ever have one of those nights...
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- fugged
Supposed to launch a new product for a company today.
Started doing updates last night at about 8PM
Then hit a huge bug in the client software and can't get it fixed because the developers are in India and won't make it in time. So had to write a bunch of scripts to do some reformatting of almost every row in one of the DB tables.
Then some super weird database problems that don't make any sense at all.
After attempting to restore the DB from a backup - my internet connection goes down. So I bust into the office (this was @ 4AM)
Still haven't fixed the problem, and we have a ton of press going out in 2 hours.
I'm fucked. Totally fucked.
- chalk0
Find someone to blame?
- comicsans0
Applying untested updates the night before a launch? Running new scripts (written in a hurry) against a production database?
Hope it works out for you, but it'll be more than you deserve.
- fugged0
^ i know. unfortunately it wasn't my choice. or my way of doing things.
but you gotta do, what you gotta do...
- PIZZA0
Don't work with cheap developers in India ever.
Sounds shit, good luck!
- having same issue at my job now. they suck. no attention to detail. none.zenmasterfoo
- yep - same thing here. they are like a shitty license plate factory.brandon_phillip
- you get what you pay for though. BTW - have you ever seen the Chinese-made Facebook or Twitter (cluster fuck)brandon_phillip
- skref0
fugged, good luck. I hope you get that shit sorted, hope it works out for you. And I hope your bosses realise how much effort you put into it.
Have some coffee, a cigarette if thats your thing, and pull this shitstorm back from the brink.
- stoplying0
You. Are. Fugged.
- fugged0
when i took this job and learned they were outsourcing some of the development overseas i cringed. I've done this drill before, and it never works out well. You end up having to rewrite pretty much everything they do.
- CALLES0
BOB SAGET!
p.s. blame india
- maikel0
you are saying you are not happy with variables in sanskrit/punjab?
i've been there a few times (deadlines and indian devs). i remember finishing an e-learning application for samsung just 10 mins before the people would have been getting to their training centre...
a lot of weird things start happening at 4am when is the second day without sleeping. a piece of advice: do it only if you are working for yourself, and not too often. and charge shitloads.
- it's startup. i've got stake in it, so I'm pretty motivated to make it happen best i canfugged
- fugged0
holy hell. finally went live with the product. after all that - our server @mediatemple kept crashing. good times ALL around. shit's done. now i sleeps...
- vaxorcist0
I've worked with some great developers in India....
but seriously, murphy's law takes over sometimes... especially at the last minute.... we used to have a "no changes for x days before launch no matter what" rule.... and lie to ourselves about it being 4 days ahead of time.... but even that didn't work once... last minute tweeks killed us