StackOverthrow

Everyone knows about the free giveaway. In fact, this blog post is mostly useless because that model is the standard for small companies. Examples of good, free software are everywhere.

By the way, I lied, I didn’t really get to level 5. But I hope to get there soon.

He cared enough to make sure he used the biggest words in the office. Apparently big words are impressive and mean more than little words. It didn’t particularly matter if the words were correctly used or if they were pronounced correctly. The point was to use them. And use them he did. This is a story of one such word.

No, I am talking about the apparent idiots who think they can pay some schmo who just read “Learn C++ in 21 days” or “Headfirst Java” or some nerdy high schooler to re-write the equivalent of MSWord or Outlook Express or Firefox or something else that contains thousands to millions of lines of code.

I don’t recall what became of the code I put into the product, but hopefully it was removed or quietly optimized out of the product by a compiler that was smarter than my managers and knew the code wasn’t getting called.

Aside from playing Red Alert 2 all day and staring out of my window, I spent time inspecting chairs, stealing chairs, stealing memory, stealing drives and playing hide the developer. I know, I know, that sounds criminal and it probably was. So let’s explain some of them.

I never could figure out why we didn’t do more to knock the socks off new hires on their first day.

So, this is my internets blog. I am sure it will suck. There are lots out there that suck, but I will try to do so in spectacular ways.