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A colleague of mine was attending a local tech conference just before Covid hit. I believe it was aimed at newcomers and various companies tried to show off exc
by kuroguro 5y ago
A colleague of mine was attending a local tech conference just before Covid hit. I believe it was aimed at newcomers and various companies tried to show off exciting tech that interns/new coders could potentially work on.
She couldn't believe what she saw. A major govt. backed logging company (which does do a lot of dev work themselves) were showing off one of our projects as theirs! We were using depth cameras to estimate the volume of wood loaded on a truck as it drives trough a gate. They even used screenshots that I had made!
Now, they were involved in the project. But they were basically clients of our client. They provided us with a place to test the system as their trucks ran trough. They didn't own the software let alone did any work on it. Why they would present it as something interns could potentially work on is beyond me.
People are weird.
- toxicFork 5y agoI would imagine they would say to an intern once they joined, "yeah you won't work on THAT project, but here's some other thing for you to do". It's like the estate agency putting a listing of a nice place on a website and then when it comes to viewing the place they say "well that one was just taken but let me show you something similar".
- jgilias 5y agoMaybe they wanted to show something that the interns could try and replicate. I mean, if everything your in house dev team is working on are CRUD applications built on 90s tech, that's not very exciting.
- imhoguy 5y agoMaybe they hunted for some passionate overzealous intern to rewrite it from scratch for them. Kind of "make me a clone of facebook for $10" gigs :)
- gowld 5y agoDoes logging software have extensive logging?