How many times per day does internet explorer crash on you?

[xoxoxoBruce]

The only problem I have with IE is the occasional website that's says, "Ewww IE, go away" ... and I do. If the site is really obnoxious I might go back with Firefox with full on adblock as a payback.

Back when I was working, IE there was a clusterfuck which makes me wonder if it's really IE that's the problem.

Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

Sometimes I'm sad at the state of my profession. Enterprise software doesn't have to be as bad as it is. The dysfunction is a complex, systemic issue.

In-house system admin/tech support job security?

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

In-house system admin/tech support job security?

I don't want to go deeply into it but...

That and enterprise software vendors pawn off really shitty software as state of the art. There's little incentive to improve the situation.

Also most developers are crap and it's really hard to judge skill, only slightly less so when you are a developer yourself. Corporate recruiters are just completely fucked.

A medical IT system company wanted to pay me ridiculous amounts of money to come in and run a team to hack something shitty together in six months. They wouldn't allow regular access to domain experts or hire a data scientist to figure out what analyses should be presented. "Just display some averages and percentages. Whatever seems right." Basically a prototype that they would then force (thousands of) people to use and wouldn't invest money in to make better.

This sort of story repeats itself every day. There is a lot of inefficiency in the enterprise realm, and it's super hard to drive it out.