• @corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    23•1 year ago

    “you shouldn’t do that, do Y instead”

    That’s one of my favorites: ignore the problem, only pick on the scope we can’t change.

    • @omegastick@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      I asked for advice on how to express something in UML once:

      “No one cares whether you follow the UML standard, just make something up”

      “But my company uses waterfall and requires UML diagrams to move onto the next phase of development!”

      “That’s an issue with your company then. Ask your boss how to do it. Question closed.”

    • The Bard in GreenEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      You have to build Rust from source, then install the dependencies with cargo, then update your node.js because it uses npm to manage it’s configurations and if your npm isn’t at least the current unstable version, the configs will be outdated. This worked for me on Arch, which is what I use btw.

      • TehPersEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        You have to build Rust from source

        As someone who actually did out of interest at one point, you’d be surprised how easy this is to do. x.py is a godsend.

        For the rest of your comment, it was immediately invalidated when you said you use Arch. The reality is that more people use Ubuntu, so you should be using Ubuntu too. Don’t use apt? Figure it out yourself :P

    • @sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      I think it’s a behavior from work got carried over answering questions in StackOverflow. Usually when there’s a request from client/PM/PO, I usually ask them what they want to achieve by requesting said feature, usually after asking that question they will think and find out that making that pet feature is not the best way to achieve that goal.

      As a Software Engineer we’re conditioned to respond that way to a question, and when we go to websites that’s specifically to answer questions, we are still answering questions from fellow technical people in that same mindset, which is not helpful.

      However, I’ve used the condescending answers from StackOverflow to my advantage. Sometimes in a project we’ll get businesspeople with a technical background, either they used to be an engineer 15 years ago or they studied computer science in university but transitioned to product management after graduation. If they are really insistent on some technical detail, I usually created a StackOverflow question based on their request and show them all the comments telling how stupid that idea is.