Comment by kevincox
7 months ago
I call these features "dead birds" because they remind me of gifts that an outdoor cat will leave on your doorstep. They took quite the effort to do and were made with good intention, but ultimately I don't want them.
Not always true.
The intention was that some product manager wanted their name/team to have made impact at the quarterly review.
Proliferation of middle management as a separate track killed software
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cats _are_ evil indeed
Careful there are programmers here watching. Pretend to like the bird.
Good thing they're fucking blind I guess.
lol'd, thank you
Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!
Nothing like a "dev process" where the developers do not actually participate.
Is this an admission that you accept to implement complete garbage?
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Do user stories even come from users?
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All the "The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of my employer" googlers are silent.
Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer?
And good! Fix your shit. Take some god damn pride in your work! Just because all code is shit doesn't mean it can be infinitely shitty.
> Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer?
This isn't (exclusively) a forum for programmers (in fact, since it belongs to YC, maybe you'd expect businesspeople etc.) For example, I'm not a programmer, and I've never worked anywhere near the IT sector, yet I visit HN often. Also, if you look at the frontpage there are usually many topics not related to programming, or even tech in general.
Hissssss!
Thank you for that.