Things to say when you're losing a technical argument

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• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of the entries were just funny, the last one is a nuke:

  70. I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it?

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    power tripping legislators when someone mentions encryption

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  • kryllic@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gonna use this next time someone suggests using excel as a database

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trying to build a team behind that technology would be a staffing nightmare.

  An incredibly valid consideration that too often goes ignored.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, this one stings. My company uses a proprietary platform for it’s most critical records but we require a technical certification to even use its API. Pretty much an entire division said, “Fuck you! We’re not tying up our people for 3 months to study and acquire a certification. We just won’t use it!”

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like your idea. Why don’t you write up a white paper and we’ll review it at the next staff meeting?

  I think I might have said this verbatim

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That one feels too cruel. If you said that to some junior dev they’d likely do it… and probably in their free time.

    That said with fellow senior devs if someone suggests something completely off the wall I will occasionally respond with, essentially, prove it first.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “It’s* better** to do things*** by this approach.”

      Always throw a spanner in their legs with:

      *: Who exactly?
      **: [citation needed]
      ***: Please specify exact use cases

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With a senior engineer it’s perfectly reasonable to just say “ok, implement it and let me know how it works.”

      Like the whole point is that they should be relatively independent and capable of taking ideas from paper to product.

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was told to write my idea into an article to share internally with engineers. Then someone internally reached out to post it on our company tech blog. Then it got published on the tech blog. So I guess that’s something?

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• waz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a started reading I thought “Hmm, some of these remind me of [coworker x]”. As I continued I realized all of these remind me of [coworker x].

  I might have to turn some of these into bingo cards.

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• computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve got one to add that should be used more often than it is.

  Wouldn’t that require running the service as an admin?

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I’m afraid that isn’t according to best practices”

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s do it for real then

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’ll never get it certified if we do it that way.

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• huntrss@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t read all, however, thanks for sharing. Made my laugh and I certainly needed a good laugh today

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  • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Entry 71.

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• flan@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  are you losing because youre wrong or because someone wants to do something a different way and they have more buy in from the rest of the team?

  If it’s the first thing just admit youre wrong and move on. If it’s the second thing either bring the data to show your way is better or just go with the other proposal. Having disagreements drag on for too long is going to make everybody unhappy.

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea, a good developer, especially a senior developer, will fight like hell for the right answer… and if they realize their answer was wrong they should concede the point and maybe self-examine why they’d overlooked that possibility.

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me, giving a two hour presentation on why Jira is hot garbage at my performance review for three years straight

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• mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we go with that idea, we’re going to have Don Marti camped out in the front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters.

  do it

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• abobla@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “your mom”

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