Those lazy developers will make up any silly excuse to avoid meeting deadlines.
/s
“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
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Re: “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
#42My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian). For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army. The morni…
> My boss is asking for progress updates and I'm just responding "Nothing. The guys are focussing on staying safe, warm, and well stocked right now." (with a small side of incredulity.)
Incredible. I know several managers with employees in Ukraine and their companies are all being very thoughtful about handling the situation.
When I hire remotely (including Ukraine, where we even had a remote office at one point) it wasn’t uncommon to discover entire teams of people being mistreated as remote employees of some clueless foreign company. It was so easy to hire away the entire team and so satisfying to just see them enjoy working for a company and managers who actually cared. This might be a signal for where to go with your career at a later date after the current events are behind us (hoping sooner rather than later)
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#43I wonder if that heart emoji counter is an int32 or an int64. I guess we'll find out soon...
Signed is the wrong thing here, so u16 or u32 maybe, however I expect you'd blow something up long before because this won't be architected as a simple counter.
Re: “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
#44BTW: Can a NATO country shoot a target at territory of Ukraine over the border, like Russia and Belarus do?
Sure they can. If they declare war and officially enter the conflict. That wouldn't be a NATO action though, it's a defensive pact. And it won't happen. Although... the last few days have shown extraordinary events that I never expected. The EU approving 500 Million for weapon purchases for Ukraine, countries supplying fighters after two days delay, officiaks saying that their are fine with their citizens volunteerin…
I'm reading a lot about the 37' Spanish war atm, and there is some common points between the reactions of NATO and the then Alliance. Hopefully we won't have a Stalin in our rank betraying everybody.
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#45I remember many years ago, being 16 or so, playing WoW. My guild was having a raid, and suddenly one person writes "g2g, riots".
It was a weird feeling, suddenly something that was so long away on the news suddenly felt much closer. At least for me, the internet and the connections it has given me, have made me much more empathetic to other's struggles around the world.
Re: “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
#46My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian). For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army. The morni…
My company is in a similar situation - have large teams in several eastern European cities (primarily Minsk), and a few long-term remote teammates in Ukraine. A couple have fled (from Kyiv) with children, others are worried about being conscripted. It makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. I'm amazed many of them are still on Slack and making PRs.
We're fortunate some of our leadership has quite close ties to the area, so our company's response so far has been extremely understanding.
Re: “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
#47Citizens deserve version control over their governments.
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#48My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian). For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army. The morni…
Just because the spice must flow doesnt mean uncaring. Its an unrelated sentiment. Thats the corporation for you. Maybe take some mental health days.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The user who bumped it just created their GitHub account a couple hours ago, that person wasn't even involved in the original request.
I don't understand why that matters at all.
They only created the account to bump a request they had no involvement in. I could understand the original requestor asking for an update, but this is just some rando with no contributions to any project at all.
Re: “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
NATO forces directly engaging with Russia troops, whether they’re in the Ukraine or elsewhere, would dramatically escalate the war. Right now, it seems NATO strategy is severe financial sanctions while providing arms to Ukrainian forces.
Crazy as things are going I am expecting Russia to declare that as kind of allied declaration against them.
Wouldn’t they instantly get stomped by NATO if they declared in any way to be at war with NATO? Or would they still have to attack a member first?
I do realise the risk of nukes at that point but in the hypothetical situation that nukes remain MAD