If your application cannot fully function in a development environment, with the excuse that certain functionalities can only be executed in production, the reason is that your system is a huge piece of shit.

This is why I collected data from sensors and create simulator embedded in the code. Now I can test the algorithms with previously collected data. This allows the program to be improved without being connected to hardware. All jobs done in the field will collect this data which can be used to improve the original program.

Sometimes there are bugs you have to wait until product is shipped before fix otherwise you get this:

@GiddyNaya this is how you lose an arm. Definite candidate for the Darwin Awards.

@Demolishun at least the interior is clean now

I feel this.

If I even want to mock data in the product I work on it is a pain in the ass because I’m mocking responses of other systems. Some have changing APIs and state. For example oauth data holds permissions for another set of data and also for the data I’m working on. So the product I work on describes relationships between other data sets.