This was an antiquated view. The integrity of modern access control technologies is nothing like the early work in the 70s 80s and 90s.
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What convinced you you were wrong?
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I realized the world was chaos after getting hired into a successful company and realizing no, there really was nobody managing any of the machines. It still mostly worked anyway and nobody was even saying it could be better.
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People are profoundly adaptive to chaos. Huge amounts of corporate processes at billion-dollar companies are just scans emailed to shared mailboxes someone keeps track of in a 600MB Excel file that only has 16MB of actual content in it, the rest is a million formatted empty rows.
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People will not question why the Excel spreadsheet that tracks revenue takes 15 minutes to load. In fact, they won’t question it for years. They’ll spend hours of their life waiting. That is, not until a change agent comes and spends 3 minutes fixing it so it loads in 20 seconds.
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1) someone who drives change 2) a big financial one 3) millions of empty rows across multiple sheets loaded over a WAN link to a branch on the other coast
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Rewriting things that used to take an hour so they take fifteen seconds is my job. Occasionally, people complain that it takes me a week to do so.
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My company's IT department laid off their one Unix person, because "these systems just run themselves!" Well, no, they don't. The admin was doing a bunch of shit in the background, invisible to you, to keep them running. And that's how I got yanked from Dev to Ops for 2 years.
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What You See Is A.... Taco... Swordfish? I don't understand your hashtag.
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You are more tight than you know. If you think corporate systems are weak, wait til you see governmental ones. They can make grown people weep. And we have no idea.
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An amazing insight, this. Teach me more, sensei. I think I would have been profoundly less frustrated if I had understood this truth when I was younger.
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Yo I am right there with you on that one. Too much "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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