Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by hinkley on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:50AM (#18137749)

I agreed with this until my current job, when it was stated cheerfully by a guy whose code is so shit lousy that I want to do violence to him (an emotion I haven’t felt in probably ten years).

Management thinks he’s brilliant. Everybody else thinks he’s an insane asshole.

Just because you know people who can say this with sincerity and gravitas doesn’t mean there aren’t assholes.

There are always assholes.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by kioleanu on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:49AM (#18139387)

I think the book _Pragmatic Programmer_ explains the concept of this asshole type of programmer and how to have the same results as him without being an asshole yourself

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