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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:58AM (#18448302)
what kind of problems do you cause at a construction site that do not get you fired but reassigned to Programmer with programming 101 book?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by dejv on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:41AM (#18448655)
Probably fall from roof few times or was not really handy with hammer or something.

The company is quite fascinating, they started around 1945 and during the years they've became small conglomerate. There are three or even four generations workign together and once they like you as a person they will find something for you to do.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by mooreds on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:58AM (#18449487)
Is the original programmer still at the company in any capacity?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by dejv on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:28AM (#18449665)
No, he left before I was hired as a consultant. I had never get chance to talk to him in any form. I am the single person who ever touched the source code for past 10 years. I don't know why he left or where he went.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by smilesnd on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:04AM (#18448534)
From my experience this means they had a strong union.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by adrianN on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:55AM (#18448503)
Perhaps he played too much Minecraft and tried building a Turing machine from the materials on the construction site?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by alorimer on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:49AM (#18448696)
C can't be that different from redstone right?
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