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I was expecting a link to the National Inquirer, and not Wired.

Utter nonsense

It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

I've worked for Fortune 50 sized companies, as Chief Architect, and I've worked for some amazing software engineering companies in a similar capacity.

Doing software architecture for the business side of the house, traditional IT, at any company is next to impossible. We are at the mercy of the business and the business doesn't care about standards, efficiencies. or anything, except making the quarterly estimates. The business is very supportive of all efforts right up until they decide that it might impact quarterly estimates, and then everything is out the window. When operating in such an environment there is no way software architecture, or security and compliance has a possibility of success.

On the Engineering or product side of the house especially for software product companies, software architecture is easy, and welcomed.

It all comes down to who you work for and what you are doing.

That's really funny. One man recreating Vanguard's business single highhandedly and doing triple duty with tax planning and philanthropic services and doing it for less money than Vanguard can do just the index funds. Thank goodness the knowledge to handle each and every one of those services, at an expert level, is interchangeable.

You should go. The more people who can afford such a luxury should take advantage, because as their business scales up the price will come down, making it available to more women.

Then why do I see a lot of lower income guys driving, bright shiny, pampered $65K pickup trucks? You don't live in a trailer and drive a $65K because you are the wealthiest of the wealthy.

I worked for one of the largest financials services companies in the world and they STILL use excel to drive their trading activities. They are so large and so complex that it's impossible to convert them because no one completely understands how it all works. They were developed by traders/market experts with no help from IT, for years IT didn't even knew they existed.

These spreadsheets are truly amazing, I've only seen glimpses of these spreadsheets but they were massive, nothing like needed to have servers in the local network cabinet and running cables for keyboard, video and mouse, because you needed 1/2 a Tb of ram in order to open the spreadsheet.

That's like saying that you could launch your own space station and live in orbit, but you'd just be recreating NASA.

I worked for Vanguard and worked with the people who run the index funds, it's just a little harder than it looks.