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Even if I have never had this sort of Content Addressable Function "solution" I can still relate very much to this story. A story consisting of $NEW_PERSON ente
by haddr 10y ago
Even if I have never had this sort of Content Addressable Function "solution" I can still relate very much to this story. A story consisting of $NEW_PERSON entering some huge existing project, with $NULL_AMOUNT of documentation, where there is some established "hegemony" of some inaccessible $GENIUS, with $ZERO_AMOUNT of help and support, where bosses will likely to $YELL or otherwise treat you as a problem, where every move is very fragile and often leads to $CONFLICT... I surprises me how archetypical is this.
It is this moment when you search for the big red lever with sign: "EJECT!!!"
- RobertKerans 10y agoThis is literally what I'm doing atm, on my first non-basic-bigfixing issue at a new company. Something that should have take two days has taken three, going on four weeks, I feel like a shitbag fraud for not polishing it off in two days (due to.pain time refactoring and seperating concerns). Noone can give me advice because <particular deity> left the company, and anyway they're rebuilding everything in <internal JS framework with no external deps>, but this critical feature needs to be done in place. Been in this situation before as well, thought I'd managed to escape...