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"...frankly, how bad these companies are at making software." Yep. And hardware, and knitting together the boxes, and power, configuration management, and netw
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
"...frankly, how bad these companies are at making software."
Yep. And hardware, and knitting together the boxes, and power, configuration management, and networking and...
If you can't do it with a pipe wrench, why it ain't worth doing :)
The problem with software there isn't the software people. It's the requirements gathering. I don't expect it can actually be resolved. You should see what passes for MRP around Houston.
I believe I first heard about the Iron Roughneck in the '80s, just in idle chatter.
- ryanmarsh 10y agoTotally. Typical company: let's hire a body shop who will fly in a bunch of people who barely know English and pay them crazy bill rates to write reams of completely unreadable "specs" Programmers cost more than pipe welders but you don't see them getting unintelligable 200 page Word documents instead of certified blueprints from an expert do you?