2026-04-20 17:22 UTC
The reason why you hear this so often is because academia is designed to teach students based on a logical, reasonable curriculum. The curriculum will be mostly well-thought-out and cover all the important topics.
Then you take someone who followed this perfectly reasonable path and you place them in front of *the total shitshow* that is most businesses. Everything they think they know won't be applicable because most of the time, logic and reason were not what drove adoption of any given tool or practice.
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@DevDave@piefed.social 2026-04-20 17:48
"Alright so this system is called 'testing' but you need to get two seniors to sign off plus a good reason to push an update." /What about this system?/ "Oh, that's where we do all are actual testing, just be careful not to break it too much." /Alright, what is it called?/ "Uhm, I think its called prod or something like that. The root password is written on a sticky note on the upper right corner of John's monitor." /Who is John, the senior dev or something?/ "What? Hahaha no, John is just the summer intern."