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No I meant Option Explicit. I know of Option Strict, but I meant how the Option mechanism works. And I used Option Explicit since it's by far the more popular of the options in VB land. It's called context and inference bro. Not everything is so literal. But, thanks for the correction I didn't ask for as usual.
Jeremy Falcon
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Sorry, I was just getting nostalgic
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Wow, I'm not that old!
I started with Visual Basic.NET in 2010 and switched to C# in 2013 or something.
Didn't know repl.it though, pretty neat stuff!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Wow, I'm not that old Just wait, my friend, one day you will be. Maybe... science and all being what it is.
Jeremy Falcon
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ain't it great how type-free languages feel all growed-up when they get types, while typed languages take a step into the future when they learn how to be type-free?
it's like people just enjoy change.
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One of the great ironies of life.
Jeremy Falcon
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[Study Article]
When I read the article above, its typical and make my eyes roll. Execs don't trust their internal IT, but when they go ahead and acquired a solution from 3rd party, 91% of them are useless. One thing comes to mind, most executives don't invested enough in their own organization.
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Good news for consultants!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Same one. I just didn't see it.
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I have a lengthy reply sitting on my computer at home that I have to finish. Basically, that survey is a very interesting mess.
- execs believe their IT doesn't have the skills, training, resources
- execs believe that whether developed in-house or 3rd party, the user experience sucks
- execs say IT, marketing, sales, and support have no idea how to market and support their mobile apps
Like the saying goes - when you point your finger at someone, you've got 3 fingers (thumb doesn't count) pointing back at you.
Just goes to prove what I've always known - execs are high paid but useless.
Marc
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LOL.
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already posted here[^]
#SupportHeForShe
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I didn't read the article, but I totally agree with the lack of trust in the industry. A job is like being married. A great marriage takes two people that need to communicate with each other. Same for business. The business and tech needs to communicate. A bad exec won't. And a bad tech person won't. Unfortunately there are a lot of people in tech who are in tech due to social anxiety issues. And there ain't go good communication that can be found from that typically.
Remember, businesses have no idea about tech. Zippo. So it's up to us to convey to them accurately what's what and do so in a way that doesn't bore them. Most C-level execs I know don't care about the details, they just want to understand the big picture. And that never gets conveyed.
Just my two cents.
Jeremy Falcon
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It has been my experience that...
You don't trust what you don't understand.
Most execs do not understand IT, therefore, they do not trust IT. This will always be the case.
Simples.
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Well said.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Totally agree. Just to play devil's advocate though I'd say the same is true of tech though with not trusting or understanding the business side.
Jeremy Falcon
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We don't need no stinkin' business side!
Coding is art.
Coding is love.
A pity we waste so much of it on users
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Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: the same is true of tech though with not trusting or understanding the business side.
I agree with this statement.
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Unfortunately, the converse is also true... People don't trust what they _do_ understand.
They believe that some big corporation (MS, Oracle, CA) must produce better/more reliable products than someone they actually know and can speak with.
I can explain to my boss exactly how my code works and handles the unexpected, but he'll still prefer to buy something that doesn't do quite what he needs and requires six months to fix a bug or a add feature.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: but he'll still prefer to buy something that doesn't do quite what he needs
I never understood this behavior either.
We all are guilty of purchasing products that only gives us service for a small percentage of what we need, if that. The rest is wasted and hardly ever needed.
i.e. MS Word or Excel. I hardly use ALL of its features, ever, yet I have to buy the whole damn thing to get it. Now it is not very expensive these days and you do have cheaper products from other vendors, but most of them suffer from the same software design flaws.
I say all software should be Base+. You purchase the base software and pay for additional plugins, etc.
Anyhow, I digress.
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Execs don't trust internal IT
I could have told you that without a study.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Yeah, but the word "study" makes it sound all scientific-y. And we loves our scientific-y sounding stuff.
Jeremy Falcon
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