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He's had several (plus one from our friendly manager) but he doesn't seem to notice.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I feel your pain. I am playing the part of friendly manager for such a case today. Can't live with him, can't live without him.
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Just playing devil's advocate here: is it possible he's right (just overly enthusiastic)?
In my example, I got to my current place where these HPCs are, "MVC is too hard", "Linq makes weird queries and is too hard", "ADO.NET is better than EF", etc, etc.
Then running around babbling about adding memory to SQL Server because their crappy sprocs return every record that qualifies for a search, rather than one page's worth of things.
Rewrote our main search into EF/linq, a little skip/take action later, our SQL memory problem disappeared.
I don't know if React is a good or bad thing. We need to keep moving forward, but in a sensible manner.
Maybe it should be added, but as a project unto itself? As opposed to, "I'm making this other change which doesn't require react, but while I'm up, I'll throw that in."
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We use MVC, Linq and EF already. We aren't stick-in-the-muds but sometimes the latest shiny thing doesn't fit well with our other shiny things.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yep, I agree. There has to be an actual need for thing X, not just that "I read about this, it's supposed to be the best thing ever."
I have no experience with React, so can't comment there. Sounds like you're taking a good approach then, and this person needs to be roped in.
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There certainly should be rope involved anyway! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Create a policy that new work must pass UAT with javascript disabled!
There goes react.
You can say that a new policy to disable javascript is being considered by some of the departments that deal with sensitive info.
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Yeah, scrap everything off an existing working program, and recode it in React. React is everything! For kids these days...
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First take his suggestions seriously; he may know some things you don't. If his suggestion is impractical, calmly explain to him why his suggestion won't be used. Problem solved.
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We did, he didn't, it was, we did, it wasn't.
He got transferred - problem solved!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sounds familiar. (true story) A previous company I worked for hired a fresh out of university engineer. He insisted that the engineers, with years of experience, who designed the whole system, did it all wrong, because that was not what he was taught in school. 
Funny, it had been working for a decade with almost no failures. Of course the fact that between FCC fines and customer contract failure costs (Thousands of dollars per minute of down time), there is a certain amount of intensive for doing it right. 
INTP
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I think it was on 9gag that I read something to the effect of first providing the police with an anonymous tip about a buried body at a certain location.
After the police have dug up the spot and found nothing there you *then* go and bury the body in that exact spot.
Chances are they are not going to be digging up that same spot again.
Let me know if that worked for you 
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I train for cycling a lot, and I know there are a bunch here who head to the gym or push themselves at whatever sport they choose to subject themselves to, and one thing that's critical for achieving goals is grit. The ability to just plow on through whatever mental, physical or environmental obstacle is in your way and just push on regardless.
Mindless masochistic stupidity, it's also been called, but I choose to ignore those particular voices in my head.
It dawned on me, as I plow through page after page after page of HTML and CSS as part of a UI update, just how much grit a developer has to have sometimes. That point where you've put in 2 weeks solid on something and you realise you're not even halfway there. In fact you haven't even hit the rough bits. But you have to continue, and you have to, come Hell or high water, finish. Soon.
I would honestly rather site and watch a week of reality TV than grind my way through this but that's (somewhat thankfully, really) not an option.
What's the worst you've pushed yourself through?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As an employee? Choice of two:
1) Sitting in a library for a whole week, eight hours a day, watching a VDT to see when it glitched. Dull. Couldn't talk - it was a library. Couldn't read - despite it being a library, I had to watch the screen to see it go wrong. Couldn't do anything about the (on expenses) monumental Tequila hangover I arrived with each day - no eating or drinking in a library. It glitched on Friday afternoon, when they signed up a new member for the first time that week and the laminator spiked the mains ... not a software problem at all then ...
Or
2) Sitting at my desk going through a mountain of porn images downloaded by the General Manager of the company in working hours. His taste and mine did not coincide; I don't believe porn has any place in the office*; I definitely didn't want the office girls to see me looking; and I didn't want to find anything like what I was looking for. Why? Because the company owner asked me to check the lot for children ...  Worst working day of my life.
* Unless you work for a company producing it, then it's to be expected.
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Yuck. I'd have backed it up, replaced the HDD and reinstalled.
Then when I got the green card, either the HDD goes to the police or there's the - illegal - blackmail option if you are brave / stupid enough. Probably I'd have given the HDD to the police just to cover my back as well as get him away from "temptation".
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Quote: I'd have backed it up, replaced the HDD and reinstalled.
I panicked. I wanted it gone from my presence. I also cleaned the laptop with disinfectant, just in case.
After I left the company, since I was the last competent developer he had, it started the long slide down. However, before he went totally bust he fled the country with the FBI (child porn reported by another employee) and the IRS (tax evasion reported by company controller) in hot pursuit! I'm not sure which one he was most scared of!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I can't believe the company owner asked you to check instead of doing it himself. That's just hiding your head in the sand. I sincerely hope you didn't find anything.
(and I just read Forogar's post and now I'm just depressed...)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I didn't - but the uncertainty of not knowing if the next image was going to be something you really, really didn't want to look at was enough. Turned out porn hunting was the least of the GM's problems when we started looking closely at his stuff: false invoices, fictitious contractors, loads of stuff. He went from GM of a £10M turnover company with commensurate salary and perks to night shelf stacker in a local supermarket very quickly (after his wife found out he was also having an affair with one of the office girls and refused to let him in the house while she was there).
And the boss? Very much his style - one of those who seem to really care but are a$$holes on the inside. Company went bust in the recession a few years after I left.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Just an (interesting?) observation of how quickly your posting of the hard work plowing through code as an act of perseverance has deteriorated to kiddy-porn (and probably bestiality, but I won't mention that).
Whilst you reflect upon that I'll find some more innocent thread to occupy my good clean cynicism.
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Internet meet Balboos. Balboos, internet. Enjoy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: What's the worst you've pushed yourself through?
Worse than tedious work was weeks when there was little to do. A close second was being part of projects that I knew would either fail or get cancelled. At least there's a sense of accomplishment after tedious work. In those other situations, none.
modified 10-Mar-20 13:48pm.
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Great post!!
Chris Maunder wrote: The ability to just plow on through whatever mental, physical or environmental obstacle is in your way and just push on regardless.
I agree 100%. Tenacity is the key.
One of my all-time favorite quotes:
Louis Pasteur Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I would honestly rather site and watch a week of reality TV than grind my way through this but that's (somewhat thankfully, really) not an option.
After a week of "grinding through this", you'll probably have learned something useful.
A week of reality TV will just turn your brain to...well, I don't know. But I picture your brain would be dripping out of your ears at that point.
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