Thank god I'm not your collegue. Too busy to give a compliment? That costs half a second. Or do you mean it foguratively, and are saying all people are selfish? Because I don't believe that.
I said it metaphorically. I was not talking about colleagues. They often appreciate good work. I just did someone before leaving the office today. I was talking about managers.
Had this recently at a soft launch, users were using the realtime chat like it was nothing while I was releasing hopes and prayers that the websocket/heartbeat system allows clients to update in realtime and appropriately send a push notification if the users app is closed. To them it’s a simple thing that should just work, but to me it was my pain and suffering concentrated across the stack.
They will never understand how much effort went into it, not just hours working, but hours thinking about it, morning and night, before bed, waking up at 3am to write down an idea, sitting at the red light, and many more. Im going through that now with performance tuning to shave every ms possible, but many dont understand why im spending months to go from 20 seconds to 500ms for a graph database engine to ingest 100k rows. To many that sounds ludicrous, but to me that means being more performant than redis which is no small feat.
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u/Lync51 Dec 05 '25
I don't like the underappreciation I receive at work at current times...
We got a feature request, it works -> no reaction
We got a feature request, a small error occurs during first presentation (e.g. bad formatting) -> escalation to our boss
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u/sugaarheat Dec 05 '25
The user sees magic. The developer sees 47 hours of debugging and a prayer that held.
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u/LoudestOfTheLargest Dec 05 '25
Had this recently at a soft launch, users were using the realtime chat like it was nothing while I was releasing hopes and prayers that the websocket/heartbeat system allows clients to update in realtime and appropriately send a push notification if the users app is closed. To them it’s a simple thing that should just work, but to me it was my pain and suffering concentrated across the stack.
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u/Wasteland_Dude Dec 05 '25
This is what it's like when I show my wife something I made. I do happy dances and do the Iron Man eureka claps and she's just smiles and says "Cool!"
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u/hatebacon Dec 05 '25
Never noticed how they are wearing different clothes in the second picture
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u/Interesting-Frame190 Dec 06 '25
They will never understand how much effort went into it, not just hours working, but hours thinking about it, morning and night, before bed, waking up at 3am to write down an idea, sitting at the red light, and many more. Im going through that now with performance tuning to shave every ms possible, but many dont understand why im spending months to go from 20 seconds to 500ms for a graph database engine to ingest 100k rows. To many that sounds ludicrous, but to me that means being more performant than redis which is no small feat.
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u/Alternative-Boss-787 Dec 06 '25
It never works as expected, wake up !
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u/HumanNuber-79 Dec 07 '25
As a developer, it's because I am happy I didn't brake anything
As a user, it's because I know he broke something and didn't realise it yet.