Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by mistermann on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:52PM (#16484994)

> Every standup I was telling "I'm completely blocked for the last two days because I cannot run the repo, so I cannot run any tests and at the moment I'm doing absolutely nothing.".

This happened to me once a few years ago, once I finally figured it out I put all this silliness into one single bootstrapping function you could call to get the pig of an application to run, and asked the lead dev to add it to the core library. Later that day I got called into my manager's office as apparently my behavior was disruptive and problematic.

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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by emiliobumachar on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:36PM (#16485431)

Maybe it's not the initiative per se. Did you name the function silliness(), runPig(), or give any other blatant display of contempt? It's dripping from your comment.

(not saying it was necessarily about something real, just that it could be)

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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by mistermann on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:41PM (#16494803)

Nope, any contempt would have only been after the other developer displayed his contempt for productive use of shareholders money. I always find it funny how so many people seem to think that is a matter of opinion rather than a matter of fact.

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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by MrLeap on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:58PM (#16488790)

This comment gave me a rather nice maturity flashback. Maybe I shouldn't have called that function "bobfuscate()"

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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by zdragnar on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:48PM (#16488382)

I'm assuming that "pig" was an autocorrect typo for "pid".

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