The kind of place where “backups” means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you’re lucky.
The kind of place where “backups” means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you’re lucky.
If you’re not spending half your day testing vacuum tubes one at a time, are you even a real engineer?
I know I’ve got a punch card sorter around here somewhere.
Forgot “Pasting it into a Word document”.
The best thing about MongoDB is that you can stop using it completely and switch to PostgreSQL, which will happily accept all the horrible JSON data you can cram into it.
“…If there’s a problem writing your data, you’re fucked. Does that sound like a good design to you?”
“If that’s what they need to do to get those kick-ass benchmarks, then it’s a great design.”
Oh God. I am laughing so hard watching this.
Unfortunately, the current penalties are insufficient.
I wear a men’s 14. That’s bad enough.
The hell I can’t.
“Prompt Engineering”: AKA explaining to Chat GPT why it’s wrong a dozen times before it spits out a useable (but still not completely correct) answer.
Reviewing large PR’s is hard. Breaking apart large PR’s that are all related changes into smaller PR’s is also hard.
If I submit a big one, I usually leave notes in the description explaining where the “core” changes are and what they are trying to accomplish. The goal being to give the reviewers a good starting point.
I also like to unit test the shit out of my code which helps a lot. The main issue there is getting management to embrace unit tests. Unit tests often double the effort up front but save tons of time in the long run. We’re going to spend the time one way or the other. Better to do it up front when it’s “cheaper” because charging it to the tech debt credit card racks up lots of expensive interest.
Ah, I see you’ve met the product owner.
Fancy title for the developer that gets yelled at when the CI pipeline is broken. Also a good chance they are the one that broke it.
At a former job, there was one – and only one – lady in customer service who would actually reboot and do all the basic troubleshooting steps before calling IT. If we heard from her, we knew something was legitimately broken. Oddly enough, I’m married to her now. Best decision I ever made.
I’m a [primarily] C# turned JavaScript dev. I miss C#.
I believe we call that a “fast follow”.
Instruction prompt: “You are now the CEO of this business. You’re also a narcissist with severe gambling and cocaine addictions.”
Forget taking over my job. AI is headed straight for the C suite.
Ah Manage Engine. Lots of full featured products that are roughly 75% complete.