"IT/ICT ****IS***** Office Skills."
Wrong. In fact, so wrong as to be offensive. You may, like many engineers, look down your nose at IT support and operations staff, but the fact is that we do much more than type things into Word documents. Here are just a few of the things I have explained to "senior" developers over the years:
* Why using source control is a good idea, even for pre-release code (after said developer's hard drive died, costing him a month of work)
* How to use source control, like, at all
* How file system permissions work
* What a virtual machine is
* What a container is
* Why it's not a good idea to include passwords in plain text in configuration files
* How DNS works
* How networking works
* Load balancing
* High availability
* Latency
(Note to the moderators: look how good I'm being. I didn't swear once or insult this person, even though he comes across as a colossally condescending fucking toolbag.
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Dammit.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
