quote of the day
Coworker - "Why does it take so much effort to get this little piece of code to work"
me - "because it was designed by sadist"
Follow up
Coworker - "how would you know?"
Me - "because if I really hated people, especially bright people I would write it just like this... in fact I often do"
Coworker - "why would you do that?"
Me - "because no one ever talks about the easy code, if you want to be remembered you need to leave deep, long scars of the psyche of engineers. Think of it as branding their mandula with a spork"
Coworker - "you are evil"
me - "because it was designed by sadist"
Follow up
Coworker - "how would you know?"
Me - "because if I really hated people, especially bright people I would write it just like this... in fact I often do"
Coworker - "why would you do that?"
Me - "because no one ever talks about the easy code, if you want to be remembered you need to leave deep, long scars of the psyche of engineers. Think of it as branding their mandula with a spork"
Coworker - "you are evil"