The best devs Ive worked with are all “barn cats”. They yell, they challenge, they curse, they gesticulate, but they never offend.
(The f’n Workplace Sensitivity thing I just took outlawed so many behaviours that I know would exclude every superhero I know. What’s happened to the industry?)
When you walk, the risk is you’re still confirming and not asking those questions. The duck is awesome.
I have great colleagues who still bust out this kind of cross-examination when we’re trying to figure out why my code is a bag of poo. I have some friends I’ve known 25 years who will do this, and it’s every bit as annoying and infuriating as it’s invaluable help.
I suspect there’s a long tragedy about this, the likes that would give The Odyssey pause.
Watching this YouTube clip, I couldn’t help but remember the other YouTube clip that shows a red panda leaping against a door and trying to reach the doorknob.
I worry you’re artificially limiting yourself, and I hope you have the comfort to overcome this phobia one day.
I’m curious. Microsoft is in a similar position with its open-source-like work. It’s been great for PR but MS has a bad history with Open-Source and with its customers (1999-doj-vs-ms). It’s one of the very few companies so bad they were actually sued by the doj.
If you feel this way about Oracle, what’s your feeling toward Microsoft? Does it colour your use of c# or dot-net knowing that a company with a track record of rug-pulling and secretly thumbing the scale is still in control of the tools you choose to use?
even 1 employee using an Oracle JVM had to pay for every employee in the company
Before that one, they were using a “if one core can run it, all cores must have a license” model.
If you want to see how well that model did, remember
It makes the SuSE AND SCO seat-license deal look tame.
I’ve only seen this switch go really well. The odds are good .
It was leveraged as part of an auto responding email function as part of a ticket that, when used as a secondary email address, allowed a password reset chit to be viewed and then used to change the password on the account.
I remember this one.
But it was fixed months ago. We patch nightly because enterprise software lets you roll back easily.
I don’t think people understood your joke. This thread is all about MS not reading docs or the comment by the guy helping them. Then you ask a date question like you didn’t even see the date on the tweet. Classic! Well done, but subtle.
We are more as people than the mere things we do.
I’ve found that big projects need refactoring without replacement, as Joel says. Bind and sudo and even sendmail have value in this world (the latter for versatility) that cannot be easily replicated without massive cost and decades of maintenance amid real attacks.
But yeah, trivial stuff can be rewritten and exhaustively tested at occasionally a cheaper cost where it can provide value to the enterprise that will one day out-balance its rebuild cost.
You may know it as Mozilla, the namesake project that Mozilla (the company) felt was too hard a raison-d’etre to maintain and, yet, still exists. If you ever hear of Mozilla the org refered to as MINO, it’s because they couldn’t even continue their you-have-one-purpose task.
Unleash the downvotes, ye dissonants.
It’s a way of saying “these are wrong and should be deprecated.”
the ask
This is where the English stopped, so I knew to stop reading.
Please leave the sales-chad jargon to the car lot, if you could.
planing
Well I’ve used a thickness planer but it wasn’t good for field work. I have a hand plane but please let me know how I could use it on my garden.
Dude.
Stop comparing yourself to your heroic peers. You know you’re not lying about your rich ‘hustle’ life (or lack), but you don’t know they aren’t.
Do all the work but then get the downtime. Don’t try to do too much too soon.
Decide for you in all things. If you’re gonna do the time, you pick the crime, to borrow a phrase.
Don’t lose heart. Incremental progress takes a long time. Pick a quick task to stay engaged, but realize sometimes that task is ‘sleep properly’.
That’s all I got.
I’ve coded for 30 years and I’m proud of NONE of it. That is, except one ugly hack where I perverted a print spool as a scheduler, which isn’t even code.
I think anyone who’s been in the field for long enough knows you weren’t really slamming all of it. Beaking off is totally okay.