Feel free to integrate with this thread
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Boss: Hey Cartman, we are having a meating with this Israeli company. We need to see if we can integrate with their machine learning system.
Me: Umm, boss, it looks like their software is kind of orthogonal with our product. They should really interface directly with our clients.
Boss: Yeah... but <clueless business person> asked about this, so let's have a meeting anyway....
Boss: Hey Cartman, can you look into this Google Tag Manager, <clueless business people> want us to integrate with that.
Me: To integrate... how exactly?
Boss: Umm... No idea, I'll let you know...
Boss Hey Cartman, tomorrow we have a meeting with <Big Company>, they want to integrate with us on Asian market.
Me: INTEG- EH? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?
WTF is with all the integration crap all of a sudden!? It's like all these clueless executives unanimously accepted this as their new shorthand for "do your tech wizardry to make us money". Kind of like "synergy" used to be. Remember that?
Hey, business idiots! Learning a new techy word doesn't make you sound smart! How about you THINK what kind of product you want made, before you waste our time?
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
WTF is with all the integration crap all of a sudden!? It's like all these clueless executives unanimously accepted this as their new shorthand for "do your tech wizardry to make us money". Kind of like "synergy" used to be. Remember that?
They're just having trouble deriving a new business plan.
Edit: Damn, ed
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if it makes you angry enough are you justified in sending them to L'Hôpital?
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
WTF is with all the integration crap all of a sudden!?
"We want more money but we don't want to write [product in different market], so if we can integrate with them, we can get a piece of that financial action." My company does this to an extent.
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
we are having a meating with this Israeli company
I didn't know you work at that kind of place.
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Pay any good?
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@Onyx said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
we are having a meating with this Israeli company
I didn't know you work at that kind of place.
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Pay any good?
You just have to be careful not to get a bad review.
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@Dragnslcr said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
WTF is with all the integration crap all of a sudden!? It's like all these clueless executives unanimously accepted this as their new shorthand for "do your tech wizardry to make us money". Kind of like "synergy" used to be. Remember that?
They're just having trouble deriving a new business plan.
Edit: Damn, ed
One might also say that they have approached their limits within the existing business model.
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I wince whenever someone asks me to do an integration. It's always some Frankenstein patching together of two or more systems that makes no sense whatsoever, and almost always the first piece to break.
Filed under: INB4 Frankenstein's monster
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
I wince whenever someone asks me to do an integration. It's always some Frankenstein patching together of two or more systems that makes no sense whatsoever, and almost always the first piece to break.
The nature of my job is such that fortunately everything we interface with is related, more or less.
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everybody wants to integrate with the software I work on, because they need it for interacting with credit card readers and whatnot, and the proccess for banks to let your software access this stuff is bureocratic
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I may have been involved on a project "integrating" a CMS with an unrelated ecommerce platform. (TR is that the CMS had an ecommerce module, and the ecommerce platform had a CMS, so this was totally unnecessary.)
It involved dropping the database tables of the CMS and replacing them with read-write views to the ecommerce platform's database. Oh, and since one had a flat content structure and the other had a hierarchy, there was a trigger to rebuild the hierarchy on insert.
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
I may have been involved on a project
I'm prety sure you were involved in all of the projects I ever worked on, Mr. Error
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
I may have been involved on a project "integrating" a CMS with an unrelated ecommerce platform. (TR is that the CMS had an ecommerce module, and the ecommerce platform had a CMS, so this was totally unnecessary.)
It involved dropping the database tables of the CMS and replacing them with read-write views to the ecommerce platform's database. Oh, and since one had a flat content structure and the other had a hierarchy, there was a trigger to rebuild the hierarchy on insert.
That's somewhat impressive.
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@cartman82 "integrate" != "collaborate", stupid ass executives and managers.
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@pydsigner said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@error And this worked?
As long as you didn't try to apply any patches or upgrades... or add any new fields in the schema editor...
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Frankenstein
Around here an Integration Frankenstein is sewed together with HL7 threads. Just keep sewing until no more body parts fall off
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@cartman82 Allow me to draw you a diagram.
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
meating with this Israeli company
Kosher?
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Filed under: INB4 Frankenstein's monster
Actually, it was Dr Frankenstein who patched together an unholy abomination. Frankenstein's Monster was the name of his subject.
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@Buddy Um, actually, the creature didn't have a name.
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Boss Hey Cartman, tomorrow we have a meeting with <Big Company>, they want to integrate with us on Asian market.
Me: INTEG- EH? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?Wait, this one have meaning... it usually means they want to sell their software as bundle with your software.
One of the software I'm writing was sold to become an optional addin of a big CRM solution. When buying their package, they can also get mine with a little more in price if you buy the software, and the deal is available in Asia Pacific region only.
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Um, actually, the creature didn't have a name.
Which is why calling the creature “Frankenstein's monster” is correct: it's not a name, it's a description.
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@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
His use of "Very redundant" seems slightly redundant. It's an absolute term and about as annoying as when people call something very unique
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@dkf said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Um, actually, the creature didn't have a name.
Which is why calling the creature “Frankenstein's monster” is correct: it's not a name, it's a description.
@buddy capitalized the "monster" part, implying that it is a name and not a description.
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@aliceif or he's German
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@Jaloopa German doesn't usually use the possessive apostrophe.
