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> It's like hiring a plumber then trying to tell them how to fix the toilet. I never faced or witnessed that in software dev.
by begueradj 10mo ago
> It's like hiring a plumber then trying to tell them how to fix the toilet.
I never faced or witnessed that in software dev.
- satisfice 10mo agoUs testers have been dealing with that crap forever. Every non-tester thinks they know how a professional tester should work, and imagines our work is just writing test cases.
- begueradj 10mo agoBy non testers, do you mean developers/UI designers and such ?
- technion 10mo agoThere are multiple stories of public facing applications with Microsoft active directory as the source of user accounts that speak to the worst examples of this. I was involved in such an attempt but it never got off the ground.
- theshrike79 10mo agoI once had to give my non-technical boss Frontpage and told him to make the fucking login page himself because nothing I did matched his exact wishes. The result was a piece of shit, but it was his piece of shit and he loved it.
- DANmode 10mo agoThis is an awesome comment. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes – I can’t wait for the modern versions of this.
- j45 10mo agoIf you haven't faced or witnessed it, it is a moment that you will not forget, and then over time little by little, realize it might not be so uncommon. We don't have to seek it out, it finds us.