Comment Re:Hrmm (Score 3, Insightful) 366
Heh, or try that new M9x51-2-USB device. You know the one that looks for the power on pin x instead of pin y and bursts into flames when you connect it to your P38Y1N3-192-USB port?
1. "So the next time you are talking to a manager and he or she tells you that you have to use something "because it is a standard", push back. Ask why only standards can be used. Ask if the standard has actually been implemented, or if the standard will really solve the problem under discussion. For that matter, ask if the manager really knows what the standard is. If any of these questions can't be clearly answered, may the standard isn't the way you should approach your problem."
2. demand you use something different
3. be sure to tidy up your desk for the new graduate they will hire to implement the standard.
Standards allow us to communicate with each other with a common medium. Without HTML being standard you wouldn't be reading this.
And wouldn't people be more inclined to argue about which tech to use if there wern't standards? How would we feel if our boss came in and said we had to use the new internet protocol his 13 year old son came up with.
1. "So the next time you are talking to a manager and he or she tells you that you have to use something "because it is a standard", push back. Ask why only standards can be used. Ask if the standard has actually been implemented, or if the standard will really solve the problem under discussion. For that matter, ask if the manager really knows what the standard is. If any of these questions can't be clearly answered, may the standard isn't the way you should approach your problem."
2. demand you use something different
3. be sure to tidy up your desk for the new graduate they will hire to implement the standard.
Standards allow us to communicate with each other with a common medium. Without HTML being standard you wouldn't be reading this.
And wouldn't people be more inclined to argue about which tech to use if there wern't standards? How would we feel if our boss came in and said we had to use the new internet protocol his 13 year old son came up with.
