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> incapable of bringing in new ideas But they are REALLY capable of detecting bad ideas.
by diegoperini 3y ago
> incapable of bringing in new ideas
But they are REALLY capable of detecting bad ideas.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoThey always say no, and are always correct.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoI mean I’ve literally had people like this fight adding in a version control system.
- bqmjjx0kac 3y agoHow can we be sure we can trust this "git" thing? Besides, CVS already does everything we need.
- SomeRndName11 3y agoThe CVS receipts are too long though.
- ycombobreaker 3y agoA real life application of Odysseus's Oar. I have mentored junior devs who have "heard" of SVN and also think CVS is just a pharmacy. It was a real gut-punch the first time.
- dkarl 3y agoThis reminds me, in a sad way, of a friend of mine who stayed on when a startup we worked at was acquired by a huge corporation. He has an amazing mind for technical detail, and at the startup, he planned and executed some hugely ambitious technical initiatives. But management at MegaCorp treat him as an obstructionist. They want to announce an initiative, launch it, declare it done, make up a big dollar figure for the "savings," and gather a promotion. They don't need the initiative to make sense or work in a technical sense. But he understands the immensely complicated legacy context, all the work required to accomplish anything, and all the things that will break if they leave out parts of the work, and he won't keep his mouth shut. He would love the challenge of running a big ambitious project, but the only way to get anything big approved is to drastically underestimate the effort, so he's stuck rearranging deck chairs until they inevitably eliminate the product and lay him off.
- m463 3y agoIt's hard to walk that line. There are really good or valid ideas that people try to implement in terrible ways. things like: for our app on windows, we just ship LIBRARY.DLL with it. We should do the same with linux. (ldd shows 50 inter-dependent libraries)