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Midnight-shcode
4y

procrastinating by getting drunk since 11:00 AM, and writing specs for my (hypothetical) language/os/platform.

feeling righteous retribution because the client made me be stressed for 3 hours due to an issue that THEY caused but for 3 hours the only info I had was "there's a critical blocker issue and we're convinced YOU caused it"

well... no... i did NOT cause the fact that you UPGRADED PHP DURING THE WEEKEND BEFORE MONDAY'S PRESENTATION TO CLIENT (while waiting for an urgent commit from me).

seriously.

also, germans. i've heard many times from other people that they're... basically racist towards us (slavic nations), thinking of us as untermensch, coal-miner peons, but I didn't realize their passive-aggressive covertly smug demanding attitude is due to this, I just assumed it's a reaction to me being incompetent.

so yesterday when we finished the call (in preparation for which I tried to switch to their "client demonstration" branch since that's where the error was, and I wanted a headstart on fixing it, ended up in a place that my today's whole-day task should be "rebuilding the DB into working condition", because there's about 10 "core" sql scripts in two different folders, which need to be run (in a very specific order, of course, which readme tells you, but what it tells you has been outdated at least for 3 months, of course), and

...THE MAIN CORE SCRIPT THAT IS THE FIRST TO RUN, THAT CREATES THE DB schema, HAS THREE SYNTAX-LEVEL typos which fail it mid-way...

...the joys of continuous deployment via scripts, I guess? I would love to challenge any person from them to screenshare to me, manual deployment of the current version from zero, and I would be willing to give the person 20% of my monthly salary if they would be able to do it within 20 minutes.

but... well...
the point is, i should be doing not entirely bullshit stuff.
but yesterday's 6 hours of being in "at full attention because it seems we fucked up" totally convinced me, that today I'm taking a break.

So I'm gonna go buy another 3 beers and continue writing the specs of my dream language/os/platform.

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  • 1
    4y
    "well... no... i did NOT cause the fact that you UPGRADED PHP DURING THE WEEKEND BEFORE MONDAY'S PRESENTATION TO CLIENT (while waiting for an urgent commit from me)."

    ...and it was a substantial enough upgrade that it made some functions that i used deprecated so they started throwing errors
  • 1
    4y
    Thanks for bashing my people lol
  • 1
    4y
    also, any low-level person in here who would be willing to give me a bit more direct communication channel to themselves (discord?) who would be willing to chat with a pretty big noob about language/platform/hardware design considerations and stuff?

    because the main reason I'm starting to mention that hobby project so much in here is that I would love to have someone (ideally much more learned and skilled in these areas) to bounce ideas off of, but... I don't. so me gradually starting to flood devrant with this stuff is an attempt to cope.
  • 0
    4y
    @Midnight-shcode well, we have an inofficial discord server
  • 0
    4y
    @Ranchonyx
    "Thanks for bashing my people lol"

    oh god, you have no idea how this scared me at first, since my nick here is... basically findable (yeah, huge mistake, using almost the same nick as what I use to officially identify myself as), so recently I've had these conundrums whether I can write these things here safely or not...

    it took me a while to realize you're talking about the nationality, and not company.

    oh, and you're welcome. not my (NOR YOURS) fault your people seem to have some 98% inheritable gene for feeling racially or at least socially superior to everyone else...
  • 0
    4y
    @Ranchonyx
    discord server: link/invite pls?
  • 4
    4y
    Maybe it's not because you're Slavic, but rather because you're a PHP dev. ^^
  • 1
    4y
    @Midnight-shcode https://devrant.com/collabs/...
  • 3
    4y
    @Fast-Nop
    I'm not a php dev anymore, they are.

    I'm a c#/unity dev, who is doing this project just to help out the dude who's employing me and seems to be awesome, and needed someone for this shit project (which he himself kinda warned it shit), and I'm doing it just because it's needed right now, but as soon as this project ends, I am going on a proper c#/unity one, hopefully, because that outlook is the only reason why i'm still putting up with this php/html/ts bullshit webstack.
  • 1
    4y
    @Fast-Nop
    thank you :)
  • 1
    4y
    @Midnight-shcode hmm i wish you luck and much strength to get through that project. Every project has an end luckily. And for the germans, they're very straightforward in saying what they want. They can get loud if they don't get what they want. To quarrel is their way to solve problems. 🙂
  • 3
    4y
    In my experience Germans and computers don't mix very well. For example, they're only now starting to adapt patterns and tools that have been a standard practice in tech industry for 10 years and more, and they're going crazy hiring people from Eastern Europe and Asia, because their own people simply don't have the knowledge and experience. And I mean seriously crazy, they offer everything including a proper flat and a company car as long as you worked with these things on a mid-senior level and are willing to move to Germany.
  • 1
    4y
    TIL Germans think of Slavs the same way I think of the South...
  • 2
    4y
    Germans are not racist, they just live in a different era where bullying and border-line racism were acceptable behaviors.

    Specially in the B2B sphere.
  • 2
    4y
    @mundo03 It's also that the German level of bluntness counts as outright rudity in most other countries except the Netherlands.
  • 1
    4y
    @Fast-Nop that is true!
    I work for a german company, but I am remote, and the majority of people are not German too.

    But I have had colleagues that are blunt and talk angry most of the time.
  • 1
    4y
    @hitko Another factor is that big German companies don't hire themselves, but indirectly via German contractor (staff lending) companies who interpose themselves as leeches between the dev and the big company.

    The result? You're second class staff, get second class pay, and if the project is over, you'll be gone. Your staffing company will either fire you or use the "here's a project at the other end of the country, haha" trick.

    Qualified German devs don't really like that outlook, which is why big German companies are touting the "dev shortage" horn.
  • 0
    4y
    @Fast-Nop to me, their way of communication feels like a strange dynamic mix of passive-aggressive condescention and occasional gracious patronizing.
  • 0
    4y
    @Midnight-shcode Large company?
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