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Article #618176Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 07:58
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 07:58
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:22:53 -0500 Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> writes: > > > On 30 Dec 2017 14:40:39 GMT, jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>Are you kidding? They would have to know enough to talk to the > >>experts who do the work. Chemistry and physics in the real > >>world have rules, no matter how the software is written. > >>If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the chemistry > >>of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped. > > > > If a programmer does not know enough to talk to subject matter > > experts, he is incompetent. > > Agree. Definitely. > I worked in lots of industries. > Knowledge of the business was NEVER an issue. Not an issue, just something to be acquired quickly as part of understanding the problem to be solved. > The skill is in prying the needed information out > of the users, not in knowing what they need beforehand. Indeed - it is sometimes necessary to learn some background in order to talk the user's language. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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