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work shut down for the christmas-new years week, I took the preceding week off, I have no idea how anything went because I refuse to open teams 
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We had the last two weeks declared meetings-free. That's going to be tough to come back from.
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Jan 3, 2021 19:59
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Personally I took every Friday off for November and December which I enjoyed mightily.
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Jan 3, 2021 20:01
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Every year, my company decides to move all the "floating" holidays to the week between Christmas and New Year's, then not give us New Year's Eve off, so everybody has to use some sort of paid leave or take it unpaid. "Fortunately", since we're all on 10% furlough, we can all just take that day as our furlough day for the pay period. There was a time, years ago, were I might have had the urge to peek at my emails during a break like this, but an added benefit of two-factor authentication is that it's just obnoxious enough to log in that it quashed any lingering desire to do so.
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Jan 3, 2021 22:31
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We had fridays off over the summer and I also loved it, I need to figure out how I can get down to four-day weeks forever. However I'm not working 4 10s... I think ideally I want to work four sixes. Gonna be tough to pitch that. I really like my job but I really don't want to go back to work tomorrow, it just takes up so much of my time.
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Jan 3, 2021 22:32
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smackfu posted:Personally I took every Friday off for November and December which I enjoyed mightily. Same. Did the math and figured out exactly which week I could start doing that and still keep max banked time. Of one whole week 🙄, but if I don't change jobs that means I could take five weeks this year.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:13
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At my current employer, more than one engineering manager who has written software central to our business has said "I'm terrible at writing documentation, so just ask me whatever you want and write that down" instead of writing documentation. They act like this is a friendly offer and not shirking off a serious duty. This is totally unacceptable, right? Or am I just upright? For what it's worth, all of my internal repos have a readme that at least describes what a tool does, how to build it, and gives a few examples.
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Jan 7, 2021 03:02
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call them out in a public slack channel and point them to a repo with docs and ask if they can copy the same format. gently caress that devs who do half their job should never get promoted above mid. reminds me of the one “senior” dev we have on our team who does 0 PR review
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Jan 7, 2021 03:07
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That's not acceptable, but calling out a manager who is presumably higher level than you is a really dumb career move in most circumstances.
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Jan 7, 2021 07:50
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They probably don't care and who can blame them? I only have effort and care in my bones for my own personal side project and I doubt that will change sometime in the future.
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Jan 7, 2021 09:51
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I feel this depends a bit on what documentation you are asking for and if you are working on the same project. Writing documentation is not the responsibility of a single person. But yes, "I'm bad at it" is a terrible excuse.
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Jan 7, 2021 10:37
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okay yeah “calling him out” was a bad choice of words, but what i mean is point to an internal repo with good docs and ask if the team can improve the undocumented stuff with docs you worked on as an example.
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Jan 7, 2021 13:42
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Sounds like the easiest way forward is to ask them “okay, can you send me build instructions and an example call?” and copy/paste that in yourself  (and if they say you should be able to work it out, feign stupidity.) Managers get paid a premium for doing the annoying task of policing other people’s behaviour, I don’t, so I try not to bother myself with it.
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Jan 7, 2021 14:34
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https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1351206123861405702 This is part 1 of 3, so don't expect the Final Answer here. But it's still interesting.
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Jan 19, 2021 02:50
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https://twitter.com/shituserstories/status/1351309000273485824
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Jan 19, 2021 22:37
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relatable
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Jan 20, 2021 14:00
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my team lead: "I don't like code comments. I try to make all my code self documenting" also my team lead:   awesome thanks 
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Jan 20, 2021 17:07
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I do the opposite and write inscrutable code that is heavily commented
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Jan 20, 2021 17:19
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I only write the comments, someone else can fill in the code
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Jan 20, 2021 17:25
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My comments live on my pull requests, so as soon as we squash and merge, they disappear forever.
