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Our penalty was a round of beers on friday night. It had been known that 2am was not an unreasonable time to get home after a bad week. With 6 dev, 2 QC and a PM it was a bloody expensive round.
It had been known to log on to a colleagues machine and insert a divide by zero if it looked like being a dry week.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Dog-nuts?! Nasty! I thought the punishment was for the one who didn't test, not the other team members? 
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One arrogant prick I worked with did this. Checked in and got straight on Facebook. What a foster!
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Anyone who does this better have a real fast car.
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Surely, there's a MS joke in here somewhere.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I refuse to answer on the grounds I may incriminate myself.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, honestly.. such people exist on the earth...
___@sHubHa
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: ...know people who release code without checking it at all? 
There are times where I have had to do this because the checked in code is part of the build process.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Pretty much all the time. It's the joys of PHP on a low volume website.
If I break something, I've pretty much got 30 mins before anyone notices.
For other languages, it the usual 'it works for me' scenario.
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Release code me? NEVER! I have had team members who do this all the time. There Sh!t don't stink ya know. Never admits fault etc....
Check in code that doesn't compile. This I do alllllll the time. I leave a compile error where I was last working all the time. This helps me pick up where I left off in the code. Check in and commit code for even a dev rollout though. Nope don't do that.
But then again perhaps I work differently than others. (who knew  )))
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: know people who release code without checking it at all?
To stinking many of them. Not only not checking it, but leaving it broken for the weekend.
I've had people do that when just checking in code to the repo, and that's bad enough, but I've also seen people releasing code to production without checking, and then not responding to phone calls all weekend.
Bloody torture time.
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I'm only 1 and I don't. How many people answer "How many of you..." questions without providing a quantity?
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Funny you should ask this.
Recently (a friend) did a quick test and publish. It failed in production.
Probably the first time in 8 years!
further research, (the friend) missed the correct path for testing.
Tweaked the fix, and was SO CONFIDENT it would work, they were ready to publish it. OMG!
A quick break and then a decision to test it. Revealed another bug.
RESET. Rescheduled. Fixed. Tested. Published. All was good.
Then a funny thing happened. The friend (who is me) got really sick and was out of it for 2 days.
(I literally stayed in bed and recovered)
But I realized I was really really overworked, and had started making some questionable decisions as I got ill. I did not have my normal energy in approaching things.
I am coming clean on this, as I did with my team, because it is important to pay attention to our health, and our schedules. I was NOT taking the time off that I DEMAND my team take off (we don't work weekends, or long long hours. At least not regularly. Maybe once a year!)
We are bags of chemistry. When that gets out of whack, we are much more susceptible to stupid mistakes.
The moral: Don't just kill the person who made a mistake. Focus on a culture to find the why, and HELP MAKE SURE it does not happen again!!! Being rushed, and not being 100% A terrible combination!
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side.
Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future.
Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years.
Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are.
It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants.
You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost.
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Are you suggesting that Linux is the Drop Bear of operating systems?
Because I thought that title went to Vista.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Because I thought that title went to Vista.
Are you sure? If Win7 would not exist, I would believe that Mickeysoft has specialized on DropSomethings.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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enhzflep wrote: You've got google now, whatcha whining for?
So, the first response to a Linux rant essentially amounts to "RTFM, n00b!!!1!".
Not much ever changes, I guess...
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AltaVista has been replaced? Where have I been?
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You can try installing it using the terminal, Dropbox is available in the official repo 
i dont trust the software center, sometimes they don't do what was advertise.
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Could you repeat that in English, please?
Google translate couldn't handle it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agree - I dont trust the Ubuntu software centre either. It uses very old versions of software and isnt very reliable as the OP says in completing the installation. Definitely avoid if you can. 
Fortunately the command line is quite helpful in most instances and will tell you how to install software, with the added benefit it is a much faster process.
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Zterh wrote: i dont trust the software center
It was a .deb download from dropbox.com. I chose to open in Software Center because double-clicking did nothing. At least in Windows, when you double-click an installer, it installs. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
That was the exact final straw that made me drop my last (of many) excursion into ubuntu.
They call it progress. I call it "hiding stuff".
Why is it hard for OS designers to understand that we just want to use our programs and files?
Media libraries? Groups? Fancy-schmanzy containers that suck in every picture on the machine (including all the icons, snapshots, borders, and other cr@p used by programs)?
No thanks. Just give me a list of the programs installed, so that I can open them when I need them, and let me see my disc, so that I can put files there and retrieve them from there.
You don't make things simpler by obfuscating simplicity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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