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Rampant Drug Use in the Silicon Valley? Say it ain't so...
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2014 Jul 29, 2:17am 1,885 views 5 comments
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Peter P
2014 Jul 29, 2:26am
I have seen the work of those so-called workaholic coders. Absolute piece of crap.
I love seeing the look on their faces when it is obvious that their "hard work" will come to naught because of bad design and obvious holes. Funny thing is, their gem of a work can usually be redone very quickly. They must have been horribly unproductive with their time.
Those programmers who are constantly pressured by deadlines need to polish their soft skills.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Jul 29, 2:34am
I live for impossible deadlines!
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HydroCabron
2014 Jul 29, 2:38am
I have seen the work of those so-called workaholic coders. Absolute piece of crap.
I love seeing the look on their faces when it is obvious that their "hard work" will come to naught because of bad design and obvious holes.
Three times I have worked with those near-mythic developers who are 10x as productive as a regular developer.
In only one of those cases was the super-developer substantially more productive, at the cost of alienating the rest of the team through paranoid, obessive control of the architecture. And all three did this to the rest of the team, either through spaghetti code or changing API calls and other architectural features over weekends or Christmas day (!), breaking other people's code without consulting them.
In one case, she was super nice, but the spaghetti was incredible - there were several screaming matches with other developers who were tired of cleaning up her code as she grabbed all the glory.
One guy, hearing that the server room was to be moved to the old break room, ran home and then came back at 5:30 p.m. with a tool belt to remove the cabinetry from the break room: he absolutely could not stand the idea that another employee would do anything at the company, even if it was a contract construction worker.
Peter P
2014 Jul 29, 2:42am
A good developer does not write spaghetti code. Productivity comes from an architecture that is robust against requirement changes.
Ceffer
2014 Jul 29, 3:06am
I was wondering why my computer is always asking to go to a twelve step meeting.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_26219187?source=inthenews
While precise numbers of techie drug users are impossible to come by, most treatment and addiction experts see evidence of a growing problem borne of a potent cocktail: newly minted wealth, intense competition between companies and among their workers, the deadline pressure of one product launch after another and a robust regional black-market drug pipeline.
"There's this workaholism in the valley, where the ability to work on crash projects at tremendous rates of speed is almost a badge of honor," says Steve Albrecht, a San Diego consultant who teaches substance abuse awareness for Bay Area employers. "These workers stay up for days and days, and many of them gradually get into meth and coke to keep going. Red Bull and coffee only gets them so far."
Furthering the problem, many tech companies do little or no drug testing because, as Albrecht put it, "they want the results, but they don't want to know how their employees got the results."
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