Because their boss is an idiot who will yell at them if they don’t.
If you pay by the update, devs will update their way to a nice payday .
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9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Aren’t the front ends for these basically chat interfaces that mostly don’t change
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Update one character at a time, commented out till you’re ready to make a real change.
Then do it again to fix all the shit you just broke
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
pay by the update
Uh, how do you imagine that would work? Are you saying this is contract work?
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Nah. It’s most likely not that direct. If the boss makes it clear that they measure productivity by blindly adhering to some dumb metric (number of updates , kloc, number of bugfixes) then the devs will find a way to max out that stat, to get bonuses, promos, etc.
As much as the author has shown his ass, this is the classic comic that comes to mind reddit.com/…/bug_free_programs_a_dilbert_classic/
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Someone keeps fixing the CSS color coding of an input field border and someone else keeps copy/pasting the old version when they’re doing basic edits.