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@Buddy said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Filed under: INB4 Frankenstein's monster
Actually, it was Dr Frankenstein who patched together an unholy abomination. Frankenstein's Monster was the name of his subject.
@dkf said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Um, actually, the creature didn't have a name.
Which is why calling the creature “Frankenstein's monster” is correct: it's not a name, it's a description.
Yes, thank you for agreeing.
@aliceif said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@dkf said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@error said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Um, actually, the creature didn't have a name.
Which is why calling the creature “Frankenstein's monster” is correct: it's not a name, it's a description.
@buddy capitalized the "monster" part, implying that it is a name and not a description.
Also, when he said it was "the name of his subject."
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Integration now!
Integration tomorrow!
Integration forever!
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
integrate with us on Asian market
inregrate ?
@Jaloopa said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
L'Hôpital
It is for very small or very big, and only on limits. You maybe able to substitute your integration element with it (of course if you have a fraction term there) but should be very careful specially if integrating to infinity. In general, be very careful with Hopital, most times you do not check its prerequisites (like differentiabality) and often times it is no problem, until it is.
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@aliceif but isn't a name just what most people call something? So if most people call the creature "Frankenstein's Monster", is that not a name of sorts?
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@boomzilla said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Integration now!
Integration tomorrow!
Integration forever!Has @boomzilla suddenly become a leftist?
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@anotherusername you could definitely argue it's a de facto name. OF course there are probably more people who call it Frankenstein, so that would be its name by the same argument.
Also, Viktor is the real monster in that book. He creates his monster, then is immediately convinced that it's evil, runs away and refuses to make it a mate because that would also obviously be evil
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@asdf said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Has @boomzilla suddenly become a leftist?
No, these days the leftists are all about segregation.
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@boomzilla like segregating dangerous criminals from their military grade guns?
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Hey, business idiots! Learning a new techy word doesn't make you sound smart! How about you THINK what kind of product you want made, before you waste our time?
Sadly, not gonna happen learn to accept things you don't control and move on.
@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Boss: Hey Cartman, we are having a meating with this Israeli company. We need to see if we can integrate with their machine learning system.
Me: Umm, boss, it looks like their software is kind of orthogonal with our product. They should really interface directly with our clients.
Boss: Yeah... but <clueless business person> asked about this, so let's have a meeting anyway.When I get this kind of request I translate it as "We (or them depending on what makes sense, and possibly the ego-penis of the people involved) well develop a REST API so that data can be pulled and pushed. Then in your case (you have the clients) do the appropriate UI so that the users can see whatever "
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@boomzilla now and you won't be asked to do your job later?
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@cheong said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Wait, this one have meaning... it usually means they want to sell their software as bundle with your software.
One of the software I'm writing was sold to become an optional addin of a big CRM solution. When buying their package, they can also get mine with a little more in price if you buy the software, and the deal is available in Asia Pacific region only.Had a meeting with them today. Turned out they want us to register our system through their affiliate marketing program. When I asked about the API and URL format, the guy literally opened up the help file and started reading it out loud (we were on skype screen sharing).
Very "productive" meeting, it was.
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@Piko said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
When I get this kind of request I translate it as "We (or them depending on what makes sense, and possibly the ego-penis of the people involved) well develop a REST API so that data can be pulled and pushed. Then in your case (you have the clients) do the appropriate UI so that the users can see whatever "
Hah! REST API would make too much sense for their level of understanding.
It's literally, person A has a laundromat business and person B has a media consultancy. Completely unrelated software systems. But since they are buddies, and they both heard of this magic word, they call me and tell me they want to "integrate" their business.
"INTEGRATION" ISN'T A MAGIC PIXIE DUST YOU SPRINKLE OVER A BUSINESS SO IT MAKES MORE MONEY! UGH, IDIOTS!!
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@cartman82 said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Had a meeting with them today. Turned out they want us to register our system through their affiliate marketing program. When I asked about the API and URL format, the guy literally opened up the help file and started reading it out loud (we were on skype screen sharing).
Very "productive" meeting, it was.This was BTW the head of the affiliate marketing department for east Asia (China & co) of a very well known Fortune 100 company. The guy literally spent 15 minutes explaining to me how I can generate a banner ad in their admin panel. Had no idea about any other thing I asked him about his product.
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just install a continuous integration solution like Jenkins, and you won't need to worry with this anymore
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@Buddy said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Frankenstein's Monster was the name of his subject.
a) rude to monsters, the monster is very sweet.
b) calling the monster 'frankenstein' makes sense if you view the creature as frankenstein's child/heir, as both the monster and Dr. Frankenstein do.So it's not 'frankenstein's monster' it's really 'the more famous Frankenstein' the same way you refer to Feynman as just Feynman without referring to his dad.
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@boomzilla said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Integration now!
Integration tomorrow!
Integration forever!
Happiness, free, for everyone, and let no one be forgotten!
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@coderpatsy said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Nice of you to embed that thing that I linked to when I first said it.
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@error That just means you made a successful prediction.
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@boomzilla said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Integration now!
Integration tomorrow!
Integration forever!
We have always integrated with Eastasia!
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@masonwheeler said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
@boomzilla said in Feel free to integrate with this thread:
Integration now!
Integration tomorrow!
Integration forever!
We have always integrated with Eastasia!
I remember when we integrated with Eurasi--
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