Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
by keithpeter on Sunday November 22, 2015 @05:15AM
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I thought of the 'trusting trust' paper just as I reached the paragraph about the compiler.
As an ex-PHB rather than a programmer, I think perhaps that Dr Phelps could have had taken a bit more interest in the project &c. Perhaps had a look at the code now and again as simply asked "why does this look so unlike other people's code?". Might have sent a shot across the bows of the bad apple.
Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
by Drdrdrq on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:43AM
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This. I wonder what made the graduate so angry to go to such extreme lengths to protect his code. And why nobody noticed it - did they even have the right to fix the code?
As an ex-PHB rather than a programmer, I think perhaps that Dr Phelps could have had taken a bit more interest in the project &c. Perhaps had a look at the code now and again as simply asked "why does this look so unlike other people's code?". Might have sent a shot across the bows of the bad apple.