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Experts Are Idiots – Part 1

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

Golden Gate Bridge imageIt never ceases to amaze me the number of people who will blindly follow a self proclaimed expert. Even more amazing is just how many people can speak that loudly out their lower mouth without rising out of their chair.

When the Golden Gate Bridge was constructed “industry experts” proclaimed loudly that if they every managed to get it built it wouldn’t stand a year. When that date passed most said it wouldn’t last 10 years.

On Thursday, May 27, 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic. Vehicles were allowed on it the very next day.

On Saturday, May 27, 2017 the Golden Gate Bridge turns 80.

Raise a glass to the grand old lady who outlived every one of those experts!

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.