happychappy

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by happychappy 10y ago
I do see your point, yes. The contract is formal for a reason. I'm being far too fuzzy, my team probably don't know what they're supposed to do in the case of an emergency, so log in out of a mixture of curiosity and apprehen
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by happychappy 10y ago
"I think at the very least we can agree that it is the employee's job to inform their superiors of feature creep, looming technical debt, and whatever bad practices they see. " Yes, please yes. This is really where 1-1s come
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by happychappy 10y ago
Okay, I see. I will talk to my team on Monday and ask their opinion. For the record, I don't agree that life is as black and white as the first sentence. There are plenty of symptoms which "could" be serious issues, but after
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by happychappy 10y ago
Honestly, I'm talking about problems that I'm sure are actually affecting the core business. Anything trivial I'll deflect long before I talk to an engineer This is all something of a moot point. Looking back through my diary
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by happychappy 10y ago
"I shouldn't be able to get shitty code into production" Seriously? My job is to watch over your shoulder and double-check everything you do? No, there's more to life than this.
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by happychappy 10y ago
I phrased that wrong, but I'm not sure how else to phrase it. I suspect we violently agree, but if you want to take this offline I think my email is in my profile I have a remote team, spread across the western seaboard of the US. I do
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by happychappy 10y ago
The wonders of missing context :) Its not mission critical or life-threatening. I know this, my team knows this, but someone up in the food chain is going to want blood for any serious outage. I'm perfectly happy to shed blood for my t
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by happychappy 10y ago
As a manager: If your code blows up in production on a Saturday afternoon, and you don't answer email/skype/phone, you've effectively left me in the shit. I know thats my job, and I will deal with it and survive, but you
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by happychappy 10y ago
If you could separate the inbound traffic to either the website or the API, then you could do this. You'd need something in front of the code you're deploying though My team has a 500k monolith written in java 1.6. I don't re
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by happychappy 10y ago
Assign bug to me... Fix bug in 20 minutes... wait 3 days (binge watching netflix)... Commit fix, mark bug as fixed... Relying too much on commits / tracking tools is a red flag of poor management. If any of my team reported "still