futatorius

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Sitting around hallucinating?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You already have things like Visual Basic and Tcl to replace routine.

Are you a time traveller from the 1990s?

VB is obsolete, unmaintainable shite, and Tcl is well-defined but so minimal as to barely be a language at all, and if anyone's using it for greenfield projects, they should have their heads examined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

What about Aeroflot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Dead-cat bounce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Never's a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, so the actual reason for the loss is that they can't expand capacity without squandering vast amounts of money. That's much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Not yet a smoldering crater, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The original Beetle (at least the ones I worked on from the 1950s and 60s) didn't have stellar product quality, but it was well-engineered to be maintainable by someone without specialist knowledge or tools. VWAG has definitely gotten worse at quality over the following decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a commonly-used tool for technology management.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank your lucky starts for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

IMO stuff like that is why a good trainer is important.

IMO it's stronger evidence that proper user-centered design should be done and a usable and intuitive UX and set of APIs developed. But because the buyer of this heap of shit is some C-level, there is no incentive to actually make it usable for the unfortunate peons who are forced to interact with it. See also SFDC and every ERP solution in existence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's the worst of shite. It has inadequate models for depicting services, so you have do deform your own model of product and service delivery to fit their ill-conceived straitjacket, and its licensing model discourages open sharing of information within the organization. Also, it's all clunky and half-assed, especially its integration points, and the whole monstrosity is based on the antiquated ITIL philosophy that support is a cost center and therefore all support services should be rationed, never mind response times, quality of service or value to the customer. That barely made sense in the time of on-premises data centers but makes little to no sense in a cloud-based environment.

And yes, it collects lots of metrics, but they're all crap.

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