Hah, totally feel you about loving firefighting. There's a real thrill of it for me, too, and it's really fun just being on the edge of the seat, where every solution you push out might be the one!!!
I might be partway there, not sure yet honestly. I can never reason out how it can be a net plus though, since (at least in my mind) it's a net-plus only if something broke and it was solved, right?
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Net plus? Because for a week you have justifiable cause to run down any rabbit hole, do extravagant perf tuning, and other shit that normally isn't important enough to preempt your project work. :)
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Hah, totally feel you about loving firefighting. There's a real thrill of it for me, too, and it's really fun just being on the edge of the seat, where every solution you push out might be the one!!!
I might be partway there, not sure yet honestly. I can never reason out how it can be a net plus though, since (at least in my mind) it's a net-plus only if something broke and it was solved, right?
Net plus? Because for a week you have justifiable cause to run down any rabbit hole, do extravagant perf tuning, and other shit that normally isn't important enough to preempt your project work. :)