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Over time we actually found him to be more of a -2x engineer, but thats another story

edit: reminded me of the old joke

A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer returns home with 12 gallons of milk and says, “They had eggs.”




The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk


Ah, the "and" ruins that joke for me by signifying a separate clause. I think the original is:

> A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”


'Antiwork' - every hour they work uses up more than an hour of other engineers' time in questions, meetings, and later fixes.


Correct - they do bad work quickly which requires 2x the time on repairs


> more of a -2x engineer

You just needed to find another one like him, and bam, +4×.

(It is actually conceivable that two bad engineers could mostly cancel each other out, if they can occupy each other enough, but it’s not the most likely outcome.)




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