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It’s easy to laugh at the sheer stupidity of that tweet. But imagine you wanted to use Domain Driven Design (or the Data Display Debugger, or the dd utility, or
by goatinaboat 7y ago
It’s easy to laugh at the sheer stupidity of that tweet. But imagine you wanted to use Domain Driven Design (or the Data Display Debugger, or the dd utility, or the D language) at an organisation that employs this person... and you get fired for it.
But all of this is on all their permanent records and when the pendulum swings the other way, they will have ample time to reflect.
- wang_li 7y agoSomeday this type of thing is going to have a very clear connection to loss of a job or contract and someone is going to learn the term tortious interference. Then find themselves writing a bigger check than they thought they would be when they woke up that day. Paired with a groveling public apology.
- sampo 7y agoHere is a Reddit story about some non-native English speaker getting fired in California over a variable name: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/dpcfns/i_got_fired_over_a_variable_name/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/dpcfns/i...
- concordDance 7y agoA large proportion of the more interesting and shareable stories are creative writing exercises. This is almost certainly one.