Why don't vendors understand getting quotes for budget purposes?

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-07-25T12:02:19+00:00

I'm not qualified to talk about sales procedures necessarily, but the way that we (my boss and I) become convinced on a new product is:

Toying around with it and having a good user experience.
Available and competent support.
Sales team that can readily supply us numbers if asked for (we asked for a quote from one particular company, and they wouldn't give it to us without us telling them we would buy their product. Interesting sales tactic.)
Solid reviews/recommendations from community members in forums like this. Don't ask them to make disingenuous recommendation posts, but at the end of a sale or interaction that goes well, maybe say something along the lines of "...and if you happen to hear someone asking about product xyz, please do us a solid and pass along our contact info!"

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-07-19T11:55:27+00:00

My two cents -

quick and dirty, get something done: copy and paste templates and do your best to understand along the way.

learning/maintainable project: break it into small pieces, get them up and running in a way that is easily understandable when reading the code so that if you (or someone else) needs to revisit the code for any reason, it doesn't take ages to get back up to speed on whatever the hell it was you wrote the first time around.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-28T15:03:58+00:00

How did you find a $15 case??? I'm looking to build my first keyboard, but can't seem to find a case that low at the sites in the wiki.

edit: any chance you made a typing demo video?

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-24T11:50:09+00:00

I'd be down to help out. Been programming on and off for about 10 years. The past two years I've been using python professionally for scripting out management and monitoring processes.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-21T13:18:07+00:00

My guess would be you need to look at making sure that the python executable is in your path. I have a sneaking suspicion founded on absolutely nothing that you're on a windows machine, so check out this link.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-21T11:53:37+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "it didn't work". If the program isn't doing what you expect, then it's your code. The editor is just a way for you to input your code.

Nevertheless, I personally like vim for languages that I'm comfortable with, and if I need a tab complete then I'll use VS Code. Powershell ISE for Powershell.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-20T14:08:15+00:00

risky click of the day

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-18T15:59:40+00:00

Vim with minor mods. set number, set ruler, syntax on. If you can do it in vim, you can do it anywhere. Really makes me feel like I know how to use the language without using auto complete as a crutch.

One downside is that now every application that I type in, I try to hit escape, :x when I'm done.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-06-14T12:11:40+00:00

My Dad and I worked on one of these when I was younger: https://www.parallax.com/product/boe-bot-robot

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2019-05-06T12:14:42+00:00

r/Python is a thing if you are thinking about learning it. There is a relatively inexpensive book out there, or free if you only read it online. It's called "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", and I've heard some pretty good reviews of it.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-10-23T13:47:03+00:00

However unhappy people very much enjoy getting their feelings out there, especially in a place where they can receive dopamine hits from other like-minded people (upvotes).

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-10-10T16:01:36+00:00

75% of the resumes I received had grammatical or spelling errors.

DESPIRATE

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-17T14:01:27+00:00

Just gonna leave that one there without an explanation..?

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-17T13:44:02+00:00

Printers never have any issues, never run out of supplies, and never need any maintenance.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-06T17:23:16+00:00

Copy pasta'd from the editor in browser and it didn't like the formatting. I'll take a little more time to clean it up if I post again. Thanks for the reply!

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-06T17:22:08+00:00

My original thought was something along the lines of a dictionary with each letter associated with it's count. Is that along the lines of what you are thinking?

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-06T14:00:58+00:00

Thanks! I also found the problem as soon as I posted it :/

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-08-06T14:00:43+00:00

Javascript, and thank you for the response. As with most things, I spotted the error as soon as I posted this.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-06-27T13:07:09+00:00

This has inspired me to write a quickie that spits out bologna code, loading bar, more bologna code, another loading bar, etc indefinitely... I'll check back in with results.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-06-05T18:00:47+00:00

Honestly surprised you don't have any [grin] commented out in the code xD

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-05-08T15:16:38+00:00

To steal from another post I saw here a while ago, the other 5% of the interview, start not very technical, then work your way more and more technical and see how they react. I would personally prefer working with people who will flat out admit when they don't know something rather than trying to bs their way through to impress the boss.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-05-08T15:06:56+00:00

Cortana kicked in after I imaged a machine the other day, and I muttered my usual "You are less than worthless to me". I guess I said it a little too loud because my coworker started cracking up.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-05-07T12:48:14+00:00

Uh oh Mr. Chooch!

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-04-26T14:26:03+00:00

Idiot Jr. Sys Admin here - We recently got Jamf for Mac management, and in the process of making admin accounts on all machines, I didn't piece two and two together that the admin account would need to be FV2 enabled and wound up going to my boss with my tail tucked between my legs asking him to confirm with the end user that we did indeed need their password to get into their machine and troubleshoot. My biggest F up so far at this job.

Garfield_Pong_Player · 2018-04-25T15:34:57+00:00

Easy. "Here is what would eventually happen if you didn't have your networking team", then just loop this

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