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I worked with this guy once... I was coding pure C# all day long, using WinForms... this was back in 2016, so not long ago... And then they hired this guy to develop the core intranet of a ~500 user institution. Skinny guy, quiet. Main skills: Erlang, D, OCaml and other more obscure programming languages... At the beginning I thought, "fuck me, recruitment failed miserably on this one...". I just couldn't see how he was going to be a good fit for a company that mainly worked in the Microsoft ecosystem, of course, his project was a separate thing, or so they told us. This guy was able to literally just sit there and code on HIS OWN laptop, some banged-up dell latitude, for 7.5 hours non stop... His OS of choice was Slackware and believe me or not, he carried a Slackware live cd at ALL TIMES! After work we used to go for pints to a pub and he used to piss all over Microsoft and the company and myself and in general was very funny. He shared some of his projects and among other things he had an incredibly 'tricked' tetris implementation in D, I always thought it was poetry made code... Other that that, the product was absolutely commercial... At the same time, he had an incredible set of... oddities... He was always late! always. Used to leave tea bags sitting on a napkin next to his desktop for hours. Half eaten sandwiches on top of his laptop. Never flush the toilet (NEVER), and a collection of other incredibly inconsiderate behaviors... In the end he clashed with a product manager and was sacked on the spot. Not for lack of technical knowledge. This guy was a mastermind... |