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What I did in a previous situation like that went: Phase 1: Get angry at people being slow. Phase 2: Write tool to make slow people incapable of being sl
by AYBABTME 13y ago
What I did in a previous situation like that went:
Phase 1: Get angry at people being slow.
Phase 2: Write tool to make slow people incapable of being slow.
Phase 3: Profit.
Phase 2 keeps you busy in while the slow people are slow, so you don't get as angry. Then in phase 3, the slow people become irrelevant so they don't frustrate you anymore. Plus you get recognition for improving the efficiency of the office.
- auvrw 13y agooh, right. this is also really good advice. after learning how to write a yacc grammar, it's really easy to trick "non-technical" people into doing their own programming with with domain-specific languages. JBehave also looks useful for this purpose.
- SkyMarshal 13y agoWhat was the tool and could you turn it into a SaaS?
- AYBABTME 13y agoExcel with VBA, I was an infantry officer at the time. I made VBA tools for every station in the tactical ops center. Given the nature of the work, I don't see how I could turn that into a business. Also the software was completely amateur; I went to study software when I found out I liked better coding than being an infantryman, as a consequence of this.