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Jan 20, 2021 17:35
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i want to quit so badly
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Jan 20, 2021 17:37
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Grump posted:i want to quit so badly Do you have family? If not, quit and become a beach bum.
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Jan 20, 2021 17:49
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What if we made a language where you could like, write the code in comment style and it would just work? I think that would be pretty cool.
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Jan 20, 2021 18:24
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Pedestrian Xing posted:What if we made a language where you could like, write the code in comment style and it would just work? I think that would be pretty cool. Ah, a Donald Knuth parachute account
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Jan 20, 2021 19:10
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https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1351952681661853699
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Jan 20, 2021 19:16
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Variable (and method, class, etc.) names are comments.
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Jan 21, 2021 01:19
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Bongo Bill posted:Variable (and method, class, etc.) names are comments. That's why you minifi all of your code before you commit it.
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Jan 21, 2021 01:25
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Bongo Bill posted:Variable (and method, class, etc.) names are comments. True. So are logging statements!
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Jan 21, 2021 02:18
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good account, very relatable https://twitter.com/shituserstories/status/1351929988891738113 we went a step further this month and sent out this question to employees via the internal feedback app why on earth would i recommend our products to my colleagues, who work at the same company, producing said product (double lol because we don't dogfood poo poo).
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Jan 21, 2021 06:29
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https://twitter.com/mutablejoe/status/1352263592108847104
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Jan 21, 2021 15:51
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STOP THE SLOC COUNT!
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Jan 21, 2021 21:48
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https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1352651071248883714
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Jan 22, 2021 23:27
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Can't wait to drive a properly disrupted car on roads and bridges that have been been streamlined.
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Jan 23, 2021 03:30
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Grump posted:my team lead: Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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Jan 23, 2021 16:44
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I started applying last night. at this point, our team is so hosed. new hires are learning from out team lead / lazier older hires who don’t make time for PR review other than maybe once a week. Some of the older highers haven’t improved their code after a year of working here. It’s a really popular loving app too, but I just want to work with people who have some accountability. oh and one guy didn’t commit code or do PR review for *30 days* and is still employed lmfao e: this is the first time ever I’ve wanted to quit because of a bad team, not a bad company / leadership. it feels lovely
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Jan 23, 2021 16:50
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Grump posted:I started applying last night. at this point, our team is so hosed. new hires are learning from out team lead / lazier older hires who don’t make time for PR review other than maybe once a week. Some of the older highers haven’t improved their code after a year of working here. Leaving for greener pastures isn't a bad idea, but if you like the company and believe in the leadership beyond their extreme distraction from important issues, here are some levers you can try to work, depending on your personal style:
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Jan 23, 2021 17:48
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Vulture Culture posted:We have a team culture in one of the teams I work with where every "LGTM" is also accompanied by the reviewer summarizing the changes they read. It was intended to help communicate that your peers actually read your stuff and understand it, and that it actually does look good and wasn't rubberstamped. As a side effect, it is an extreme disincentive for poo poo like this This is not a bad idea and I may steal it.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:58
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Grump posted:I started applying last night. at this point, our team is so hosed. new hires are learning from out team lead / lazier older hires who don’t make time for PR review other than maybe once a week. Some of the older highers haven’t improved their code after a year of working here. One of my teams just started a new process. Any story in code review is a Priority 0 issue discussed at the start of stand up before any other business as that means the team is blocked.
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Jan 25, 2021 00:11
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Grump posted:my team lead: My team lead says something similar, because apparently all comments get outdated. Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as any comments in our code certainly are now. Basically, it just means that people have to ask about poo poo in pull requests, and once those get merged that poo poo be lost to time.
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I finished my project before Christmas, as did a lot of other people at work, and leadership, I dunno, forgot to plan what we would be doing once we came back for new years. So, we've been twiddling our thumbs for weeks now. I am not complaining about being paid to sit on my rear end, but it's really unprofessional and boring. I don't get how that's allowed to happen. I am pretty far in a hiring process at this other place, hopefully that goes well.
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