What could possibly go wrong with asking developers to QA their own code while accelerating project velocity? That’s how lean, agile startups work and they make billions!
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RE: Good article on the root of Windows quality problems
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
@anotherusername said in Programming Confessions Thread:
@WhatYouSay John McAfee, is that you?
What was that? I can’t hear you under this mountain of Brazilian women and cash.
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
I mean, what are you gonna do? At least 17 people read how its dangerous and then still say
"yeah, but I like this. I even keep it as an extension!"
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
Confession: I have a long and successful career architecting and implementing solutions on a platform owned by a company that I have grown to disdain. I don’t want to have anything to do with the company or its products anymore but my resume is founded on this set of software and platforms. I feel trapped by my past success.
On the other hand, my current employer doesn’t actually require much of this skill and hopefully I can start fresh again and this won’t be an issue the next time I go looking for work.
Edit: For the sake of clarity, I actually really like my current employer and the job I do for them. The product is one I like and while working on it, I touch the Devil’s seed blessedly little these days. It’s more the thought of what I’m going to do N years from now that’s a bit daunting.
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
@Gąska said in Programming Confessions Thread:
@WhatYouSay if I were you, I'd move to another currency.
Is the bottom dropping out of Brazilian women?
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RE: Google+ officially coming to an end
@topspin said in Google+ officially coming to an end:
Also, Jim starts out as "one of the better visual designers on the team" and still is close to incompetent next paragraph, meaning that whole team was supposedly garbage.
Remembering what Google+ used to look like, I can easily believe that Jim was relatively among the most competent designer while also being garbage at design.
The tale sounds like Google was hiring an army of people to own tiny parts of the product, which ultimately is an approach that requires low skill workers who care only about their small silo. A sure path to skill rot.
Makes me wonder if hiring an ex Googler just gets you a know-nothing knob end with a big title and inflated salary expectations.
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RE: Google+ officially coming to an end
@remi said in Google+ officially coming to an end:
@Adynathos said in Google+ officially coming to an end:
I can vaguely understand how, at the time he got the meeting request, he accepted it despite it being a dick move that required him to work overtime. He was stuck in office politics, he might have been used to working out-of-hours (this is likely Google's culture...), he didn't have time to think it through properly and was mentally heavily invested in that... I don't think that was the right choice (if anything, he put himself in an inferior position by letting himself be bullied like this), but we don't know everything and bad decisions happen.Bullseye. Jim is proven to be poor at design but excellent at getting Knutson to do what he wants. It’s no wonder that their boss said that he’s going to make Jim that guy’s boss. Jim’s perfect for management.
That said, the kind of person who writes this sort of epic rant is also probably the kind of person who makes enemies of people everywhere he goes without knowing why they don’t like him.
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RE: Good article on the root of Windows quality problems
@Tsaukpaetra said in Good article on the root of Windows quality problems:
@WhatYouSay said in Good article on the root of Windows quality problems:
That’s how lean, agile startups work and they make billions!
I'm still waiting for that red number to fade to black, much less read "billions"...
I can offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity to make your red number reach the billions mark, if you would but invest in my special course.
It’s always easier to make the red numbers go up than the black ones, so if you get those really high now then you’ll be loaded when the ink cools down into your desired black.
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RE: Avatar Gifting Thread
@Tsaukpaetra You have no chance to survive make your time!
(Thank you for the avatar. You read my mind exactly.)
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
@error said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
@topspin said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
Why would you need rep to correctly categorize your question?
Also stupid: it costs rep to downboat an answer.
Not so stupid really. The goal would be to put a gate in front of trolls going in and mass downvoting with no-rep accounts.
Latest posts made by WhatYouSay
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RE: Old DailyWtf article about a VCS reading .js comments
@Watson thank you! I was wrong on the details but this is exactly the one I was thinking of
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Old DailyWtf article about a VCS reading .js comments
Apparently I'm bad at google now.
Does anyone remember the old DailyWTF article about how an entire production environment died after a developer deleted all the comments out of JavaScript files only to discover that the deployment system actually used the .JS comments as part of the site deployment thereby making them actual executing code in that context?
Could I haz link plz?
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@cvi in addition to this, the number of Tik Tok videos choreographed by bored as fuck medical staff with nothing to do is, as the kids say, "not a great look" given that we were all told to expect apocalypse.
Locally, we are seeing very little of the expected crush and while a certain type of over involved twitter activist keeps begging for harsher and harsher measures from every level of the executive branch, the rest of us are beginning to wonder what the hell they are smoking if the current measures are working beyond anyone's expectations.
Indeed, isn't it time to loosen these measures if we are overstaffed and overstocked?
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
@loopback0 said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
@topspin said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
All garage posts officially endorsed by @apapadimoulis!
@apapadimoulis doesn't even endorse his own forum anymore
How could you do what you did to such nice boys like @___Wood and Sam? They were just trying to make the forum a
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
@dcon said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
@WhatYouSay said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
I mean, what are you gonna do?
Easy. Not hire them!
Nah, this has the mark of HPC all over it. They'd get paid 4x$$$ to write that extension method and plant it like weeds in every part of every system.
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RE: Coronavirus brought YTMND back from the dead
@Zecc said in Coronavirus brought YTMND back from the dead:
I love this. I can't believe I forgot it existed.
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
@error said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
@topspin said in Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.:
Why would you need rep to correctly categorize your question?
Also stupid: it costs rep to downboat an answer.
Not so stupid really. The goal would be to put a gate in front of trolls going in and mass downvoting with no-rep accounts.
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
I mean, what are you gonna do? At least 17 people read how its dangerous and then still say
"yeah, but I like this. I even keep it as an extension!"
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RE: Correcting Stack Overflow, one dangerous answer at a time.
It looks like some people were upset that TDWTF came in en masse to help correct the situation in 2013.
If that was the reaction all the way back then, I can't imagine how it would go over in 2020.