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I swear this guy exists at every company I've ever worked. He's the guy you go to when you find some legacy code which you have no idea how the hell it works and end up getting a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects. They're hard not to love.
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Perhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?
Wait you mean life isn't a video game where my position in a company completely defines me as a person, and if I don't destroy all my colleagues (read: competitors)with cruelty and cunning schemes I still have value?
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I for one do not mind that part of computing getting abstracted away by the cloud, whatever its other failings. :-)
Working on the hardware directly is more than half of the fun.
I swear this guy exists at every company I've ever worked. He's the guy you go to when you find some legacy code which you have no idea how the hell it works and end up getting a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects. They're hard not to love.
Retiring at 58 would be awesome. Some people live to work and others work to live. I like what I do but I also have hobbies which I really enjoy. I get that the post is satire but at some point in your career there are diminishing returns on learning new things. If you are somewhat specialized say in backend systems involving scaling, message queues, clustering, etc. it probably isn't a good time investment to learn…
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> There are talented people everywhere, the probability of somehow being ground breaking and world impactful is ridiculously small. No there aren’t. For every Jonathan Blow, Salvatore Sanfilippo (redis) or Mike Pall (LuaJIT) there are probably thousands of run of the mill developers working at feature factories. You don’t build amazing software by being lucky. Your boss at GenericCo will never go out of their way to…
I don’t even know where to begin with this comment. It’s a gross mischaracterization of what was being said for starters.
Moral : before starting new job always ask parent commenter are this new job is important for him?
Life is too short for working with crap code. Unfortunately there is more crap code out there, than there are opportunities of working on beautiful code. At least in most jobs there will at minimum be compromise and part of the job will be dealing with ugly code.
Now that I'm older this sort of comment actually makes me laugh. Thanks for that. Good code.. oh, sweet sweet summer child.
I swear this guy exists at every company I've ever worked. He's the guy you go to when you find some legacy code which you have no idea how the hell it works and end up getting a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects. They're hard not to love.
It's funny, startups turn over so fast that I've managed to become that guy while staying at a company less than two years.
This article may and should be the trigger for thousands of life-affirming resignations.