When a client says 'it's a small change'

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A meme based on the 'And I took that personally' format, featuring a determined-looking Michael Jordan from 'The Last Dance' documentary. The top text is a direct quote from a client: 'Can you make some small changes? It shouldn't be hard'. The image of Michael Jordan represents the developer's internal reaction, with the punchline at the bottom reading 'And I took that personally'. This meme perfectly encapsulates the frustration experienced developers feel when clients underestimate the complexity of a task. A 'small change' on the surface can often require significant refactoring, dealing with technical debt, or navigating a labyrinthine legacy codebase. It's a shared moment of pain and recognition for any developer who has had to explain that changing the color of a button isn't just a 'five-minute job.'

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The client's 'small change' is usually a cursor pointer hovering over the one brittle, undocumented microservice holding the entire production environment together

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The client's 'small change' is usually a cursor pointer hovering over the one brittle, undocumented microservice holding the entire production environment together
Anonymous

Play Store post-mortem: “Incident - 100k one-stars. Mitigation - kubectl exec ratings-db -- sh -c 'DELETE FROM reviews WHERE stars=1'; Conclusion - data integrity is just another SLO when PR damage is in the error budget.”
Anonymous

When your anomaly detection algorithm flags 100K reviews as "coordinated inauthentic activity" but your business development team flags them as "coordinated authentic revenue protection"
Anonymous

When your production incident is so catastrophic that even Google's distributed systems team has to step in to handle the scale of your 1-star reviews. Classic case of needing horizontal scaling for negative feedback - though I'm sure their SREs would argue this falls under 'acceptable data loss' in their SLA
Anonymous

At scale, reputation is just eventual consistency: run nightly DELETE FROM reviews WHERE app='Robinhood' AND stars < 3; metrics converge, trust diverges
Anonymous

When app-store ratings are an OKR, the remediation runbook is a batch delete; great for dashboards, terrible for your platform’s trust SLA
Anonymous

rm -rf /playstore/reviews/negative --no-prompt; echo 'User sentiment optimized'
@serghei_k 5y

Что и требовалось доказать
1. @p4vook 5y
  
  а что там случилось?
@serghei_k 5y

пользователи Reddit договорившись резко подняли стоимость акций GameStop, одновременно покупая их. Скандал был большой, и он продолжается до сих пор. Настолько что часть платформ для торговли отказываются продавать вам акции GameStop и других компаний, которые реддиторы решили совместно поднимать. Но вот от "народной" платформы Robinhood никто такого не ожидал, они же всегда были как раз для молодых и за народ https://twitter.com/KHOUStephanie/status/1354781130021609478
@serghei_k 5y

за один час приложение RobinHood получило более 100 тысяч отметок "1 звезда" в аппсторе и гуглплее.
@Subeltz 5y

praviesko truska sukada
1. @pixelsex 5y
  
  sup dawg, bix nood?
  
  @Y_evgen 5y
  
  На каком вы говорите блять?!
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  polish
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  gas the
  
  @meowmeowang 5y
  
  Juice
@Subeltz 5y

skoviet durap stakovich?
@Subeltz 5y

priviot suker
@Subeltz 5y

patresko da
1. @pixelsex 5y
  
  yo fo sho dagny gon bust a wacko yo crazy ass muppin'
@Subeltz 5y

rudavska privo misiek
@iftryalexg 5y

0/
Deleted Account 5y

They did the same for tiktok
@Tenoooo 5y

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