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[–] 320 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

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  • [–] 151 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I've seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.

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  • [–] 136 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.

    Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm at one of the latter, so I feel this in my bones. I've watched what should have been an innocent config change snowball into a pair of VM clusters shitting back and forth for 2 hours. Implemented strict change control that day. Kind of a pain, but the team learned a lot that day!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    We literally have both and our new Tech Lead is absolutely terrified that I can deploy shit into prod right from my command line. I think it's hilarious (because yeah, it's total shit, but our Dear Leader was a complete muppet who refused to listen and prioritise doing things right, so here we still are). Also our GitLab is the free licence because why pay for the thing that takes care of our entire codebase, eh ? 👌

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not deploying the backend doesn't make it a day off.

    The coworker probably got the message right and knows about some integration problem the poster doesn't know about.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Do it and I destroy your backend.

    Have you dropping tables like you're Mankind in 1999.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Narrator: The deployment proved that it wasn’t a typo after all.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    I'll remember to keep that for the first nice day in Spring.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Today"is a Friday before public holidays

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    December 23rd

    Never trust a man deploying with a Santa hat on

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    "Alright, I need all of the leads on this call to confirm: go, or no go."

    "Go."

    "Go."

    "Let 'er rip!"

    "Hold up--"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Confused the "deploy to PROD" with "deploy to staging" again huh?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh, look at Mr Many Environments here, he's too good to test on prod like the rest of us do.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    I worked with someone who used them as "thank you".

    it was....a challenge.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    What's wrong with that? It's a common gesture for thanks in many places irl... that's the first thing i think when I see that emoji, and I'm from a western culture...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I think pray, because that's what you have to type to use it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (13 children)

    You can also type "thanks" or "please". Both of those show the hands together emoji.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    they do now because people are using it incorrectly.

    not once in my life have I groveled a "thank you" and I don't intend to start via text.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I shall inform south asian people that they are using their hands wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    considering I'm not in south asia, and don't interact with anyone from south asia it's not something that I have come across, like ever.

    use it all you want though, I'll just always remember the douche bag that used it 500 times a day and associate anyone that uses it like them to the douche bag.

    thanks 🤲

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Or you know... they practice yoga...

    Also when i think "prayer hands". I think of this one 🙏 not this 🤲. That one doesnt appear when you search "thanks". And i think it would be a little strange to use. Perhaps if the tone is showing 'humility'?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Emoji aren't strictly prescriptive with their meaning. They are generic symbols that can have many meanings in different contexts and cultures.

    The name of an emoji is more a suggestion than anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Are people also using eggplants improperly? And, you're proud to never have said thank you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't use eggplant as a euphemism for penis. I just say penis.

    I don't grovel like a simp. I say thank you and please like an adult, because I am an adult.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    You sound like a child who is so desperate to sound like an adult that they obsess over meaningless things like using the correct emojis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    🤡 🖕

    this means I'm sorry if it is clear enough.

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    well if you're going to accuse me of being childish I would hate to pass the opportunity up.

    seriously, just do it

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