fibojoly @ fibojoly @sh.itjust.works

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For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who's mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He's ready to quit, just hasn't found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he's having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we're in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.

Meanwhile I'm just like "eh, sure it's not perfect but it ain't so bad. You should see the last place I was at!".

And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.

I can't wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview...

Shit sounds about right

With the hours I've spent flying my drone in Ghost Recon : Wildlands, I'm 0% surprised at the games skills IRL, nor their effectiveness on the battlefield. I'm just mighty curious at how easily spotted they are compared to the video game ones.

Only slightly related, but it's hilarious to hear my surgeon wife being told to start practising her gamepad handling skills on video games so she can better operate using the robot. Well, sweetheart, let me show you what more than thirty years of practice look like! :,D

Way too many of those morons survived though.

Maybe she was gonna ask ChatGPT to generate a blurb in the style of LinkedIn based on those?

Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?

How about get a mechanical keyboard with modified switches for your combining keys? I've been wanting to do that for mine for gaming.

That's true yeah. The seed of all the problems is assuming.

My teammates assumed System.DefaultEncoding must be some default value (UTF-8, they assumed, again) that would carry across all servers so no worries. Except no, it's "whatever encoding is configured on this machine as the default code page".
Which was the same across our networks, lucky them.
But for this one machine setup by an external contractor who had UTF-8 as default.
That one took me a while to track down...

In my experience things are fine while you work in a single environment, or you have control over the entire pipeline of data. Things quickly turn into a story from the Bible when different systems start trying to communicate.

You'd think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.

And yet for the last 17 years, every company I've been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it ("well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £").

How the fuck does that graph even works?! Shows the very left of the graph, then says you're in the top? Doesn't make any sense. Edit : clearly I belong in the top 85% too. I guess I confused % and percentile!

I wonder what he'll say when he realises what the French motto means. What a muppet.

That's a good tester.
In my experience coders usually make absolutely terrible testers, testing only for the most inane case, or just positive cases (ie, it does the nominal case without bursting into fire).

I kinda assumed it was more of a Prince of New York scenario, really.

But on the other hand, a huge company like Ubisoft not promoting their product is usually seen as a lack of faith in their product. So it's a vicious circle of promotion.

Also you could argue that these days, with the oversaturation of good games, you absolutely need to remind your Tik Tok generation players that you exist. Constantly.

Both are shitty reasons, but I think they are real factors nonetheless.

I keep telling my wife the auto functions in my A3 are like having a horse. Including the odd "oh I'm gonna brake for no reason because I got spooked, now".
I fucking love it!

That's an interesting and reasonable take.
I'm actually surprised you are not down voted to oblivion!

Amateur!

Imagine the overload on the systems as everyone rushes to do just that...

A lot of US companies have been happy to relocate to Ireland and enjoy the tax breaks. No reason not to continue, I'd say.