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It Works, Ship The Sink
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It Works, Ship The Sink

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The image has the caption "Software Engineering be like: It works!" above a broken bathroom sink. The sink basin is cracked and missing a large side section, while a makeshift faucet setup uses an upside-down plastic bottle, improvised supports, exposed hoses, and a drain pipe that still lets water trickle into the basin. The visual joke compares a barely functional plumbing hack to software systems that satisfy the immediate happy path while being fragile, unsafe, and nearly impossible to maintain. For engineers, it captures the familiar gap between "operational" and "designed well."

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Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The acceptance test passed because water reached the drain; maintainability was marked out of scope.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The acceptance test passed because water reached the drain; maintainability was marked out of scope.

  2. @aso1datov 4y

    MVP

  3. Max Ting 4y

    How is this dev related

    1. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y

      how are you a dev if you do not see how it is related

    2. @TERASKULL 4y

      did you ever mock mvp hardcoded apis for the client presentation? this is about right

    3. @officialbishowb 4y

      It works!

  4. @steblyanko_a 4y

    The preview cuts off the text part of the image

  5. @shkidnyk 4y

    Admin is degrading

  6. Max Ting 4y

    guys

  7. Max Ting 4y

    stop repling to me

  8. Max Ting 4y

    on mobile phone upper text is cut

  9. Max Ting 4y

    so go do your mvps without me

  10. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y

    >2022 >phoneposting

  11. Deleted Account 4y

    баянище еще тот

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      please write in english or provide an english translation

      1. dev_meme 4y

        Tr: this meme is old

        1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

          My translator says else.

          1. @RiedleroD 4y

            "the accordion is still the same" lol what the fuck?

            1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

              Try different languages too then it may make more sense

              1. @RiedleroD 4y

                I can only understand english and german, and it's the same in both languages lol

                1. @RiedleroD 4y

                  the russian sitting next to me said it's a phrase which means "I've seen this countless times and it's getting old"

                  1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

                    No idea, I was just guessing because thats what makes the most sense

                2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

                  Lol

          2. dev_meme 4y

            Alright in russia Boyan is a musican instrument but it very often used to point on very old memes

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