Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
by gaius on Sunday November 22, 2015 @05:20AM
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Lot of reading comprehension problems here.
1) That's not a threat, if you think it is then call the Internet Police - they have a hashtag #hnwatch just for that
2) He is simply wrong that experience doesn't carry forwards. To use my Amazon example, the value in that business is understanding how people buy books and how a logistics operation to deliver them works. I don't know what technology Amazon actually uses in their warehouses but it's nothing that couldn't be done with terminals and line printers, I'll bet dollars to donuts, and nothing that would be unfamiliar to anyone working in the logistics field in the 70s.
1) That's not a threat, if you think it is then call the Internet Police - they have a hashtag #hnwatch just for that
2) He is simply wrong that experience doesn't carry forwards. To use my Amazon example, the value in that business is understanding how people buy books and how a logistics operation to deliver them works. I don't know what technology Amazon actually uses in their warehouses but it's nothing that couldn't be done with terminals and line printers, I'll bet dollars to donuts, and nothing that would be unfamiliar to anyone working in the logistics field in the 70s.