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(The following is made up and CERTAINLY isn't for the job I currently have open for a senior PHP dev in Melbourne.AU) Here's why you don't see question one ans
by lessnonymous 14y ago
(The following is made up and CERTAINLY isn't for the job I currently have open for a senior PHP dev in Melbourne.AU)
Here's why you don't see question one answered honestly:
A. Our sales guys sold our product based on feature "Foo" a year ago. We haven't started coding but they need a demo next week. You have to grok our codebase and write it on your first day.
B. The 'Bar' feature was written by a guy who should have failed finger painting, but we don't have time to rewrite it. You have to fix the many patches and modifications it's had since.
C. The 'Zap' feature was written by our cowboy programmer. You have to do all his bug fixes and modifications because he thinks he's too important for anything but new code.
- hack_edu 14y agoTip: When hiring engineers (or speaking to any anyone ever again) NEVER use the word 'grok.'
- pkteison 14y agoWhy? It has a more clear meaning than just 'understand', and a 'huh' response should be a pretty good filter for an unsuitable candidate.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoPeople who use grok properly in conversation move up a rung on my opinion-o-ladder.
- sopooneo 14y ago"to drink"
- philsnow 14y agoWhile the term is firmly established within the jargon (and with good reason, it's a good word to have in the jargon), I have enough distaste for much of Heinlein's work that I don't generally use the term. I'd have to find some other way to climb your opinion ladder ;)
- prophetjohn 14y agoWait, not knowing what "grok" means is a "pretty good" filter for a person who is unsuitable for a role as software engineer?
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- dimadima 14y agoPeople who use the word "grok" are total ass-clowns.
- lessnonymous 14y agoOP referred to a Heinlein quote in his article. I figured that makes using 'grok' in a comment OK.
- irahul 14y agoYour 'Zap' is bothering me. What happened to Baz?
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- nine_k 14y agoIt got reversed, then b spent too much time looking at a mirror pond.
- niggler 14y agoWhat comes after baz? I've seen some use quux but having 4 letters bothers me
- samuellevy 14y agoI tend to go Foo, Bar, Baz, Fizz, Buzz, Bing. If I need more than that, then I should probably simplify what I'm writing, or use more descriptive names.
- Mahn 14y agoUseless weekend project idea: a tool to automatically fork random repos on github and replace all variable/function/class names with one of the above much superior terms.
- derefr 14y agohttp://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.htm...