I had video of the computer registering a button press but Rocket League not registering the button press in game DMād directly to a dev on Reddit after they asked. They couldnāt replicate the problem and it was never fixed. Just, for some reason, every once in a while I try to jump and it doesnāt jump even though using an overlay showing button inputs will register the button click.
Nowadays itās less of an issue with docker and whatnot.
Just set the image to refresh every night at midnight and if they tried to make manual changes itāll just revert back to its original state at midnight.
Customers donāt really get direct access to deployed cpde now, itās buried under like 4 layers of abstraction on most CDNs now.
Simply deploying to azure already smears multiple layers of access control and RBAC overtop that itās hard enough for me, the dev, to answer the question if āwhat is actually deployed atm?ā, let alone for the customer to get in their and meddle.
To my marketing industry colleagues, Iām so sorry you have to live like this. Join us in product development and rid yourself of the scourge that is clients.
Had this happen but I wasnāt the only one; one lonely soul before me had the same issue and never got a solution. In the end it stayed unsolved and I just used a workaround.
I worked for a client where we had successfully delivered a working FOH site and booking/order system. A new head of marketing joined, and from the first meeting this guy proclaimed himself as a ātech leadā and evangelist. He wanted āfull FTP accessā within the first 5 minutes of our meeting. We told him we didnāt use FTP as everything was deployed via our CI pipeline, and he kicked off.
After some crisis meetings, he said he wanted to change the entire CMS to be HTML boxes, threatening to ditch us if we didnāt give him what we wanted. They were paying lots for this change, so in the end we obliged. He proceeded to delete basically everything weād built, and tried to replicate all functionality using a A/B injection tool and a HTML field. Clients were pissed, because none of it worked, and they lost some serious money from it.
In the end, we rolled back and said āfuck it, full git access, youāre a dev nowā, and at midnight he brought the site down because he decided to rewrite some db transaction logic to write data to another store. To him, transactions were āoutdated techā, and he tried to clean it up by just performing destructive changes on their ownā¦
In the end, they ditched us, and we were glad to be gone (they bought out their own contract). Sadly, he got his way, changed his title to ālead tech directorā, hired a team, and their site went from fairly slick to looking like something from Geocities. That company no longer exists, and sadly, I canāt remember his name so I canāt see where he failed upwards to.
stuff like this makes me so pissed that itās so difficult to get into leadership positions for most people, those with connections and money are free to fail upwards and ruin things, but the average joe can be the genius of our age and be stuck working at starbucks for minimum wage their entire lifeā¦
Itās also frustrating that a lot of baffling corporate decisions arenāt even excusable as being for profit, itās just some executive being a moron and no one stops them! If it was for profit i could at least feel nihilistic about it, but this is just corporations actively choosing to continue letting things happen that benefit no-one.
I always think about stuff like this whenever libertarians talk about how much more efficient corporations are than government. Iām like, āHave you ever worked for a corporation?ā Organizations are just huge dumpster fires in general, because theyāre all run by humans.
Theyāre not dumpster fires because theyāre run by humans, but because theyāre run by unaccountable hierarchies. Humans are perfectly capable of running a sustainable and efficient operation if we only stopped to consider how better to make decisions collectively.
Can you give some examples of well run organizations and the techniques they use? I legitimately want to know if itās possible to do better than most of our current governments, companies, and societies in general. This world is a mess and I have half given up on it ever getting better.
Wikipedia - While the Wikimedia Foundation itself is hierarchical, it manages Wikipedia through a process of community-led governance. Every article is maintained by a community of volunteers who engage in open debate to decide on content moderation policies. Wikipedia remains one of the few popular websites to avoid the recent internet enshittification.
Food Not Bombs - An activist organization that serves free food. FNB has no central organizing body, instead operating as a loose-knit group of independent collectives who voluntarily cooperate and exchange information and resources with one another. One specific collective, āA Food Not Bombs Menu,ā has taken to coordinating the global activities of FNB collectives and helping people start new ones, but has no power over any others.
IWW - The Industrial Workers of the World, while hierarchical, ensures a hierarchy that is accountable to itsā rank and file members by means of a robust democratic process, as well as the right of any member union or individual member to leave at anytime and go it alone.
There are many more, but itās late and it took me a while to pick out what I think are good representative examples of different ways an organization can be run well.
Reality is a team sport, to some people. All they know is loyalty to hierarchy. If youāre below them and disagree, not only are you wrong, you are personally threatening them. Reasons do not exist.
A box that allows someone to write HTML and JS and have it appear verbatim on a web page.
A horrific idea, and one thatās surprisingly hard to implement, as any sane CMS will stop you executing random code onto a web page, and any sane framework would stop you building a form in a free text box to POST data.
Every time we tried to fight this he would say ābut WordPress would let you do thisā. He tried to petition his boss to rewrite an entire web site and application weād just built and delivered to spec and on budget in WordPress because āit would be betterā.
He sounds like someone who read a Wired Magazine article and figured that made him an expert.
That company no longer exists
Not surprising if theyāre putting people like that dumbass in charge. Itās just unfortunate that idiots like that end up costing everyone else their jobs too.
Whatās funny is that this wasnāt a small company either. I wonāt name it because itāll be very easy to find this person, but they landed a leadership position with very little experience - think a few years working as a dev, and maybe one as a manager.
In my eight years working in consultancy, Iāve seen plenty of examples of this. I could write a book on some of the mental shit Iāve seen, from workplace wellness app owners trying to bully me online for having a single bug in their app, to finding several GB of fake Katy Perry nudes stored in a production database for a major company. Tech is totally fucked.
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