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Not sure... would be interesting if you could describe a situation in that field?
by rabboRubble 9y ago
Not sure... would be interesting if you could describe a situation in that field?
- analog31 9y agoGranted, I don't know if what I do qualifies as "scientific programming," but I'm a scientist working at a company that makes measurement equipment. I don't write software for widespread use, but use programming as a problem solving tool for modeling, data collection and analysis, visualization, and so forth. I rarely run a program more than once before I change it. Now, maybe I'm excusing myself for being relatively un-disciplined, and in fact I am working on improving my programming discipline. For instance a colleague and I have begun to use git for a code that we share. But when I hear people being told that they shouldn't use ad hoc programming tools, and the resulting reaction from those people, I imagine myself in a similar conversation.
- rabboRubble 9y agoSimilar underlying dynamics for sure. Users have job demands, so they find an IT tools to do their work better / faster / smarter. The request goes to the IT department that needs to manage support costs, firm wide licensing requirements, ITIL process demands, and the user request easily goes into a back hole. User base unhappy, pressures IT, IT feels heat and worries about their job so IT fudges X in their process to implement, wash rinse repeat.