How do you recover from major codding failures?
Iscu Andrei
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I've just had an appalling experience: working on a side project for the past 9 months (regarding ui automation)... Recent developments at my main job actually made my project fit to one of the specific company needs. So, after a brief discussion, some minor adjustments were decided. Working in my spare time the past 3 days on the mods and, being tired, I screwed up a few error testing bits and the program failed in a spectacular way. No data was lost, no negative outcome other than the program itself not delivering. Right now it's too late to fix the issue and run the program again. And while nobody is saying anything bad at my job, I still feel like a moron and as if I disappointed all of my co-workers. How do you gals and guys recover from frustrating days like these?
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Cristian Toba@ictoba
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I recover with some cheap sparkling wine and sleeping like a log 🤣️
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Hi, @iscu_andrei! Unfortunately, I can't give you any advice that's tailored to coding since I'm not a developer, but what I can tell you is that to err is human. The only certainty you have in life (besides the imminence of death) is the fact that you'll make mistakes. Everybody does, and everybody disappoints somebody else at some point.
It'll pass. In 10 years you'll not be remembering this as the biggest tragedy of your life.
So make yourself a cuppa, put on a good show or read a good book. You'll feel better in no time.
I have the worse experiences due to my codes, what I thought was the perfect implementation, unfortunately I messed up: still got the deadlock which led to user data corruption, ...etc, besides coding hot fixes we had to rebuild the 'meta data', ask end users to re-sync data manually.
At present I'm still working on engineering & development, coding fixes or bugs :-)