@matigo That is what makes the software a challenge, truth be told.
When you design it, you have to put yourself in the headspace of dishonest CPAs and the 30 year old Receivables clerk who wants to skim a little.
"How can I leave breadcrumbs to catch them."
People want us to make the software like QuickBooks and it will never happen. You want to make that transaction you made in error completely vanish? Nope. You're going to make a GL adjustment and this will show in your Open Items.
@matigo This reminds me of a picture from my desk in 2001. A long line of PalmOS units in cradles.
It's caption..
"Beowulf Cluster"
@matigo When I try to play that game, I get "But what about the accounting and inventory control software, dude".
It's like being in prison, almost.
The aforementioned "roll your own everything" disease cannot be totally eliminated.
I must re-direct it' s symptoms to silly things like doing that DOS TCP/IP framework in assembly and parsing JSON streams via rolling windows in XMS (Without resorting to DOS extenders because cheating)
In theory, this will prevent at-work infections.
We interrupt the current train of thought with,
"Instead of searching for online collaboration solutions for Beta testers, a former company developer in New York, a future company developer in Florida and yourself…JUST USE SLACK, IDIOT"
What exactly will it take to totally irradiate the roll-your-own-everything disease I've been infected with since the hair metal era?
@matigo I try to avoid that trap though. Mostly because that kind of thinking, on an institutional level, has lead to having a move from the 1990s to the current day plopped in my lap.
"Since we've beached the ship, we've thought things over and have decided to promote you to captain. HELP!"
Even if the past was demonstrably better, you can't stay in it. Which sucks.
Case in point. DOS.
When this company was using DOS and Novel Networks, our support load was next to NIL because things "just worked" for years on end. We cannot go back to that though. It has been out-evolved by complex, rickety, inter-connected systems that are deceptively simple for the non-technical to tinker with.
It's the world we get to live in now whether we like it or not.
@matigo It means the end to me running virtual development environments for all our platforms on one piece of decent hardware…that also doubles the *nix desktop I'd been asking for since 1999.
Okay. WebDAV stuff. You have to go on the cart.
I no longer use OmniFocus so there's really no point in having it anymore.
@matigo Yes. A lot of his claims are ill-founded but that does not discount the leaps Apple is making with those chips.
You know the idea of consolidating the platforms is going to be irresistible to them.
I dread that moment so much.