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"Hi Alphonse. What's up?" The gruff voice of Bob, Jerry's manager (or "master", as he called him), came from behind them. "Oh, I see Jerry is showing you how to
by wrs 16y ago
"Hi Alphonse. What's up?" The gruff voice of Bob, Jerry's manager (or "master", as he called him), came from behind them. "Oh, I see Jerry is showing you how to generate unnecessary String garbage and stack overflow exceptions. Wow, and in a simple word wrap function, too. Nice job, Jerry."
Alphonse was confused. "Bob, how do you know that? We didn't write tests for those things. I don't even know if you can write tests for them."
Bob looked at Alphonse with a sad expression. "Jerry, could I see you in my office--sorry, my 'dojo'--for a minute?"
- gaius 16y agoI'd have a great deal of difficulty in taking anyone seriously who called their office their "dojo". Or liked their direct reports to call them "master".
- adn37 16y agoI have no problem calling Sensei a particular great coder/architect. I even used to do it for the fun of it. But when it comes down to management asymmetric relationships, I do my best to avoid biasing it more ("master"). Could be a great way to practice office theater, though.
- gaius 16y agoIt's not healthy to consider oneself subordinate to ones manager. You're peers with different roles, that's all. He's more about the what, you're more about the how.
- wrs 16y agoJerry is the one making up all this martial arts nonsense...Bob is just humoring him.
- kleiba 16y agoAlso, too bad Alphonse didn't include a test such as: @Test public void stringContainsNewline() throws Exception { assertThat(wrap("ab\ncd e", 4), equalTo("ab\ncd e")); }