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[–] jnk 266 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That screams: Open you source code and accepted correction !

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It screams made-up internet story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It screams both!

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year 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] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why would they do that? Talk about generating mistrust.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may not be malice. Incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are going to “accidentally” remove a fix?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

By not understanding how version control works. I've worked at places that had a surprising number of developers who would just merge things in ways that drop code from other developers.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Calm down, Satan

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (4 children)

Sounds like you should find a new product to use.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What's the product and what's the field?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Soda and soda accessories.

I'm a Bev tech, there's two companies that make bar guns, tapright and multiplex aka wunderbar. There's more options for fountain dispensing but most of my work is bars and restaurants.

Also AMA about soda dispensing at bars.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year 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] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i will never forgive the emby team for creating the single most idiotic (although rather funny) transcoding system.

It has a resolution selection, along with a bitrate selection, so you would think it forces transcoding.

It turns out the resolution is actually just a suggestion, and the bitrate is what it targets, if it doesn't meet the bitrate, it will transcode, and if you get lucky, it might transcode to the specified resolution.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

sure they do, you're one of them

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they test them...

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, they're called "customers".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sometimes no.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 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 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thems the brakes

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (4 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 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

this is the first real 100x developer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

That happened.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Repost #357

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

this is why open source?

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