I was at home in between classes and work, and my mom was home telecommuting. I overheard there needed to be some change to some C code, and no one knew C. I asked if I could see it, and I wanted to know the task. It was C code for a barcode scanner and all it had to do was allow another barcode type to be scanned. Which was pretty easy to figure out from looking at the rest of the code, so I made some alterations and my mother told her boss that it was done, just hadn't been compiled yet... he freaked out and said what we were doing was illegal. So she told me to stop, and I was like "LOL FINE" and now they had to hire someone on or something that probably cost the company thousands of dollars, heh whatever. After 2 weeks the C programmer that was hired on checked the altered code and compiled it (he said he had to work a weekend on it, even though he made no further changes)
Now, I don't know C well enough to code much more than hello world and if then statements in C... can I put this on my resume? "Got hold of source code illegally, made correct alterations"?
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Anonymous2006-03-31 2:21
It's illegal to let some kid make changes for free, but OK to pay a random "professional" to do it?
Maybe your mother's boss is just stupid. Bosses often are. He probably thinks that open sores is illegal too.
>>1
If you tell your employer you've ever looked at ANY code, you will never get hired.
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Anonymous2006-03-31 13:13
Perhaps they were worried that he wasn't under the NDA?
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Anonymous2006-03-31 19:17
>>5
Unless you are applying for a management position.
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Anonymous2006-04-03 23:50
>>2
yep. if you want me to look over code, then i'll invoice your ass. and dont ever give it to a kid to look over it. no quality assurance. and fact that it didn't compile meant that it didn't work. no working code == waste of time.
anyways, on the other hand, that's good work kid. real potential. just need to bill/invoice the company and put a price tag on what you do.
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Anonymous2006-04-04 4:35 (sage)
>>8
Read the post tard. It didn't compile because the boss ordered them not to compile it because it's ZOMG ILLEGAL!!11 for some reason.