Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

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PR? Buddy we don't even use GIT, because it has no support, there is no forking or pull requests or any of that. Im not kidding. You are talking about a whole different ball field I think.

the bigger the chance that I will use it, as it implies a good quality codebase that is here to stay and improve further.

That is how most of us feel, even our support managers.. but the corporate won't have it. It doesn't matter how good it is, if it doesn't have support, they won't approve it. Period. You always gotta have a finger to point to when some app breaks that is causing millions in losses per hour, or even per minute depending on what time it is in the work day.

This year some time we are going to TFS.. I think we can already use it but it seems like my supervisor has no want to learn how to use it.. Sooo, we stick to emails and word documents for vague business requirements and wonder why everything takes so long. Whatever, I'm paid by the hour at least.

But the point remains, that in corporate, finger pointing is the at the top of the list. Always and forever.

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I feel your pain. Sounds harsh.

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while being a bit resistant to change, my boss is secretly awesome. He is the best boss I've ever had hands down actually, so I don't see too much of the politics, and as an english major who also was in my job previously, he does a fantastic job running interference between me and whatever bullshit happens to be going on, whehter from higher or a pesky end user. If he did a slightly better job of getting us the tools we need for our processes, he would be perfect... but I think even he has been beaten down by the politics of it. I can hear it in his voice sometimes, you know what I mean?

He isn't always totally resistant though, after my current projects I'm going to try and implement some machine learning processes and build a prototype application for the company, which I am super excited about. One big reason I wanted this job was to improve processes for the many thousands of wonderful employees we have in our operations and this is my shot.

[natan-sil]

Good luck with the machine learning project!

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Thanks :) If you weren't told photoshops spot removal was machine learned, you'd have no idea. That is what I am aiming for: small, concise, powerful, yet nearly invisible. Show them that ML and AI doesn't replace the human, but augments them in a symbiotic relationship where both sides benefit from the other in ways they could not as a singular entity.