This is completely cultural. I had a manager that I didn't meet in person for over a year and he was constantly sharing stuff like this with me, frequently multiple times a day. As the sibling points out, if you aren't…
It's a tradeoff, though. For 99% of LOB applications the odd details of specific database implementations are irrelevant and can be ignored by even a team of mediocre developers. Most businesses are mostly interested in…
I have seen a few environments like that and they can be just as corrosive. I have seen middle school kids that were great artists or writers or musicians told that they were failures at life because they weren't one of…
I have worked or consulted for a few that went too far the other way and it wasn't that great either. If the company is too loyal, then it can create a corrosive environment because good employees sometimes leave for…
It isn't that they have no way of knowing, it just isn't worth the tech's time (in their mind) to validate the status of every connection. If they are like most other telecoms, they would have to manually cross…
Trucking deregulation occurred between 1978-1980 during the Carter administration. Plus, the way it was regulated makes modern regulatory capture look consumer friendly. If you wanted to start a trucking company, you…
Detroit's mismanagement goes back long before 1967. It goes back at least to the 1920s and very likely much farther than that. The success of the auto industry in the area just papered over those problems for a long…
Don't bother. It is many times larger and slower than any of the frameworks listed. Their code is also broken in "interesting" ways and there are lots of undocumented and semi-documented gotchas. It got enterprise…
This is completely cultural. I had a manager that I didn't meet in person for over a year and he was constantly sharing stuff like this with me, frequently multiple times a day. As the sibling points out, if you aren't…
It's a tradeoff, though. For 99% of LOB applications the odd details of specific database implementations are irrelevant and can be ignored by even a team of mediocre developers. Most businesses are mostly interested in…
I have seen a few environments like that and they can be just as corrosive. I have seen middle school kids that were great artists or writers or musicians told that they were failures at life because they weren't one of…
I have worked or consulted for a few that went too far the other way and it wasn't that great either. If the company is too loyal, then it can create a corrosive environment because good employees sometimes leave for…
It isn't that they have no way of knowing, it just isn't worth the tech's time (in their mind) to validate the status of every connection. If they are like most other telecoms, they would have to manually cross…
Trucking deregulation occurred between 1978-1980 during the Carter administration. Plus, the way it was regulated makes modern regulatory capture look consumer friendly. If you wanted to start a trucking company, you…
Detroit's mismanagement goes back long before 1967. It goes back at least to the 1920s and very likely much farther than that. The success of the auto industry in the area just papered over those problems for a long…
Don't bother. It is many times larger and slower than any of the frameworks listed. Their code is also broken in "interesting" ways and there are lots of undocumented and semi-documented gotchas. It got enterprise…