• Larry E. Ramey (unregistered)

    Did you fire Bobby and give Cheryl his paycheck for the rest of the year?

  • Brent (unregistered) in reply to Nate Scherer

    My bet is that it was fictional.

    Some embellishments may have been added, but it's mostly true.

    Our on-shore team produced a sloppy but working word-cloud during the hour long meeting management talked about solutions. We did it all from scratch in AWT, which is kind of a WTF, but less then selenium. It just used a weighted scale for font-size and random brute force with collision detection to position things. It happened about 3 years ago, and I was surprised there wasn't a maven dependency that did what we wanted, maybe there was and I didn't find it for some reason.

    Also, this isn't an us-vs-them thing, I still have friends at the outsourcing company, and I know some great developers from other countries. Most of them work in the Bay. The best I could determine was that outsourcing shops are kind of a foot-in-the-door for talented coders coming up through the ranks. Many of them "graduate" to bigger and better things, but those that have been there for several years and haven't been promoted are probably there for a reason.

    Also, it was my fault, I should have kept a closer eye on them, but things were moving super fast, and if I paid more attention to reporting, then I would have missed bigger issues with concurrency and deadlocks. What can you do?

  • shsenaj (unregistered) in reply to Nooby, son of Dobby

    True, the manager is the real WTF

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