On: What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?

[mcguire]

If Hubert the Husky makes a shit-ton of money, the definition of "did wrong" changes.

[inflatableDodo → mcguire]

I don't care how much money someone earns, be it a dog or otherwise, or if they can buy me untold carpets. I am still going to tell them off if they shit in the middle of the living room floor.

[Tade0 → inflatableDodo]

Problem is, the incentive for businesses is to fire you and make Hubert the Husky happy, so only such businesses survive.

[inflatableDodo → Tade0]

I knew there was a good reason why I hadn't commented any code, named all variables using the elvish translations for a variety of diseases of sheep and built the DB backend out of practically unknown fork of paradox for dos that will only run queries if you keep the lowercase letter 'j' held down.

edit - also known as 'best practice' when writing bespoke software for industry.