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[–] [email protected] 251 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everything is open source for this guy after using this simple trick. Big techs HATE him!

[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Imagine getting a big enough resume to get jobs at any company just so you can do this one neat little trick.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (3 children)

NGL I apply to places where I use the software. But it's not one thing, it's a dozen things I would fix.

I actually never successfully got the job. Probably because during the interview, I come off like a rambling psychopath pointing out extremely specific things.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

More like source available, since you can’t use the code in your stuff without the permission of the company 🤓

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That screams: Open you source code and accepted correction !

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It screams made-up internet story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It screams both!

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Let the patch be part of the code for one or two minor releases. Then revert the changes of the patch.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why would they do that? Talk about generating mistrust.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (10 children)

It may not be malice. Incompetence.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Calm down, Satan

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

inb4 they wait until his last day then roll back the changes because functional code/unauthorized changes are against company policy and actually they need that bug to slow down the user so they don't click so fast the database crashes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Oh, you cynical (and probably right) monster. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Always love this one, I'd do the same but there's to many fucking things to fix.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like you should find a new product to use.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I would but due to capitalism there's not much of a choice in products.

I hate when companies just eat an entire industry.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (9 children)

It seems like I'm constantly finding bugs in businesses' apps. Do they not have people test them?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (7 children)

They do, and they have a backlog of hundreds of issues to fix and they must prioritise then. If fixing a bug doesn't make money, it's not priority.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

I deal with this every day. It hurts me to my core.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I hate how they'll spend 4 years squashing all the bugs.........and then they cancel the software, and release a new buggy version.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

sure they do, you're one of them

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

As someone in the dev team for a "business app", we probably know about most or all of them, but they're just not important enough for anyone in management to prioritize them as part of a sprint. It's also possible no one has given us reproducible steps to make them happen, so we just straight up don't know what to fix. Usually the former though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

they test them...

Whether they do anything with that testing is another story,.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would fix that bug but the complete rewrite that management has had me working on for the past two years will make it obsolete anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Sometimes no.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Reminds me of when my breaks started failing on my 1990 Chrysler LeBaron so I got a job at a break repair place long enough to fix them then I quit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

those bits on a car are called "brakes". When a brake breaks, it's a broken brake and needs to be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Thank you. That's one of my little pet peeves I see online; that and when people are trying to say lose but type loose.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

"if it ain't brakes, we don't fix it"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think "breaks" is appropriate if you own a Chrysler.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol, ya it was the breaks that I was too broke to afford brakes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Thems the brakes

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bro that reminds me when I was in university and I used to tutor fellow students with the goal of getting laid. As soon as I got laid I stopped tutoring. Now unfortunately I'm married and have kids because of that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He tutored girls with the hopes of getting laid, but then when he did, it turns out he liked her and settled down with her and is now married to her.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Ohhhh for some reason my mind went to him trying to tutor other dudes to help them with women. Was very confused.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's an excellent tactic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

He finally won the war after so many battles.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

this is the first real 100x developer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

That happened.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ESR: "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Repost #357

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

this is why open source?

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