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		curiously on July 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microservice Trade-Offs wonder if they did it to increase their job security. "If I make something that only I can understand, my job is guaranteed, and if it's complicated the longer I can stay employed"

shift8 on July 2, 2015 [–]

plenty of bad code out there built with more popular tools and patterns that only few people understand =)

curiously on July 2, 2015 | [–]

"so I wrote our backend using brainfuck and we've been using it for a year now, you really think you can fire me?"

shift8 on July 2, 2015 | | [–]

hahaha, love it. and you wrote the readme in zalgo, right?

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