Can confirm it was fairly common in the Marine Corps, even some of the grunts and motor transport guys would get interested on ship duty. When you're bored as hell you'll take anything you can get.
Boredom and creativity go hand in hand. Not necessarily good creativity. On my first deployment i chugged a bottle of syrup for $50 bucks and gave the corpsman heart attacks. It is not fun throwing up syrup for an hour after.
From my experience, any time a project isn’t on time, something like this happens from someone up high. And guess what? They are rarely “on time”. The solution is adjusting the definition of “on time”, whether it is cutting the scope of the project, better estimation, or conveying the scope and velocity during the project. Usually this falls on senior/leads/management, but it is a good skill to learn as a junior.
Don’t sweat it. The real world sometimes recognizes your effort, and sometimes beats you down and gaslights. You know the effort you put in, and that’s what matters. Get experience, and if it continues, hop somewhere else after a year or two. Get a nice pay bump. Win-win.
Agreed, 100%. I would be beyond livid if a coworker did this to me if I were the original committer. OP does not realize the insane level of mistrust he just created with this action.
Blindly checking out code late at night, without PR review, without discussion about context, overwriting approved and (I assume) tested changes, for code you did not write and were not included on review for, BLINDLY merging to master (!?) - this could be tantamount to a fire able offense depending on where you work. I would have a hard, long talk with any of my mid or junior engineers if this was attempted (although master should ideally be protected, preventing this scenario unless OP had administrative senior permissions on the code base).
All around a mess. I agree with the sentiment (write clean code unless you shouldn’t) but there is some serious process issues here that should be caught and corrected and would have made this entire issue something during the PR review phase, where OP presumably asks for an improvement and is answered with the context for the decision. Not to mention the red flag of “I know better than my peers” attitude of many programmers I have known in the past, leading to distrust and backstabbing. It can get ugly.
I think about sustainability quite a bit and if everyone who needs password management spends what you’re comfortable spending, that’s a waste I think. And when tech stops making things cheaper and faster it’s a bit sad.
I work at an ecommerce company and we have to do something similar for displaying Taiwanese flag icons and refer to countries as “regions” as to not piss off China. Its the deal with the devil you make when you work on an international scale, and unfortunately making some small time political message will hurt your bottom line if the Chinese market share is taken away from your customer base. Unfortunate but it’s just economics. Not sure if it’s 1-to-1 with the Apple situation but it’s my anecdote.
Some People are starting to grow sick of the all digital access off the post-iTunes MP3 era, now the streaming era. The physical connection to the album is lost - and if you’re a music nerd, and want to have a physical connection to the music, Vinyl is a superior format. Often the artwork is much larger, intricate, and gatefolds are beautiful, not to mention limited color releases and picture discs. It’s something you can frame or display on a shelf, and feels more vintage than a CD. Rarely would I say people listen to them as much as collect and display them.
As a non-vegan, it really irks me when other non-vegans try to “checkmate” vegans with situations like this. It’s a personal choice to not partake in the factory meat/animal products industry and the measurable harm that comes to life forms from it. True, you can show that vegetables and other byproducts can be derived from human labor cost, but when the rubber meets the road, and you make an individual choice on what products to consume, it’s valid to judge these ethical concerns and decide what best fits into your personal values set. I think it helps that I come from the Hardcore Punk scene where many of my friends are vegan.
Yes, I agree. Rebase has the ability to obfuscate and rewrite commits if you so choose. Rebasing to just re-order commits is totally viable and perhaps encouraged. We did this at a previous company and it made the commit history very clean to read. However, with great power comes great responsibility in a rebase, and a junior dev can easily mess things up if you don’t educate them properly.
