The tragic story of the code farmer Peter, hahaha

This is a tragic story. A Silicon Valley farmer was sacked by a start-up company because there were too many bugs in the application he developed.

Could it be worse than that? Can. Not only did the farmer lose his job, it was also denounced by the company at the Apple App Store. Life has been so difficult, why do some things to expose?

Code farmer Peter was expelled because of too many bugs in the program

This poor yard called Peter, a brutal startup called Medium, was a tragic reminder of what happened last week. The blog platform medium The app in the Apple App Store, introducing the description: "The last version had some annoying bugs, it was Peter's fault, and now it's done; Peter was fired." ”

Poor Peter! Was shocked by the behavior of the scourge. Which company did not apply the bug ah, usually hurriedly release the update resolution, even if a programmer to resign, do not have such public humiliation.

Medium is a blogging platform that was co-founded by Twitter's two co-founder Evan Williams, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone (Biz Stone) in 2012. They left Twitter and planned to create a Twitter-long microblogging program that encouraged users to publish more than 140 words in length.

However, then point into their application update record, only to find a kind of brain hole big Open feeling, the original routine application update description can also play!

Medium Last March at the Apple App Store, with more than 10 updates over more than a year, with a description that addresses bugs and introduces new features. Literary style began on March 19 this year, the application of the update in addition to the general description, there is a song! "We were so excited, so we wrote a song for everyone. ”

I wrote a song.

The lyrics have a bit of a level of writing. Not only does it rhyme, it also introduces the main features of the Medium app: Publish blogs directly, search locations, view recommended views, and watch YouTube. It's too long and lazy to translate.

Next is the style of the pen, male pig's foot Peter began to play. April 27 Update "We recruited Peter", May 6 Update "We are pleased to report that Peter put his banana boat in the corner." We thought it would be nice to put it there. ”

Community of Medium

May 18, in addition to resolving the general description of the bug that caused the crash, it was a rhyme poem. "There is an iOS app called Medium, which can be a good solution to your boredom, you can display literary talent in the text, add labels to bring more luster, more and more people will read them." ”

Then came the last week's joke about firing Peter. Yes, the so-called Peter is just a little piece of medium Programmer's own fun. Unlike other companies ' programmers, medium's code-farmers seem to find that dull and boring application updates can also showcase their literary talents.

Nick Fisher, Medium's community manager, explained that it was not their original jokes to Nick Fesh Peter, but that the second-hand online market Wallapop was the first to play. He said, "Peter is just a virtual name, we can not because the programmer to write Bugs will expel him, medium culture is to regard failure as an opportunity for growth."

On the April 10 of this year, Wallapop mentioned "We fired Peter" in the update description of the iOS App Store, and then the April 2 Update said, "Peter told us he opened a frozen banana stall and we supported him." And they even wrote a 16-line poem, "Application release" on May 19!

Who said yards farmers do not have a sense of humor, who said yards farmers no literary talent! As a media person born as a liberal arts student, I suddenly have a feeling of losing my job.

Take a look at last October when Android 5.0 Lollipop was slow to release, a code-farmer rewritten Christian prayers. That's a really good one. Don't translate, just look.

"I feel it ' s time for another prayer.

Duarte, who art at Google,

Hallowed be thy design guidelines.

November Come,

L'll be done,

And is bugfixed like a motherf*cker.

Give us this day our material Play Music,

And forgive us impatience,

As we forgive for the Hangouts Dialer app.

Lead us not to into skeuomorphism,

But deliver us from Metro.

For thine is the holo,

The Material and the Roboto,

For ever and ever ...

APP Ops? "

Well, I decided to learn another craft, such as a pancake.

The tragic story of the code farmer Peter, hahaha