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  • Something about the field though seems to really attract the super assholes and they’re so assholish that they color the perception of the whole field.

    I’m not so sure about that, when my friends who work in finance tell me about the people they work with their stories often make me think that I’ve been very lucky to end up in a field like software where people in general are so nice, helpful and cooperative.

    It all depends on what one compares with, I guess.


















  • Once I ended up in a situation where I was required to be present in the office but didn’t actually have any tasks to perform (all work on our project had been halted by some patent lawsuit).

    So I simply talked to my manager and asked if it’d be OK if I used the time I had to sit there with nothing to do to work on open source projects and after some initial confusion he agreed to this so that’s how I then spent my working days (until the work they actually paid me for eventually got going again).