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If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical.
This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget.
I wrote my first line of code at 6 years old. I’m no prodigy though. I had a lot of help from my dad at the time. But I was hooked. I loved it.
By the time I was 15, I was working part-time for my dad’s consulting firm. I built websites and coded small components for business apps on weekends and in the summer.
I was woefully underpaid. But as my dad still likes to point out, I got free room and board, and some pretty valuable work experience.
Read more here. (Medium)
Good read.
TL;DR - Guy wrote program to "market" a particular drug. This drug made someone suicide. Guy is uncomfortable. Guy has a sister who's taking the same drug, tells her to get off the drugs ASAP.
This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget.
I wrote my first line of code at 6 years old. I’m no prodigy though. I had a lot of help from my dad at the time. But I was hooked. I loved it.
By the time I was 15, I was working part-time for my dad’s consulting firm. I built websites and coded small components for business apps on weekends and in the summer.
I was woefully underpaid. But as my dad still likes to point out, I got free room and board, and some pretty valuable work experience.
Read more here. (Medium)
Good read.
TL;DR - Guy wrote program to "market" a particular drug. This drug made someone suicide. Guy is uncomfortable. Guy has a sister who's taking the same drug, tells her to get off the drugs ASAP.
