Good old CEO
Good old CEO
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Jurassic Park is a tale of dangers of not investing enough on IT
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This joke comes from people ignoring the following:
- The presence of Ray Arnold the Chief Engineer who also worked with computers (not to the same level as Nedry)
- Jurassic Park was operating with a skeleton crew at the time and Hammond thought the automated systems would work because he was assured as much from his Chief IT guy.
- Nedry has a whole team working on the park's IT system. And I'm not just referencing book material. Hammond even said in the BLOODY movie "call Nedry's team on the main land" when shit started going down.
So no. Hammond was not stupid enough to trust the entire park's computer infrastructure on just one guy.
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The presence of Ray Arnold the Chief Engineer
Two IT guys
Jurassic Park was operating with a skeleton crew at the time
The opening scene - a working class schlub dragged into the Velociraptor cage because the transport protocols weren't up to the task of containing a dinosaur - illustrates the core conceit of the movie. That humans and their modern technology simply aren't ready to contend with a far more primal and powerful animal kingdom.
The hurricane flushing everyone off the island illustrated a major vulnerability. But the premise of the movie is that this park was never going to work precisely because the people running it were consumed by their own hubris and incapable of seeing the full extend of risk at play.
Nedry has a whole team working on the park’s IT system.
A team he's undercut and sabotaged in order to afford him the opportunity to steal Hammond's embryos. The subsequent movies are all around various mega-corps trying to seize control of the island and its bounty of dinosaur specimens and failing time and time again. The issue isn't merely that they're cheap, its that they're all greedy, myopic, and self-destructive.
Hammond was not stupid enough to trust the entire park’s computer infrastructure on just one guy.
He was stupid enough to get locked out of his own systems by trusting a skeleton crew to manage the park during a hurricane. But that's just the kick-off of the story. Crichton could have written it differently - an engineering problem that the hurricane exposed, dinosaurs that outsmarted the security, the EPA coming in to shut the park down Ghostbusters style, animal liberation activists trying to free the dinosaurs - and ended in the same place.
In many ways, Jurassic Park is a retelling of King Kong. Just swap out the big monkey for a big lizard. But the core of the story - the belief that humans can turn these primal forces into an entertainment commodity revealing man's hubris - is tied up in Hammond's belief in his ability to control the uncontrollable.
Nedry is just an example of one more thing Hammond can't control.
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Also, it's not like the problems were only caused by Nedry or his team being understaffed or incompetent. Quite the opposite. He was a bad actor. And a bad actor in the right position can cause a lot of damage. He purposefully sabotaged the park in a way that couldn't have been easily averted.
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Wayne Knight is a fine actor, what are you talking about.
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It was a low bid contract and Nedry was complaining about how he underbid and wanted more money. So Hammond was delusional when he said they spared no expense, he cheaped out on labour.
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That's exactly the point. They did spare expenses, on a lot of things.
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Supposedly, that is the whole deal with the Chilean Sea Bass that he gloats about. Spared no expense. Apparently that fish sounds fancy, but is actually super cheap. The whole park needed to have the shine of a top-of-the-line facility, but in the end, Ingen and Hammond had no idea what they were really cooking up.
The raptors for instance, I always got the feeling that paddock was kind of small and rapidly constructed. Those things had killed multiple people in the past, and the park's response was cram them into a jail cell. You'd think an intelligent, dangerous animal, that was not part of the tour or experience would be euthanized, rather than risk the whole park...but here is Ingen not dealing with the problem, and instead, actively making more raptors.
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They just needed Chris Pratt, Raptor Whisperer and they would have been fine.
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The book was a million times better than the movie. It was the first time I had read a novel that was turned into a movie and then saw the movie after reading the novel.
14-year-old me had never been so disappointed. And it taught me to never ever read the book before the movie.
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He was evil in the books and was horrible to Nedrey
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When I was young I thought "who needs 3 computers at once ?"
Now I get it.
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Hihi, little you entering a atom power plant control center would have been funny 😁
In my country, even trash burning systems have control centres where 5 people work on about 50 screens 😄
(It is a garbage burning facility which takes out all the things still usable (like metals) after the burning process, and it gives heat energy to the houses around, and it captures the produced CO2 prior it enters the atmosphere, but probably creating “green fuel" out of it 😌. non the less, I am quite proud about this facility, even if recycling plastics would be even better, but being realistically, there are only two plastics which are good recycleable (PET and PE-HD) and those get collected selectively in my country anyway.
