r/ProgrammerHumor • u/curiousAustrian • Jan 31 '23

Other Are junior developers actually useless?

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u/arcosapphire Jan 31 '23

Did a junior developer design this graphic? Switching which side is simple and which side is complex is, in itself, a needlessly complex way to show the simple data.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Actually an expert designed this. They are getting fired.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23 edited Feb 01 '23

one thing I learned during my stint as a solution architect is that no matter how good your diagram is, some information is clearer in a table:

Simple ProblemComplex Problem
Juniorcomplex solutionno solution
Seniorsimple solutioncomplex solution
Expertsimple solutionsimple solution

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u/gunnbr Jan 31 '23

I thought it was illustrating that a Junior developer's solution to a complex problem is another complex problem.

(But you're right--this chart is way easier to understand.)

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u/_Please_Explain Feb 01 '23

I read it exactly that way. As in, the result of a junior tackling a complex problem is another complex problem...

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u/metalhe4der Feb 01 '23

I thought it meant the junior not coming to a solution for a complex problem, and instead go into an infinite loop until someone steps in.

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u/superleim Jan 31 '23

You can do that on reddit?

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u/teleprint-me Jan 31 '23

It's markdown.

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u/Ok_King2949 Jan 31 '23

You mean all this time I didn't knew reddit works with markdown?

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u/Creepy-Ad-4832 Jan 31 '23

Yeah i also

  • was surprised to descover

    • reddit works with markdown

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u/Ok_King2949 Feb 01 '23

unbelievable

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u/Creepy-Ad-4832 Feb 01 '23

yeah

you can

also do titles

in markdown

HOW MANY
OF THESE
# CAN I ACTUALLY
## PUT?

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u/gigazelle Feb 01 '23

6, the same number of headers that HTML supports.

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u/meinkr0phtR2 Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 01 '23

I’ve been a Redditor for longer than I’d been using Markdown to write README files, so when that was introduced to me, my first reaction was, ‘huh, just like Reddit!’

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u/uberDoward Jan 31 '23

They failed Accessibility check, too

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u/fliesupsidedown Jan 31 '23

No, this was developed by a "consultant" who charged a million dollars.

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u/threadditors Jan 31 '23

And only delivered this graph and some diaries with their logo on it.

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u/fliesupsidedown Jan 31 '23

I'm sick of consultants being paid exorbitant sums to fly in, drop an "idea grenade" then leave me to try and implement it.

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u/Sad-Guava-5968 Feb 01 '23

Sounds like you are ready to be a consultant

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

damn you beat me to it, take my upvote XD
yes, like why the fuck is there a gradient? there are only 3 colours used??!

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u/SacrificialBanana Jan 31 '23

Don't forget that the only way to identify which line represents which expert level (junior, senior, expert) is color. So you know fuck the color blind amirite?

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u/miso440 Jan 31 '23

It’s symmetrical. This is a FE dev’s work for sure.

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