I’m just this guy, you know?
This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they’re hooked you can do whatever you want because they can’t leave.
Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.
The Apple Store experience was so different from what shopping for a computer used to be like. Knowledgeable, friendly staff, computers you can actually use instead of just playing screen savers, and training, repairs, and support at the same place. Not at all like going to a Best Buy or Circuit City.
Jon Stewart is the Millennial Walter Cronkite.
Users: “I don’t speak unicode”
I was about halfway through season 2 before I realized it was the same guy. He’s got really amazing range
Oh yeah, he had major Steve Jobs energy for that entire show
Lee Pace, who plays Brother Day, is exceptional in this show. Been a fan of his since he was a piemaker
Docking bay also sticks out more in the back in the Nemesis version
Yes, especially when I have time to ketchup on all the ones that have been posted
Dad Joke Picard is one of my favorites
Could be worse: They could have called it Moriarty.
Opening and closing a database connection is a slow and expensive operation.
That depends a lot on your RDBMS and its configuration. For example, MariaDB can use a pool of connection threads so opening one doesn’t take a lot of time.
Sales engineers work on the pre-sales side and there’s a bit of sales in it. But, at least at companies I’ve worked at, customer engineer are more about solving problems and getting the most out of whatever they bought.
I always tried to be honest, to the point where I would tell customers if they don’t need something or if something else would be a better fit, much to the chagrin of the sales people.
If you have both people and technical skills you’d be a good Sales/Customer Engineer. Basically you talk to the customers so the engineers don’t have to, either before or after sales. You give demos, assist with support issues, and generally keep them happy. Some companies even let these folks give training classes. And a lot of the jobs are remote.
Gregg would love those creamy beige walls
Damn. Tutu Spock is packin’
Voyager is Pugsley
Steve Martin in the background wishing he was one of the cool kids
Zombie. Vulcans.