@spongessuck high horse is best horse

@deMark sadly very easy to fake. If you are making a web api for example just write a test that calls one of the api methods then mock nothing in the test except the database, and no asserts in the test at all. And voila, free coverage without actually covering anything.
I have seen so many of those over my years, and very little to no interest from the people that made them to fix them.

@deMark doesn't really work sadly if people don't learn to enjoy improving quality. I have seen lots of people go to extreme lengths to cheat the quality metric tools to stop flagging their changes.

@missingh96 sorry to break it to you like this, but... You're a dev.

Resharper cleanup

Chocolate is the Hello World of cooking. Pretty near impossible to fail at.
Make some delicious broccoli and sauerkraut cookies and we'll see.

You all do know that tech is pretty hard to restore after you submerge it in sea water right?

@h3ll Thanks! You can count on it 😁

My girlfriend used to call it royter. We almost broke up.

@DreiAugenFrosch I dare say: No it bloody well does not! :)

Is anything ever worth that much suffering?

My lovely 486 33mhz with 2MB ram, no cd-rom or sound card.
Magical. Windows 3.1 but mostly DOS for gaming.

Gaming optimized boot floppies anyone?

Always push to your feature branch.
Never merge to master on Friday afternoon; I will haunt your dreams.

Microsoft loves penguin genitalia? :o

@JS96 By that same reasoning a developer should never make unit tests. Or test the code manually. Or let someone review it. Or use a linter. Or check that it compiles before pushing the commits.

@penderis Bad mouthing the job/boss can backfire hard and make you seem unprofessional. Which is why that is one of the giant faux pas at job interviews.

I can only agree with @L33tCh.
Had the original Pebble a couple of years ago, but figured the grass was greener and all that. So got an android wear watch, but the battery life and that you either need to manually turn the screen on, wait a heart beat too long for the screen to turn on automatically or be a shining lcd display beacon for the world if you always have the display on.
E-ink is just wonderful imo.
So I got a Pebble Time Steel and has been quite satisfied since.
Though for me the only things I get from my smartwatch is the time and my notifications, so I don't have to waste time taking out my phone for some random notification that isn't really important.
For me personally that's well worth it.
Changing songs etc with the watch probably works just fine as well (I'm one of those freaky people that survive just fine without music).

Agile or waterfall?

Tastes like tarmac.
Drink it anyway.
Because monday-friday.

So strange this kind of thing is so common and seems to apply in all countries.

I have started analysing the job ads from my own company and figure out the true meaning of the nice sounding words they use. Might help me avoid the same problem in the future.

Takes initiative = We can't prioritize important stuff
Social = Stupid amounts of meetings and/or office politics
Good problem solver = Our code is shit
Agile = Scope creep and constantly changing goals

I don't buy it! There's always a catch. Is Bing the search dialog now?

Those darn truckers

@brucecantarim ++ for taking it too far. That's what a true dev does, without fail.

@dhux Awesome :)

@dhux If you want them to succeed you need to figure out a way to tell them the truth, especially if you think they might actually care.

In my case I resigned a month ago from a place which also has horrible management. They don't care since I have been quite the critical voice in the office about our issues, which obviously hasn't helped at all. So they chose to assume I am quitting solely for the reason that I got offered a position at a place I always wanted to work for. So I let them think that.

I have this issue every other week.
Spend a full day with our python build scripts and then when I go back to C# the next day it takes a whole damn day of compiler errors to reteach the brain to add the semicolons back again.

As in good sugar coated reasons or real ones?
"Horrible management" is frequently the top contender for why people actually quit.

Black magic of the worst sort!