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Last summer I was fired from a startup whose codebase was written entirely by miscreants like those. It was like a CS hazing experiment.



It was like a CS hazing experiment.

An old hand programmer once told me he could figure out whatever social/psychological pathologies from the code of the programming shop that wrote it.


Let me guess... they were addressing hypothetical scaling issues for a site with < 100 users? Instead of optimizing the conversion rate on their homepage and mailers?




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