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It seems in the context of your story the old adage that organizations reproduce software in their own architecture again rings true, with multilayered bureaucr

• giancarlostoro 2y ago
  When I tried to explain to him that I fixed the thing he claimed to have fixed, I heard him hesitantly say it wasn't the same bug. Not sure what he told his boss this time around the fix was for, but I was able to fully reproduce the bug with this fix. If you can't reproduce a bug, you cannot in my opinion say that it is fixed. If you have to reproduce it via local debugging and changing a value, or hard coding a value, I think you're possibly close, but there's a chance it might not be the case!
  • hinkley 2y ago
    The thing with saying “I don’t know” is if you use it judiciously, people believe you more when you say you can do something they think can’t be done. If he didn’t know he would just say. But he says he does.
    • giancarlostoro 2y ago
      He just did not want to keep his boss waiting longer than a week without a "solution" so he forced something to wash his hands of it.