A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job

Posted by pyprism on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:27AM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/programmer-automates-his-job-2015-11

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by ijhnv on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:47AM (#12334350)

Wasn't this here a year ago in it's original form (from a russian website)?

Edit: found it: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-... . It was on Hacker News 275 days ago, but received only 4 comments. I guess I saw it on reddit.

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by aaron695 on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:19AM (#12334427)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611713

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by dang on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:45AM (#12334513)

I recall a whole bunch of submissions of this story, which got several waves of increasingly major website coverage and IIRC got debunked as a fraud along the way; not that that stopped the waves of coverage.

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by Walkman on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:43AM (#12334505)

aka. "A real story about the everyday life of programmers"

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by Vanit on Monday August 22, 2016 @04:08AM (#12334798)

Pretty sure the source of this was posted on HN a few days ago. Dat mainstream lag.

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by hclivess on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:23AM (#12334647)

very surprising. not like we all do that

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Re:A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of ... by kfk on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:13AM (#12334410)

I am a business user that needs to use generated sql. Unfortunately, there are few column names that needs to be changed everytime. This is an easy job for a pyton script, but those kind of things are bad in work environments, I cannot assume the guy after me knows python. That's why I am always happy to pay for software when it comes to business environments - you know you will have a good UI (if you choose well and stay away from oracle) and possibly good support.

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