When started my company I felt the same way. I am a programmer. I am also the CEO. I tell people no to jobs at my company because I want managers that know how to program, or better, programmers that know how to manage. :)
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Massimo Di Pierro < massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > The talk is about tricks and tips to push forward technologies which a > programmer finds useful within a traditional and technologically > conservative corporate environment. He tells the story of a Ruby project > within a corporate environment that was very hostile to changes. I have > been in similar situations and I always ended up defeated. I have written > programs (fully working, tested, offered at zero cost) that would have > saved somebody $50K/year in software licenses. The CTO said: no thanks. > Most CTO prefer a big vendor to free or in-house because are incapable of > estimating the value and hidden costs of that and, the company ends up with > the worst employees, those who will put up with that mentality. I can think > of many people here who work for Java or C# shops and some times they'd > rather use something else. I think the talks gives them useful tips. > > > On Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:20:25 UTC-5, David Marko wrote: >> >> Hi Massimo, can you elaborate more on how it is relevant to this >> community? Do you have some ideas that come from this presentation? >> >> Dne neděle, 14. července 2013 18:03:06 UTC+2 Massimo Di Pierro napsal(a): >>> >>> https://vimeo.com/2723800 >>> >>> I think this talk is really relevant to our community, and it gets >>> really funny after the first 19 minute. >>> >>> Massimo >>> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
