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Rings true for programming also. My manager would think the task I completed was very simple if I got back to him within a day. But if I made noise on how diffi
by happywolf 16y ago
Rings true for programming also. My manager would think the task I completed was very simple if I got back to him within a day. But if I made noise on how difficult the task was and took a while to get it done, he would be more appreciative of my effort. This is especially true if the manager has weak technical background.
- vib 16y agoYes. My father used to write encryption tools in the 80's. I remember when I was a kid he would tell me how much he got customers complaining that he was overcharging for software. Because it looked like something simple that completed the encryption and decryption really fast. So he added a few useless routines to delay the encryption on a timer just for it to take longer. And magically his costumers stopped complaining about overcharging. Something to always remember when dealing with consumer products.
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoSounds like what I've heard called a "speedup loop". In iteration 1 add sleep calls, and remove then in iteration 2 after the customer complains.
- joe_fishfish 16y agoThis was why the best job I ever had was working for a non-technical founder who had found himself doing a quite a lot of technical things on a day-to-day basis. He found even quite simple things like URL rewrites in Apache config very taxing - so when he hired me and I made all his problems go away very quickly he genuinely appreciated how hard I was working, even though it looked like I just sat there on Reddit all day.