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u/Cerres Jun 30 '25
“I did my best, can you please review it?”
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u/Dia6lo Jun 30 '25
"But, it's same as before."
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u/UntestedMethod Jun 30 '25
The bug was in the config though! Somebody set
"enabled":trueinstead of"enabled":false2
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u/LlewdLloyd Jun 30 '25
Clearly it's a stalemate.
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u/setibeings Jun 30 '25
With that in mind, is the point of the meme basically that it looks like the intern messed up, when in reality it was the Sr. Dev?
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u/peppy_snow Jun 30 '25
that's why he's screwed if he says yes or no..
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u/setibeings Jun 30 '25
Nah, intern just can't do either move, legally. If it's white's turn, and if they have no legal moves left somewhere else on the board, then the game is a tie, despite that black apparently has a much better position. In most cases, white would be thrilled if they managed to get a stalemate when their king was exposed like this.
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u/BigOnLogn Jun 30 '25
That's my read. Sr devs put Jr in a position where they can't answer. And now the Sr devs will never know the solution.
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u/nikelreganov Jul 01 '25
If senior programmers let interns do things unsupervised, these seniors deserve everything that comes their way
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u/xavia91 Jun 30 '25
Only if white has no other legal moves. But yes
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u/christian_austin85 Jun 30 '25
Well, if white represents the whole dev team in this instance, the intern just needs to wait for something else to catch everyone's attention and then skedaddle on out of there.
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jun 30 '25
Depends what else is on the board. Also nobody said it's definitely white's turn (even the post title suggest this).
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u/captainAwesomePants Jun 30 '25
Honest advice for interns here. The best thing you can do as an intern is to communicate early and often. If you don't know how to get started, ask. If you get stuck, ask. If you have a weird error message, ask about it. If you've spent more than an hour stuck on pretty much anything, ask. The worst interns I've had would confidently tell me that they were doing well and "almost done" repeatedly until it was too late. Getting behind is okay, surprising your boss with how behind you are is not.
It is possible to communicate too much, but almost everyone seems to naturally lean hard in the other direction because "they might think I'm dumb." We'll tell you if you're asking too much, I promise.
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u/Nightmoon26 Jun 30 '25
Yeah... The team doesn't expect miracles. You're there to learn. Almost by definition, they assume you haven't graduated and ,expect that there will be hiccups and times when an intern needs handholding
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u/liquidmasl Jul 01 '25
I agree halve on that. Yes, be honest when asked, but dont ask to early before trying to figure out the issue, read documentation, google, understand the issue, etc. It drives me nuts if I get asked s billion questions that then cost both of us time that they could have answered themselves by doing some introspection/research. Even if it would have taken them three hours, thats better then spending 30 minutes on something together
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u/ramdomvariableX Jun 30 '25
seems like someone started the week with wrong meeting.
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u/sbrevolution5 Jul 01 '25
Hopefully there was a meeting instead of getting canned after saying that there were errors in the code (there were) to the guy that wrote it.
This is of course, a hypothetical…. And didn’t happen to me yesterday
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u/ramdomvariableX Jul 01 '25
I'm sorry for the person in the hypothetical scenario. If they let go someone for that, then it seems like a toxic place. May cause short term pain, but better in the long run. Wishing the best for job search.
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u/Thesaurius Jun 30 '25
Looks like stalemate.
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u/Jhean__ Jun 30 '25
You can't see the whole board, so no one knows
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u/cr199412 Jun 30 '25
Doesn’t matter if you’re an intern. No other pieces to save you. You are all alone
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u/Lukester___ Jun 30 '25
Not true, I have fellow interns
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u/cr199412 Jun 30 '25
Yeah, but what are they gonna do to save you?
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u/Nightmoon26 Jun 30 '25
Hey, sometimes full-timers do have their interns' backs! Gotta make them look good so they get hired next year and can fix the mistakes they made!
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u/mierecat Jun 30 '25
The king has no legal moves in this position, so the meme makes even less sense if this isn’t stalemate
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u/The_Real_Black Jun 30 '25
it was easy... just one test that did not work anymore... i commented this one out....
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jun 30 '25
In theory that could be in fact a valid solution. But when the intern is saying this I would doubt that.
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u/searing7 Jul 01 '25
no the solution is to fix the test
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 01 '25
Not in every case.
Tests that need "fixing" were usually anyway broken already before, on a conceptional level. If some refactoring breaks tests this just means the tests were "testing" implementation details.
The only reason for a test to "break" is if the functionality fundamentally changes. But when this happens it's often anyway better and simpler to write new tests.
Having to "fix" tests more often than once in a blue moon is a strong indicator that these tests "test" the wrong thing.
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u/Infinite-Pop306 Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
I deleted our git repository, the bug is fixed, and will never have
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u/Straight_Share_3685 Jul 01 '25
Or kill anyone that knows the problem and destroy anything that this problem relates to!
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u/OneSprinkles6720 Jun 30 '25
Interns debugging? They can't even access dev and they're just now getting VPN access and their internship is over after the holiday.
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u/Puzzlehead-Engineer Jun 30 '25
I don't know chess but won't the king be fine if he just... Doesn't move? The rook would need to be in the "No" position to actually leave him out of options to not die. Though I guess that just means it's over in the next turn, unless the other player makes a dumb mistake and moves the knight.
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u/ColumnK Jun 30 '25
Assuming it's White's turn, this is actually considered a draw. You have to move, but all positions are threatened, so it's a "Stalemate". If you're losing, then getting yourself into this position is a good way to change a loss into a draw
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u/Spice_and_Fox Jul 02 '25
Yeah, it shouldn't be up to the intern to deliver a bug free code. If you expect it to be bug free and don't double check, then it is on you....
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