Wes Kussmaul wrote:
Dave Lukes wrote:
Aharon Robbins wrote:
> When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Bogus analogy. Complete the following "saw":
When life hands you a bucket of stale pus, make ... ?
...a petri dish culture that you can study.
It's easy to dismiss Aharon's observation, as it comes from the
Montaigne view of life:
"The thing of it is, we must live with the living."
The IT infrastructure has been designed and deployed by people with a
median IQ of 121.4 (trust me, I have all the data) because of course
it's developed by people smart enough to have a vague idea of what's
needed. Not smart enough to do it well, not smart enough to keep it
simple -- and not smart enough to understand that doing a job well
delivers more satisfaction than does fudding your way into a few extra
dollars or a bigger title.
Not making any claims about being smart myself, I can make the
following observation: the people on this list are much smarter than
those who are responsible for today's pervasive common IT infrastructure.
Smart people will usually be at the alienated right extreme of the
bell curve, praised for being smart but not actually listened to.
But once in a while something happens that shows that it doesn't have
to be that way. Read _Action This Day_ about how WWII was really won
by the very smart folks at what is now Britain's GCHQ, including many
from allied countries. The thing is, somewhere there has to be a
Churchill directing people to be led by people who are smarter than
themselves.
Good observations ... They are really to the point in my life here. I
spent much of the
day installing windows XP on qemu to avoid using windows at all because
my company
has a corporate web-app thing that has a combination of flash,
javascript and activeX
that only seems to run on Internet explorer with the security levels zero'd.
When i complain that the application is poorly designed i often get flak
from one of the
project managers who manages the team that maintains that mosterpiece.
---- Marina Brown
