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everyone who's sensitive should leave the industry? ...you don't actually work in this industry, do you? someone made something and gave it away for free. any

• xerox13ster 1mo ago
  ......But why would I fork a stack I want nothing to do with and is the wrong stack for the domain? I mean, not everyone who's sensitive, but certainly anyone who can't stand another engineer pointing out poor technology decisions. If they're going to be ego babies about it instead of taking the feedback humbly and making their product better, then yeah maybe they should leave the industry. I've worked with people like this before and they don't belong in the industry. Idiots that don't even take the time (and perhaps aren't capable of the empathy required) to consider the end users and are personally attacked when confronted with the end users' needs. One guy I worked with implemented a parts picker as a Python CLI app (a ~1500-line-main if-then-else monstrosity with no back navigation, so closing it was the only way to go back) built and apparently only tested on a Windows 10 PC. During the demo he mentioned that technicians could copy the part number for entry in another form by pressing Ctrl+C. I asked why he would choose to implement copy in a tech floor CLI app using ctrl+c when all the Technician's PCs were Windows 7 based and that would close the application. He handwaved it away. This was a guy who had been promoted from technician. He knew what the functional and technical requirements were. Two weeks later, a more senior member of one of the tech teams was having full drive issues. I ran windirstat and found that the idiot's python app was storing 500MB of temp python runtime bullshit in the AppData folder in folders named as random hashes on every run, and they weren't deleting. This elder Gen X gentleman didn't understand why Ctrl+C as he was told to do was closing the app instead of copying text and kept relaunching it until it his drive was full. But the whole tech floor shared computers in shifts, meaning that IT was gonna have to come and reimage every machine every 90 days. I did the math. I submitted this problem to him as a formal bug report with a proposed solution, and I was written up for personally attacking him. He later went on to fuck up timestamps in a database so badly that there was no recovering it, he took no backups, and 4 technicians spent weeks of man hours manually re-recording the data in the database and he set the launch of a device recycling program that would have saved the company millions back for several months. It was supposed to launch in April. He nuked the database in March. When I left the company in August, that shit still hadn't launched. He affected the company's share price with his crybaby sensitive ego. So yeah, I think if anyone is so sensitive that they can't take real technical feedback like "don't use wasteful runtimes for CLI applications" it's indicative of a real mindset problem that will infect all other aspects of their work and interactions with technology, and they should consider leaving the industry or humbling themselves and learning how to take feedback and build better.