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Originally Posted by caleb72
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It's funny. I was talking to a colleague the other day - hardcore developer. I was talking about Chrome OS and he was completely shocked. He'd not only never heard of it, but he couldn't understand it at all.
I was trying to explain to him how such an OS was not developed for people like him or me, but I might as well have been telling him that people were buying laptops that could only display a screensaver.
I always find it amazing that there is always going to be a brand of person that makes no attempt to see things from different angles at all. But then I guess it's just another angle in a way, so I should try.  |
Having retired from the IT industry, my experience tells me your colleague won't BE in the IT industry much longer. He will wake up one day to find out that his skills are no longer relevant. He isn't even learning the buzz words.
That is what has happened to the book publishing industry. The quote where the official said, "For decades, the publishing business was pretty much the same," tells all. No business is EVER the same for decades. But people's ability to fool themselves seems boundless.