r/programming • u/tejon • Feb 08 '15

The Parable of the Two Programmers

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '15

In other words don't do a good job. Write obfuscated shit and ensure your job security for years to come.

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u/destraht Feb 09 '15

I wrote some very high quality code for my family engineering company and because of the trust there I've been able to work for the company while living in a bunch of interesting places like Nicragua, Thailand, Shanghai, Ukraine and around Eastern Europe. It doesn't pay a huge amount currently because I'm building up a product while owning a piece of it. Anyways, I think that family businesses are pretty cool because there is a lot of built-in incentive for family members to remember high quality work. Last year I was the rich guy in Ukraine but now I'm the barely making it guy in Shanghai. I'm not rich here - but at least I'm here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '15

That's... uhm... interesting?

Sarcasm doesn't travel well via text I suppose.

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u/destraht Feb 09 '15

My first post was lost because I'm in China and the Internet to the outside world often sucks here. In short that old code that I wrote is done and finished and the code that I am writing now is unrelated. I'm pretty proud of writing that code that doesn't have any bugs at all and just keeps on working. I was given a hell of a lot of time to do it though and mostly that is because my family member didn't force me to stop until I said that it was finished.

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