this is the first real 100x developer.
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Let the patch be part of the code for one or two minor releases. Then revert the changes of the patch.
Why would they do that? Talk about generating mistrust.
It may not be malice. Incompetence.
They are going to “accidentally” remove a fix?
By not understanding how version control works. I’ve worked at places that had a surprising number of developers who would just merge things in ways that drop code from other developers.
Can you give an example how that would happen?
Force push to the master branch or release branch, for one
It’s pretty straightforward. Merge conflicts? No such thing! Just make my version the next version.
Also that’s likely a team that doesn’t use a branching workflow, has poor review on merges, and/or using Git like it’s SVN.
Rehire obv.
Good luck with that lol. Who would fall for that.
Corporate rated this strategy viable
I dunno, but it’d be funny
Calm down, Satan
the guy who contributed to proprietary software
He finally won the war after so many battles.
Repost #357
It seems like I’m constantly finding bugs in businesses’ apps. Do they not have people test them?
sure they do, you’re one of them
Sometimes. Other times they layoff the QAs and anyone else whose job is about quality.
As someone in the dev team for a “business app”, we probably know about most or all of them, but they’re just not important enough for anyone in management to prioritize them as part of a sprint. It’s also possible no one has given us reproducible steps to make them happen, so we just straight up don’t know what to fix. Usually the former though.
Yes, they’re called “customers”.
Sometimes no.
They do, and they have a backlog of hundreds of issues to fix and they must prioritise then. If fixing a bug doesn’t make money, it’s not priority.
I hate how they’ll spend 4 years squashing all the bugs…and then they cancel the software, and release a new buggy version.
cough Sonos
i will never forgive the emby team for creating the single most idiotic (although rather funny) transcoding system.
It has a resolution selection, along with a bitrate selection, so you would think it forces transcoding.
It turns out the resolution is actually just a suggestion, and the bitrate is what it targets, if it doesn’t meet the bitrate, it will transcode, and if you get lucky, it might transcode to the specified resolution.
I am steadfast that I will occasionally take some time and kill off some low hanging fruit. For me, its kind of like a break and lets me clear my head on the bigger issues.
Even then, there are bugs that need multiple people (design, engineering, content, QA, etc) and are not something that can be fixed on a whim.
Those would not be considered low hanging fruit.
The problem is that what users consider low hanging fruit is often not, and what is low hanging fruit for devs, is invisible stuff that users don’t notice. The intersection is the tastiest low hanging fruit, but as such it’s also rare and easily picked by anyone.
I never said that users were involved in this. This is just grabbing some bugs off the queue that are simple to fix but have been deprioritized by project manager.
But they do make the customer happy because they are the one that submitted the bug.
I deal with this every day. It hurts me to my core.
they test them…
Whether they do anything with that testing is another story,.
We are supposed to be testing them? /s
you already are smh, you just don’t know it!
I would fix that bug but the complete rewrite that management has had me working on for the past two years will make it obsolete anyway.
Ah, the circle of life
They usually do yes however it’s all about prioritization.
You may have hundreds or thousands or open requests and issues.
With tens of thousands of closed issues that were either not reproducible, not actually problems, or largely indecipherable.
There’s usually a feature roadmap which is where most of the development money and time is spent. If it’s an older business application then certain bugs might easily take weeks to find, fix, test, validate, go through user acceptance, A/B test, and then deploy. But fixing is expensive work, so if the bug isn’t severe it’s usually deprioritized next to higher priority work.
That happened.
Maybe the guy is content where he was, asks just wanted to fix that bug
Reminds me of when my breaks started failing on my 1990 Chrysler LeBaron so I got a job at a break repair place long enough to fix them then I quit.
brakes
braycks
Bhrakes
And its pronounced “Brad”
relevant
I think “breaks” is appropriate if you own a Chrysler.
My dad has a TC Maserati (Chrysler labaron) and it’s “breaks” just recently stopped working for no reason, so very accurate
Lol, ya it was the breaks that I was too broke to afford brakes.
Thems the brakes
those bits on a car are called “brakes”. When a brake breaks, it’s a broken brake and needs to be fixed.
Thank you. That’s one of my little pet peeves I see online; that and when people are trying to say lose but type loose.
They’re they’re, it’ll be all right.
Don’t forget to breath
But then all the sudden everything went wrong on accident.
“if it ain’t brakes, we don’t fix it”
What needed repaired?
Pads, calibers and new discs. That seemed like a lot of money for 17 year old kid. I worked there for a couple of months. I learned a few things, like working on brakes is not for me.
I hate working on brakes. Even just replacing pads can be a pain in the ass nevermind when you have to do real work to 'em.
I try to do all the basic work/maintenance myself, but fuck brakes.
Sheeeeit I’ll do your brakes for you. Brakes is easy and satisfying.
Bro that reminds me when I was in university and I used to tutor fellow students with the goal of getting laid. As soon as I got laid I stopped tutoring. Now unfortunately I’m married and have kids because of that.
wat
You read what you read
pooping cough was confused by cumskin genocide.
He tutored girls with the hopes of getting laid, but then when he did, it turns out he liked her and settled down with her and is now married to her.
Ohhhh for some reason my mind went to him trying to tutor other dudes to help them with women. Was very confused.
Same.
Wow, what a bro. Where was this guy when I was in school?
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Oh. Yeah, that one’s on me. That makes a little more sense.
You guys ooze heteronormativism
You ooze self-righteousness.
The original commenter @[email protected] did neither specify their own sex nor the gender of the people they tutored.
Multiple people under that comment simply assumed that OP is male and was tutoring girls. That is heteronormative. Yes, I formulated that with a bit of snark. But come on.
But come on.
Unironically, no u.
It’s an excellent tactic.
That screams: Open you source code and accepted correction !
It screams made-up internet story.
It screams both!
It’s an old joke.
ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”
I thought that buffoon was out of my memory Everybody Loves Eric Raymond
