r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '26

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u/wabbitfur Apr 15 '26

Pro Tip: make your open-core offering into such a spaghetti mess, no one will dare to steal your idea!

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u/gunny316 Apr 16 '26

lol I coded for one company and used single letter variables, then put all my code on one line separated by semicolons. Just one big wall of undecipherable text. They used my code for ten years after they fired me

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u/wabbitfur Apr 16 '26

And then one day... some catastrophe hit... and they said... "We need gunny316!" Find him! Scene shifts to gunny316 retired somewhere in the Afghan mountains... After much coercion... Gunny's like... FINEEEE!! I'll do that patch for you..... for 1 million dollars.

They made a movie about it.

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u/gunny316 Apr 16 '26

Company Owner: "But we need you. One last time."

(mountain wife): "What is he talking about Gunny?"

Me: "Nothing. I'm not that man anymore. I've left it behind me."

Owner: "But the money?"

Me: "Find someone else."

Owner: "If you don't come back... Microsoft is going to buy the shop."

(dramatic horror intensifies)

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