Because their boss is an idiot who will yell at them if they don’t.
If you pay by the update, devs will update their way to a nice payday .
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9point6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Aren’t the front ends for these basically chat interfaces that mostly don’t change
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Update one character at a time, commented out till you’re ready to make a real change.
Then do it again to fix all the shit you just broke
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
pay by the update
Uh, how do you imagine that would work? Are you saying this is contract work?
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nah. It’s most likely not that direct. If the boss makes it clear that they measure productivity by blindly adhering to some dumb metric (number of updates , kloc, number of bugfixes) then the devs will find a way to max out that stat, to get bonuses, promos, etc.
As much as the author has shown his ass, this is the classic comic that comes to mind reddit.com/…/bug_free_programs_a_dilbert_classic/
gdog05@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Someone keeps fixing the CSS color coding of an input field border and someone else keeps copy/pasting the old version when they’re doing basic edits.