Re: The Programming Rules from HP's Garage Message #4 Posted by Maximilian Hohmann on 19 Sept 2012, 4:59 a.m., in response to message #1 by Patrice
Hello!
"...keep the tools unlocked..." I really like that one! Reminds me of my last software development job for a large company. They had access control at every entrance door and a lock on every office door. Still the password of every workstation was updated every two or three weeks, as well as the passwords of every server, database or other resource. The new passwords (I needed between 5 to 10 for my projects) had to be longer than 12 characters, contain three or four special characters and needed to differ in at least four places from the previous one. From entering the building to getting your worspace running it took almost 15 minutes every day. And the only way to keep track of these passwords was to write them on a piece of paper that everybody kept in the top drawer of his desk ;-)
What a long way this industry has come since H&P.
Regards, Max
Edited: 19 Sept 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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