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by dvh 1718 days ago
Boss: "Hey Bob! People started spamming one of our boards, we are currently busy doing other things and cannot deploy new client, can you make filter with these 3 words and deploy it ASAP?"

Bob: "Sure no problem if it's only temporary"

--few months later

Chief architect:

"People are spamming more and more, we should design new system for these 234 new bad words, I need team of 7, two backend guys, 5 frontend guys and 4 weeks. It will also require minor rewrite of few external components."

Boss: "geez we're in the middle of sprint right now, Bob can you add these 234 words to existing filter? Make sure it's in production before lunch, thanks" (checks watches) "I have to go now, meeting with customer, bye".