Comment Wow, Grace Hopper got laid? (Score 1) 106
I'll see myself out.
I'll see myself out.
I have code in 2000 still running on an SAP system.
And have seen programs in my current system untouched since 2004.
I think there's a good bet that I'll have something still running from today in 20 years.
I need the CowboyNealCoin...
It's tricky... for sure. we get requests to Opt-out. But if you aren't broker 'selling' the data, it also doesn't apply.
and deletion, what about financial audits and archives. There's no time frame for the CCPA, technically if a broker had data from someone in the 60's, they'd still have to report it/delete it...
It's kind of like the wild west at the moment, businesses trying to do anything not to be sued.
One of the issues is, Physical books AGE. Especially in a library. Typically when a Library get a physical book, it's a special version. Harder spine, more resilient cover...etc. It's more expensive to produce and ship to begin with. But still they age, you see how people take care of rental cars. Books are even worse. Pages rip, covers get torn off eventually, they deteriorate.
Ebooks don't, which is great, but in trying to keep the business model afloat for Authors and Publishers, they need that "replacement" cost built into the price.
No matter what the medium, the same people (except the binders in this case) need to be paid. Authors, editors, designers, customer service, IT, Finance,
And overall ebooks really haven't budged much over the last few years in sales, they're a portion, but still not overtaking physical, not even close.
So it might seem unfair, but rights are rights, and laws are laws, and until someone can come up with a better plan that doesn't fuck someone over, this is it.
They need some good press at the moment, looks like they'll take anything.
With their kowtowing to China here recently, they got to keep the investors happy.
hmm...I just open my windows...
Time to update everybody in my family to Signal I guess.
we knew they recorded everything. Therefore it can be leaked....
Still glad I don't have one....
now that's a callback.
God SOX is PITA, understandably so, but still a PITA.
My old job conformed to SOX, because they had to. publicly traded yada yada.
everything was about controllership. to promote something to Prod it took a weekly group meeting, and when I left they did monthly moves, weekly and emergencies. It was becoming bogged down by meetings and schedules. Still didn't stop them from having critical systems issues, or stop me from getting daily calls at 4am.. It really affects productivity. Users ask for prod changes, for something simple, but due to the timing of the request it maybe a month till the next move because that simple change touches a user-exit. Meanwhile the users are stuck doing a task daily for hours, that could be eliminated completely It really saps a developer/support person's motivation. "quick fix? sure... shit. That won't go in till next month at the earliest." And a whole week of Regression testing out of your schedule. Which while nice is some ways, was always questionable.
Now, I'm at a large private company. No SOX, but still audits and such. We have Emergencies, 4PM moves, nightly emergency, and weekly. Anything not process critical can go at 4, if it's process critical and needs to be in fast, it can go in at night during the 10 minute quiet window. (so it can't be a huge change), Anything larger and process critical goes over the weekend during maintenance.
The flexibility now is a god-send. Less emergencies, quicker response to issues. We still have oversight, Users still need to test and approve before it gets promoted, and I can't promote myself, which I'm fine with. But with quicker responses, my productivity is a lot higher. I'm allowed to do my job and not have to justify every little bit in the change. If I make a mistake, it's documented for next time, and we move forward. There's no end-to-end regression test, which can bite us, but so far hasn't been. It's almost like if you trust your employees, stuff works. Let them do their jobs and get out of the way.
SOX, I'm thinking was overkill, meant to reign in the bad-apples, and ended up hobbling publicly owned companies IT depts.
You are so right. In a previous job, we were considered "STRUCO" or Structured costs, like maintenance or utilities bills. We didn't add direct value to the bottom line. We were a productivity enhancer or cost reducer. But we never "made them money".
Kind of depressing to think about. When you are view like that, it makes you expendable.
Most initial implementations do suck. They're trying to fit the round peg in the square hole. How do you make a software package work for almost any business? make it complicated.
And elevator company, a book publisher, a construction tool manufacturer and a candy company all use the same ERP, just to use a few examples. To do that, it has to be complicated. And it ain't gonna be easy installing. Especially if the company wants to do it on the cheap.
But building a system from scratch, in house, that has the capability of an ERP isn't possible for most companies. Their core business is not software, so they just want something that works. Once the implementation is over, maintaining a vanilla system isn't too bad.
I guess Al will have to avoid China from now on...
You are so right.
People are thinking they can get in on $100, and end up with thousands or more.
Ain't going to happen. maybe if you bought 100 bitcoins when it was $100 a coin. But now, only the people with deep pockets can really do that.
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.