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How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
September 30, 2007 on 7:31 pm | In Uncategorized |
Well, you gotta re-deploy the lightbulb application, should take a couple of minutes right? First up you have to upgrade CrappyAppServer because the boss said so. OK, so you install the new version of CrappyAppServer, but there’s a problem, you’ve run out of disk quota. But you can’t increase the disk quota yourself, you have to contact some other guy in some other department. You send the guy an email. Nothing. You escalate it to his manager. You get an email, apparently you have to fill out a form to get the disk quota increased. You ask “Do I really have to fill out the form? I only need a few more gigs and you only have to run one command.”. Yes, apparently without the form and appropriate signatures it can’t be ‘processed’. Now the form requires you to know the physical location of the box but of course you don’t know so you have to contact some other guy in some other department and it goes on and on and on ….
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How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
September 30, 2007 on 7:31 pm | In Uncategorized | Well, you gotta re-deploy the lightbulb application, should take a couple of minutes right? First up you have to upgrade CrappyAppServer because the boss said so. OK, so you install the new version of CrappyAppServer, but there’s a problem, you’ve run out of disk quota. But you can’t increase the disk quota yourself, you have to contact some other guy in some other department. You send the guy an email. Nothing. You escalate it to his manager. You get an email, apparently you have to fill out a form to get the disk quota increased. You ask “Do I really have to fill out the form? I only need a few more gigs and you only have to run one command.”. Yes, apparently without the form and appropriate signatures it can’t be ‘processed’. Now the form requires you to know the physical location of the box but of course you don’t know so you have to contact some other guy in some other department and it goes on and on and on ….
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