“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

The code directly below:

function getPathToUploadDirectory() {
  return config.tmp_path
}

Ligature, not lineature.

That’s easy, just create new accounts every time you login.

K&R for life

Better not tell them about daemons I guess.

I once fixed a bug in credit card payment form because someone had gotten some formatting character screwed up and used a capital M in some place where a lower case m should have been. Since it was a payment system they couldn’t take payment for a while whilst that was screwed up. I was contracting there and happened to notice it. Sometimes all it takes is one character.

To be fair, sometimes I look at my own code and think it was done in another language, and I only know English.

• GitHub
• Gitlab
• Airbnb
• Shopify
• Hulu
• Zendesk
• Basecamp, obviously

I know of a bunch of less famous ones, but those are a few of the bigger ones that I’m aware of.

I always remap my tab key to ctrl. Where is your god now…

I took engineering for a year before I realized it had nothing to do with trains.