68000 Assembly Code Senior Engineer
One was at Microsoft. He kept his office dark except for a large illuminated picture of Jesus on his wall. Everyone spoke reverentially of him and knew to leave him alone. Another was at a small company I worked at. He was my senior. He disappeared for 10 days and returned with about 10,000 lines of 68000 asm code that utilized all 16 32bit registers to pass parameters instead of the stack. I was tasked with testing it. I never found anything wrong with it that weren't minor nits.
A software engineer tells a story about two mysterious senior programmers: one revered at Microsoft and another who vanished for ten days and returned with an extremely complex but flawless assembly-language program. The joke presents the second engineer as a near-supernatural “10x engineer” whose intimidating code is technically perfect despite being unconventional. EN: A software engineer tells a story about two mysterious senior programmers: one revered at Microsoft and another who vanished for ten days and returned with an extremely complex but flawless assembly-language program. The joke presents the second engineer as a near-supernatural “10x engineer” whose intimidating code is technically perfect despite being unconventional.
text post / текстовый постcomputer programmer / программистdark office / тёмный офисoffice wall / стена офисаilluminated picture / подсвеченная картинаJesus picture / картина Иисусаassembly code / ассемблерный кодcomputer registers / регистры компьютераstack / стекsoftware testing / тестирование программного обеспеченияMicrosoft office / офис Microsoftcomputer / компьютер
- @gentoomemes / 10968 2024-04-29
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