I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

Re:I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry by quxpar on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:22PM (#28543894)

Maybe the tone doesn't translate but this guy sounds insanely egotistical. I feel truly bad for his family and anyone he works with.

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Re:I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:42PM (#28544109)

It strongly reminded me of this graph of different cultural norms for phrasing criticism:

(I believe TFA is Russian, so read the Eastern European graph)

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Re:I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry by dwaltrip on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:13PM (#28545081)

Very interesting to see those cultural differences.

Hilariously, the first graph is titled "Objective distribution" (of criticism phrasing). That's not how language works...

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