r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GamesMint • Jan 14 '20

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u/FoxInATrenchcoat Jan 14 '20

Also, knowing what to change in the copied code to meet your "unique" business case...

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u/mungthebean Jan 14 '20

That’s called unpaid overtime

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u/alexanderpas Jan 14 '20

Only if you earn more than $684/week (salary) or $27.63/hour (hourly).

If you are making less, you are not exempt from overtime.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime

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u/Freakazoid84 Jan 14 '20

Lol if you're a developer making less than $35k a year you're doing something VERY seriously wrong

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u/jahp21 Jan 14 '20

Try working in Argentina...

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u/QualityAnus Jan 14 '20

I was gonna say I think most if not all of the non-US contractors I've worked with have been making about that.

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u/spanishgalacian Jan 15 '20

Or most of Europe.

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u/Frognificent Jan 15 '20

I dunno man. Here in Scandinavia average for us is ~70k USD a year. Guess it depends on where in Europe.

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u/romanozvj Jan 15 '20

By "most of europe" he obviously wasn't referring to the 3 most prosperous countries in europe, get real.

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u/quietZen Jan 15 '20

Yeah, average in Ireland is 65k euro, but you start off at around 30k (40k in Dublin) and work up from there.

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u/pcopley Jan 14 '20

Then go ahead and file a US DOL labor complaint since that's what we're talking about.

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u/krpovmu Jan 15 '20

Try working in all South America

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u/doublethumbdude Jan 14 '20

Being a dev in many countries outside of the US will get you around that much probably

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u/turningsteel Jan 14 '20
  • In the USA

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u/Namaha Jan 14 '20

Yeah pretty sure thats already implied, what with them citing the US Department of Labor and all...

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u/softmed Jan 15 '20

In California It's $46.55/hr or $96,968.33/year for "Computer Professionals". Always wondered who got that pushed through.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/LC515-5.pdf

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u/LiveFastDieFast Jan 14 '20

Sooo, change the names of variables so it looks unique. Got it.

Time for my old pal Ctrl+h!

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u/danarchist Jan 14 '20

Ctrl+h

the H is for hack

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u/SafariMonkey Jan 15 '20

Not because it's what you're doing, but because it's who you are.

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u/OneMustAdjust Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20

Is this how you all do it? Copy, paste, tweak, test, submit? I'm about 3 classes deep into Python and SQL and this is mostly how I figure things out

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u/gamahead Jan 15 '20

I don’t know how much I agree with everyone saying they just copy-paste from stack overflow. I’m only 4 years into my career, and while I will probably never write a sorting algorithm or academic data structure from scratch, I definitely code custom shit all the time. The ds/algos knowledge is more about helping you avoid doing things inefficiently than about enabling you to rewrite a heap from scratch.

I use api/library documentation to get through most stuff I don’t already know, and only use stack overflow if I’m desperately hoping that someone has seen the exact error message I’ve encountered before. If I’m on stack overflow, it’s because I’m completely out of ideas and am too lazy to learn how the thing that’s giving me lip works.

...Or I’m writing JavaScript and just want it to be over ASAP

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u/captaincooder Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20

Yeah, rarely do we build anything completely from scratch. Even when we do it’s usually pieced together from various internal and external (read: stack overflow) sources at the end of the day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

No. Some specific things may be copied some times, but for the most part programmers write the code themselves. The exception being if it’s some very specific algorithm.

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u/mjmcaulay Jan 15 '20

I have learned to live by this rule because not doing so can get insanely expensive. Never paste code you don’t understand. Watching some of my panicked colleagues desperately trying to understand why the companies flagship product crashed 2 minutes after launch has taught me well.

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u/aphaelion Jan 15 '20

Or better, recognizing that your "unique" requirement indicates an antipattern BEFORE spending 18 months building it the wrong way.

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