07-clueless.Rmd

   1 # No One Understands This Stuff
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   3 > No one really knows how anything works in a modern computer.
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   5 But what do we do about that?
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   7 Also - There is always a critical perl script somewhere that no one understands. I joined a pure Micrsoft, 100% (it wasn't) .Net shop with 25 years of Microsoft solutions on Internet Information Services, with MSSQL databases.
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   9 When I brought code inventory to the organization, there was a critical perl script.
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  11 It might not literally be a perl script, but you each have my personal guarantee that something neither of us would ever suspect is sitting somewhere forgotten doing critical load-bearing work.
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  13 So what can we do about that?
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