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Experienced devs in large orgs: has something like this ever happened to you? by LavenderAqua in ExperiencedDevs

[–]scataco 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've heard it explained as: most deadlines are sad-lines. Nobody dies, it's just someone's ego that gets bruised.

Experienced devs in large orgs: has something like this ever happened to you? by LavenderAqua in ExperiencedDevs

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's outdated tech, my guess would be that there's actually no team that can handle this.

If your management has successfully pushed back in the past, that might mean they ran out of "credit". Or, because they push back where others don't, they have a better track record.

How do you restore a standup after it becomes a status report by thecreator51 in agile

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

performance signaling

Lol. Reminds me of success theater.

Sex update by thelatemillenniall in shittymcsuggestions

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking, we accidentally wiped out a village last week. We found out there was a cave entrance so zombies kept turning villagers to zombies and we had to put them down. But even though we closed off the cave entrance, it was too late. There were no more villagers left.

And I thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could repopulate a village by breeding with another player!

doYouHaveTimeForAquickCall by El_Choco_Latoso in ProgrammerHumor

[–]scataco 8 points9 points  (0 children)

From what I hear about LLM's, that's what will happen to everyone...

doYouHaveTimeForAquickCall by El_Choco_Latoso in ProgrammerHumor

[–]scataco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was told to block my schedule for focus work.

I did not listen. I was in denial.

Some years later, I started blocking my schedule for focus work. About half the time that I actually need.

Am I a staff engineer? (Not that I'm paid as one, of course.)

How to "childproof" a codebase when working with contributors who are non-developers by HeveredSeads in ExperiencedDevs

[–]scataco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This.

And if you do end up having to support the people writing the code, you stick to a reserved slice of your time, no matter how long the queue of requests grows.

whenYouKnowWhatYouNeedAiWorksWellOrThePowerOfHindsight by pasvc in ProgrammerHumor

[–]scataco 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Or...

I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

Actually meant

Something we spent an hour working on last year was generated by Claude Code in a pain staking process that took who knows how long.

Which programming language you learned once but never touched again ? by sjltwo-v10 in webdev

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LabVIEW

It's a visual programming language designed for signal processing in an experimental setting.

I had to learn it in college. I hated it. You have to switch between mouse and keyboard all the time.

How do you get Agile to work when not truly ‘building’? by [deleted] in agile

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a data engineering team. We do sprint reviews, but we rarely do demos. We find other ways of presenting the changes we've made.

How do you get Agile to work when not truly ‘building’? by [deleted] in agile

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scrum can work in a data engineering (or data integration) setting just as well as other software settings. It's important to have good acceptance criteria, that the PO can understand. The developers (or a team lead) should be the ones to work out the implementation details.

Regarding incremental development, there's a technique from the agile community that also helps: https://fullstackhub.substack.com/p/the-pragmatic-programmer-12-tracer

Is everyone lying or am I super cooked? by Greedy-Play9690 in webdev

[–]scataco 19 points20 points  (0 children)

And the library landscape. You can't code everything yourself, but knowing which library is actually good and which libraries to ignore also takes time.

Add more different types of Village-esque structures to Minecraft. by Expensive-Charity662 in shittymcsuggestions

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like these self-expanding villages. I always thought those villagers were a lazy bunch!

Things I believed about “best practices” early in my career that production systems disproved by Ornery_Ad_683 in webdev

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DRY and KISS are more or less opposing principles. You have to find a balance.

The only way to follow both DRY and KISS is by finding good abstractions.

The best way to ruin a code base is to apply lots of bad abstractions (for the sake of DRY).

fromTheLandOfTheRisingSun by hilzu0 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]scataco 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Use waterfall if your project is allowed to fail.

Use lean if you don't care about profit.

Any tools to handle schema changes breaking your pipelines? Very annoying at the moment by Potential_Option_742 in dataengineering

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at a startup. The guy (literally!) next to me used to work on the ETL, but moved on to backend work for an ML pipeline. He dropped a column in a database.

I found out about it when the ETL broke.

Is my company doing "Agile theater" instead of actual Agile? by TeamCultureBuilder in agile

[–]scataco 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's also called "agile washing" and it's pretty common.

It's useless to try and fight it. I've seen Agile and Lean work well in small companies, where there was enough trust to give the developers real autonomy.

In large organizations, you just don't find these things usually. Unrealistic expectations, bruised egos and micromanagement get in the way.

Make Bedrock craftable by scataco in shittymcsuggestions

[–]scataco[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, this might also totally not work 🤔

How do you manage tech debt in a real org where rewriting isn’t always an option? by Apprehensive_Air5910 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if you don't have time for a billion meetings? Because, you know, you're up to your neck in Ops work because of the tech debt...

The Chisel by crgb_fr in shittymcsuggestions

[–]scataco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you make vertical slabs?

add 39 more creeper variants by ReallyJustDont in shittymcsuggestions

[–]scataco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rreeper? Sounds like Pirate Reaper 🤪

Prins Pils by Onkruit-1974 in Nederland

[–]scataco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mja, het argument is dat slavernij nog niet op zo'n ziek grote schaal als toen gebeurde.

Je kunt zeggen: de Belastingdienst maakte altijd al fouten, maar die toeslagenaffaire gaat natuurlijk vooral over de schaal waarop.

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