Gary
Author Comments aka Comic News
Sorry
I sincerely apologize to anyone waiting on today's comic. Unfortunately, I had a busy day, and I wasted 1/2 a day earlier this weekend playing Bioshock, so today's comic was up 47 seconds late. I will try my best to see to it that this never happens again.
So now, on to the meeting last week. So I was in this meeting discussing what would or would not be easily possible for someone, who doesn't know our system or programming, to do to change the look and feel of our system. The first few things they asked, I was perfectly fine with. They were pretty safe CSS things. Then they started asking about some larger structure changes, things that are output dynamically and controlled with rather mind boggling difficult javascript. At this point I started to tell them what wouldn't be possible in their time frame, and I started to explain why, when I was cut off. "Why is it developers only know the word no? Is that the first thing you guys learn?" At this point I'm very tempted to leap over the conference room table and slap some sense into the guy, but that would've been just as unprofessional as the comment, so I let it slide.
I know we developers sometimes say no, but so does every one else.
"We need sales to increase by 800%, no later than next week."
"No."
"We need to have an underwater skyscraper that can act as a spacecraft."
"Um.. cool, but no."
etc..
It was a fun moment in my life and it gave me a comic, so I can't complain too much. I thought I had heard it all in meetings, I guess I haven't. Live and learn. Live and learn.
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