• Prime Mover (unregistered)

    So Frank committed the perfect murder ...

  • Prime Mover (unregistered)

    ... sorry, I meant Greg ...

  • Jason Stringify (unregistered)

    *principal

  • WTFGuy (unregistered)

    Assuming there's any kernel of truth in this fine story I have to wonder about the path forward from here.

    Was Greg able to recover their source into a sensible folder structure, get it into a source control system, etc.?, Was he then able to de-Frankify enough of it fast enough to let IniTech survive, while also not crashing their app(s) and their business? If the CEO is making the introductions, this IniTech is a small firm whose lifeblood is that codebase, whether it makes the company run or it's their only product.

    In so many of these "new sheriff" stories we in the audience, or at least me, tend to assume the new person is good, damn good. And given time and resources commensurate to the task will right the ship. Often that's not true; they're simply differently bad and will end up applying their own unique brand of stink to the already festering mess. then quitting in futility or being fired for lack of progress.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered)

    ... so TRWTF is Jordan walking in on Frank without knocking? At least announce you're entering, allowing a man time to adjust his clothing as necessary.

  • Sole Purpose Of Visit (unregistered)

    Aah, the classics. This reminds me of why I missed each and every one of Eric Gern's submissions.

    Because he can't write for toffee, that's why.

  • I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯ (unregistered)

    Mentat, you say?

    It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire shaking, The shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

  • two of a kind (unregistered) in reply to Prime Mover

    Greg threw a glass of wine on the portrait of Dorian Grey while throwing the one ring to rule them all into the fires of mount doom.

  • UserK (unregistered)

    I think using c: and vim also deserves an honorable mention.

  • kaewberg (unregistered) in reply to I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯

    Nice image of a programmer genius shaking from caffeine overdose having a underling type :-)

  • kaewberg (unregistered) in reply to I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯

    Great Dune pastiche BTW, Dunno.

  • WTFGuy (unregistered)

    Achieving one's target eyeball jiggle rate is indeed one of the keys to the mentat way. Some younglings swear by Red Bull; the elder wizards know caffeine is the One True Path.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    In the words of Eric Clapton;

    "She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, Caffeine ..."

  • If it works, it ain't stupid (unregistered)

    “You can’t trust any string encoding,” Frank said.

    Wait till Frank hears that the source code (and his hex codes) are encoded as strings...

  • clubs21ids (unregistered)
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