Office plagiarism

[SlinkyMike]

lol, I'm 29. I still don't take ****. You can take that to the bank.

There is lots to be gained by ingratiating yourself to the people around you. Many of the things we admire and respect were accomplished though collaboration and also through hierarchical structures. I'm not saying go be an automaton but rather learn what good can be created in a given situation and how to arrive at it.

The reason I took a guess at your age is that you still have that cocksure attitude that results from a fair amount of natural talent; honed skill and outright ignorance. I have a couple years on you and I am only now getting a glimpse of exactly how much I really don't know.

you should learn to distinguish between a hypothetical implementation of something and what we are actually saying. which in this case we are having a piss at using a bug to show who made the code and lastly having a laugh over it- not like anyone really here are about to do it or (i hope) have done it. my f00f bug was a point out to when i was still in dev school where as we humored each other with oddities and not just be there learning like some bunch of retarded robots.

...umm.. not sure but I think you may have lost the thread a little. Either that or I have

 

[guest2013-1]

There is lots to be gained by ingratiating yourself to the people around you. Many of the things we admire and respect were accomplished though collaboration and also through hierarchical structures. I'm not saying go be an automaton but rather learn what good can be created in a given situation and how to arrive at it.

The reason I took a guess at your age is that you still have that cocksure attitude that results from a fair amount of natural talent; honed skill and outright ignorance. I have a couple years on you and I am only now getting a glimpse of exactly how much I really don't know.

lol, I frequently admit that I don't know much. I really truely don't. Sometimes, compared with others I can't even believe I can write a single line of code.

But one thing I started doing from when I first started writing code for money was to tell myself "I'm the best. Nothing is impossible. If I can't figure this out nobody can"

Because early on I got quite depressed. Especially if I couldn't figure out WHY or HOW something worked.

The only thing I do know is I'm good at my job. I suck at the rest of life. But I know I'm good at what I do.

And I can give you names and phone numbers to call and you can ask them about my attitude. It's exactly what you mentioned. I don't mind being ignorant. As long as I can show you something is not "impossible"

Funny, going back to my prev company I did some contract work for them and the one programmer (new dude I didn't know) required help to figure something out and I'm like, "Where'd you get that library" and he's like "no I wrote it".... so I was like "ahu, and you'll notice on line xyz a function with the name "print" which handles everything automatically for you etc etc etc"

Turns out I was the one who wrote the library, he just added some xml feature or whatever and couldn't figure out why the printer kept printing wrong because of different versions of adobe acrobat.... eish indeed. but anyway!!

Even though I come across ignorant it's mostly because I know whats going on, how to solve the problem and in the simplest way. I do have a fair understanding in view points and can change my opinion.

 

[greggpb]

Integrating yourself if fine for employee's.. but once you hit the niche market and start chargin 1000+ an hour the company hire you cause you can do the job and nothing else.. not because you are a nice guy ....

I can be a real prick specially to big corporates but I have when i have to sit in their office and sort out junk and they are like a library..

I have had developer's at most of the major banks in south africa and 2 in London. When i say some of my programmer or analysts were hippy guys who wore tie dye, jean fully of patches and the sort who would change clothes in the middle on the big corporate office where everyone was cuff linking in their pins stripes. There might be a complaint from the client but my response was always I can have them leave.

the client normal quieted down after that.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Don't you have source control in the office?

Check your work in and the guy can build onto that. You can get the credit for the initial gruntwork since all that will be under your name and he can get the credit for prettyfying it.

 

[Necuno]

mr Necromancer ?

 

[guest2013-1]

I started adding

License	:   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/za/
			You are free:
				* to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
				* to Remix — to adapt the work
			Under the following conditions:
				* Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
				* Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
Author	:   AcidRaZor

To anything I do, and whenever someone requests me to give them the code (I won't charge for it, code should be free...) I usually get them to agree to not modify the original author or license attached to my work.

 

[dequadin]

I'm a fan of the WTFPL, all my code is released under that!

 

[guest2013-1]

I'm a fan of the WTFPL, all my code is released under that!

That's great if you're working within the same company. But when ex-company employees ask me for my code I demo'ed to them whilst not employed there to further their own projects, I insist that they keep the disclaimer/notice there and not change anything including giving me acknowledgment as the author.

Even when I was working with the company it ended up that most of my original ideas was made "their own" (I'm talking about the employee not the company) and subsequently (and apparently) I had nothing to do with the code.

Sure I admit that the code did change a lot since my original scribblings... but still... anyway...