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Thanks for sharing that. I've always wanted to hear what it was like to be an IT guy at an enterprise / non technical type of company. Always wondered why they

• oz 15y ago
  Thanks. Believe me, the practices you see preached on HN (which I personally agree with) are so far removed from the typical enterprise it's not even funny. Agile programming? Um, no - waterfall. Continuous deployment? Are you crazy? But please remember that there are sometimes very good reasons for the bureaucracy. Do you want your bank doing continuous deployment? Pushing code to the production instance during normal hours? Do you want the NYSE to do this? It's fine when you're doing your precious little webapp (I'm doing them too, so I'm not disparaging!), but when you're talking systems that power billions of dollars of revenue, you make sure all the 'i's are dotted. Hell, I was in a Scotiabank the other day. The PC was running XP.