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I have done some pretty funny and sometimes stupid things throughout my career. I would like to share a funny story on something accidentally I did today. I normally work from home and use a separate VMware (operating system self contained in a app)  image to do my work  and thus my personal stuff is usually private. I was not paying attention since work wasn’t too busy. Normally I try to keep access to both my personal im app and work im app. Well like an idiot I was kidding around with my friend but accidentally sent the message to a coworker. The context the message was used must have made me look kind of crazy but hopefully he realized after my apology that it was just a mistake.

Remember pay attention or you may have a embarassing situation like me.

I usually remote in to the office most of the time but I decided to go to the office one day. I was sitting at my desk the other day and I overheard a very interesting and funny conversation.  It seems this Indian supervisor at work was talking on the phone (probably to the offshore team) and was annoyed that someone checked in Java classes that had a method with 600 lines. Who in they’re right mind would code such a unmaintainable monster?

No computer programmer that I have ever met from the newbie to the expert would ever think of coding like that. Perhaps they’re trying to get job security by writing code that they can only understand. This is not the old days like coders used to get away with that. It does not work like that in today’s work environment. It will only annoy people and make the programmer look bad.

I’ve seen some interesting videos related to programming but this has got to be the coolest video I’ve seen in a long time. What do you get when you get a software developer with a talent for music. You get a parody if Let it be called Write in C which is a Let it be parody. I really could relate to this song.