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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s a false choice.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
No way I would want to swap with any of the big CEOs. I don’t enjoy business enough to do it 24/7. Same for being leader of a country. No way I would want to do that.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It will be really hard to argue for a complete redesign of a medical device app, complete retesting and waiting for FDA approval only because some guy at IT doesn’t like the devs to have admin.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The russians would be very happy to help probably.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
By supporting Saudi Arabia the West really shoots itself in the foot. You can't lecture other countries about freedom while supporting this regime.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I order pet stuff online all the time. I look at it at Petsmart and keep ordering from them online.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They wouldn't even know how to install our stuff.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Have you ever considered that some people are themselves writing tools like Chocolatey that inherently need elevated rights? I am working on a Windows service that needs to be elevated to work. In addition I need to change TPM keys and chan
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I feel you. The whole setup is dysfunctional by design.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They are completely outsourced and offshored. Only a few competent people are left.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Management knows.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The funny thing is that after a recent remodel the router got moved and we don’t know where it is. It still works but nobody knows the exact location. It may be in the ceiling or the floor.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have proposed that. Give us a network where we can do what we want do and protect the boundaries of it. So far no luck.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They need to hit their growth numbers. Either they come up with something new ( which is really hard) or they keep expanding their current main product. The latter is much easier. In my view a lot of products could be frozen once they are m
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I always get scared when I read “meet the new xxxxx”. Usually either the UI has been reshuffled or features have been dropped. It’s really rare that things get better with such an announcement.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Probably not. The interviewer didn’t know how to do fizz buzz himself.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am sure solutions could be found. But it would require effort from IT to understand what we are doing and finding real solutions.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You sound exactly like every other IT guy who doesn’t understand what we are working on. We then explain everything to them and usually they disappear and are never heard of again. That is, until the next guy shows up a year later and the
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The funny thing is that they block Dropbox but then there are plenty of shady upload sites that aren’t blocked. We don’t use them because we think they aren’t secure but our IT guys would have no problem with that.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have a WiFi router hidden so we can do some specific network testing. We also have a consumer DSL line so we can test on a network where IT doesn’t block random stuff. It’s not even much of a secret. Everybody local knows this stuff and e
231.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
And they should commit to talking to my VP every time the VP commits us to working with a supplier who uses Dropbox and also commit to finding solutions that allow us to get our work done within deadlines.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately windows admin rights are not very granular so if you do anything serious you end up needing full admin soon.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This is about Windows desktop development. I need admin rights to install sql server, I need them to customize my machine so it’s similar to our target environment. I need to change user permissions all the time yo see how things behave und
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
All you are writing sounds exactly like my company.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This is exactly extremely common. In my company there is this constant battle about the devs having admin rights on their machines. We need admin rights to do our job. We have had dozens of meetings explaining the situation but IT can’t com
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think 1. is very good In most companies the rational decision is to go into management because you make more money. If that incentive is removed I think we will have better managers and individual contributors because they could choose
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
We should just do the right thing no matter what everybody else is doing. That's called leadership.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Don't you have to have pretty high performance needs for this class to make a performance difference? Unless it's called multiple thousand times per second I don't see it making much of a difference.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The Mac documentation was great. I remember the UI guidelines as a book and in the end I really knew what's going on.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Yeah. In the 90s I met almost no computer scientists. We all came from different backgrounds and got into programming because we were interested and liked it. Now we have a lot of people who chose it as a well-paying career. Nothing wrong w

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