Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

Here for software stuff. Cursed with eternal optimism. I want to make it all better. Make Agile Great Again! Views are my own. Portal Point, Antarctica Joined March 2010

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

11 hours ago

My life isn't a tragedy. It's not a comedy. It's a documentary about my life.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

21 hours ago

I had to mark out the guy's name, which is why I can't quote the post. EF Core is the personality. The database the memory. (What is the actual memory?) So the personality helps us interact with the memory? How does this help someone trying to learn how to make software?

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

2 days ago

Say goodbye to your families. Two massive waves of stupid are colliding, and this sprint is going to be the epic perfect storm of stupid. We're going down.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

3 days ago

I do not attack people or tell them that they are incompetent. If I absolutely must, I may ask them questions they should be able to answer but can't. I don't like doing that. If they are inclined toward competence, it makes them think. If not, it makes them angry.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

3 days ago

Some team is in the process of creating a new UX library. Half of our PRs are migrating buttons from the current library to the new ones. These are mostly internal apps. This is zero-value work.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

4 days ago

I used to get ~100 Stack Overflow points a month from old answers. There's been nothing in over three months.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

4 days ago

If we take a bunch of small, easy problems and put them together we can make a big, difficult problem that requires an awful solution.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

4 days ago

If a decision is complicated, like how to design a complex system with requirements and constraints, you can't always solve it in a meeting. Give people the problem. Let them go away, think about it, and come back. Then you have potential solutions to discuss.

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

4 days ago

Abstraction is good. Decoupling is good. You only need some, just enough. Maybe less than you think. Once something is abstract, never try to make it more abstract. One things are decoupled, never try to decouple them more.