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Experts are expensive. And there's hubris or what I jokingly like to call the maxim of management myopia: "Anything I don't understand must be easy."

• edoceo 8y ago
  This needs a t-shirt
• geezerjay 8y ago
  > And there's hubris or what I jokingly like to call the maxim of management myopia: "Anything I don't understand must be easy." So much this. I know of a case where a company hired a junior java dev for a desktop project and after his second week on the job the manager posted a ticket instructing the newbie to implement a component to receive a video stream from a drone, stitch the video stream into a 3D model, and render the 3D model in real time. "How many days do you need to finish this?"
  • cannonedhamster 8y ago
    This is a manager who doesn't understand what they are asking or the complexity involved. I suppose the appropriate response should be that time to completion depends on the accuracy needed of the final 3D model as it's going to take a few months minimum to learn entirely different skill sets, oh and you'll need to include the hardware and compute costs for the storage and rendering time. Also you'll need either a sim card or a physical base station for the drone with an internet link. I..uh...may like trying to solve problems.
• barrow-rider 8y ago
  "If you think experts are expensive, you should see how much amateurs cost!" or something to that effect.