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This is a huge problem in government and industry research labs. Rather than have dedicated staff to do things like travel expenses and purchasing, they now hav
by jessriedel 8y ago
This is a huge problem in government and industry research labs. Rather than have dedicated staff to do things like travel expenses and purchasing, they now have each expensive researcher do it themselves, slowly. Looks like money is being saved with less staff, but now researchers are less productive.
- the-dude 8y agoSounds like DevOps to me.
- marcosdumay 8y agoNo way. The Dev/Ops interface is one with very little information hiding, little responsibility segregation, very little outcome independence, and nearly no knowledge differentiation. The researcher/admin interface separates things with complete opposite qualities on each of those dimensions.
- rhizome 8y agoThe Dev/Ops interface is one with very little information hiding, little responsibility segregation, very little outcome independence, and nearly no knowledge differentiation. Both situations have a jack-of-all-trades problem lurking behind them.
- commandlinefan 8y agoIn all my experiences with devops, I’ve had to do their jobs for them in their entirety, but by proxy: “ok, first type ‘sudo service https start’. Now type ‘cd /var/log/httpd’. Then type...” Except I have to do it all up front, and if I miss an (obvious) step, somebody who ought to have no business yelling at me yells at me for providing incomplete instructions.
- maxxxxx 8y agoTotally agree. There is a lot of value in having everything around you going smoothly so you can focus on your work. We have to book travel ourselves but every time I do it there is some kind of problem that takes hours to resolve. It would be so nice to have somebody who knows how to navigate the corporate process. It's not only the time but it's very distracting.