I am looking for my travel pill bottle, and realizing it's suffering from "I will put my special stuff in a special place so I don't lose it... shit I forgot the special place."
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I am "Hasufin" on every platform I can get my hands on. I have been "Hasufin" for 30 years now. I am very serious about coffee, I love archaeology and Japanese art. Was a tech guy in a previous life, but am now adjacent.
I am looking for my travel pill bottle, and realizing it's suffering from "I will put my special stuff in a special place so I don't lose it... shit I forgot the special place."
It's like, you get a note saying "Right front tire needs replaced" and look out on a parking lot with hundreds of cars. You ask "Sure. Which car?" and they reply "Um, like, THE car. With the right front tire. What the hell, man?"
I have now learned that a lot of the developers who work on our REST API (which has nearly 1000 endpoints) are only aware of the single endpoint they are working on, so when I ask "Which endpoint?" they are confused and unable to answer because my question makes no sense to them. This has been an endless source of frustration to me.
Dev: This bug is about filtering on this one field. It affects all endpoints.
Me: Are you SURE? That field is only on a few endpoints, most don't have that field.
Dev: Yes, every computer making this query will be affected, it's all endpoints.
Me: Do you know what an endpoint is?
Me: Are you SURE? That field is only on a few endpoints, most don't have that field.
Dev: Yes, every computer making this query will be affected, it's all endpoints.
Me: Do you know what an endpoint is?
If your service has an account which you reasonably expect people to only log in once a year (e.g., the DMV) but you've got password expiration at less than a year, you functionally don't have passwords anyway, users will always need to go through the account recovery process.
There's nothing quite like the panicked look on a developer's face when you say "I don't know anything about how this works, so I'm going to trust your judgment on this description."
You'd THINK it would make them happy, but they were really hoping Someone Else would take responsibility.
You'd THINK it would make them happy, but they were really hoping Someone Else would take responsibility.
Me, to a developer: *I* can screw up the config.json to the point the entire site goes down. *You* can write a parser to use that file to create a working website. We are not the same.
Moderately annoyed that the delivery place gave me strawberry jam when I ordered pickled beets. I understand the mistake: they're in the same kind of jar and the labels are super similar. But I did want beets.
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