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Millionaire said:
... Endless sprint meetings, agile nonsense ...
Although one benefit of Agile is we don't have to write as many documents as we did in the old days.
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At my last job, the company forced agile development on my project and many others. Part of the methodology was to classify all non-management people as developers to turn the employees into commodities that could do any job worldwide. That may sound like a great idea to an executive -- but it didn't help morale among the peons too much.

We did write fewer documents. But we had more useless meetings and were encouraged to produce garbage quickly by the end of the sprint to get credited for the all-important, and usually inflated, "story points." On the bright side, cancer surgery didn't seem as bad since I got away from agile for awhile.:)

Agile was one of the reasons I retired early.
 
Aquarians said:
Fuck the Cloud. Fuck Google. Fuck them all.

I sent myself a picture from my phone through Google Mail 3 times already. Perfectly sent and received by mail as notifications show on my phone.

No trace whatsoever of the data on the PC next to me, same Google account.
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They use an 'ugly' filter.

Just kidding :D

Check your 'All Mail' and 'Spam' and 'Sent' folders.
 
ph1l said:
Agile was one of the reasons I retired early.
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World being shit is why it's an "up-or-out" choice.

If it wasn't Agile, it would be something else. It's not the problem: Agile today, Waterfall yesterday, funk knows before that or tomorrow. It's not the solution: retire if you have the money.

It's the setup: we're funked or was once funcdked by terrorists noone remembers anymore. But in order to stay alive, the victims identified with their masters and carried on.

It's that fucked up.
 
Aquarius: in other directions, some code development gets perverse. My example is kdb and "q" language. Yes, kdb may be ultra fast. Yes, the point of pride seems to be that the number of lines of code for the database was tiny.

Yes, for people with apparently many more brain wrinkles than I have, the q language may be an ultra efficient way to write code - maybe. But the code is unreadable.

And the other language clients that are written for it seem to revel in the same unreadability. As in this apparently official C# client for kdb database connection (called c.cs) that I got where every variable and function is very deliberately one letter long and code like this is common (with NO comments whatsoever):

string rs() { int k = j; for (; b[j] != 0; ++j) ; string s = e.GetString(b, k, j - k); j++; return s; }

As in - yes, eventually I can figure out what this does. But it is one line in about 400 equally terse lines, and when I had to debug why something was not working it was a nightmare. Yet there are adherents who sing paeans to this system.
 
The problem with software development now is that almost all of the F500 IT departments are run by humorless, ex-Deloitte Indian women who bring their caste-like sensibilities to fiery daily standups. The days of an office with a door for a young software engineer just out of college are long-gone.
 
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PoundTheRock said:
The days of an office with a door for a young software engineer just out of college are long-gone.
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But things are better in that regard, we can all work from home now with hot desk back in the office when we feel like a change of scene.

This makes trading the markets while holding down a full time programming job a hell of a lot easier ;) , in the office there was always the risk of being dragged into a meeting at exactly the wrong time..

Also had quite a few afternoon power naps during lock down/work from home as well.
 
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Nowadays basic programming for utility is the new "Microsoft Office" on resumes. It is not uncommon for everyone on a desks know their way around Python scripts for web scraping and manipulating data.
 
Millionaire said:
Then i would have 70 manager chasing me for updates instead of 7 :banghead:

Actually reading the contractor forums many are servicing multiple clients during lockdowns.

Makes more sense via company structure..
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small price to pay for 10x salary
 
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