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Easy - half a$$ your code and when it breaks - swoop in, "fix things" (actually do it right) and play the role of hero! (I've seen so-called "Rock Stars" at places I worked do this over and over)
Would you feel good about being that kind of engineer, if the external validation was great enough?
Moral points don’t pay my mortgage.
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There's a famous green text on 4chan, where a user tells he got a sysadmin job which was so boring he started crashing stuff left and right and blocking an entire office even for entire days. By the end of the day he would plug back something and come out the "servers room" saying he fixed that and get everybody's praise. Even got him two raises in the span of 18 months. That's how crazy it is. I know a variation of…
I do not think you can trust everything you find on 4chan. Yes, dysfunctional companies exists. No, someone writing something on 4chan does not imply it ever happened.
That being I highly believe that stuff like this has and is happening right now.
I've worked in consultancy enough to know that many job's securities revolve around solving specific issues, and if the issues don't exist job security gets lower.
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I do not think you can trust everything you find on 4chan. Yes, dysfunctional companies exists. No, someone writing something on 4chan does not imply it ever happened.
> No, someone writing something on 4chan does not imply it ever happened. Neither does it imply that it never happened.
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> This is good advice that’s well intentioned, but (sorry), it can be interpreted as elitist, and in a way that’s detrimental to the reader. There's nothing wrong with elitism as long as it leads to initiation rather than gatekeeping. > My god how I’ve found that working with reasonable people is so much healthier. Could not agree more. Most people can be trained well to do any job required of them. What cannot be tr…
> What cannot be trained, and certainly at the behest of the employer is interpersonal skills. I think that those can be trained as well. The fact is that just acknowledging the issue requires a level of self-awareness that not everyone has, and training THAT as well requires being aware of it. External input and help from a specialist or a dear friend can get the ball rolling.
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I kind of did that once. For a proprietary language that didn't support functions and had very limited support for loops (mostly labels and gotos, it is sold for way too much per seat for a niche industry and the language and implementation are awful). I needed to implement something that was too tedious to write out by hand (~1500 lines of this nonsense) so I made a Python program that spit out the code I needed. Th…
> "You can't be sure a loop will do what you want it to do." From my limited experience with "proprietary bullshit languages that only exist to hook customers", there's ways to mess up how loops work in the language . So maybe those senior engineers actually know what they're talking about. I've seen "languages" that treat variables differently based on whether they have uppercase letters and underscores. Before I sa…
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I kind of did that once. For a proprietary language that didn't support functions and had very limited support for loops (mostly labels and gotos, it is sold for way too much per seat for a niche industry and the language and implementation are awful). I needed to implement something that was too tedious to write out by hand (~1500 lines of this nonsense) so I made a Python program that spit out the code I needed. Th…
MUMPS is a hoot isn't it.
Those who decided they were up for it usually did a great job, about half opted out at the end of the conversation and were put in roles more suited to their ability to handle stress.
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In high school I actually had a friend teach me this in a humorous way. In football we did sprints (the kind where you physically run) at the end. He said -- half ass the sprints. Then on the last sprint, run as fast as you can, you'll have more energy left, and when they see you running fastest you'll get all the credit. He was doing it as a joke, but lo and behold he out runs everyone on the last sprint by a lot, a…
In the case of football that might actually be a good lesson: save enough energy for the end of the game so that you can play best when the other team is tired. Of course you need to play the whole game, but if you play all but the last 5 minutes working just hard enough to keep a tie game, then you can pull ahead in the end. This only works in time limited sports though. Most real world situations are not time limit…
This does work ok for long distance competitive running, since the factors at play are time and metabolic rate and is missing the strategy present in team based ball sports like football, soccer, basketball, etc.
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In high school I actually had a friend teach me this in a humorous way. In football we did sprints (the kind where you physically run) at the end. He said -- half ass the sprints. Then on the last sprint, run as fast as you can, you'll have more energy left, and when they see you running fastest you'll get all the credit. He was doing it as a joke, but lo and behold he out runs everyone on the last sprint by a lot, a…
In the case of football that might actually be a good lesson: save enough energy for the end of the game so that you can play best when the other team is tired. Of course you need to play the whole game, but if you play all but the last 5 minutes working just hard enough to keep a tie game, then you can pull ahead in the end. This only works in time limited sports though. Most real world situations are not time limit…