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> Wait, it's on production? What is this, Ender's Game? Great description of surprise push-to-production.
by facorreia 13y ago
> Wait, it's on production? What is this, Ender's Game?
Great description of surprise push-to-production.
- kazagistar 13y agoSo much so that I feel the birth of a new slang expression.
- mathattack 13y agoDoes this make Facebook the ultimate expression of Ender's Game?
- lucianomt 13y agoI actually LOL'd, which is rare.
- pc86 13y agoTelling us about it should be even more rare :)
- dylangs1030 13y agoIt's like something out of a hacker action flick. "You have 60 minutes to code a security patch for a vulnerable payment processing app." "Congratulations, you shipped to a million people and saved the company from hackers." I laughed pretty hard at that, and the "aggressive integration bit"...I'd probably leave if a company decided to ship something I coded in an hour in an interview.
- jzwinck 13y agoThis happened to me once, as in my first month at a new job, I came in one day to find I had caused a bug in production. But I hadn't deployed any software! It turned out that the department had carefully orchestrated a system whereby all checked-in code would move automatically to alpha the next day, then beta, then production the next week. But nobody told me. A manager there later told me, "If the code we write is strong enough, it does not need to be released--it will escape." And the student understood.
- enry_straker 13y agoWhat did you understand? - That the manager decides what gets pushed into production? - That the manager decides not to inform the programmers concerned? - That you have a clown for a manager? - That it's probably time to quit the company?
- jackmaney 13y agoI imagine that the answer would be "Yes".
- infinite8s 13y agoWas this at a company owned by the richest man in NYC?