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> Most of us here have forgotten that many businesses flat out ban access to programming tools for the majority of users. That sounds... counter productive to
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> Most of us here have forgotten that many businesses flat out ban access to programming tools for the majority of users.
That sounds... counter productive to say the least.
- ethbr0 5y agoYou get no argument from me, but I've seen it too frequently to believe it's not by design. Typically the rationale given is "Non-developers can't be trusted to write code and follow development policies," while leaving the unspoken that they're limiting development to people who by their organizational seat definition aren't experts in the problem they're being asked to code.
- jen729w 5y agoGood luck even getting access to cmd.exe at a lot of places. We have a phrase where I work: “Security: we put the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’!”
- ethbr0 5y agoOne of my clients blacklisted cmd.exe, but not PowerShell. I can't imagine why we continue to have security breaches in major companies...