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Welcome to devRant sorry to hear you have to deal with this. But please continue to be supportive to those around you. Not everyone is like this!
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@mundus It was beaten into me by a previous boss, who insisted that I stop coding, and hand out the the coding to my team. Did not stop me being a smartass though.
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Get a 3D printer
Print out every line of code
Glue them together
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kenpeter9047ySo did you ask him to reflect his entire action and thinking process. Ask his what was good and what was bad.what did he learn along the way. If the same thing happens, is he going to do the similar thing?
I run this 3 times everyday against myself and twices in a team each day, if I have a team.
The basic idea is to run stand-up and scrum on personal level.
If the new guy starts to think about what is the purpose of life or what he does exist, it is taking effect. -
dr-ant13447yHe clearly needs help. He also seems hungry. You could either be his mentor and help him see better or you could just not bother and be his training wheels.
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@dr-ant Well you've heard of throw the book at him. Now it's throw the code at him. The more shit he writes the more it hurts. There's logic to my madness I swears it.
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dr-ant13447y@bashleigh that's good logic and it generates lols too. π (at least for me)
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joodoc917y@sslPoodle the issue with that though is that by doing it the hard way, you are complicating the life of future developers who have to maintain it, as well as wiring your brain towards that method.(when you do something, you create connections in your brain, which makes you more likely to do it again). Sometimes that's not a big deal, when it is something that is preference it doesn't really matter. But when an hourish task for 10ish lines takes 3 days and 100s of lines, then it's a big deal.
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joodoc917y@sslPoodle also arguing solutions is a great thing to do, it gets the pros and cons of solutions out there so a good solution can be found. But when the best solution comes forward, that is the solution that should be done.
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