In a situation like that, I would talk to the higher-ups (definition left intentionally vague, as the details vary from company to company) and explain that the salesman is abusing a harmful conflict of interest by using his position as a representative of the company to make deals that enrich himself while at the same time bringing financial ...

[quote user="joe.edwards"][quote user="blakeyrat"]If the programming language has a feature that's easily-abused, it's a bad programming language.[/quote] If a single poorly thought-out feature makes the whole language bad, I don't know of any good languages.[/quote] Agreed.  Plenty of otherwise-good ...

[quote user="Arnavion"] [quote user="morbiuswilters"]I don't get this obsession with terseness. "Hey, let's all write in perl and then nobody will ever be able to read code again!"[/quote] It's not just verbosity of writing but also verbosity of reading. Surely you agree that C#'s lambdas are less ...

[quote user="MiffTheFox"]Loose expressions becoming return statements. grade = (student) -> if student.excellentWork "A+" else if student.okayStuff if student.triedHard then "B" else "B-" else "C" [/quote]  Wait... so does an if statement require a ...

Why?  Because you must test everything! And then your codebase will be magical and shiny and all your code works! You obviously don't understand. Have some more Kool-Aid.

[quote user="blakeyrat"]If your code relies on a library, MAKE A COPY OF THAT LIBRARY AND PUT IT IN YOUR PROJECT. Sure, go ahead and keep a list of the URLs you downloaded it from, and occasionally check for updates, no arguments there. But shit like Nuget or this Go feature will just cause pain 6 months down the ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]he's linking to Mother Cunt Jones (there's someone who deserved a mouthful of buckshot), for fuck's sake--he may as well put on a hat that says "I'm incapable of rational thought and should be forced into a prison camp where my bodily nutrients will be extracted for the benefit of ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="Mason Wheeler"]I'm a computer programmer.  I have a very scientific, rational mindset--you have to, in order ot be any good at coding...[/quote] Bullshit. If this site has taught you nothing else, it should have been that programmers are as irrational and as prone to ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="Mason Wheeler"]...and (almost) everything to do with leaded gasoline, or more specifically the absence thereof.[/quote] Bullshit. The Reyes study couldn't even find a link between property crime or murder and lead.[/quote] Umm... what? I'm not sure what you've been ...

[quote user="boomzilla"]But if you'd rather be like a Colorado liberal and tell women that they couldn't defend themselves with a gun because their rapist would just take it from them, well, who am I to tell you otherwise? Maybe you just care less that your wife, mother, sister, daughter or granddaughter is able to defend ...