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> Huh, that's some softball right there! The worst I've seen is 7 months! That's the special kind of impressive. > Doesn't that contradict the USB process? Ot
by dcminter 4y ago
> Huh, that's some softball right there! The worst I've seen is 7 months!
That's the special kind of impressive.
> Doesn't that contradict the USB process? Otherwise that's 'standard'
Yeah, I thought I might not have made that clear. They were allowed to copy files onto the laptops, just not off them.
So with the wild cut&paste integration situation it meant that none of the actual developers could be aligned with the code that was actually being compiled because we could never update to the master copy.
The moment I realised that the terrible PM was doing diff by eye instead of, you know, using the diff tool, was when I should have walked away. I stuck it out way too long in retrospect.
- cmeacham98 4y agoHow did you ever get the codebase in the first place to work on? Or was your part writing something completely from scratch?
- dcminter 4y agoIntegrating a (third party) white label product into the enterprise's existing system. So from scratch effectively. And yes, not having any access to the system with which we were supposed to be integrating it was also a problem...