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I agree that a guy looks like an idiot when he thinks there's nothing wrong with it. That said, I doubt you will come across any fast growing startup whose ear

I agree that a guy looks like an idiot when he thinks there's nothing wrong with it. That said, I doubt you will come across any fast growing startup whose early codebase was exquisite enough to put on github. A lot of early startup codebase will be messy by nature and it't not fair to "look at a company differently" just because of that. In many cases what happens is the founders try out all kinds of things to make it work, and one day it starts working suddenly, and it works so well that they don't have time to go back and refactor anything because they have to focus on sustaining the growth. Not saying that's how it should be, just sharing my perspective on why these things happen.

jasonpeacock 10y ago
The WTF is not about the quality of code, it's that the engineer offered w/o asking the company's IP & secrets and didn't think there was anything wrong it. It's a frightening insight into the culture of a company where that it is both possible to do that and not thought to be wrong.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
  Yeah I agree with what you're saying. But I was talking about this part: > Needless to say, it definitely made me look at Yik Yak differently. As I said, that's messed up that the guy thought that way but I don't think it's the company's fault. I can do the same for my employer what this guy did since I have access to a lot of private information, but that's my fault, not the company's fault for trusting their employee.
  - kevinwang 10y ago
    I suppose the op of the story is saying that the company Yik Yak IS its employees, which, especially for a small company, is pretty true. Isn't a company just === people that work for it?
    - cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
      I really don't know how you reach that conclusion. This one unethical guy who doesn't even work there anymore, who's not even one of the founders, makes unethical decisions. And suddenly the entire company he used to work for--which really did nothing wrong and has nothing to do with this guy's behavior--is unethical?

jasonpeacock 10y ago

The WTF is not about the quality of code, it's that the engineer offered w/o asking the company's IP & secrets and didn't think there was anything wrong it. It's a frightening insight into the culture of a company where that it is both possible to do that and not thought to be wrong.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Yeah I agree with what you're saying. But I was talking about this part: > Needless to say, it definitely made me look at Yik Yak differently. As I said, that's messed up that the guy thought that way but I don't think it's the company's fault. I can do the same for my employer what this guy did since I have access to a lot of private information, but that's my fault, not the company's fault for trusting their employee.
- kevinwang 10y ago
  I suppose the op of the story is saying that the company Yik Yak IS its employees, which, especially for a small company, is pretty true. Isn't a company just === people that work for it?
  - cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
    I really don't know how you reach that conclusion. This one unethical guy who doesn't even work there anymore, who's not even one of the founders, makes unethical decisions. And suddenly the entire company he used to work for--which really did nothing wrong and has nothing to do with this guy's behavior--is unethical?