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by britch
196 days ago
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What do you mean by basic level of quality? What are you being pressured to do to meet a deadline that's on the level of building collapse? "skimp on the tests" or "do this hard to maintain fix as the solution" is maybe the hardest I've gotten pushed. Are people telling you to skip auth to hit a deadline? |
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"We understand and recognize that this feature we asked of you absolutely cannot be done without the database denormalization you warned us is necessary several weeks ago, but we are still unhappy with you that you couldn't make it work without it and so we are ending our cooperation."
Consider yourself privileged.
I do all sorts of root-cause analyses and I don't sit to code until I am reasonably sure I'll make a positive impact. Long gone are the days when I started coding enthusiastically after hearing just two sentences.
It was still not enough.
I'll not start a flame war -- too tired for it -- but let us just say that some stereotypes exist for a reason.