When started my company I felt the same way.  I am a programmer.  I am also
the CEO.  I tell people no to jobs at my company because I want managers
that know how to program, or better, programmers that know how to manage. :)


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <
massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The talk is about tricks and tips to push forward technologies which a
> programmer finds useful within a traditional and technologically
> conservative corporate environment. He tells the story of a Ruby project
> within a corporate environment that was very hostile to changes. I have
> been in similar situations and I always ended up defeated. I have written
> programs (fully working, tested, offered at zero cost) that would have
> saved somebody $50K/year in software licenses. The CTO said: no thanks.
> Most CTO prefer a big vendor to free or in-house because are incapable of
> estimating the value and hidden costs of that and, the company ends up with
> the worst employees, those who will put up with that mentality. I can think
> of many people here who work for Java or C# shops and some times they'd
> rather use something else. I think the talks gives them useful tips.
>
>
> On Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:20:25 UTC-5, David Marko wrote:
>>
>> Hi Massimo, can you elaborate more on how it is relevant to this
>> community? Do you have some ideas that come from this presentation?
>>
>> Dne neděle, 14. července 2013 18:03:06 UTC+2 Massimo Di Pierro napsal(a):
>>>
>>> https://vimeo.com/2723800
>>>
>>> I think this talk is really relevant to our community, and it gets
>>> really funny after the first 19 minute.
>>>
>>> Massimo
>>>
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