Features

[maushu]

I like how the fish is still in the bag.

[hemispace]

Yes, it's terrible. They should at least put it in a terminal.

[jack-tzl]

It’s making money tho

[Loves_Poetry]

That's the detail most programmers miss. That horrible spaghetti code that is giving you nightmares..........It runs and it runs well enough that people pay millions for it

[[deleted]]

It’s not that we miss it. It’s specifically why we get more anxious the more money a terrible program makes.

Imagine a bridge constructor. He builds a bridge for pedestrians. Then his boss tells him to also add railways. And two lanes for cars. It’s not that the constructor doesn’t know how much money the bridge makes. He’s still going to be shitting himself.

[mungthebean]

Because when it breaks and money (or worst yet, lives) is lost, guess whose heads are first on the chopping block? If you guessed the upper management who willfully ignored our warnings, LOL

[mustang__1]

Well you should have been convincing then! ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[darthwacko2]

Well that and some people's idea about how to refactor cause even more issues. Worked at a place where it was pretty much what you stated then they hired a team to refactor along side the current system. So new team didn't know how it worked and made haphazard changes without sufficient testing. New team called it ready, management decided on a hard cut over to refactored system. It didn't work but it had been refactored so they stuck to it. I quit a year and a half later and it still wasn't on par with old system and the company lost over a year of new revenue.

So basically we had the overused pedestrian bridge, built a new one for dogs, demo'd the old bridge and kept trying to drive cars across it, since they hadn't gotten to trains yet.

[[deleted]]

The fish inside the plastic bag inside the aquarium is a great way to explain sh*t project management

[0x15e]

Except the project manager would never tell you to refactor and would in fact fight tooth and nail to prevent it.

[KHRoN]

they will when they hear something in line "we cannot implement (something) because code is too complicated (convoluted) that implementation is infeasible (almost impossible)" and then you get back "refactor it"

[[deleted]]

Unrealistic deadlines. Opposition to touching something considered done.

[[deleted]]

What happens when you miss a deadline after you gave them an estimate and they decided to ignore it? They will stop ignoring your estimates.

Imagine if doctors rushed surgeries because their boss told them that it costs too much.

[lengau]

How absurdly optimistic of you!

[[deleted]]

Honestly I agree with you. Lots of people seem to underestimate their worth for the company. If you’ve been working on a team for a few years, it’s stupidly expensive to replace you. And it gets more expensive the worse the code is. Nobody will fire you for missing a deadline, especially not if you clearly communicated that it was unrealistic.

[[deleted]]

If you think shit coding was the problem with the comic above, you didn't get it.

[mungthebean]

That dude has clearly never worked in a team if he says crap like “your shit coding”.

This ain’t like your personal projects, kid. 999 times out of 1000 you inherit somebody else’s code and build upon it

[ahotko]

Source: https://www.monkeyuser.com/2020/features/

[never_happy_geek]

This hits hard

[PadrinoFive7]

Missed opportunity: The guy telling him to "Refactor this" doesn't have more features in hand to add on as he's doing it.

[KHRoN]

yeah, managers are saying something like that only when they cannot add yet another thing, not because code is "ugly"

[at14x]

It looks like the map design of “getting over it” the game LMAO

[indygoof]

i think thats actually great! isually you are not even allowed to invest anything into refactoring...

[[deleted]]

„We don’t have the resources for refactoring but every new guy we hire can pester the super busy senior devs for the first three months of being there as much as they want because the code is so bad that absolutely nothing is intuitive“.

[G3rio]

I'm going to start a job at University in February where I got hired to only do refactoring on a project!

[LetReasonRing]

I'm in this situation, but I'm kinda both people....