7mo ago

Absolute legend

108 comments

Everything is open source for this guy after using this simple trick. Big techs HATE him!
- More like source available, since you can’t use the code in your stuff without the permission of the company 🤓

That screams: Open you source code and accepted correction !
- It screams made-up internet story.
  
  It screams both!
  
  It's an old joke.

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.
  
  Rehire obv.
  
  I dunno, but it'd be funny
- Calm down, Satan

inb4 they wait until his last day then roll back the changes because functional code/unauthorized changes are against company policy and actually they need that bug to slow down the user so they don't click so fast the database crashes.
- Oh, you cynical (and probably right) monster. Cheers!

Always love this one, I'd do the same but there's to many fucking things to fix.
- Sounds like you should find a new product to use.
  
  I would but due to capitalism there's not much of a choice in products.
  I hate when companies just eat an entire industry.
  
  What's a good alternative to reddit that isnt Lemmy?

It seems like I'm constantly finding bugs in businesses' apps. Do they not have people test them?
- 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 deal with this every day. It hurts me to my core.
  
  I hate how they'll spend 4 years squashing all the bugs.........and then they cancel the software, and release a new buggy version.
- sure they do, you're one of them
- 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.
- they test them...
  Whether they do anything with that testing is another story,.
  
  We are supposed to be testing them? /s
- 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
- Sometimes no.
- Yes, they're called "customers".
- Sometimes. Other times they layoff the QAs and anyone else whose job is about quality.
- 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.

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.
- 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.
  
  "if it ain't brakes, we don't fix it"
- brakes
  
  I think "breaks" is appropriate if you own a Chrysler.
  
  Lol, ya it was the breaks that I was too broke to afford brakes.
  
  braycks
  
  relevant
  https://youtu.be/zyjK1CpM8JQ
- 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.

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
  
  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.
  
  You read what you read
- It's an excellent tactic.