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Unpythonic
- maxxxxx 10y agoThis reminds me of my workplace these days. A director has heard that JSON is the best thing ever so JSON has to be used. Other decisions like using on premises or cloud hosting are secondary. The scary part is that there is this whole layer of project managers and other managers that take this as gospel and have endless meetings about it.
- StClaire 10y agoI went to a Hackathon last weekend and a guy from the one the sponsors walked around and gave advice to the different teams, like "use an IDE," or "try using [obscure language you never heard of and couldn't learn in three hours].“ At some point he mentioned he was a product guy and hadn't written a line of code in his life.
- dzdt 10y agoIs this satire? Supposedly a true story?
- realharo 10y agoI think most of the stories on TheDailyWTF are based on true events, but are slightly tweaked (names, details, etc.) for privacy and dramatic purposes.
- Grue3 10y agoThe language was probably Go. Can't really see anyone pushing Python as brand new thing these days.
- realharo 10y agoI can quite easily picture a situation where someone misunderstands an article claiming that a technology is "modern", or there is "a new wave" of usage, or simply talking about a new version, etc. Especially since the Python community likes hyping up the language at every opportunity (the same is also true for many other languages/technologies).
- WorldMaker 10y agoThe events in question could have happened in the past. TDWTF sometimes has a queue of stories that take a while to get edited. Additionally, some stories likely only get submitted after fear of NDAs expire and new jobs are acquired by the submitter. (Even scrubbing details from the posts, there's no reason for a submitter not to CYA to the full extent possible.)
- dozzie 10y agoNo. Angular wasn't even started when Python was considered a new shiny thing.
- WorldMaker 10y agoOr it could be that Angular is the anachronism in the post. I'm not sure it matters how exact the technology timeline lines up so long as the article gets its point across.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoUnless I'm mistaken, the only person I read saying Python was new was the clueless CTO.
- jquast 10y agoI think a manager was told to increase the value of the technology stack for a potential acqui-hire. In this case, the CTO may have "sell to Google" in mind.
- davidgerard 10y agoI'm getting this with blockchains. Upper Mgt. has heard of them. Sat through an offensively content-free Blockchain presentation some time in the past week from an unnameable consultancy. I was good, I only loudly shouted "BOLLOCKS" once. I find myself now part of a small conspiracy to keep the word bl-ckch--n from being put forward for anything in this company what so fucking ever.