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by aiiotnoodle 724 days ago
Stuff like this is great.

Fast moving consumer goods is a vastly underrated represented technology sector, they do so much cool stuff that just goes completely unnoticed.

I started my first job in a warehouse and it really gave me a good look at the proprietary technology powering day to day life. It should be more open but few work on stuff like this.

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I work in this field, as a developer for a proprietary warehouse management system.

The entire industry runs off closed source systems with little to no accessibility for external developers. The companies developing these systems like it this way, as it means they get a large number of billable hours through their service departments, since there are very few developers available with the expertise to work on these systems.