notepad
On one project I discovered the offshore team Notepad. We couldn't understand why there were so many compiler errors LOL
10 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jun 2016
What's interesting is how long it took IBM to realise they weren't top dog anymore. Years after the shine had gone off the 'Nobody got fired for buying IBM' attitude, there was still an arrogance in the company that they could take or leave customers or technologies. They still did a lot of really good stuff (like Apple and Facebook etc), but they just had this view that customers were lucky to buy from them.When they bought a new company, loads of customers would drop the product and find someone else to buy from ... and still the penny didn't drop.
Same with Microsoft, loads of people saw Google as a saviour from the total mastery that MS wanted; trouble is when the new liberator takes over, they become a dictator because they know best and we need to be controlled for our own good.
But we know that putting all our data on the cloud run by clowns, sorry, that should read 'large corporations who promise our data are all highly secure and can never be hacked, lost, or released to the world - until it is', is totally and entirely safe. I for one trust AWS, Google, IBM and the other one who I've forgotten, to be entirely trustworthy and responsible, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Why should I feel any concern about the publication of all my information anyway? What's the worst that can happen?
A long time ago I briefly worked on the electronics on battle tanks. The principle was 'who ever gets their electronics in first gets to pick the best spot'. No planning or organisation. I'd assumed that modern technology would have got beyond that and thought about ergonomics. Apparently that's for the next release :-)
I might not feel so aggrieved if it was announced that Ginni's job had been outsourced to an Indian paid 10% of her salary. But the executives continue to feather their nests very, very comfortably. I presume the original poster of 'Owners matter too' voted against the offensively huge salaries being paid to a bunch of failures who have driven the company value down so far whilst rewarding themselves so well (I did).