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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 08:17:53 PM

Title: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 08:17:53 PM: they're kind of taking advantage of me, but otoh, this program I wrote for them really was kind of shitty and I feel responsible for it
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: abrader on January 29, 2008, 08:19:06 PM: do it.

ITs worth it for rep.

Wait - how many hours you guess?
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: T234 on January 29, 2008, 08:19:27 PM: No.
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If it's like ten minutes of work, maybe.
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Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: abrader on January 29, 2008, 08:22:33 PM: Quote from: T234 on January 29, 2008, 08:19:27 PM
No.
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If it's like ten minutes of work, maybe.
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Rep is sometimes priceless tho - what tier is the client?

MArketing op?
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 29, 2008, 08:23:40 PM: it's the communist thing to do
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 08:32:17 PM: ok, fixed. I think. I can't test it because it's written in a proprietary embedded scripting language for a program I no longer have access to :lol
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: T234 on January 29, 2008, 08:36:09 PM: HOW IN THE FUDGE DO YOU JUST UP AND MAKE A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WTF!

And how good do languages that companies use internally-only turn out? Perl and such has tons of people working with it and stuff.
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: demi on January 29, 2008, 08:37:13 PM: Depending on the project I'd ask for compensation
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: abrader on January 29, 2008, 08:37:24 PM: LOL that was so easy - its not worth rep or $$ ;)
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 08:38:26 PM: Quote
HOW IN THE FUDGE DO YOU JUST UP AND MAKE A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WTF!

And how good do languages that companies use internally-only turn out? Perl and such has tons of people working with it and stuff.

if the language designers and implementors know what they're fucking doing it should turn out just fine, but that's rare.

there are plenty of legitimate uses for domain-specific languages. This particular one, however, happens to be the worst programming language/environment I've ever encountered.
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: T234 on January 29, 2008, 08:46:30 PM: Is it a security thing or what?
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 08:48:44 PM: It's not proprietary to this company, it's proprietary to an application they use. A horrible application, but it happens to be an industry standard. >:(

There was also a language proprietary to this company, which had a horrible implementation. I rewrote the implementation from scratch and made some fixes to the language design at the same time. As far as I know, my version which I spent several months working on was never actually used due to political issues, which is one of the reasons I'm no longer there.
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 09:00:15 PM: Nothing nearly that interesting. This is just Java with some features removed, a few half-assed misfeatures added, a buggy implementation and no decent tools or libraries. Unfortunately this program doesn't provide an API for scripting in anything other than their shitty language.
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: abrader on January 29, 2008, 09:09:33 PM: LOGO
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: Shuri on January 29, 2008, 09:24:11 PM: fuck no. Ask for money. Don't be a push over.
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: T234 on January 29, 2008, 09:32:26 PM: HAY GUYZ CHECK OUT MAH CODE:
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
#pgm1.pl - My Real Name
#

print "Hello\n";

exit;
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Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: PhoenixWright on January 30, 2008, 02:19:19 PM: Do it once, but if they start taking advantage, just refuse outright. Few things worse than a former employer thinking you still work for them (I speak from experience.)
Title: Re: Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 30, 2008, 02:58:16 PM: Logo and APL are languages with value and I resent you guys trying to associate them with ******** which is just crap.

my former boss offered to buy me lunch. But I'm not in the area.