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Michael Lee πŸ•
Michael Lee πŸ•

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What I hate hearing most as a developer.

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A. Using Vim makes you more productive ⌨️
B. This should be low-hanging fruit πŸ‡
C. Looks good on my screen πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

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Michael Lee πŸ•

It was due yesterday, can you escalate it now?!

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Michael Lee πŸ•

Neil, really appreciate your thoughtfulness around each prompt. I can definitely see opportunities of improvement.

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Michel Renaud

A coworker just had four months of work tossed away because the other two developers on the team didn't want to upgrade their skills...

"Oh, it's too hard!" I don't know how many times we've been held 10-15 years back because of people like that. I also see that as a management failure to some extent.

(Note: No, it's not)

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Michael Lee πŸ•

Oh no! That must've been demoralizing for your coworker...

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Michel Renaud

No kidding. I wasn't too pleased myself. I've seen too much of that throughout my career...

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Michel Renaud

I remember a friend of mine working with Vim and barely being able to follow what he was doing. He was THAT fast with it. It's not for everyone. I've tried it a few times, but I'm too used to modern luxury nowadays. :D I do use it on occasion when using SSH on a server, stuff like that, but only for very basic editing.

I use to care. Now I'm more of the "use what works for you, I'll use what works for me" type. Note that that doesn't stop me from checking out something I haven't used previously if someone suggests it as an option.

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Christopher Lai

D) A Slack DM that starts with: "Quick question". It's never a quick question...

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Peter Witham

The one that always gets me is

"Our priorities have changed"

That rarely means all the code you just wrote can still be used :)

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Rob

Psssh,I don't need to test/debug.

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Omar Gaston Chalas

I think like, all of the above.

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popcornthad

looking at major changes in the code

Oh, it only takes a few minutes of your time.

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Daniel Moch

Just make it work. (The implication being to get it done as fast as possible without regard to intangibles like maintainability or architectural correctness.)

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Michel Renaud

I used to work for that guy. :D