Manager Praises a Crash as an Unintended Feature
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This meme uses the 'Michael Scott and Ed Truck handshake' format from the American TV show 'The Office'. On the left, a smiling, suited man representing management is labeled 'My manager appreciating me for creating a button that closes the app.' On the right, a younger man with an awkward expression, representing the developer, is labeled 'Button crashing the app.' They are shaking hands in an office. The humor comes from the disconnect between perception and reality: the manager sees a desired outcome (the app closing) and praises it, while the developer is aware that this is caused by a critical bug, not an intended feature. This scenario is a classic example of the 'task failed successfully' trope in software development, where a flaw accidentally produces a result that aligns with a stakeholder's request, leading to an awkward moment of undeserved credit for the engineer
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Some call it a segmentation fault, I call it 'proactive resource de-allocation'. It's all about how you frame it in the sprint review
Leadership loved my new “Quit” button - it's just an uncaught panic, but because the OKR only measures latency, a 0 ms shutdown counts as “blazing fast.”
Ah yes, the classic 'System.exit(0)' vs 'throw new UnhandledException()' debate - both close the app, but only one gets you a promotion while the other gets you paged at 3 AM when the crash reporter hits threshold alerts
Ah yes, the classic 'graceful exit' implementation - where the app exits so gracefully it takes the entire process tree with it. Management celebrates the new close button while you're frantically checking if it's a race condition in the cleanup handlers, an unhandled promise rejection, or just the OS finally giving up on your memory leaks. Nothing says 'production-ready' quite like a feature that works perfectly... until someone actually tries to use it. At least the crash logs will be comprehensive - assuming the logging framework doesn't crash first when trying to log the crash
Specs said “close app”; I wired onClick to kill -9 - fastest shutdown SLA we’ve ever met
The ultimate UX optimization: a 'close' button that SIGKILLs the process, freeing RAM faster than any GC ever could
Rebranded an unhandled exception as “Close App” - PM loves the zero-latency shutdown; SRE calls it crash-only architecture with better marketing
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In a manner of speaking that does exactly what the manager thinks Comment deleted
The best part is this is the only way to quit an iOS app Comment deleted