[LINK] The Ethics (!) of Dodgy Web Designers

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Apr 18 18:51:23 AEST 2007


Karl Auer wrote:

> The obvious result is that a million monkeys will start investigatin'.
> They will stick their little hands into every opening. Some will piss
> into them. They will remove the panels. They will twiddle every knob and
> tug on every wire. They will shout into microphones and leer into
> webcams. They will pick up things that other monkeys have made and try
> to wear them as hats. They will rearrange things. Some will lose
> fingers.
> 
> This wave of furry little idiots is humanity with a new toy, as
> important a new toy as the quill once was. This is *us*, *now*.

And there is nothing wrong with that. An astute Attenborough-esque
observation!

> The suggestion that people in this new environment should be dissuaded
> from participation, let alone forbidden from participating is foolish,
> and IMHO, makes its proponent look foolish.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that. Perhaps you missed my drift.
If you are going to provide professional services, like a web company
purports to do, then know your stuff. My contention is that there are
a lot out there who do not know their stuff. And this extends far beyond
just doing websites. I've worked alongside "consultants" from the
big accounting firms who are basically clueless at computing, but
know enough to hoodwink the boss into paying five times what I ern
to produce solutions that are eventually shelved. I've worked with
Oracle DB consulting firms who cannot even produce a decent ER diagram
or design a proper database. Such is the world of consulting. It
often stinks. Let them go back to tinkering with computers as toys
and stop ripping off businesses and stop conning consumers.

I could develop this into a rant about the preponderance of inefficient
and poorly designed computer solutions, but enough for one day.

Let the monkeys play and learn. But do not purport to be an expert
and charge people money when you are incompetent.


cheers
rickw


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