15 Apr
2011
15 Apr
'11
12:34 p.m.
On 4/15/11 2:04 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
The next job is to convice accorted company 'support' depeatments, etc, of
that. 'No, I don't have the bit of paper which says I can repair <foo>, but
I am danr sure I can. Just sell be the service manual' :-)
I have come to reliase that just because somebody
is employed to do a
particular job, or just because they have a piece of paper qualifying
them to do a particualr job, it does not mean they are able to do that
job properly (or willing to do that job properly).
Exactly. Proof of ability is in doing, not in a piece of
paper...whether that piece of paper is a business card, an industry
certification, or a university degree. I suspect this somewhat colours my view of
open-source .vs. commercial
software.
It *defines* mine. The very notion of doing something because it's your 9-5 job vs. doing something because it's what
you love makes the
difference. It's reinforced for me every time I run across a Windows
Preciesely. Rememebr that 'aamteur' simply means somebody who does
something because they love it (think Latin), profesional neans that
they're paid for it. it has nothing to do with ability.
blue screen on an ATM, a "live" restaurant
menu, or an airport
information display. I've seen (and cleaned up the messes from) enough
As as hardware person I feel sick whenever I see an embedded PC in
something that doesn't really need one. Soemthing that could be done with
a much simpler system.
clock-watching "programmers", and the drek
they churn out to meet the
minimum requirements to go home on time, to last me a lifetime.
Indeed...
-tony