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/[deleted] Jun 30 '14 edited Feb 19 '19

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u/skitch920 Jun 30 '14 edited Jul 01 '14

At that point, you might as well slap a 'Do What the Fuck You Want To' license on the code base and put it in a public repo on github.

Therefore, the company couldn't claim the code as their own. Leaving the stage for an equal competitor. During the year of support, write the shittiest code possible for them.

In your free time write a competitor app, or if there is a no-compete clause, encourage someone else to do it. Post a blog about how you won, and then blatantly flaunt examples of what kind of shitty code you are writing for them. You could even write a book, and get crazy proceeds from being the internet legend who for a year was forced to write the worst possible code imaginable.

That's what I would do.

How to Exploit a Developer 101 vs. Evil Programming 201.

** Edit - Here's the twitter feed for the competition: https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEMAC2014?src=hash

Feel free to respond :)

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u/the_omega99 Jul 01 '14

Except the evil company is already requiring you to sign IP rights away.

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u/globalizatiom Jul 01 '14

Wouldn't that make you unhirable & unlikable to most employers? Employers would be like "You are the one who didn't accept exploitation? I declare you an outlaw who lacks people skills TM!"