Comments on: Developer dumbassedness http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/25/developer-dumbassedness Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Wed, 14 May 2008 04:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Berry http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/25/developer-dumbassedness#comment-83416 Berry Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:23:18 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/25/developer-dumbassedness#comment-83416 I had a similar dumbass moment in a previous job. Someone changed an include file that I didn't know existed, but my code included via two or three levels of indirection. Because of the order of the build, the first sign of a problem while compiling the module I was responsible for, and I got paged in the middle of the night to fix the "broken build". I took an enormous amount of shit for that, and when I proved it wasn't my fault, but the fault of the developer who hadn't bothered to compile my module before checkin I didn't even get an apology. I don't work there any more. I had a similar dumbass moment in a previous job. Someone changed an include file that I didn’t know existed, but my code included via two or three levels of indirection. Because of the order of the build, the first sign of a problem while compiling the module I was responsible for, and I got paged in the middle of the night to fix the “broken build”. I took an enormous amount of shit for that, and when I proved it wasn’t my fault, but the fault of the developer who hadn’t bothered to compile my module before checkin I didn’t even get an apology.

I don’t work there any more.

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