Author here. Story is loosely based on my real life. As in, I was/am the Harry. At bofa, my previous employer, I tried to be a nice quant & find math-y solutions to what turned out to be plain accountancy problems that a simple nested sql query or a stored procedure could have solved.
So I quit, and here at my current employer, once again I mess around with monoids, rings & vector spaces, though I'm not really sure how any of this adds to my employer's bottom line:)
Matter of fact, my latest pull request (http://bit.ly/14EXMaA ) allows you to do weird shit like
add("twenty three",
"two million three thousand four hundred fifty five")
to get "two million three thousand four hundred seventy eight", because add is defined like so -
def add(a:String, b:String):String = EnglishInt(EnglishInt(a).asInt+EnglishInt(b).asInt).get
> Tom was a PHP/JS programmer. He worked on rapidly prototyped web-apps and didn't give a rat's ass about efficiency.
Although I'm happy you quit and did not get fired, know this now does pull some of the poetry out of the above line, which I had previous read as some sort of backhanded a compliment given the other (fictionalized) ending.
Perhaps I'm being overly-sensitive but Harry comes off as really looking down your nose at "good enough". For example, there certainly seems no love lost on you and Tom fictionalizing (?) the character as Dick's "secretary."
So I quit, and here at my current employer, once again I mess around with monoids, rings & vector spaces, though I'm not really sure how any of this adds to my employer's bottom line:)
Matter of fact, my latest pull request (http://bit.ly/14EXMaA ) allows you to do weird shit like