Frog and Toad are Cofounders

Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by hyperion2010 on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:12PM (#11463070)

> Toad deleted tests until the CI server went green.

One of my undergrad volunteers is learning Python. I've had to teach him that just because the code runs, it doesn't mean that it is correct.

These are wonderfully painful to read.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by kevan on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:54PM (#11463533)

One of my relatively new coworkers did this a while ago, the logic was: "We can't deploy until the build is green, and this test is failing, so I'll just skip this test so we can deploy." Great teachable moment

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by cjcenizal on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:55PM (#11462997)

These stories are so well-written! Really captures the original style well. They remind me a bit of the koans from The Codeless Code. The simplicity of the story obscures its "lessons", allowing you to apply the story to your own experiences and draw your own insights.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by bshimmin on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:25PM (#11463136)

I hadn't heard of the source material (perhaps more/only well-known in the US?) but I presume it refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad

Some insightful parables either way, though!

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by tikhonj on Saturday April 09, 2016 @06:56PM (#11463820)

I didn't know about that book and assumed it was a reference to Wind in the Willows. Thanks for looking it up!

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by ghaff on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:28PM (#11464370)

I did as well. I assume it's a function of being older and having a British mother :-)

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by bvm on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:56PM (#11464479)

i grew up in the UK on these. Springtime is just around the corner.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by morgante on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:52AM (#11465348)

I did too, despite being American.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by nightpool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:23PM (#11464728)

huh! I had also assumed that. I was pretty confused, but as I hadn't read Wind in the Willows in a while, I gave it a pass :)

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by hudibras on Saturday April 09, 2016 @07:20PM (#11463921)

Yes, these are beloved children stories from the 70s here in America. Arnold Lobel was one of the true greats.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by danielvf on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:38PM (#11463476)

Yes, that's the correct one!

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by Dr_tldr on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:02PM (#11464270)

This is one of the most delightful things I've seen come out of the tech satire world. It's not snarky or mean, it's not painting a target on anyone, it's just really meaningful and well done. I'll definitely send these to my team, I think they're really accessible stories about common problems in tech culture. Please keep writing them!

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by somedangedname on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:37PM (#11464402)

not painting a target on anyone

Oh, I dunno.

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts he could think...He thought about bringing free internet to countries like India, so that he could show ads to billions of people

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by bigiain on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:52PM (#11464798)

OK, would you settle for " … not painting a target on anyone who doesn't deserve it"?

:-)

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by dvanduzer on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:29AM (#11465288)

To be fair, there is a small handful of people in the world for whom Mark Zuckerberg would be punching down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by morgante on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:54AM (#11465351)

I didn't interpret that as being particularly mean though. It's poking fun at Facebook, but not in a cruel way.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by anoother on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:47PM (#11463235)

It wasn't at all obvious to me, but a random click revealed that each paragraph on this page actually links to a full (short) story...

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by robert_tweed on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:32PM (#11464385)

Being outside the US and unfamiliar with the source material, I read several of them as sort of vague but satisfying vignettes, similar to those in Hagakure, or Zen Koans.

Then I discovered the "read more" links and they took on a totally different character.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by dpflan on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:08PM (#11463339)

I agree: I had the same reaction until I noticed broken phrases and ellipsis (well, and clicked). It's kind of funny because the first few sentences seem good enough when you follow the submitted link...

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by overgard on Saturday April 09, 2016 @06:36PM (#11463705)

Sometimes I wish the euphemism "grooming the backlog" was required to be called "making a wish list". I guess that wouldn't sound managerial enough.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by davidgerard on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:47PM (#11464206)

Scrum/Agile-English Dictionary. https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by ikeboy on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:42PM (#11464419)

>Frog and Toad went back to their alma mater and began to look for an engineer in the tall grass beside the computer science building.

Pokemon reference?

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by haikuginger on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:23PM (#11463127)

>Toad reviewed his team’s backlog and marked 80% of the open tickets as CRITICAL or BLOCKER.

Ouch.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by BinaryIdiot on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:21PM (#11463405)

If I had a dollar for every ticket this was done to on any project I've worked before...well I'd probably own a couple of sports teams by now.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by overgard on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:46PM (#11464205)

I'm not sure I've ever seen a story marked "minor". Generaly the "priority" of these things is just based on how annoyed the person filing the story was at the time.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by MaulingMonkey on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:28AM (#11465040)

I've seen them! Just don't mandate priorities, or be willing to ruthlessly change them as the implementer. Some starting points:

Anything which merely means the publisher won't pay us because it was a milestone deliverable, but which I could see us technically shipping without, is "wontfix."

Anything which will get me fired for not implementing gets to be "minor."

Anything which I will quit over before I can be fired gets to be "major."

Anything which will lead to mass resignations of the entire engineering team gets to be "blocker", but only if it's actually blocking someone else from doing any work whatsoever.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by GabrielF00 on Saturday April 09, 2016 @10:03PM (#11464495)

When management starts tracking metrics on how fast major or higher bugs are resolved, most of your issues will magically become minor.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by simula67 on Sunday April 10, 2016 @05:30AM (#11465537)

Did he mean that the tickets so marked excluded the technical debt reduction ones ?

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by _pmf_ on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:12PM (#11463069)

That's probably the best thing I've ever read on Medium.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by Uhhrrr on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:37AM (#11465310)

These read slightly better if you read the oldest ones first.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by yishan on Saturday April 09, 2016 @10:50PM (#11464613)

I'm proud to say that one of the authors of this (and the one who apparently was the instigator) was my Operating Systems partner back in college. :D

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by Arubis on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:06PM (#11464077)

This is simply delightful. Thank you.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by galistoca on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:25PM (#11463422)

Couldn't stop thinking how much I wanted to bitch slap these amphibians all throughout the read. So well written.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by ex3ndr on Saturday April 09, 2016 @07:04PM (#11463864)

Just perfect.

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