• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    TFW you want to do things good, slow and expensive, but management makes you do them fast, cheap and crap.

    For your entire career.

    Please kill me

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        28 days ago

        > someone nitpicks word you used in a variable declaration

        > you change it

        > someone more senior says the former made more sense

        > this goes on for far longer than it should

        > eventually you get a real review from someone in your team that identified something actually needs to change

        > you change it and re request reviews

        rinse and repeat

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          Had a team lead that kept requesting nitpicky changes, going in a FULL CIRCLE about what we should change or not, to the point that changes would take weeks to get merged. Then he had the gall to say that changes were taking too long to be merged and that we couldn’t just leave code lying around in PRs.

          Jesus fucking Christ.

          There’s a reason that team imploded…

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            28 days ago

            Had a colleague who would comment things like “add a newline here” as well as things that were fully his own preference.

            That was the only time I closed comments without replying to them or fixing them, without feeling bad.

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                My point exactly! But naw, several others on the team insisted this guy policing others manually is better than putting a linter in the pipeline.

                I don’t work there anymore, this is one of the (minor) reasons.

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              People need to reply to those comments with “out of scope” and a link to a new issue that will get buried in the backlog more often

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          28 days ago

          Don’t forget get questioned by your manager/scrum lead as to why its taking so long to get out.

          Well, I’ve had the PR ready for 3 days and the team asked me to make changes today

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          you forgot the part where you have to rebase your branch and that causes merge conflicts that were resolved later but somehow still persist.

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      28 days ago

      TFW you want to do things good, slow and expensive, but management makes you do them fast, cheap and crap.

      For your entire career.

      Please kill me

      i got the sense that some people wanted to when i made this same point about this industry in this same community about a week or so ago.

      i love the duality of lemmy sometimes. lol

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    28 days ago

    TFW “npm install somePackage” adds hundreds of names to your supplier list, some of whom aren’t even adults let alone companies, and the policy says that each new supplier needs to go through a thorough vetting process.

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    28 days ago

    It’s funny because it’s true. All those little guys will fuck you over eventually and likely are real trojans.

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    27 days ago

    If they wanted me to use a specific tool or lack thereof they should have said that. Instead they said “fix this problem” and instead of writing the entire codebase from the ground up I used the tools that were available to me so I could focus on fixing the problem instead of fixing the fix to fix the fix for the fix of the problem.

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      I can’t relate to this feeling at all, writing code using a library I’ve found is almost always the source of bugs. Miscommunication between the library developer and their documentation, or my ability to read the documentation. And that’s on top of how many big libraries I’ve seen with extremely simple exploits. Sadly I have to use a few, but I wince every time I install a package.

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        I am NOT writing a database connector unless you add an additional three months to your projects expectations.

        I am NOT writing an LDAP connector.

        I am NOT writing code to execute shell processes safely.

        And I’m sure as hell not writing an XML parser just so I can say I did it without libraries.

        JS devs that import libraries for every stupid thing (lpad comes to mind) are bad programmers, but libraries are useful and have their place.

        And if my boss doesn’t want me using those libraries, they need to specify that in advance or there needs to be a company policy to that effect. Otherwise, I’m solving the problem my way since that’s what I’m getting paid to do.

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          Yeah I absolutely agree, my issue is with libraries that do trivial or not particularly useful things.