The emergency fix
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This was heard from the team that sits next to me, and in the office of their manager (also very close by):
Someone discovered a problem with something that's been deployed for a while. After some research, they need to make a fairly self-contained isolated patch. Ok, no big deal. Routine stuff, right?
Except that while researching it, they discovered a long buried bug that the users have not yet noticed.
Senior manager: Listen, as long as we're in there, let's fix this other stuff too.
Manager: But wait, fixing this causes something else to be undefined, which <daisy chain of affected subsystems here>.
Long story short: 3+ weeks of work.
SM: No, we need it tomorrow; this is an emergency fix!
M: Then perhaps we should limit what we're fixing to the actual reported bug.
SM: But we can fix this other stuff too!
M: Yes, but not in the same time frame: it's a lot more work and will take a lot more time.
The SM acquiesced, but he was not happy about it.
Wheee!
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That's easy... Just do 3 weeks of work in 1 day! Do I have to do everything around here?!
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I call bullshit. We've heard enough of your stories to know that sanity and pragmatism would never prevail in your workplace.
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Update: they decided to put in just the small patch.
It was so small and so obvious that it didn't even need to be tested; they just KNEW that this was the solution.
Except for the duplicated code elsewhere that was the actual problem.
Oops!
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@C-Octothorpe said:
That's easy... Just do 3 weeks of work in 1 day! Do I have to do everything around here?!
Any decent project manager will confirm that according to MS-Project, 9 women can give birth to a kid in 1 month, so if it does not get done it's a resource problem.
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@snoofle said:
It was so small and so obvious that it didn't even need to be tested
Oh for fuck's sake.
If you promise to wield it mercilessly and you email me a postal address, I will go out and find some mahogany or ebony and hand-carve you a clue stick. You can't continue to work with these people barehanded. It's not right.
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@Justice said:
I call bullshit. We've heard enough of your stories to know that sanity and pragmatism would never prevail in your workplace.
@snoofle said:
Update: they decided to put in just the small patch.
It was so small and so obvious that it didn't even need to be tested; they just KNEW that this was the solution.
Except for the duplicated code elsewhere that was the actual problem.
Oops!I like this juxtaposition.
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@flabdablet said:
@snoofle said:
It was so small and so obvious that it didn't even need to be tested
Oh for fuck's sake.
If you promise to wield it mercilessly and you email me a postal address, I will go out and find some mahogany or ebony and hand-carve you a clue stick. You can't continue to work with these people barehanded. It's not right.
Can I have one, too?
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@flabdablet said:
@snoofle said:
It was so small and so obvious that it didn't even need to be tested
Oh for fuck's sake.
If you promise to wield it mercilessly and you email me a postal address, I will go out and find some mahogany or ebony and hand-carve you a clue stick. You can't continue to work with these people barehanded. It's not right.
Now I want to make a clue stick! Trying to decide what one would look like...
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@utoxin said:
Now I want to make a clue stick! Trying to decide what one would look like...
Ornate woodcut decorations with all sorts of symbols like @ and { and $ etc.
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@utoxin said:
Now I want to make a clue stick! Trying to decide what one would look like...
My preferred variant looks exactly like a 2x4x40 of pine.
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@NoOneImportant said:
My preferred variant looks exactly like a 2x4x40 of pine.
That's a clue-by-four.
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@joe.edwards said:
@NoOneImportant said:
My preferred variant looks exactly like a 2x4x40 of pine.
That's a clue-by-four.
You owe me a new keyboard.
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@Medezark said:
@joe.edwards said:
@NoOneImportant said:
My preferred variant looks exactly like a 2x4x40 of pine.
That's a clue-by-four.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Will you settle for a clueboard?
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@Lorne Kates said:
@Medezark said:
@joe.edwards said:
@NoOneImportant said:
My preferred variant looks exactly like a 2x4x40 of pine.
That's a clue-by-four.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Will you settle for a clueboard?
Here you go:
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@Lorne Kates said:
Will you settle for a clueboard?
Why settle when you can get a cluebat for only pennies more a day?
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@utoxin said:
Trying to decide what one would look like...
I'm a traditionalist, so I'd go with these.
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@havokk said:
@utoxin said:
Trying to decide what one would look like...
I'm a traditionalist, so I'd go with theseThis is even more traditional: