Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in?

Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by trapper on Sunday April 12, 2009 @08:34AM (#558379)

Not working conditions per se, but debugging a legacy bioinformatics program written in perl. Comments were in french which I do not understand. It took three days to run and exited with:

"Error - good luck finding the bug".

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by wlievens on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @07:20AM (#561299)

I've heard stories before specifically about the bioinformatics academic circles... biotech researchers who think writing code is trivial so they never even bother to have a software engineer look at it, until it's too late.

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by trapper on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:10AM (#563192)

It's true. And for some reason they all love perl.

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by bkudria on Sunday April 12, 2009 @09:24AM (#558405)

Ooh, and it insulted you ! And in French, too (I presume). Total burn.

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by trapper on Sunday April 12, 2009 @07:02PM (#559043)

I was fail all round :)

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