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One way is to improve the code and run it privately yourself. When other people see your system flying just shrug until they are begging to know the answer. Id

One way is to improve the code and run it privately yourself. When other people see your system flying just shrug until they are begging to know the answer. Ideally it would never come to that.

specialist 14y ago
Best political advice I ever got was "Never volunteer. Make them ask you to do it." Every time I've ever fixed something or made something awesome, I've been punished. The times I've played it detached and cool, grudgingly do some seemingly impossible task (which is actually easy), I get rewarded. I've said this here before: If you ever do something awesome, tell no one. If it's awesome enough and the stars line up, convert it into your next startup and eat your former benefactor's lunch.
- theorique 14y ago
  I've said this here before: If you ever do something awesome, tell no one. If it's awesome enough and the stars line up, convert it into your next startup and eat your former benefactor's lunch. A little machiavellian, but not wrong. Unless you're an owner or part-owner, the fruits of all your 'awesome' ideas are going to accrue to the owners. Is that what you want most? In many cases, genius coders, professors, and creative people are paid in prestige and exposure, while investors and founders are paid in $.
  - tripzilch 14y ago
    > A little machiavellian, but not wrong. Because if you do Machiavelli correctly, you get to tell the story of who was wrong.
mistermann 14y ago
This is one of the best pieces of advice in the thread and should be much higher. Make the fix but never check in the code, and just run it like that on your own machine. Assuming it is a visibly big enough change someone is going to eventually notice. An extra bonus potential is, who sees the change running first....if it is engineering personnel from the "wrong" camp, one could derive some delicious pleasure watching them squirm once they've seen what you've done and the implications dawn upon them, I can just imagine seeing the gears turning in their head, trying to figure out how to get themselves out of the predicament!

One way is to improve the code and run it privately yourself. When other people see your system flying just shrug until they are begging to know the answer. Ideally it would never come to that.

specialist 14y ago

Best political advice I ever got was "Never volunteer. Make them ask you to do it." Every time I've ever fixed something or made something awesome, I've been punished. The times I've played it detached and cool, grudgingly do some seemingly impossible task (which is actually easy), I get rewarded. I've said this here before: If you ever do something awesome, tell no one. If it's awesome enough and the stars line up, convert it into your next startup and eat your former benefactor's lunch.

theorique 14y ago
I've said this here before: If you ever do something awesome, tell no one. If it's awesome enough and the stars line up, convert it into your next startup and eat your former benefactor's lunch. A little machiavellian, but not wrong. Unless you're an owner or part-owner, the fruits of all your 'awesome' ideas are going to accrue to the owners. Is that what you want most? In many cases, genius coders, professors, and creative people are paid in prestige and exposure, while investors and founders are paid in $.
- tripzilch 14y ago
  > A little machiavellian, but not wrong. Because if you do Machiavelli correctly, you get to tell the story of who was wrong.

mistermann 14y ago

This is one of the best pieces of advice in the thread and should be much higher. Make the fix but never check in the code, and just run it like that on your own machine. Assuming it is a visibly big enough change someone is going to eventually notice. An extra bonus potential is, who sees the change running first....if it is engineering personnel from the "wrong" camp, one could derive some delicious pleasure watching them squirm once they've seen what you've done and the implications dawn upon them, I can just imagine seeing the gears turning in their head, trying to figure out how to get themselves out of the predicament!