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> About the only thing that annoys me at work is people trying to deny responsibility for their actions (or lack of them.) Someone once said "There is a differ
by vb6sp6 6y ago
> About the only thing that annoys me at work is people trying to deny responsibility for their actions (or lack of them.)
Someone once said "There is a difference between 10 years of experience and 1 year of experience 10 times". The best developers I know always take responsibility and try to do better.
- ignoramous 6y agoThe point being made is how bugs invoke an automatic admission of guilt in developers, and absence of which shouldn't be seen as not taking responsibility, especially when tranches and layers in the system (built over the years, say) could have made the entire debugging and development process cumbersome, uneasy, unconventional, unyielding, dense, exhausting, and frustrating. Taking responsibility might involve any among: - documenting the behaviour for future maintainers. - writing tests. - identifying and pushing the management to fix technical debts. - digging up the root-cause to fix deeper flaws, if any. - advocating for saner development and deployment practices. - ...