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I went to the same uni with the guy and we shared some classes , he basically cheated his way through it. He does have a way with words and the boss not being a techie, he consistently gives him half baked facts sometimes flat out wrong details with confidence and the bossman believes him, even congratulates his brilliance.
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@Frederick you should feel a lot better about yourself if you know you’re a decent engineer. I sit around these kinds of devs a lot and they never, ever complete projects but give them a chance to shit on someone else’s and suddenly they’re a god.
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@Frederick my self taught career has just been validated 🎉🍻
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@M1sf3t I don’t mind that hustle, everyone has to survive. My problem with this particular individual is how much shit they talk about other successful projects. I sometimes have to sit around the dude and listen to him talk about “lost” projects that he never published or how he used to hack all the largest corporations in the world but has recently “forgotten” how to do it and the best one of how he won’t implement certain projects because he’s being spied on. I shit you not these are actual conversations we have at the office everyday.
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The only time I am willing to use some open-source code is when I know that I can't do better than what's already been done.
Like I'm not gonna be able to implement a FFT better, than what numpy already has. But rule of thumb:
Home-made >>> other people's shit
I've had these people in Uni, where they would look up code, try to run, and if it works just change variable names and submit it. Like come on, wtf
Albeit, bullshitting can be life-saving in some situations
So I work at a startup working on “cutting edge” technology with two other devs. Our lead engineer is an interesting fellow. The guy never ever writes a single line of code, just looks for similar projects online and receives a lot of credit for it, I have to hand it to him though, he has an ability to scheme through information and pick the gist of what’s going on but when it comes to detail, he’s seriously lacking. We recently started a projects a couple of weeks back and it was supposed to be an easy two days of hacking and we would be done but instead the guy looks for code online copies it I change the necessary variables to match the use case then it doesn’t work. So we’ve spent weeks debugging this code because someone is afraid to get their hands dirty. I can’t complain to the bosses because they’re not techies and the trust him more since I’m still new to the company.
I love their attitude though, they honestly believe they have a chance against some giants in tech and from the actual talent I’ve witnessed they’ll only get there through sheer luck.
I have to sit there and listen to them shit on more successful tech companies and that they have better ideas.
Maybe someone can change my mind on this issue as I’m still young and new to this industry.
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