Stay classy.
How do you not notice an extra 100 TB worth of traffic on your network?
Mid-sized telecom company. SF is too simplistic for our complex pricing needs.
Yeah, Salesforce might just be the best of these types of systems. But even then, it is the best-dressed clown at the circus. Unless you have a really simple business model, you should probably just build a custom app.
Salesforce. It's not a bad system for what it was designed to do--sales and marketing. The problem is that it is over-promoted and over-sold as a versatile platform that can do anything. When you actually try to model…
I work for a telco reseller. We make our money by selling the same services as the big guys without being assholes about it. We make a lot of money.
Let's see how quickly they can fix that bug...
"...Engineers make plenty of business decisions every day: Deciding the size of a database field, for instance, or a data type. Those types of choices impact the business, admittedly in a micro way..." Micro? I have…
Well, in Python, if you duplicate a return statement, then your code will recognize only the first statement. This, for example, will return 1: def func(): return 1 return 2 If the code from the goto fail example was…
There are other reasons why choice of language matters. If you need a simple web app, you're probably writing it in PHP or Ruby instead of C. But you'll likely use C if you're interfacing with hardware. A lot of apps…
Stay classy.
How do you not notice an extra 100 TB worth of traffic on your network?
Mid-sized telecom company. SF is too simplistic for our complex pricing needs.
Yeah, Salesforce might just be the best of these types of systems. But even then, it is the best-dressed clown at the circus. Unless you have a really simple business model, you should probably just build a custom app.
Salesforce. It's not a bad system for what it was designed to do--sales and marketing. The problem is that it is over-promoted and over-sold as a versatile platform that can do anything. When you actually try to model…
I work for a telco reseller. We make our money by selling the same services as the big guys without being assholes about it. We make a lot of money.
Let's see how quickly they can fix that bug...
"...Engineers make plenty of business decisions every day: Deciding the size of a database field, for instance, or a data type. Those types of choices impact the business, admittedly in a micro way..." Micro? I have…
Well, in Python, if you duplicate a return statement, then your code will recognize only the first statement. This, for example, will return 1: def func(): return 1 return 2 If the code from the goto fail example was…
There are other reasons why choice of language matters. If you need a simple web app, you're probably writing it in PHP or Ruby instead of C. But you'll likely use C if you're interfacing with hardware. A lot of apps…