adtiustErn

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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   At my first startup, we sold exactly one license of our software. A famous news channel bought it for $120,000, the VP responsible for the purchase left for a new job a few months later, and our product was never installed nor used.
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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   Are those 12 or so commits making or saving your company more than $200K per year? Or is it fair to say your highly paid colleagues are dead weight? I believe I am dead weight at my company.
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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   You are describing the paradox of our work as programmers: when we do our job well, we are automating away tasks so they don't have to be done by hand, so there isn't any more work to do. When I was a consultant, I knew I was on t
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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   No, I do not attend any meetings.
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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   You make a good point. It reminds me of the Legend of the Handyman's Invoice as described on Snopes: Nikola Tesla visited Henry Ford at his factory, which was having some kind of difficulty. Ford asked Tesla if he could help identify t
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   by adtiustErn 9y ago

   In my experience, the more money I've made, the less I actually do. When I was young and worked minimum wage jobs, the management squeezed every minute out of us. "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean," etc. Now t