Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
by reificator on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:46PM
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> for people who have high personal standards, working in an environment of low expectations is actually more stressful than working in an environment of high expectations.
I can't stress this enough. I was once chided for checking for nulls in places where nulls can clearly show up (ie, not repeated checks to the same value or anything like that) because "You Ain't Gonna Need It".
Three days later, the application is crashing on end users' machines because of null pointer exceptions, generating chaos for a day while I try to wrangle the (lack of) a build/deploy process[0] to deploy an emergency patch.
[0]: You guessed it, YAGNI. Visual Studio has a build option in the menu for a reason, you don't need to overcomplicate things to start the project. Or something like that.
Along the lines of high standards, something I've realized is that, for people who have high personal standards, working in an environment of low expectations is actually more stressful than working in an environment of high expectations.