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“Ok class, for the rest of the semester, we’re going to use the C89 standard”.
I forgot the
return 0;at the end of my main function and lost points on a test. Decided to be a point slut to ensure an A in the class and argued that it’s allowed in the C99 standard. The professor sighed and gave me back my points, but next class specified the exact standard he was grading by.I have to admit it sounds stupid to deduct points for that anyway, a test should measure your ability to reason, not your ability to remember trivial formalities.
Yes, but it’s easier/less effort to grade that way which is why so many do it
“Train new people”
What do you think is going to happen if you hire a brand new person out of college, give them no directions, mentorship, processes, or procedures, and literally say “don’t ask me, I pay you to figure it out”?
I can work in a “ask for forgiveness, not permission - move fast and break things” culture. But then people shouldn’t be getting mad when shit breaks.
What did you break?
They were already broken, I just gave the ok to throw them out. They had been sitting there for more than half my lifetime, no one was doing anything with them, near as anyone could tell I was now the “owner” of them, I wasn’t going to waste my time investigating 15 year old problems. So I said, “sure, make them disappear”.
Someone in Finance took issue with that, something about making the $15 million value of those parts appear on the books correctly. Nice to get my first high-dollar mistake out of the way early!
Thats really on whoever started saving them originally. Anything being saved like that should have a note attached stating why it is saved. I have some parts that need to be sent for repair and each of them has a note stating what is wrong, when it broke, and to contact me with questions.
Damn, what kind of 15 year old broken parts are still worth $15 million?! I feel like they should have been depreciated to nothing, like, a decade ago, unless they’re made of unobtanium or something.
“on the books”
Bingo.
“New lab rule: no Ph.D. defences in poetry form.”
Still passed and had a grand old time.
Please use your powers for good and not such chaos
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No nested SQL queries allowed.
Edit: it was for a built in query language to populate dashboards (think Jira JQL meets Domo).
I had some inefficient SQL queries that meant we had to put some guardrails around user input so others didn’t take down prod like I did
What happened?
