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Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by fleitz on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:32PM (#6555752)
Good call, imagine you had a task like taking the input from the form for the employees wage.

A good developer with no knowledge of IEEE754 might do something like this:

  float hourlyWage = hourlyWageTextbox.text.floatValue();
While a hacker with intricate knowledge of IEEE754 might insist that everyone do the following:

  string hourlyWage[] = hourlyWageTextbox.text.split('.')
  int hourlyWage = hourlyWage[0].to_int * 100 + hourlyWage[1].to_int
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.
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by nostrademons on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @11:24PM (#6557839)
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.

Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by jameshart on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:49PM (#6555864)
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...
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by fleitz on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:58PM (#6555921)
Haha good point
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by aerolite on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:52PM (#6555885)
isn't the hacker the first guy and the developer with experience the second guy?
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by jey on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @04:34PM (#6556122)
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by pbreit on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @04:51PM (#6556228)
I thought the same thing, re-read the essay and am still confused.
Re:ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers by jey on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:37PM (#6557513)
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.