You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
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Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#2Because I had to explore all the things that wouldn't work before finding the two lines that did.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#3Because I procrastinated due to the overwhelming complexity overloading my mind with the myriad scenarios resulting from those two necessary lines and my lack of experience with this scenario depriving me of the intuition necessary to prune the aforementioned tree of mental complexity in an efficient manner.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#4The fix is a refactor of a refactor of a refactor of the actual fix.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#5Do people actually have fights like this with management at their companies? Not trying to knock the author, but I'm just surprised anyone would actually hear this kind of comment in 2020. I'd think by now any and all metrics tying lines of code to productivity would be long dead.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#6Reminds me of that time a PHB decided to measure efficiency by kLOC. All the pull requests in the following week had a net negative line count.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#7Do people actually have fights like this with management at their companies? Not trying to knock the author, but I'm just surprised anyone would actually hear this kind of comment in 2020. I'd think by now any and all metrics tying lines of code to productivity would be long dead.
Last time I met this, it was 2008 IIRC.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#8Because I procrastinated due to the overwhelming complexity overloading my mind with the myriad scenarios resulting from those two necessary lines and my lack of experience with this scenario depriving me of the intuition necessary to prune the aforementioned tree of mental complexity in an efficient manner.
Because I have spent time thinking, not merely typing. (The error "programmers are just overpaid typists" is widespread)
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#9The assumption that asking for more information to recreate the bug is a lazy tactic to get out of the bug fix is also a terrible assumption and discredited the opinion IMO.
Often times asking for more information can speed things up and lead to a quicker resolution.
Re: You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
#10The assumption that asking for more information to recreate the bug is a lazy tactic to get out of the bug fix is also a terrible assumption and discredited the opinion IMO. Often times asking for more information can speed things up and lead to a quicker resolution.
Unfortunately, working in a big enterprise world, I've seen both sides of this. After a while it becomes somewhat obvious if someone is legitimately asking for more info, or if they are just punting the ticket down the queue. (The former is when you can tell they are becoming focused whereas the latter seems to be more general, swirling questions.)