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Anon tries to figure out his coworker (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I used to curse to myself while reading code at work. Maybe I thought it demonstrated that I was really working; look how furrowed my brow is, how forceful and heated my mouse clicks!

After being enlightened however, I realize that the only perfectly implemented, bug-free code is no code at all. The app didn't ask to exist, certainly not in the state it's in. It too deserves the compassionate understanding that all beings suffer to exist.

Plus I work remotely now so no one can hear me yelling at the computer anyway!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Man I curse looking at my own shitty code.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure whatever gods created me cursed a hell of a lot while doing it. I know the surgeons did. And since I exist to suffer I give my code no such leniency like this SuFfEr TO exISt bullshit.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I guess I haven't ascended. I've been a SW dev for many years (def >10, probably 15 at this point), I lead a team, and I still curse to myself while working in our codebase. I think it's because I spend like half my time in meetings so I take half the technical work my reports do, so it bothers me more when I finally try to get something done.

Occasionally I'll rage-refactor something and submit a massive PR that fixes a bunch of annoying stuff (currently sitting on ~1k changes stashed), but I only send those in just after a release (don't want to get yelled at for missing a deadline). Or we'll take too long to make a decision on new dependency, so I'll just build it in an afternoon (just did that last week; 300-400 LOC).

I'm no rockstar dev, but I can crank out the work when sufficiently pissed off. Otherwise, I just coast a bit like the rest of the team. So if my boss wants me to be productive, he just needs to delay until I get fed up and just do it.