OldGuyInTheClub

2 года назадdiscuss

I've been told that the secret to exercise, woodworking, playing the piano, whatever is to "enjoy it." But, having or getting the skill to have some successes to "enjoy it" is difficult and not everyone has the ability to get to that level. Just sticking with something or worse, fooling oneself that more effort will lead to good results is annoying to hear if one doesn't have ability. We can't all succeed at everything.

OldGuyInTheClub

3 года назадdiscuss

Techmoan nailed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNPMlATA9g

OldGuyInTheClub

3 года назадdiscuss

I've never gotten the hang of writing uBO rules for myself. There's a lot more to it than is in the tutorial. Learned about letsblock.it last week through a support request to the uBO project and it has been a great help. It is very good at filtering out low quality search results sites[0]. Additionally it takes the pain out of blocking sites or domains I don't want to see.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372

OldGuyInTheClub

6 лет назадdiscuss

> Those are birth pains as felt from inside. It's a beginning of a new sentient life; your company is acquiring its own mind.

Yeah. Kind of like 'Aliens' when one bursts through a chest cavity.

OldGuyInTheClub

6 лет назадdiscuss

We figured out how to get at least some reports to export into Excel. Some others implemented MS Access dbs to postprocess exported SAP data. Browser tricks were also part of the mix. Then the directives came down that working outside of SAP was not acceptable and amounted to criticizing SAP.

I think SAP views APIs as a threat. That COBOL-like ABAP language is part of their lock in.

OldGuyInTheClub

6 лет назадdiscuss

It brought the "swim lane" mentality to my outfit. There is a "process is king" mindset where people exist to run some report or the other with a completely impenetrable abbreviation and set of unmarked mandatory fields also with no intuitive signifcance. Grab the next item on the work list, do your thing, and mark it complete. If some project asks what's required on either end or how to move their need forward, that's not your problem. That project has to divert someone to first figure out the unpublished process and then contact everyone in the chain. If you can't run reports yourself, you're at the mercy of others. And the first rule of SAP is that there is no mercy.

OldGuyInTheClub

6 лет назадdiscuss

SAP has enabled/mandated an army of people at my company who manage it and ruthlessly control even read access to it. The software is user-hostile, intentionally obscure, and all requests for slightly customized reports have to go through a multilayered approval process - often up to corporate - where it competes for funding against other survivors. Needing something custom invites constant questions of why the standard process is not enough.

It was sprung essentially overnight with no training and expectations to show immediate positive results with no criticism tolerated. The rollout was preceded by a couple of years of secretive process reworking where the business was modified to the way SAP said it ought to be done. We expand it to "Stop All Progress" because it marked the formal transition from a technology influenced company to an integrator focusing on acquiring tech from others.

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