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Upvoted for presenting a perspective I've not read too often with enough vitriol to keep it interesting. I confess to giving IT guys a hard time every now and
by brandnewlow 17y ago
Upvoted for presenting a perspective I've not read too often with enough vitriol to keep it interesting. I confess to giving IT guys a hard time every now and then. I feel a little better informed for dealing with those situations now.
- diN0bot 17y ago> "enough vitriol" i stopped reading because i correlate "unprofessionalism" with "thoughtlessness" and "one-sided-ness" and general "youthful-anti-wisdom." i tried reading a bit more after reading your comment. i don't mean to offend when i ask the following--i almost always miss online sarcase so i have to ask: Is your comment sarcastic? maybe i've missed the point. What have you learned for dealing with "these" [IT upgrade] situations?
- mcantor 17y agoThough masked by the author's sophomoric attitude, this post does contain hints of the kind of problems IT has to solve: "Does it have LDAP? In medical institutions, what are the HIPAA risks? In credit-card processing companies, what are the SOX and PCI risks? What happens when it breaks?" So, a user reading this article could conceivably come away understanding a little more about the IT worker's plight.
- brandnewlow 17y agoNo, I wasn't being sarcastic. Had he left out the unprofessional bits, this would have been a really boring story about IT stuff that I may have ignored. Instead, the post was somewhat humorous, which pulled me on through it and let me know how serious the guy was about what he was saying. As to your second point, the sheer fact that he was able to lay out a host of possible reasons why something that would seem obvious to an IT consumer might not be a good idea was enough to encourage me to pause before badmouthing IT again.
- diN0bot 17y agobadmouthing anyone is a bad idea. it's mean and shortsighted.