[ale] [ALE] OT: article on encryption keys and cloud computing

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> Management often doesn't understand the concept of a "set" of tools.
>
> Management knows of only one tool: the hammer. That means they never see
> complex problems, only nails. And they know how to deal with nails.

They scrape them across a chalkboard with "out of the box ideas"

<cynicalJim>

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> Sean
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> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 09:30:02 pm Ben Coleman wrote:
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>> On 11/13/2012 14:42, Jonathan Meek wrote:
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>> > When a person tips pretty hard into a process or item without the
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>> > appearance of seeing the drawbacks, I like calling it the "mythical
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>> > tool" syndrome.
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>> >
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>> > "This tool will solve all our development problems and cure cancer!"
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>> >
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>> > I get this a lot because we use a few different configuration
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>> > management tools in my company (e.g Git, subversion, clearcase, MKS)
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>> > and I am always excepted to choose sides by a set of engineers.
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>>
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>> I kind of expect this from certain types of management, where they
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>> don't call it a tool - they call it a solution. The problems with
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>> treating a tool as a solution have been highlighted before. But I'm
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>> puzzled at engineers who expect to have a one-size-fits-all tool.
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>> Have people forgotten the benefits of knowing a set (mmultiple!) of
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>> tools and choosing the one that's appropriate for the current job?
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>>
>
>> Ben
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