressed clown at the circus. Unless you have a really simple business model, you should probably just build a custom app.
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Salesforce. It's not a bad system for what it was designed to do--sales and marketing. The problem is that it is over-promoted and over-sold as a versatile platform that can do anything. When you actually try to model complex business
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
I work for a telco reseller. We make our money by selling the same services as the big guys without being assholes about it. We make a lot of money.
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
I'm getting an error message. Stupid app! ...So did my rating just go up?
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Let's see how quickly they can fix that bug...
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
"...Engineers make plenty of business decisions every day: Deciding the size of a database field, for instance, or a data type. Those types of choices impact the business, admittedly in a micro way..." Micro? I have seen decisions
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
Well, in Python, if you duplicate a return statement, then your code will recognize only the first statement. This, for example, will return 1: def func(): return 1 return 2 If the code from the goto fail example was written
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by wpaprocki 12y ago
There are other reasons why choice of language matters. If you need a simple web app, you're probably writing it in PHP or Ruby instead of C. But you'll likely use C if you're interfacing with hardware. A lot of apps that nee