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We had an "IT All Hands" meeting for our group. Some front line developer presented this “amazing new technology”. It was so dumb I don't even remember what it was. He told us we would all be using this soon. Someone asked him if HE was using it. He says "no, I just browsed around on their website and this looks cool" No one ever ended up using it.
@Hooovahh wrote:
Best Tool Ever!
We had an "IT All Hands" meeting for our group. Some front line developer presented this “amazing new technology”. It was so dumb I don't even remember what it was. He told us we would all be using this soon. Someone asked him if HE was using it. He says "no, I just browsed around on their website and this looks cool" No one ever ended up using it.
We have a similar issue. As a small site, the large, sector headquarters, site likes to force things down on us. Right now, it is a complete overhaul of the configuration management software. We have pushed back on so many things the other site thinks we need, but it does not work for how we do things here. So after a few years, one year with being forced out of the old system, we are still finding a billion issues every day. But the sector headquarters, as far as I am aware, have yet to touch it.
@Hooovahh wrote:
Some front line developer presented this “amazing new technology”.
Now if a programmer discovers “amazing new technology” you should be really worried 😁.
Search LabVIEW like a graph! Quick question about testing
I was newly hired at a company that had me tasked with writing software for testers. One day a guy from a different department came up and introduced himself and asked:
“I heard you know how to make a tester, can I control a device over ethernet?”
I tried probing a bit more and asking what kind of device, and giving examples of the types of network communications there would be. He seemed satisfied, and excited with the new knowledge he had. He left, seeming like he had discovered something important.
Weeks later he came back.
“How can I measure the current in a circuit?”
Again I tried explaining very high level DAQ measuring principals, current shunts, even ohm's law a bit. He left again super excited that he now had a plan for whatever he was doing.
Weeks later.
“How do I talk to a database?”
After a few months I just asked what he was trying to do. He explained that he was in charge of building a rather large test system on his own. He was asking about individual components of the tester he would need to make. He was in way over his head, and had no chance of accomplishing any one of the minor tasks he needed. He had been spinning his wheels for almost a year with nothing to show for it. He eventually just hired a company to do all the work for him. He had about 18 months to build the thing but instead just asked questions for over a year and ultimately hired someone else to do his job anyway.
Boss had an interview during lunch
The company wasn’t doing so well and most people knew that things weren’t good. Typically we went to lunch together as a group, but we noticed our boss taking an extra long lunch without us. When they came back they had a visitor badge from a competing company stuck to their coat with their name written on it. We said “So...have you been to <company X> lately?” They looked down and saw the visitor badge, and slowly peeled it off and never said a word. Sure enough they quit soon after.
Right…but this is the resolution
A friend of mine submitted an article in a technical magazine for some software development he had done. As part of the process he had to submit written works, and images to go along with it that would be in the magazine. He took screenshots of software as examples and submitted them. He got a reply saying his submission was rejected because the images for the publication needed to be at some minimum resolution of something like 4 Megapixels. They said this was their policy, because when printed it needed some level of detail. My friend tried to reason with them that the images were screenshots of running software, it was at that resolution. It wasn’t like a nature photograph that was taken with a camera. They wouldn’t budge on the policy. So he went into photoshop, scaled the image and resubmitted. This time they accepted it, and he was eventually published.
I have similar discussions about images in PDFs.
- The graph looks blocky!
+ Yes, if you zoom in...
- But the text doesn't look blocky!
+ The text is vector based, the graph is bitmap based...
- So can you increase the resolution?
+ Sure, but the graph might look fuzzy when printed and the PDF size grow in size...
- We don't want that!
Of course I suggest to switch to vector based graphs (I've been creating PDFs for 25 years 😎)...
But now I have to make clear that vector based graphs might dramatically increase or decrease the PDF size, depending on the data...
