29 Jan
2021
29 Jan
'21
6:57 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Norman Jaffe via cctalk once stated:
It happened to me as well - I found hundreds of warnings in the code and,
after getting permission to address them, I was fired
Wait ... you got *permission* and were still *fired*? Have I just been
fortunate in where I've worked my entire career? [1]
because 'we would
have to recompile the Windows version due to the changes you made'; the
source code was reverted to the state before I made the changes.
Wouldn't you have to recompile the Windows version for updates? Or was
the company too cheap (or was unable to) run regression tests?
I refuse
to have their product on any system that I have involvement with...
Can you name names? Or do you need to protect yourself?
-spc
[1] Possibly yes.