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Her solution is Mongo or Apache?
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Our company has grown a lot the last couple of years, so we have had many new employees, many directly from university. At least two out of three come with great ideas how they shall "save" our company, really great and successful (... but we are, already!). Each of them has his own way of how tools and working methods and plans should be drastically changed, if we are to prosper and grow.
We couldn't possibly switch programming languages or project management tools or build systems or version control systems every time some new employee comes with this great revolutionary new tool. Even changing horses every time our technical university jumps onto some new academic fad... Those revolutionary new ways are almost always academic fads, and I am surprised/disappointed how much a university can make quite smart university students into evangelists for a single belief without teaching them anything about alternative ways, and essentially teaching them "This is The Answer" without telling them WHY this is the answer. You wouldn't believe what even university Masters can present as if they were laws of nature - such as individual packet routing in networks, the necessity of parenthesizing conditions in programming languages, or the obviousness of case significance in identifiers. (I could list a few dozen other examples as well.)
So when some new employee brings forth a new revolutionary tool or method: Give him/her some time to analyze the needs of the company, make a critical evalation of how the current tool satisifies the needs, how the new proposed tool satisifies the needs, identifying and quantifying the benefits of a switch, and the cost of a switch. Make the new employee write this down as a change proposal for older employees to evaluate.
We have done that a couple times, when the new employee withdrew the proposal quite rapidly when met with counterarguments and real figures for the cost of change. (That is where they usually fail, believing that replacing a basic tool is no more difficult in a 300 man company with a few hundred customer relations as it was in a four-students group work with no legacy ties and no obligations after the report is handed in to the professor for evaluation.)
True enough: Sometimes, we could be more open to change, but still, changes should be justified. We have also had cases where new employees have continued to insist on changes, we have "given in" and after a while realized that the claimed benefits were not gained. The only positive result of spending a lot of resources on the change is that our tools are more in step with academic fads. And: Fads are fads.
Other times, we turn down proposals, but later pick them up - either because our needs have changed or the proposal has changed: One guy insisted about three years ago that Docker was the right thing - and that a Windows version had been made available. Today, the Windows version is beginning to shape up. (But it requires Windows 10, which makes it unavailable on about half of our machines - we still haven't got Win10 drivers for all our test equipment.)
I am sure that if your friend writes down an analysis of the costs and benefits of her proposal, showing it to be a significant gain to the company, and she justifies it with non-rebuttable arguments that even the oldtimers understand are good ones, then I am sure that her analysis will be positively received.
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And then what happened? 
modified 6-Oct-17 6:17am.
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GKP1992 wrote: And then what happened?
I closed the page saying "404 - page not found".
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My bad, updated the link.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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He waited for someone to reply?
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could be he does not have a c drive ....damn
Caveat Emptor.
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Good To know, will keep ThaT in mind. Thanks.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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16 pixels walk into a bar...
"Get us something to keep us sharp."
"And animated!"
"Would you like Sprite with that?"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Choosy moms choose gif!
Peanut butter joke.
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Are you totally peanuts?
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Boys, boys! Let's not get in to a TIFF, now.
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The direction raised her majesty as the male Nietzschean ideal (8)
This space for rent
modified 6-Oct-17 4:59am.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: the male Nietzschean ideal
@OriginalGriff?
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You owe me a monitor wipe!
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The direction S
raised UP
her majesty ER
as the male MAN
Nietzschean ideal
SUPERMAN
Up in the Cloud, look: It's a bird. It's a plane. It's SuperApp!
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- This item:Soldering Iron Kit 60W 110V Welding Soldering Iron
- 6 Deodorizers for Diaper Pail - 6 Months Supply
- Baby Digital Thermometer - For Infants, Babies, Kids - 30 Seconds Read - FDA CE Approved - Flexible
I wonder what these people are doing to their babies? 
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Turning them into cyborgs, obviously!
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It's well known that if a baby gets too hot while being soldered, they will sh|t themselves, which leads to a) the need for diaper pail deodorizers, and b) using a preventive tool - namely, the baby thermometer, that alerts you when your baby gets too hot.
It seems viable to me.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: I wonder what these people are doing to their babies?
Nothing too sinister I'll wager.. maybe they're making their kids build iPhones?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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With asphalt should we blame the donkey?
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Well... I need to mule over that.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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don't be so stubborn
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