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This is hilarious but I don't take this as a satire. In my modest experience most companies have something like this going on. Either the guy that everybody th
by grosbisou 10y ago
This is hilarious but I don't take this as a satire.
In my modest experience most companies have something like this going on. Either the guy that everybody think is a genius because he wrote a custom (shitty) framework or just the horrible process and code base.
And remember, when you interview for companies that ask you questions about the latest javascript trends, how you would design a nice one page application, how internal Go works, etc. They most likely work with spaghetti jquery everywhere and a homemade php framework as bad as in this post.
- kbenson 10y agoSee, I think the real mark of a genius is being able to make connections and see possibilities that are harder for normal people, and make something obvious and simple. You don't have to be a genius to code yourself into a corner. We've all done that before. Most of us weren't so full of ourselves that we couldn't eventually recognize our mistake though.
- donatj 10y agoLol, I'm genuinely trying to figure out if you interviewed at my company.
- _pmf_ 10y agoMeta-programming is a slippery slope. If you have a Clojure macro that pulls stuff from a DB, you're already halfway in Funky Town.
- mark-r 10y agoYou can tell they're a genius when only a genius could have concocted something so complicated and convoluted and still make it work. I seriously don't doubt that Tom had an off the chart IQ, but intelligence doesn't automatically lead to sensibleness. I get to work on genius code all day long.
- nameless912 10y agoThe dumb programmer is the most efficient one.
- lscharen 10y agoReminds me of the feeling I got when a coworker professed that his favorite PHP feature was variable variables. Two WTFs for the price of one!