Apropos of the video I posted yesterday about biotech, here’s Dara Ó Briain on the IT industry.
He’s mostly right. Those of us who do real work frown on the goons he’s talking about, though. There’s a showboat in every crowd.
Nov 10 2011
Dara O Briain on IT
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I reserve the right to publish any contact, especially if it's hateful or ridiculous.
Not detailed enough to allow for proper stalking? Please read my Hello Freethought Blogs post. I promise* it will include my favorite style of underwear.
* Not a real promise
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Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
November 10, 2011 at 9:25 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
Aliasalpha
November 10, 2011 at 10:00 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
httpv? Is this a new web standard I’m not familiar with?
Jason Thibeault
November 10, 2011 at 10:06 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Err, nope. It’s how we embed Youtube videos that don’t overlap our sidebar, via a script that expands it to the full embed. Problem is, it apparently doesn’t take extra parameters like the &NR=1. Chop that out and it works again.
MikeMa
November 10, 2011 at 2:46 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I work in IT as well and the real issue with ‘solution providers’ is they have little time (or permission) to actually understand a problem. The have one tool, a hammer, usually defined as a re-load of os & standard apps, regardless of whether the problem is a nail, a screw, a lightbulb or some other potentially more delicate problem.
O’Briain is marvelous.
Alukonis, metal ninja
November 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
If the webmaster is a woman, is she terrible at talking to men?
Rich Wilson
November 10, 2011 at 5:45 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Reminds me of the classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL24aNugo_4
Michael Swanson)
November 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
User error. It’s always user error.