your tech debt bill has come due

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AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

800,000 man hours

# ? Jan 7, 2023 16:11

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# ? May 3, 2024 16:52

Kumquat: Oct 8, 2010

just throw a rug over it and sell the company OP

# ? Jan 7, 2023 16:13

Menacer: Nov 25, 2000; Failed Sega Accessory Ahoy!

what if it is a reverse technical mortgage, where we took on the tech debt until someone dies. and then it becomes someone else's problem

# ? Jan 7, 2023 16:55

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

here's a crazy thought, but what if i kick the can down the road again and then leave and make it someone else's problem?

# ? Jan 7, 2023 16:57

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

now i am become the puTTY patrol

# ? Jan 7, 2023 17:21

Archduke Frantz Fanon: Sep 7, 2004

its good and all but we did promise this feature would be ready by the end of the month to land our new client

# ? Jan 7, 2023 17:45

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

Kumquat posted:

just throw a rug over it and sell the company OP

# ? Jan 7, 2023 18:26

psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

Kumquat posted:

just throw a rug over it and sell the company OP

# ? Jan 7, 2023 23:38

dioxazine: Oct 14, 2004

Kumquat posted:

just throw a rug over it and sell the company OP

# ? Jan 8, 2023 02:06

DaTroof: Nov 16, 2000; CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof

Sweevo posted:

here's a crazy thought, but what if i kick the can down the road again and then leave and make it someone else's problem?

pro as gently caress

# ? Jan 8, 2023 02:09

KidDynamite: Feb 11, 2005

i don't work here anymore

# ? Jan 8, 2023 02:18

Pythagoras a trois: Feb 19, 2004; I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

Hi I'm here to consult on migrating to a new system architecture from your current tech stack based on, I don't think I'm reading this correctly, Macromedia Flash?

# ? Jan 8, 2023 02:25

olorum: Apr 24, 2021

Look we're rewriting this service next quarter so don't worry about tech debt, this whole trash pile will be gone soon anyway.

(5 years later: old service is still in use)

# ? Jan 8, 2023 02:25

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Kumquat posted:

just throw a rug over it and sell the company OP

thats why youre the boss

# ? Jan 8, 2023 03:05

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

writing an email to my management chain reminding them how I said this would become a bigger problem until we can�t make any changes, and guess what, here we are. please see my attached quoted emails telling you this was coming every quarter for the last few years.

# ? Jan 8, 2023 04:08

fins: May 31, 2011; Floss Finder

2023 ipx user has logged on. novell netware will never die!

# ? Jan 8, 2023 13:49

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

jokes on you that's when I find a new job dealing with someone elses 800000 tech debt bill and I don't have to take responsibility for subsequent fuckups because I didn't gently caress it up originally

:smugdog:

It's the perfect crime

# ? Jan 8, 2023 14:02

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

The Management posted:

writing an email to my management chain reminding them how I said this would become a bigger problem until we can�t make any changes, and guess what, here we are. please see my attached quoted emails telling you this was coming every quarter for the last few years.

ur fired

# ? Jan 8, 2023 14:03

animist: Aug 28, 2018

why do we even have a stored proc that drops half the database

# ? Jan 8, 2023 17:06

Deep Dish Fuckfest: Sep 6, 2006; Advanced
Computer Touching; Toilet Rascal

it's safer than dropping half the database manually

# ? Jan 8, 2023 20:00

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

ur fired

lol you can�t fire me. nobody else on the team knows all the necessary steps needed to modify <critical component> without blowing everything up.

# ? Jan 8, 2023 22:34

Asleep Style: Oct 20, 2010

I'm going to get a different job instead

# ? Jan 8, 2023 22:37

Archduke Frantz Fanon: Sep 7, 2004

The Management posted:

lol you can�t fire me. nobody else on the team knows all the necessary steps needed to modify <critical component> without blowing everything up.

which is why you are now a junior dev ops with 4 days a week in office

# ? Jan 8, 2023 22:37

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

ur fired

fine. glad this isnt my problem anymore. byeeee

# ? Jan 8, 2023 22:38

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

ur fired

i dont even really work here :shrug:

# ? Jan 8, 2023 22:41

Deep Dish Fuckfest: Sep 6, 2006; Advanced
Computer Touching; Toilet Rascal

paying back technical debt by writing a script that goes through the codebase and erases all //TODO:

# ? Jan 8, 2023 23:21

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Blech Debt
/

rotor fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jan 21, 2023

# ? Jan 9, 2023 01:46

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Asleep Style posted:

I'm going to get a different job instead

better hope it's greenfield or else you're just going get someone's sloppy seconds tech debt

# ? Jan 9, 2023 01:58

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

tech debt that isnt yours is better than tech debt that you made cause at least you can just bitch about whatever dumb rear end in a top hat made these stupid loving decisions while someone else in another company does the same thing about all the decisions you made.

# ? Jan 9, 2023 02:05

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

this pile of poo poo I�m looking at was written by apes or early hominids at best given the level of design applied.

# ? Jan 9, 2023 04:18

Deep Dish Fuckfest: Sep 6, 2006; Advanced
Computer Touching; Toilet Rascal

rotor posted:

tech debt that isnt yours is better than tech debt that you made cause at least you can just bitch about whatever dumb rear end in a top hat made these stupid loving decisions while someone else in another company does the same thing about all the decisions you made.

yeah but i do that with my own tech debt anyway so

# ? Jan 9, 2023 06:33

Modulo16: Feb 12, 2014; "Authorities say the phony Pope can be recognized by his high-top sneakers and incredibly foul mouth."

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

paying back technical debt by writing a script that goes through the codebase and erases all //TODO:

this guy just closed 105,000 todos and he made the code base 105,000 lines smaller with the same functionality!

# ? Jan 21, 2023 04:23

my homie dhall: Dec 9, 2010; honey, oh please, it's just a machine

my predecessors did not try their best and did not have the best of intentions

# ? Jan 21, 2023 05:32

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

i dont pay real bills im sure not payin this one

# ? Jan 21, 2023 06:51

InternetOfTwinks: Apr 2, 2011; Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad

code:

/// <summary>
/// This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
/// Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
/// This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
/// What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
/// The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
/// The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
/// The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
/// The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
/// The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
///</summary>

InternetOfTwinks fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Jan 21, 2023

# ? Jan 21, 2023 06:55

SpaceAceJase: Nov 8, 2008; and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

Load bearing php5 script

# ? Jan 21, 2023 07:22

Doom Mathematic: Sep 2, 2008

I would simply pay off the technical debt.

# ? Jan 21, 2023 14:34

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

refinance your tech debt: migrate to micro services! already have micro services? migrate to monolith!

# ? Jan 21, 2023 14:39

SpaceAceJase: Nov 8, 2008; and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

Mono repo

What is that

# ? Jan 21, 2023 16:14

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# ? May 3, 2024 16:52

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

InternetOfTwinks posted:

code:

/// <summary>
/// This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
/// Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
/// This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
/// What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
/// The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
/// The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
/// The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
/// The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
/// The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
///</summary>

# ? Feb 26, 2023 20:21

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