22 Nov
2017
22 Nov
'17
3:50 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 01:48:30AM -0700, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Hmm... As a manager, I'd be more annoyed if the code did not perform
according to spec than I would be if single programmer spent half an
hour amusing themselves. Being pedantic about time is a surefire way of
demotivating a dev team.
No matter who pays (or not pays) for the code to be produced, the end
user, no matter it's clinical staff in a hospital or your uncle's son,
need to be guaranteed that the code doesn't trigger unexpected behaviour
when used. The risk of that is usually smaller if the product does not
contain any easter eggs.
--
Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri,
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS),
Uppsala University, Sweden.
Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Subject: Re:
[TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)
I think that this is totally appropriate for code being developed
for a paid product.
Arnold first circulated, or was it frowned upon ?
As a former developer and manager, I would be really pissed off if my
programmers wasted their time on writing useless frippery instead of
quality code, and I would certainly have a little chat with them...