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Gru's Perfect Plan for Developer Productivity Meets an Inevitable System Update
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Gru's Perfect Plan for Developer Productivity Meets an Inevitable System Update

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This is a four-panel meme using the 'Gru's Plan' format from the movie Despicable Me. In the first panel, Gru excitedly presents a board that reads, 'WAKE UP EARLY TO GET SOME MOMENTUM.' In the second panel, he details the plan with a list of a mobile developer's morning setup tasks: '- OPEN IDE', '- LOAD PROJECT', '- OPEN ITERM', '- RUN BUILD SCRIPTS', '- START METRO', and '- START ANDROID EMULATOR.' The third panel shows Gru looking back at the board, confused, as it now reads, 'YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS TO BE RESTARTED TO COMPLETE UPDATES.' In the final panel, his excitement has turned to disappointment as he stares at the same update message. The meme humorously captures a universally painful experience for software developers: having a surge of motivation to be productive completely derailed by a mandatory system update. It highlights the friction in complex development environments, particularly in mobile development where starting a session can involve a lengthy sequence of launching tools like IDEs, bundlers (Metro suggests React Native), and emulators. The joke lies in the anticlimax - the grand plan for a productive morning is foiled by a mundane, unavoidable, and time-consuming IT problem, killing all momentum before any actual coding can begin

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick You plan your sprint down to the story point, but you forget to budget for the unplanned, mandatory 'sprint zero' orchestrated by the OS update manager
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    You plan your sprint down to the story point, but you forget to budget for the unplanned, mandatory 'sprint zero' orchestrated by the OS update manager

  2. Anonymous

    We containerized the whole stack, pre-warmed Gradle caches, snapshot the emulator - yet the real monolith still ships quarterly: Windows Update with a blocking call to reboot()

  3. Anonymous

    The only thing more reliable than a race condition in production is your OS deciding that NOW is the perfect time for mandatory updates - right after you've spun up your entire local microservices constellation and the Android emulator has finally finished its 5-minute boot sequence

  4. Anonymous

    The cruel irony of mobile development: you've finally optimized your build scripts to shave 30 seconds off the cold start, configured Metro to use the new architecture, and pre-warmed the Android emulator - only to discover your OS has been silently downloading a 6GB update overnight that now demands a restart. By the time you're back up, you've lost not just momentum but also the entire mental model of the bug you were about to fix. At least the update probably broke your USB debugging drivers too, so you'll have some fresh problems to solve

  5. Anonymous

    Developer momentum: fragile state achieved early, collapsed by Windows Update's impeccable timing on CAP theorem violations

  6. Anonymous

    Nothing kills deep work faster than the real boot sequence: OS update reboot → Gradle daemon thaw → Metro cold start → Android emulator deciding whether to exist

  7. Anonymous

    Planned a clean morning DAG - IDE → scripts → Metro → emulator; the OS injected a hidden edge to Reboot(), and now it’s a while(true) loop

  8. @RichStallman 3y

    GNU/Linux Chads don't understand this meme

    1. @pavloalpha 3y

      No if installing a new arch core or dkms Linux headers

      1. @chupasaurus 3y

        The point is Linux doesn't have mandatory time to update. Arch core? The only related is this one. Wtf is DKMS headers?

        1. @pavloalpha 3y

          Sorry I meant Linux kernel

      2. @SamsonovAnton 3y

        Use kpatch | Ksplice | kGraft | Livepatch, Luke!

        1. @pavloalpha 3y

          I can't imagine what could be if the corps will come to Linux. Omg so efficient system can we get

          1. @SamsonovAnton 3y

            Yeah, Linux distros surely might be more efficient — take DRPM ("delta RPM" packages containing only the files changed between versions) for example.

  9. @CcxCZ 3y

    Multiple governments are spying on you though. As are most of the top IT corporations.

    1. @ilovethicktights 3y

      but atl you think that you're gigachad :clueless:

  10. @Saeid025 3y

    Well windows nowadays gently ask you if you want to restart... You can just say no

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      fake news lol

      1. @Saeid025 3y

        Well mine do it

        1. @RiedleroD 3y

          well mine doesn't

    2. @prirai 3y

      Haha, I use the LTSC, so only security updates. And Arch

  11. @Saeid025 3y

    What version?

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      idk

  12. @Saeid025 3y

    I'm in windows 10 2H something It never force restart And also I can even still restart/shutdown my PC normally without updating it There is multiple options - Update and restart - Update and shutdown - and the rest normal ones

  13. @SamsonovAnton 3y

    What's wrong with KDE?

  14. @RiedleroD 3y

    acktually,

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