Posts by omgitsautom

Why everyone* hates Salesforce's Marc Benioff

"You have no job security, get over it"

(paraphrasing Scott McNealy's famous dictum on privacy)

Planned obsolescence and vendor-benefiting annoyances are third order effects at most.

The first order effect is, yes, any job that CAN be automated WILL be automated. The robots ARE coming.

A second order effect is more interesting: what will happen to technology ROI when there are too few consumer dollars to justify the investment at all? Can the robots be paid for by people doing robot maintenance?

But then, you know, there's garage 3D printing and open source software. We may see some pretty funky looking robots.

Things you should know about the hard work of home working

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I've done many years of primarily WFH mixed with years of office work. My biggest problem originally with WFH was no manager present to "motivate" me, keep me honest, provide acknowledgment or notice that I was contributing. I compensated by using a few tools (along with many of the tips found in this discussion)

- activity log: what I was doing in 15 minute increments

- to do list, with perpetual archive; constant record of accomplishment

- email status report every Friday (or the last day of work for the week; sometimes this was required, other times I did them voluntarily)

This is more work than most people want to do however, it reduces the stress of worrying about performance, and makes it much easier to stop working after putting in 8 hours.

Cloud computing is FAIL and here’s why

Especially enjoyed the comment on William Gibson vs Irvine Welsh