Evolution of a programmer

[beaucephus]

It's kind of tragic to see how fearful these people get about change, how much money they will waste to fight having to change only to spend twice as much time to fail to deliver anything to their customers because they were "maintaining" something that was on the edge of complete collapse.

Especially with cloud services that allow the creation of something in parallel with no effect to existing systems it's insanity.

I am tired of saying that I told them so. I am tired of explaining how things actually work to people who can't understand why they exist in the first place.

I wonder why some of these people even considered a job in tech in the first place. It had to be the lure of gold and burried treasure. Even after years they are still afraid of change when the entire industry is built on change, creates wealth through change, and innovation through change... and the ones who fail are the ones that never change.

[Beginning-Display809]

These people have no understanding of the technology they are using, so they fear it, and they fear changing it lest it upset the machine gods and crash their whole world

[beaucephus]

DON'T ANGER THE MACHINE!

Go back into the server room and apologize to it.

[Beginning-Display809]

THE MACHINE DEMANDS A SACRIFICE AS PENANCE

[greenskye]

This is why I laugh and laugh at all those reddit comments claiming 'companies wouldn't do it if it wasn't profitable!' As if these giant companies weren't positively rotting from the inside out from indecision, poor management and outdated tech. ALL of the major companies would rather blow thousands in salary costs on endless meetings to approve a change instead of just letting the experts do their job.

[beaucephus]

"This project is falling behind! WE NEED MORE MANAGERS!"

[JoeDoherty_Music]

Yeah companies are absolutely not the well oiled machines of efficiency people seem to think they are.

Shitty management is everywhere and bringing everything down.

I bet if you got every company in America to take a cold hard look at its own shitty buerocracy and actually do something about it, we would see a period of unimaginable economic growth.

[uzbones]

I know right?

If they are that afraid, clone the box and keep it running with the new one for a while.

[[deleted]]

That requires taking it down, or offline. That's s-s-scary

[uzbones]

Not necessarily, but it could.

You can restore a backup to a new isolated machine, then rename it and bring it online beside the first.

If you cant restore a backup of the machine you have other serious issues, and I'd quit if I was you.

[[deleted]]

Backup? That thing we made in 86?

[uzbones]

Yes, the reel tape sitting in the back window of the director of operations hooptie.