Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.

Article View: alt.folklore.computers

Article #618177

Back to alt.folklore.computers Previous Next

#618177

From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:54

20 lines
2990 bytes

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> 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.

Consider mixing cement.  Pounds, pints, and feet won't be used.  The
expert wouldn't think of mentioning this because it's a basic of
doing chemistry.  The programmer would have to know enough about the
business to use the correct conversion units.

/BAH

Technical Details

Message-ID: <PM000561A44E91251C@aca413e7.ipt.aol.com>

Path:

mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!t48ni1546qtc.1!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4

References:

<gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <ffa6f6c5-8d93-4e09-b7f5-dd0e02ae8322@googlegroups.com> <an084dtad3hkdkrcoj3apoods4nsjn6abh@4ax.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <eb67abb8-8b4e-4c79-90d4-bd8001cd1baa@googlegroups.com> <PM0005618FF4D921A0@aca42f4a.ipt.aol.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <ffa6f6c5-8d93-4e09-b7f5-dd0e02ae8322@googlegroups.com> <an084dtad3hkdkrcoj3apoods4nsjn6abh@4ax.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <eb67abb8-8b4e-4c79-90d4-bd8001cd1baa@googlegroups.com> <PM0005618FF4D921A0@aca42f4a.ipt.aol.com> <gggf4dpjd08u7mnammaeja1svboit8uvep@4ax.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Received: by 10.55.42.150 with SMTP id q22mr30218399qkq.11.1514732117851;        Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:55:17 -0800 (PST)
X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com
Received: by 10.55.197.153 with SMTP id k25ls10463906qkl.3.gmail; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:55:16 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 10.200.52.154 with SMTP id w26mr28170314qtb.24.1514732116764;        Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:55:16 -0800 (PST)
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!t48ni1546qtc.1!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4
From: jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
Date: 31 Dec 2017 14:54:25 GMT
Organization: "Have EDDT, will travel"
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <PM000561A44E91251C@aca413e7.ipt.aol.com>
References: <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <ffa6f6c5-8d93-4e09-b7f5-dd0e02ae8322@googlegroups.com> <an084dtad3hkdkrcoj3apoods4nsjn6abh@4ax.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <eb67abb8-8b4e-4c79-90d4-bd8001cd1baa@googlegroups.com> <PM0005618FF4D921A0@aca42f4a.ipt.aol.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <ffa6f6c5-8d93-4e09-b7f5-dd0e02ae8322@googlegroups.com> <an084dtad3hkdkrcoj3apoods4nsjn6abh@4ax.com> <gq584dtpjdripvq4gfkvdcqu9894h6mdbc@4ax.com> <MPG.34ae1c3386ba898a98a3c9@208.90.168.18> <5baa4d5mlnhcn3ca7tke398grphaluvcih@4ax.com> <eb67abb8-8b4e-4c79-90d4-bd8001cd1baa@googlegroups.com> <PM0005618FF4D921A0@aca42f4a.ipt.aol.com> <gggf4dpjd08u7mnammaeja1svboit8uvep@4ax.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: p2c47131d289866b6b78f4c41433dd6c6a4709532c9598631.newsdawg.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Pineapple News/0.9.0 (Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC)
X-Registered-To: [Registered Name]
X-Program-URL: http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/macosx/
X-Received-Bytes: 2536
X-Received-Body-CRC: 2635246895
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message