• ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    3 months ago:

    “Can you comfirm that each user account can have no more than one of these entities?”

    “Yes. Definitely.”


    Today:

    “Oh by the way, we have some users who need to have multiple entities. Can you fix it?”

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      I eventually learned to never trust any restrictions on the user.

      I quickly learned to make sure everyone had a copy of decisions made, so that I could charge by the hour for changes. I eventually learned to include examples of what would and would not be possible in any specification or change order.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the exact same boat right now.

      Also this change from 1:1 to 1:n entity was like one “minor” feature in a rather larger list of feature requests. It so far has caused more work then all the other features combined.

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        And months later you’ll find out, that your change completely fucks over some internal optimizer statistic and causes the DB to turn into lava.

        I definitely don’t know that, because of several hour long outages and millions of lost revenue.

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        this is ongoing now. Our “creators” were supposed to be “matched” for a “job” based on “skills”, not “skill”. pure chaos