Comment by dj_axl
3 days ago
Thread.sleep(100000) everywhere until it breaks. Then lo and behold you have fought fires longly and bravely until midnight on Friday after the release. Don't ask me why it's rewarded, and, of course every now and then they switch to rewarding different things.
Correct multi-threaded code is... sss... hard.
Much easier to liberally sprinkle mutex locks and "Thread.Sleep(1000); // Quick fix" everywhere until the problems almost always go away!
Meanwhile the guy screaming that this is eldritch madness and can't ever work is "not a team player" because the guy that wrote the code was a hero for applying yet another layer of band aids to the gaping wounds.
That might work until someone else in the org gets curious and checks the git history… I suppose some clever obfuscation might be enough to get around that but then at that point you’re basically writing malware for your own product…