Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers
by nostrademons on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @11:24PM
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And then the developer with ISO 4217 experience realizes that splitting the input on '.' doesn't cut it. The Indonesian rupiah is formatted 1.234,56; the Japanese Yen is formatted 123,456; the Lebanese pound is formatted 1 234.
The rabbit hole goes deep. Be careful when you think you've reached the end of it.
Well, while the developer might have cased a few rounding errors, the people with an hourly wage of 6.8325 are in for a nice bonus paycheck the month the hacker starts work...
Haha good point
isn't the hacker the first guy and the developer with experience the second guy?
I thought the same thing, re-read the essay and am still confused.
Definition of "hacker": http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
A "developer" is usually someone who just codes for money, isn't into it, and therefore probably sloppy.
A good developer with no knowledge of IEEE754 might do something like this:
While a hacker with intricate knowledge of IEEE754 might insist that everyone do the following: It's essential to get rid of all these hackers who just slow down the dev process with extra unnecessary code. After all a quick unit test will show that there's no benefit from all the extra work of storing currency values as cents.