Jimmy Miller

Instead, I had to go change a variable, print out a new list on a piece of paper, bring it to her desk, and she would mark which ones were right or wrong. Oh, wow.

Instead, I had to go change a variable, print out a new list on a piece of paper, bring it to her desk, and she would mark which ones were right or wrong. Oh, wow.

And then I would try to figure out based on her marks, what the bullet, and we, we did it. It took like, you know, 10 rounds of printing out pieces of paper and letting her mark on them. But, uh, yeah.

And then I would try to figure out based on her marks, what the bullet, and we, we did it. It took like, you know, 10 rounds of printing out pieces of paper and letting her mark on them. But, uh, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, there was no, you just now edited that. So that was the source code, right? That's the only thing we have is this crazy decompile thing. I cleaned up that little bit there. Right. Made it a little cleaner and added some human readable terms to it. But I mean, there's no way you can fix. It was probably a 30, 40,000 line application. Right.

Yeah. I mean, there was no, you just now edited that. So that was the source code, right? That's the only thing we have is this crazy decompile thing. I cleaned up that little bit there. Right. Made it a little cleaner and added some human readable terms to it. But I mean, there's no way you can fix. It was probably a 30, 40,000 line application. Right.

No way you're going to rewrite all of that in the time given.

No way you're going to rewrite all of that in the time given.

I mean, you got to realize this. I mean, I didn't stay there super long, but that was, I probably would have, but I met my now wife and moved, but like the, I mean, there were tons of people who'd been there five, six, eight years. This was one, a small town and, with a big city near it, but there's not a ton of programming jobs, and all of them are kind of equally crazy.

I mean, you got to realize this. I mean, I didn't stay there super long, but that was, I probably would have, but I met my now wife and moved, but like the, I mean, there were tons of people who'd been there five, six, eight years. This was one, a small town and, with a big city near it, but there's not a ton of programming jobs, and all of them are kind of equally crazy.

I knew people who had worked at other companies now and come here, and I think this kind of stuff exists a lot more. I mean, there's tons of comments being like, I thought, just like we had here, I thought I worked on this code base. This sounds very familiar. But also, I didn't know any better. I just assumed this is what...

I knew people who had worked at other companies now and come here, and I think this kind of stuff exists a lot more. I mean, there's tons of comments being like, I thought, just like we had here, I thought I worked on this code base. This sounds very familiar. But also, I didn't know any better. I just assumed this is what...

code looks like actually in the real world you know i'd seen some open source stuff but never really dived into it but i'm like oh maybe open source is better but a company this is just what you have to deal with and like while it's definitely the the most story worthy code base i've worked in like all of the things that were bad were just so obviously bad it was not a bad place to work

code looks like actually in the real world you know i'd seen some open source stuff but never really dived into it but i'm like oh maybe open source is better but a company this is just what you have to deal with and like while it's definitely the the most story worthy code base i've worked in like all of the things that were bad were just so obviously bad it was not a bad place to work

I would actually rank it on one of the better places I've worked. Not the best, but one of the better places I've worked. Part of that was definitely my position in there. I had a great manager. He was just so supportive, so nice, always made sure that I got the growth opportunities that I needed to become a better developer. He saw...

I would actually rank it on one of the better places I've worked. Not the best, but one of the better places I've worked. Part of that was definitely my position in there. I had a great manager. He was just so supportive, so nice, always made sure that I got the growth opportunities that I needed to become a better developer. He saw...

the potential that I could do and made sure to like help me and get people, you know, get more senior developers to help me learn stuff and challenge me. That was really good.

the potential that I could do and made sure to like help me and get people, you know, get more senior developers to help me learn stuff and challenge me. That was really good.

But also like, I mean, this will show my very strong bias here that I know you all might not necessarily agree with, but there was no like agile process or none of that stuff, which I have found to be like the main factor in job dissatisfaction for myself. So like the lack of process was so freeing and so nice. Yeah.

But also like, I mean, this will show my very strong bias here that I know you all might not necessarily agree with, but there was no like agile process or none of that stuff, which I have found to be like the main factor in job dissatisfaction for myself. So like the lack of process was so freeing and so nice. Yeah.