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[–] 112 points 1 year ago (7 children)

For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man's triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don't forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    So I've done plenty of that in my, ahem, practice. And honestly if I had a choice to concentrate and not do that, even if that meant losing my "dead man's triggers", then so be it. Extinguishing a perpetual dumpster fire as part of your job is not good. Also someone might be given that to fix after you leave, I've been in that role too.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago*

    I have been burned out by project managers way too hard to have any respect for the capitalist tech world. I have more than 15 years of programming experience yet I'm literally looking for a job on a farm or warehouse.

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