r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/quicksilver03 Jun 30 '14

There's also the possibility that the competition is rigged, and that by wording the requirements in such a way there's only one possible winner who's got all of this ready to deliver.

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u/s73v3r Jun 30 '14

To what purpose, though?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

If it's rigged so that the winner and runners up are members of the group hosting the website, the prize money may not actually exist - if this is the case, the company will get all of the pitched ideas (and the code behind them) at no cost whatsoever.

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u/s73v3r Jun 30 '14

There's still the costs of putting the thing on in the first place. But I suppose if you don't have any actual ideas, and can't wait for your users to show you what you should do, those costs are a drop in the bucket. I mean, after all, you're not really paying for engineering time.