On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:20, Dinesh Nair wrote: > welcome to malaysia. I couldn't take it last week... WARNING: RANT "So how do I find out the version of php I have again?" - Senior Developer "Server was running slow, our developers are not that adept with php, so we decided to go to J2EE and bought this n million dollar server from IBM running Websphere." - Senior Developer "Separation of content and logic? Huh? What's that? Nope." "Source code control? Release engineering? We should learn how to implement these some time" "2 weeks, before production rollout. Can we change the database system?" "Database abstraction class? Huh? No we don't have it." "The code is messy.. we gave it to some freelance guy to do it." - Project Manager "My boss is really technical, he told us to implement things like XML and stuff" - Developer "This project is actually under X company, which is under Y company so pretend that you're from Z company" - a deal being struck over teh tarik somewhere.. "InnoDB table type? Don't know what that is" - some Senior Developer with 3 years MySQL experience "I used some editor in Linux.. can't remember what it is." "vi..emacs?" "yeah that's it vi." - Senior Developer applying for Linux developer position "Customers calling about broken web applications.. not sure why." - SysAdmin after upgrading php on live production system, without regression tests "How can this guy know anything about Unix? He doesn't even have an IT degree. On the other hand this guy is certified CCNA, MCSE. At least he has a stronger technical base even without any Unix experience." - some Director somewhere If you're laughing, don't. All of us make mistakes, and you learn and grow from it. Unfortunately in Malaysia that doesn't seem to be happening. You can blow away millions, total failure for a project and still keep your job or be promoted it seems. -- "Optimized, readable, on time; Pick any two." FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386 7:58PM up 5 days, 59 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.38, 0.44, 0.34
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