@butreallywhy Going really good. I left the company.

Good idea. Please create a Jira ticket for that, and reserve a meeting. You'll be put into a task force that will dig deeper into this matter. You need to create a plan and a schedule estimate, and then report twice per week to 3 different people.

Code reviews are a piece of shit. You send an invitation to a bunch of people, nobody really reads the code, they don't leave comments before the meeting, and then they whine about things that they would've done differently. Like "why didn't you do it like that", well because I did it this way, "yeah well I like to do it that what", yeah well I do it this way, "yeah but still why'd you do it", I did it because it was ok in the last review, "yeah well now I changed my mind, I don't like like it".

And you have to invite like half a dozen people into the review. Most are guys whos code nobody has reviewed. Their own code is horseshit. But yet they show up to give their opinions on how things should be done.

Note that working with a 10% salary usually also means that the general prices in your country are 10% of what they are elsewhere. So even if you move and double your wages your living expenses will skyrocket too.

Ordinary developers aren't usually rolling in cash anywhere. Sure we (usually) make better living than people doing manual labor though.

Are they building people profiling into the kernel? Cool.

Maybe you can buy a plug-in from Atlassian that fixes this. That seems to be their business model.

@AtuM , people like to complain about the version control all the time. But when you change to a new one, the same guys are reminiscing with tears in their eys the good ol' system they used to have just few weeks ago.

I remember one manager telling people to zip the code before committing to SVN. Saves space you know. Smart man, business brain.

One colleague always checked stuff out of SVN/GIT/etc and copied it into separate folders called v1, v2, v3, v2_tmp, v2_tmp2 etc. He made changes in all of the folders and always just copied the files back to that one single SVN checkout folder to check files in. He told me that's how he's always done it and it's practical.

Don't even get me started about that one guy that had 35 xterms open at the desktop. He never closed a single one, since he might need it one day!!

The most spoken language today in the world is bad English.

So, how does it feel to be a Brit/American when everyone in a conf call finds you difficult to understand? "Sory Joon Smit, kan you pliis repeat, we don't can't understand you". Meanwhile everyone is happy with the other guys from India, China and France :D

I knew one guy who always wrote "New commit" as a commit message.

I told him that he's a retarded asshole. He didn't understand why. "But this is a new commit...right?!"

Is there coffee served? Some pastry as well perhaps?

So what will they do? Not allow year to change? New year in February?

Uuuuuh...You went and poked at linux. Now face the wrath of the mighty unix men.

WTF?! I just tried to add numbers to headings/chapters in Confluence. The turd offers a trial period for a plugin, and then you need to pay money.

For section numbering?

Really?

@NEMESISprj , note, that every plugins makes Jira slower and slower. If you add Jira-links to Confluence, it makes even Confluence slower.

So that's where the juice comes from!

We hired an ex-con, who'd been in jail multiple times for burglary and theft. Everyone deserves another chance!

The guy stole my laptop and disappeared.

Jira is one of those systems, where no problem can be solved without buying plugins.

At first it feels great. And then it's all downhill from there. Complex? Yep. Difficult to create Tasks? Yep. Great for managers to create meaningless items for everyone? Yep. Graveyard of old tasks? Yep. A wet dream for wackos who want to add 50 custom fields because "our company is so unique"? Yep.

Luckily it's usually combined with Confluence. That's the intranet-thing that sorts its pages alphabetically instead of some logical order. Also usefull if you want to create 1000 pages that nobody updates.

It seems that you need to click View-tab and then click frm Layout "Use Tighter Spacing" to get back the tight view.

So, it's nice that updates just ignore you previous setup and overwrite them with their own. I am supprised that it didn't force me that stupid "focused" email view this time...

@qwwerty , Had to check. I was already "compact" :(

Ok, one could use some other email client. But then there's the calendar, creating meetings with Teams invites etc. Microsoft has managed to secure their positin...

They should just open the protocols to everyone and let people do their own clients.

"Giant spider season" made me think about LotR and Mordor. Definetly wouldn't leave window open. Or leave the house without invisibility cloak - or Sting the dagger.

@electrineer , exactly.

I was forced with the Outlook update. I didn't need any new features, but now there's extra space between emails in the list. I see less emails now, than I used to. Why? How do I get rid of it? What's the magic hidden option?

How come Thunderbird made tree sorting of emails work 20 years ago, but Outlook still has no clue how to do it?

It's universal thing. Well, except US and England.

These teachers and professors are men from 1980's. Science was done locally, so local words were used. They still don't use internet. They use World Wide Web.

They don't use words like "bit" or "byte". They'll say "two-state minimal information storage unit". And if the student is completely confused after the class, they win. They are superior intellectuals.

"I think" people are weak fucks. "I think, but I could be wrong, I am sorry and I apologize for my thoughts but I believe...."

Just buy a skirt.

I only state facts. And sentences are not started with "The fact is...", since people already know it's a fact.

So, if someone asks "Do you think this code is good?", you state "It's shit". And that's it. Not an opinion. A fact.

If I was the original poster, I would actually start from using PUNCTUATION.

@iamai , yeah but it missing like Moscow and stuff. Just black hole there and Barents sea is reaching Kazakhstan :D

I still dress up like that.

@zombie , where's half of Sovie...Russia?

You just need to fake cough while farting. Though there is a risk if it's a wet one.

@devJs , I think there's a difference between the workflow and the actual code that is being written. The code for sure needs to follow common practices etc, but touching peoples way of doing is risky business.

I am now talking about the way the tools are used. Which editors, what setups and so on. Also version controlling goes under this category. Sometimes you have a version controlling system that has been used for certain way for long time, and then there's someone who wants to suddenly add checkin-hooks to check that commit messages are in certain form. And the guy has himself come up with the "rules" based on what he himself wants to see. Ignoring everyone else. So basically everybody else needs to "streamline" their ways to fit one guys mood.