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I write all my code on my personal laptop and then retype it into my company's IDE

by fridif 5y ago

eru 5y ago
I wonder if that's against your employment contract.
- fridif 5y ago
  Probably, but I am more likely to be fired for not doing work
  - eru 5y ago
    You might get fired plus sued.
    - fridif 5y ago
      This is a sentiment that is very typical among Singaporeans. I suspect it has something to do with the political/business climate over there. While the USA is also litigation happy, it actually takes an incredibly high amount of deliberate destruction for an employer to succeed in suing an employee.
      - eru 5y ago
        I'm just an immigrant here. I don't think it's very likely you'd get sued, but I wouldn't want to risk it against well funded adversaries with expensive lawyers.
stuff4ben 5y ago
That seems unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. Unless your company's work machine is locked down and you can't be productive on it...
- reidjs 5y ago
  If the company IDE is annoying to use, then rewriting it is probably a net time saver. The time consuming part of coding is rarely typing the code, afterall.
  - fridif 5y ago
    Exactly. I need Intellij to be productive in such a horrifically spaghetti code base
dangfang 5y ago
same but i copy paste
mattnewton 5y ago
Don't you then have to maintain a copy of all the dependencies and input data on your personal laptop? I can't imagine myself being productive this way, even for small standalone projects where cloning everything to the personal laptop is feasible. This sounds awful and the company IDE must be even worse somehow.
jamil7 5y ago
Reminds me of a project many years ago where I was forced to use a companies crappy home-grown CMS that deployed all their microsites, they had a weird code editor that they expected you to develop in inside the CMS. I wrote a selenium script that would login and upload the contents of my local files into the editor.

4 ms·

I write all my code on my personal laptop and then retype it into my company's IDE

by fridif 5y ago

I write all my code on my personal laptop and then retype it into my company's IDE

eru 5y ago
I wonder if that's against your employment contract.
- fridif 5y ago
  Probably, but I am more likely to be fired for not doing work
  - eru 5y ago
    You might get fired plus sued.
    - fridif 5y ago
      This is a sentiment that is very typical among Singaporeans. I suspect it has something to do with the political/business climate over there. While the USA is also litigation happy, it actually takes an incredibly high amount of deliberate destruction for an employer to succeed in suing an employee.
      - eru 5y ago
        I'm just an immigrant here. I don't think it's very likely you'd get sued, but I wouldn't want to risk it against well funded adversaries with expensive lawyers.
stuff4ben 5y ago
That seems unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. Unless your company's work machine is locked down and you can't be productive on it...
- reidjs 5y ago
  If the company IDE is annoying to use, then rewriting it is probably a net time saver. The time consuming part of coding is rarely typing the code, afterall.
  - fridif 5y ago
    Exactly. I need Intellij to be productive in such a horrifically spaghetti code base
dangfang 5y ago
same but i copy paste
mattnewton 5y ago
Don't you then have to maintain a copy of all the dependencies and input data on your personal laptop? I can't imagine myself being productive this way, even for small standalone projects where cloning everything to the personal laptop is feasible. This sounds awful and the company IDE must be even worse somehow.
jamil7 5y ago
Reminds me of a project many years ago where I was forced to use a companies crappy home-grown CMS that deployed all their microsites, they had a weird code editor that they expected you to develop in inside the CMS. I wrote a selenium script that would login and upload the contents of my local files into the editor.