What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
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Margaret Adelle
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.
The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.
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Old electronic equipment that you own the design of and all the source code can be better than new solid state equipment with a 7 year planned obsolescence if you have to keep a lot of it on for another 40 years.
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They bought a whole new packaged system that did less, served fewer customers, and contained a myriad of new bugs. I left.
As a forklift driver/order puller/justmakeitwork guy, the amount of product we throw out is obscene. We could provide schools, nonprofits, mom and pop shops with all sorts of fixtures and racking and paraphernalia. But it was so last season. So in the big metal can it goes.
Sadly causing havoc in some forests that are not used to them.
No, Aaron.
They never believe me.
(I did not expect this thread to do numbers like it has so why not...)
What is not, is that probably 80% of the people that write software for a living have ADHD, ASD, or both. (Numbers based on vibes from decades in the field.)
I think it’s just too hard to do the job if you don’t have the hyperfocus.
And even so we're hurting for lack of a real DB expert.
Now I'm a software developer who's lost to some extent the QA engineer touch I had and I sure would welcome one to our team if we hired one!
I remember patch notes abt UI changes going out & livid users demanding more non-UI things. “We don’t care abt menus!”*
I bet everything on 'someone (who got ridiculously high paid for this) told them console is the future of civ' and they weren't able to read their own statistics to deny this
For better or for worse, since I switched to a university library tech dept from a marketing firm tech dept, the big issue is not outstanding bugs in our code, but horribly outdated buggy code from vendors we have contracts with.
ship new features?
you mean make them fall in love with eachother?
Also "when the product is deployed to production, you'll have a hell of a time getting project money for anything else on it".
You don’t wanna know.
Even the experts I interview rarely know what's "REALLY" going on across their entire field.
And.. you're not a reporter, right? You're a flack?
That doesn't mean we don't know what's going on.
There's so much bashing of the media, when the reporters I know are trying so hard under awful circumstances.
Why add to it?
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Also, most devs strongly disagree with implementation decisions, but they’re mandated by managers who read an article once about Buzzword, so we all get stuck doing that nonsense instead of something that would actually work
It would be insane to take accountability for code you didn't write. That would be like a carpenter taking accountability for the electrical work.
Small changes are fine, almost like copying from GitHub.
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Birds are dinosaurs.
Birds are warm-blooded and include 1000s of species. Not just an exception, but their own clearly defined class.
Birds come after crocodiles, that doesnt make them crocodiles.
They're undeniably in sauripsida. And if you want to call that clade reptiles than its just redefining reptiles. Reptilia is a class in Sauripsida, not the clade
Marsupials differ from the other two. So, we call them marsupials. Birds differ from reptiles, so we call them birds.
And, birds don't exist within reptilia.
But i'm arguing that reptiles dont include turtles or crocodiles either.
If a category is so broad to include all turtles, crocodiles, lizards, dinosaurs, and birds the it's just not useful. They have vast biological differences.
I dislike the notion that Sauripsida = Reptile.
reptiles are classified by being cold blooded, having scales, and laying eggs. birds, turtles, and crocs all meet those
Today's is phylogenetic. Birds aren't cold blooded, don't have scales, but do lay eggs. They're in the clade Sauripsida, not the class Reptilia.
A lot of people call Sauripsida the Reptiles clade. It's not really. Repitilia is a class, not a clade.
birds are reptiles
look at their feet & faces, they’re a lot like lizards and turtles