leisesprecher

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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.

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no amount of documentation can save users from themselves in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

Our legacy system always puts the label in the water and our clients rely on the faint cardboard flavor.

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Damn it Salmo in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what's happening in highly complex software over time. Every larger system has corners like this.

I've worked on a system that required that you send invalid XML, because some bloke 10 years ago didn't know what he's doing and hardcoded a certain structure.

Easy fix, but our clients relied in the old behavior, and nobody bothered fixing it.

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