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What's the one thing that really bugs the developer in you?
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This sums it up accurately for most developers I guess:
I think this sums up why I don't mind being a QA :P
This sums up why I'm frightened of QAs 😅
This situation can mostly be solved by changing the design process. But - they'll always be things that don't work... and that's a mind-shift. TDD can help / and early prototypes of feature too. But - yeah... so many things to take into account!
What's the difference between a feature and a bug?
Isn't butterfly a bug?
You want the feature to be noticed.
Unnecessary meetings for the sake of meeting.
Just posted this on LinkedIn...
In response to the "intimacy" argument for Zoom:
I'm failing to [frozen video] how [glitchy stutter] [movement] [frozen again, with Aphex Twin sound stretch effect] [blank screen] intimacy.
we are team of 6 developers, I face this issue alot :(
Human beings
I'm aware that it's part of the hustle... but my answer would be, having to make changes to something they swore was completely finished last week :'D
yh. i totally agree with you.. most annoying thing ever
Especially when you literally talked with them about that exact scenario, and let them confirm twice that that won't ever be needed.
This hurts.
I'll get a lot of hate for that but there are two things that irritates me the most :
Re 2: that's because you have the mindset of a dedicated developer. Which is of course good for a dev, however, on the business side
sometimesit's more important to deliver and make $$ then slowly solve issues (if you ever solve them) than make it perfect from the start.Personally I think the best solution is a compromise, don't 100% mess the code just for easy gains, but do find suitable shortcuts when possible (and yes, non-native apps can be suitable shortcuts in some cases)
First of all, I don't really hate you or your answer, but I'd like to transcend its sentiment.
Development is all about the compromises you make - and you will make them, consciously or not. For example, by adhering to a "use the right tools" workflow, you compromise on the ability to use tools you deem "wrong" to greater effect, which especially for prototyping can be a bad choice.
Which brings us to your second point: when we are aware of the compromises, we should also know the consequences and make them transparent. Using electron for an UI means that you trade consistency with the platform with consistency over platforms.
If you make this choice, it should be a conscious one - just like all of the other compromises you make all the time on a daily basis. However, that does not mean that you sacrifice app quality - and how much money you spend on what is not the choice of the developer, but of the manager. The developer's task here is to make the consequences of each choice transparent.
Or you can use something like Ionic with Capacitor and get native plus web stack
Ignored warnings... that typically go like:
Me: “That’s a bad idea... you may not want to do it because of X, Y, and Z.”
Other: “It works now, it’ll be fine”
Me: 👌🏽
A few weeks later... 🔥
Other: “It broke because of X, Y, Z! Why didn’t you say anything?!”
Me: 🤦🏽♂️
i feel you :D. i don't tell my colleague what to do. rather i gave suggestion if he want to consider, and later on everybody has to jump in coz he did not consider the suggestion :D
Having a good idea and not having the capacity or energy to properly articulate it.
Like: I think I'm on to something, but I just can't entirely explain the philosophy.
The immaturity of the Node/Typescript ecosystem and the amount of fiddling around with the environment it requires to get basic things going. I actually think someone could make a career as a Node BS wrangler, at least for the next few years.
I think if I was going to do a bog standard website project I would revisit using Rails.
Why people are even considering in the first place to use JavaScript engines server side is beyond me...
There's parts of the ecosystem I like, on it's own I think Typescript is pretty good and at least in theory the massive amount of investment that browser vendors make on Javascript VMs should benefit performance vs say Python.
I think it's more the problem of combining the existing Node JS module system, es6 modules, bundling for the frontend etc.
But yeah, things like lack of proper integer and float types is pretty dumb 😃.
JS is actually very good on the server. Ask Netflix.
Ahh yes, that must be why the language they use the most is Java instead of JS
While it's true that they still run a lot of Java code, all of their web stack is JS. Or as they put it, everything a user sees is written in JS.
In another case, PayPal found that an app rewritten from Java to JS was more performance, serving double the req/sec one one core as the Java app did on 5 cores, so they made the switch.
PayPal has (or at least had) reportedly such a horribly awful code base, they could've rewritten it in BASIC for an interpreter and still get a 5-time performance increase, lol! Really they had to rewrite their stuff anyways. Java still is the most performant bytecode VM out there, let alone speaking of the performance of tech like GraalVM... (plus it is multithreading capable, unlike Node)
If you think the TS ecosystem is immature, try cloning the DefinitelyTyped repo.
TS + Node is easy to set up nowadays. ts-node allows you to debug it directly, no transpiling. We only run tsc when we're ready to ship. We write TS microservices daily with no issue. We clone a setup repo and start writing code.
github.com/jdforsythe/typescript-n... has what you need to start writing code immediately
But if I were making a blog I would use an SSG like hugo, not TS or Rails.
backend developers thinking that frontend is easy 😛
I think this is my Biggest pet peeve of all
Apparently it has been Decreed that front end is women's work. This means (I am told) that it is both very easy, and Real Men would rather handle a sanitary napkin.
So sexist incel dudebros.
Clients that think that they are important enough for a (interrupting) call. Unless a server is burning, send a mail, I’ll check when I have time.
5 projects in a day... context switching is killing.
Arrogant, know-it-all coworkers
Sounds like a problem with the boss!
I always hate the "we've been doing that for years, we're not changing that"-attitude. Really crashes creativity and innovation.
true that!
My last two weeks have been stuck in an Office Space loop of "Did you get the memo?" I assure you I have the cover sheet on the TPS report just fine, tyvm.
There's a process for putting code in prod. All the people involved in the process were laid off. The new people in charge of the process are redoing the process docs. I've gotten at least 5 emails about the new process docs.
I had to make our docs 3 weeks ago so we could have time to get to prod. Apparently they updated the docs 2 weeks ago. I have gotten at least 3 comments about how I'm using the old template and didn't I see the emails about how to make a new doc from a template. Like, yes, I have. But these docs are based on the 3 weeks ago template so we had time to fill them out. But did you get the memo about the new process templates.
I already had a week of PTO on the books starting tomorrow, but now I need it.
Bad documented APIs and/or software.
This includes poor documentation and the worst, the undocumented feature in a very documented software.
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