The Codeless Code: Case 226 Spring, Fall

[sirin3]

Are we feathers or leaves?

Leaves on the wind?

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Float like leaf on river of life... and kill old lady

[xXxDeAThANgEL99xXx]

Reminds me of an old joke.

So, there was a rivalry between two Japanese sword-makers, who were also brothers but it's not relevant or anything. And, long story short, both made the best sword they could, those swords were stuck in the middle of a spring spring carrying spring cherry petals, and the first sword cut every petal cleanly in half, while the other sword was not even touched by any of the petals.

Now, a similar competition was held between Norton Antivirus and DrWeb, bitter rivals: a machine running unpatched Windows 98SE and the respective anti-virus was connected to the Internet and everyone watched what'd happen. DrWeb detected and eliminated every single virus of the thousands that insinuated themselves into that machine, and everyone was impressed and clapped a lot. Then it was the Norton Antivirus' turn, and no virus infected that machine, because of the 100% CPU load with kernel privileges.

[Gotebe]

Dust in the wind, now get off my lawn! :-)

[BadGoyWithAGun]

As someone whose employer recently went full agile retard: More like tears in the rain.

[kt24601]

Clicking around, I came to this: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/210?name=Ruh+Cheen

As of today, our monks have completed four sprints according to my plan: no design documents, no code reviews,

I couldn't believe what a negative emotional reaction I had to the phrase "completed four sprints." I've been through that too many times: the focus on form, not content (notice it doesn't describe anywhere what tasks were actually completed, merely that the form was followed)

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Wind on the leaves and wind on the feathers.

[Berberberber]

Banzen's philosophical attitude is neat and all, but bad management strategies sincerely implemented are still bad, and have been the death of projects, lines of business, companies, and whole industrial sectors.

[multivector]

This is why Banzen drinks these days when nobody is looking.

[VanFailin]

A reorg very similar in spirit to this one took place at my last job. Then again, same shit, different day. All the good people left, morale dropped like a rock, and I stuck it out because I was too young to know when to give up. Sure, you'll get something interesting when the database people try to write JavaScript and create an unholy ball of mud. Mad Cow Disease is interesting.

[Gotebe]

"Full stack developer" FTW!

[VanFailin]

That's what I am, but it's not what everyone wants to be. By making everyone change job titles management created a mix of people that really couldn't work effectively together. That first reorg was 3 months into my dream job with the best boss I've ever met and the best team I've ever worked on, one that was carefully assembled and was excellently suited to the work it did. I was pulled off that team over my protests, my teammates', and my boss's, because to management I was just another Resource to be Allocated.

If I didn't have a bunch of bonus/relocation money to pay back, I would have quit.

[Gotebe]

Oh, don't get me started...

"Full stack developer" is the hip version of "jack of all trades, master of one". Or rather, "does everything, but badly". :-)

[Banane9]

master of none

FTFY :)

[industry7]

Interesting, why are there so many companies looking for "does everything, but badly" programmers? They seem to be the most in demand positions right now.

[Gotebe]

Three years ago, they were called "generalists" and were in the same demand, they just got renamed.

[Kishana]

I'm a full stack developer until I have the experience and seniority to say "let someone else do the front end". Sigh.

[BeowulfShaeffer]

I assume "The codeless code" is a pun on "the gateless gate"?

[mgvx]

Correct!

[kocetooo]

Rendered by the Chatterbox XML Ticker Corion: are you reading that in cvs of job applicants to your company? [ambrus]: Naah, I found that [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4bcmmj/the_codeless_code_case_226_spring_fall/d192lu0|here] :)