Aha! It is I ! L’Éclair ! Don’t you recognise me?

Ma remarque finale c’est pour le fait que c’est comme ça partout, en vrai. L’enfer c’est les autres. Y’a toujours du drama peu importe où tu vas (j’ai bossé dans plusieurs régions et pas mal à l’étranger). Le truc c’est de se mettre bien avec les gens autour de soi, de se plaire à son poste, et le reste en /ignore.

Tried to do a proper analysis of a bug in homologation that’s preventing our future customer to test the product, while N+3 and N+4 demand twice-daily updates through video call with ten other managers on it. Two weeks of proper madness, that was.

Stopped the meetings for one fucking day and we had it fixed before 5pm.

For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who’s mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He’s ready to quit, just hasn’t found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he’s having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we’re in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.

Meanwhile I’m just like “eh, sure it’s not perfect but it ain’t so bad. You should see the last place I was at!”.

And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.

I can’t wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview…

Shit sounds about right

How about get a mechanical keyboard with modified switches for your combining keys? I’ve been wanting to do that for mine for gaming.

That’s true yeah. The seed of all the problems is assuming.

My teammates assumed System.DefaultEncoding must be some default value (UTF-8, they assumed, again) that would carry across all servers so no worries. Except no, it’s “whatever encoding is configured on this machine as the default code page”.
Which was the same across our networks, lucky them.
But for this one machine setup by an external contractor who had UTF-8 as default.
That one took me a while to track down…

In my experience things are fine while you work in a single environment, or you have control over the entire pipeline of data. Things quickly turn into a story from the Bible when different systems start trying to communicate.

You’d think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.

And yet for the last 17 years, every company I’ve been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it (“well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £”).

That’s a good tester.
In my experience coders usually make absolutely terrible testers, testing only for the most inane case, or just positive cases (ie, it does the nominal case without bursting into fire).

I keep telling my wife the auto functions in my A3 are like having a horse. Including the odd “oh I’m gonna brake for no reason because I got spooked, now”.
I fucking love it!

That’s an interesting and reasonable take.
I’m actually surprised you are not down voted to oblivion!

That’s a whole lot more wholesome than most of what goes on in the Stack Overflow arenas.

Oh even better. I manage Kong (an API manager) and 90% of my time these days is explaining illiterate devs that no, Kong is fine, it’s their shitty API crashing. Or better, their shitty HAproxy they don’t know how to configure. FML.

You are thinking it’s easy because you only think of e == E, but I’ll let you look up collation and accents and, you know, Unicode and let you think about it.

There is nothing trivial about case sensitivity, except in trivial cases.

Glorious. I remember some hilarious nonsense in an API where the devs I worked with hadn’t known they could just use boolean in JSON and had badly implemented it through strings, but this… This is amazing!

I want SVN little explorer icons back! I want to forget Jazz RTC.

Haha, fair enough! I’m glad you do!
If you believed the stereotypes, you’d think we’re the only ones, sometimes :)

I would happily pull out my old dictionary and grammar books, for sure!

My colleagues have fancy terminal applications with fancy backgrounds, so I thought the reflection was a cool frosted glass transparency effect, at first.

And with the amount of memes being sent across throughout the day, I reckon if it were silly videos, they would eat that up.

Also : watch a video while that command runs? “Fuck yeah”, they’d say!