"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.
I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months
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I've seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.
Are we still talking about code?
Wait, you guys were talking about code?
Because that's how you get phrasing
nsfw Kenneth Williams
Amen…
Used properly, repairing pretty much anything with a sledgehammer will ensure it'll never break again.
What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?
Tech CEO
A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.
Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.
It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"
One of those is Amazon prior to chatgpt, the other is Amazon a few weeks back.
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Day off while they prepare to fire you, maybe
Not deploying the backend doesn't make it a day off.
The coworker probably got the message right and knows about some integration problem the poster doesn't know about.
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In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.
Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring
that's exactly why we have mandatory code reviews now...
Do it and I destroy your backend.
Have you dropping tables like you're Mankind in 1999.
I'll remember to keep that for the first nice day in Spring.
"Today"is a Friday before public holidays
I'm about to head out the door may as well do a quick system upgrade.
WhatsApp for business communications? Jesus
Whatapp is for business, and signal is for official government communication
Both are quite secure but neither of them stop an idiot on one end or the other from sharing the contents with the public.
whatsapp is closed source and meta owned. i think it's incredibly foolish to trust that it has no backdoors built in.
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I always find it funny how many people fail to understand the "end to end" part of end to end encryption.
If your endpoint isn't secure then the messages aren't.
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Works better than Teams.
Probably has better privacy and confidentiality options too.
There's "WhatsApp for Business" & "WhatsApp Business Solutions".
Catch-up, grandpa!
I'm aware the technologies exist - I can't fathom wanting my sensitive communications served by meta.
Also, grandma* - my pronouns are right there.
Hey, just so you’re aware I’m reading this in Voyager and it does not display your pronouns like the web UI does.
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I think those are for sales, like b2c advertising. Not for how your business talks to each other internally to destroy databases.
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Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!
I worked with someone who used them as "thank you".
it was....a challenge.
What's wrong with that? It's a common gesture for thanks in many places irl... that's the first thing i think when I see that emoji, and I'm from a western culture...
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They beg you like they beg god for something for free.
Namaste🙏
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"Alright, I need all of the leads on this call to confirm: go, or no go."
"Go."
"Go."
"Let 'er rip!"
"Hold up--"
Confused the "deploy to PROD" with "deploy to staging" again huh?
Oh, look at Mr Many Environments here, he's too good to test on prod like the rest of us do.
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I felt that in my gut.
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