Glad to see more folks discussing this. I'm sure it's reassuring to the new developer that this wasn't their fault.
It's still amazing how badly that company is being managed from a technical perspective.
It's still amazing how badly that company is being managed from a technical perspective.
I see posts of this nature all the time on r/csquestions. This one just happened to go viral.
See -- Programmer Automates His Job Away for 6 years and then forgets how to program.
I don't think any individual aspect of the story is unbelievable, but when taken as a whole it stretches credulity.
Lulz, getting one over on the Internet, being able to fabricate a plausible story and see people all over the world reacting to it. Some people get off on weird stuff.