Your First World Problems

[DCR]

Same applies to software. My favorite saying was, "never enough time to do it right; always enough time to do it over."

 

[jamil]

Same applies to software. My favorite saying was, "never enough time to do it right; always enough time to do it over."

In the software world you "expedite" to get it done and are promised time to make it right. Technical debt rarely gets paid down proactively. It's always an emergency at 3AM Sunday morning.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I went on vacation this past week. Fished the Docks at Scudder Marina. My wife out fished us all.

One night at sunset she pulled in a Gobi the size of my pinky. I half joking said "Nice bait. Just throw it back in (still on the hook) and see if something REAL bites." 10 minutes later she hauls in an 8lb Drum.

We finally had to stop fishing because we couldnt see what we were doing. AFTER she reeled in:
8" perch
5" smallie
12" walleye
All in under an hour.

I've never caught anything that big before off the docks in the last 20 years.

 

[DCR]

In the software world you "expedite" to get it done and are promised time to make it right. Technical debt rarely gets paid down proactively. It's always an emergency at 3AM Sunday morning.

Yeah, which is why Windows NT was released with 65,000 KNOWN bugs.

 

[BugI02]

As someone that works on cars for a living (30+years) engineers are Retarded

I disagree. Engineers are seldom left to their own devices. Usually the strictures set by suits are the problem

If it was creeping featurism I would say probably guilty

 

[Methane Herder]

It's not just car design engineers, the ones I deal with drawing up utility prints are just as bad

Ahhhh. The ancient lost art of Drafting. Customers don't realize the added costs of turning over stick figure cartoons to contractors as For Construction drawings. Kinda like signing a check and trusting them to be gentle in filling out the amount.

MH

 

[jamil]

****'s gonna happen. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and watch the train wreck.

As a software engineer, I have some input into features and how they should work, but not much. I'm given requirements that come from a business analyst, which we can negotiate to some extent. If you want XYZ and the the deadline imposed only allows time for X and Z, the BA needs to figure out what he wants most. If that means dropping a feature that might make your job easier, uh, sorry?

There are tradeoffs, and I think a lot of people who bitch about engineers, weren't privy to the conversations about those tradeoffs, and why they came about. "I need it by EOB today," for example, means that I have to deliver something that can be done in hours. So I'm sorry if I didn't get to add things that were not in the requirements, but would have made your job easier.

 

[Brandon]

Found out I may be allergic to our new puppy.

Here I thought I had strep throat.

 

[JCSR]

Found out I may be allergic to our new puppy.

Here I thought I had strep throat.

Are you sure it was cooked throughly ?

 

[Brandon]

Are you sure it was cooked throughly ?

She is to big to fit in the kamado so I do not know.

Serious note thinking I had strep the Dr asked if I had been around any new animals/pets. Told her we got a new puppy a couple 2 or 3ish weeks ago. Didn't tell her my job takes me in peoples homes with pets or homes that are never cleaned.


Throat spray and mucinex. Seems to be makkng a difference.

 

[Methane Herder]

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****'s gonna happen. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and watch the train wreck.

As a software engineer, I have some input into features and how they should work, but not much. I'm given requirements that come from a business analyst, which we can negotiate to some extent. If you want XYZ and the the deadline imposed only allows time for X and Z, the BA needs to figure out what he wants most. If that means dropping a feature that might make your job easier, uh, sorry?

There are tradeoffs, and I think a lot of people who bitch about engineers, weren't privy to the conversations about those tradeoffs, and why they came about. "I need it by EOB today," for example, means that I have to deliver something that can be done in hours. So I'm sorry if I didn't get to add things that were not in the requirements, but would have made your job easier.

Imagine being a part of a project that could be compared to a train hauling dumpsters full of burning tires, crossing a wooden trestle (also on fire) over a gorge containing the ACME dynamite factory complex.

Yeah, been there, done that, quit that. Got stupid and came back to that. But hey, at least I got my vacation time abridged for the lapse in service.

MH

 

[jamil]

Imagine being a part of a project that could be compared to a train hauling dumpsters full of burning tires, crossing a wooden trestle (also on fire) over a gorge containing the ACME dynamite factory complex.

Yeah, been there, done that, quit that. Got stupid and came back to that. But hey, at least I got my vacation time abridged for the lapse in service.

MH

Wiw. Sounds like Wile E Coyote was involved.

 

[Bugzilla]

Mine’s under the passenger seat for **** sake! The seat moves up just far enough to make me think I can get the battery out and a new one in without cussing. Nope. ***damn mother******* ***** ass engineers. Either they’re morons or ***holes with a demented sense of humor.

They called that design the “jamil special”!

 

[jamil]

They called that design the “jamil special”!

Contrary to rumors, I actually don’t think it’s all about me.


I don’t even mind that it’s under the passenger seat. It’s not a terrible idea per se. I just wish they’d have given a little more clearance when the front seet is all the way up so it’s not such a pain to change out. I’m sure there was some tradeoff that’s unclear to me. But I get to cuss at it when it’s difficult.

 

[KellyinAvon]

First world problem: having to choose between the eight cars in the model you want, with slightly different features and colors.

NOT a first world problem: waiting five months to get the Sport Model in Nordic Forest Pearl (which is a blue.)

Also, not a first world problem, having to drive around to different car lots trying to find a car that is actually painted in Nordic Forest Pearl to see what it looks like in the sun, because the only one seen before was in the rain.

 

[DCR]

****'s gonna happen. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and watch the train wreck.

As a software engineer,

One of my favorites was a department asked us once how long it would take to implement an enhancement. We asked for specs. "We can't give you the specs yet, until you tell us how long it would take."

 

[jamil]

First world problem: having to choose between the eight cars in the model you want, with slightly different features and colors.

NOT a first world problem: waiting five months to get the Sport Model in Nordic Forest Pearl (which is a blue.)

Also, not a first world problem, having to drive around to different car lots trying to find a car that is actually painted in Nordic Forest Pearl to see what it looks like in the sun, because the only one seen before was in the rain.

BTDT. Not a honda though. Was looking to see how “blue” Jeep’s new Earl Grey is in overcast skies. Finally saw some in Earl Grey at a dealer’s lot on a cloudy Sunday afternoon. Nah. Deal breaker. It shows up too turquoise for my taste.

 

[Sigblitz]

Dang car battery was dead. Darn thing is in the trunk, under the spare, held down by 4 bolts... BTW, if you take your battery out, that's in the trunk and the trunk only opens via a button, your hosed. It was 6 years old. Wth is the world coming to?

Honda Civic's keyed door is on an electric switch, not on a linkage. Dead battery, can't get in to pop the hood.

 

[Sigblitz]

The air stems on beach balls are on the top. Because the weight of the stem, the balls float upside down in the water. Sitting by the pool, I'm forced to watch upside down smiley faces and characters float by.

 

[Methane Herder]

Wiw. Sounds like Wile E Coyote was involved.

Yes he was but in this reality he was promoted to VP of Operations. Not what he most richly deserved, to be a charred fur, stick figure after the huge cartoon BOOM!!!!

MH