1) he's lying
2) Re-writing a school project you have already done once is much easier than modifying decades old legacy code in a critical system.
This is like an argument that because I re-did my 8th grade woodshop project in one night, I'm qualified to redesign the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
2) Re-writing a school project you have already done once is much easier than modifying decades old legacy code in a critical system.
This is like an argument that because I re-did my 8th grade woodshop project in one night, I'm qualified to redesign the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
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Jake Grumbach
Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding."
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
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I can't speak to those things. I don't know him. And no where does this say that those things are unimportant or even less important.
Once you understand the structure and have solved all the major problems, you can delete the code and rewrite it 'from scratch' in no time.
If you're in the midwest or northeast, the odds are very high that you have used my code to receive your bills, get your packages, pay with a credit card.
One time someone in my organization had a misplaced capital letter and a customer in Texas lost a million dollars.
It only happened in a very specific scenario with very specific input data.
It was only caught because a woman with 30+ years of experience in finance happened to be hand-reviewing statements and something looked "off."
It was a trailing space causing a DNS lookup of an IP address.
At an old job, we sent customer-identifying data to another company that sent back something akin to credit history. This would impact their ability to get loans.
If one ID field was all nines, I found, you got back data for a hospital in, I think, Fort Worth. Every time.
I was, apparently, the first of their customers who had ever found this pretty obvious bug.
MANY of our customers had all nines in that particular, slightly esoteric, wouldn't-know-yours-off-the-top-of-your-head ID field.