Hope someone thinks this is interesting
Hahah, silly ADHS me
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Linux users. So we can troubleshoot how we borked one machine on one of the other two that we haven't yet borked.
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One to break, one to fix, one to use.
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Ahhh Virtual Machines 🥰
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Newman had multiple monitors before it was cool.
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Was it multiple monitors or multiple systems? Can't see if there's another keyboard and mouse there in front of the one behind him. Though I suppose it was all supposed to be mainframe terminals (running Linux in the movie, which I'm not sure had a mainframe version, as I understand, it started as a Unix for desktops, where Unix was the mainframe OS).
Edit: the Linux thing was my own bad memory, Lex recognizes Unix, which is weird because it was an experimental unix filesystem browser UI and most kids wouldn't have access to machines that run any kind of unix, so it wouldn't have been a "I played with some computers in my garage" kind of thing. Though being Hammond's grandkids, it's not outside the realm of possibility that she did have access to a mainframe either through Hammond's companies or from access to universities and the like.
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He is the only one on the island but there are more developers. Hammond even says to “call his team In Cambridge”.
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If I was the only onsite Devops and my professional support lived in Cambridge with an 8 hour time difference, I'd have a hard time not selling corporate secrets to the highest bidder.
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They are UNIX systems, they don't need an entire team to be managed once installed and running.
I'm only half joking. It's not UNIX but I've been working with "legacy" systems like IBM i mainframes, and those things don't need much to run. Sure, you have to update the system and the software once every few months, manage backups, role switches, etc., but it can mostly be done by a few people. But yeah, systems like this were (are) insanely expensive so most of his budget probably went there.
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I've always said the real moral of Jurrasic Park was "don't fuck with IT"
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In the book it was a huge amount of scope creep, Hammond refusing to pay for it and then acting all entitled.
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Just like in the real world.
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Ah, a rubber duck debugging adherent. At least they paid good money for a professional.
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That's a stress ball
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What is the rubber duck used for? Is it like the seashells in Demolition Man?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
tldr; basically you explain your buggy code to the duck, and when you explain it, you suddenly realize what the issue is.
any inanimate or even imaginary object works, but rubber duck is the classic option.
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Have you ever been stuck on a problem (school, work, personal, whatever) and as soon as you go to ask someone for help, you start explaining the problem and figure it out? You basically use the duck for that - explain the problem out loud to "someone else" and sometimes you'll see what you were missing.
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Isn't that Mona Wilder?
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Samuel L was also an IT guy, right? But yes, an expense was spared
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Nedry was the systems engineer, Arnold was the operations admin. One was a construction worker, the other was the architect. Neither can truly do the other's job, but are aware of how they do it.
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Newman.
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He also had Samuel L Jackson.
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Yeah, he was always ready to lend a hand.
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one it guy who you could distract with a shiny can of shaving cream
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Don't even, all of us thought that can was cool
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As a young child who didn't yet know what Barbasol was, I was still a little disappointed to find out that the can was not, in fact, filled with delicious whipped cream
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Pretty farken standard. IT isn't considered important unless they want their personal laptop de-porned
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Not only that, but a poorly paid and mistreated guy who volunteers to sell out major secrets.
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My friend is sole IT guy for two production lines, managing security, multiple production buildings, redundancy, sensor lifetimes, emergency concepts etc, he has one colleague managing the human IT part
Like he manages all the machines and the other one all MS-Shit
It is always very interesting listening to his stories about managing multiple production lines where it costs so much if the machine is not running for some time
It is about producing chocolate, lol
Prime raise negotiation environment
You'd think so, but it really is just like Jurassic Park.
I love the redundancy on tech level, but not on the human level. I can only imagine the manager's dashboard with risks and mitigating actions.
I contract at a place that has lost well over a million in the last 11 months in downtime that's specifically for low voltage/comms failures. They have been looking for an electrician for 11 months and 49-65k USD is the salary range.
They could have paid triple that and saved money AND got the deliverables for the year. They won't now.
Haha, yes
They are so fucked, if some mad lad is road raging and prevents my friend reaching his workplace