Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code

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Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 20, 2012 @08:45AM from the except-on-weekends dept.

jfruh writes "Software firm FreeCause made a bit of a splash with a policy that requires all its employees — including marketers, finance, etc. — to write JavaScript code. And not just 'code to learn basics of what JavaScript can do,' but 'write code that will be used in production.' Phil Johnson, a tech writer and editor who himself once coded for a living, thinks this is nuts, a recipe for miserable workers and substandard code."

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Marketing guy's function by crazyjj · 2012-09-20 08:45 · Score: 5, Funny

function MarketingFunction(originalText)
{
var revisedText = new String(originalText + ", which will help build synergy and increase marketshare.");
return revisedText;
}

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1. Re:Marketing guy's function by olsmeister · 2012-09-20 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or just use the Corporate BS Generator.
  Or, alternatively, here.
2. Re:Marketing guy's function by Scott+Swezey · 2012-09-20 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The other side of the coin... why non marketing guys shouldn't write marketing materials:
  
  function MarketingFunction(originalText)
  {
  var revisedText = new String(originalText + ", which will help build synergy and increase marketshare.");
  return revisedText;
  }
  
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3. Re:Marketing guy's function by RenderSeven · 2012-09-20 09:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hardly a fair comparison. No one in sales/marketing/management could pass a Turing test to begin with.
4. Re:Marketing guy's function by CanHasDIY · 2012-09-20 09:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  do you think the marketing exec could pass the Turing test?
  Well, perhaps, if not for the satanic ritual that's part of graduating from marketing school, during which the individual's soul and humanity are removed and replaced with tapioca pudding.
  
  Before you ask, it's obviously because tapioca is the most evil of all puddings.
  
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5. Re:Marketing guy's function by SomeJoel · 2012-09-20 10:28 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What if your targeted market is IT professionals?
  Then you have a failed business model since IT professionals, as a rule, have no budget.
  
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6. Re:Marketing guy's function by cowdung · 2012-09-20 15:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or just use the Corporate BS Generator.
  Or, alternatively, here.
  I prefer this site for my Corporate BS. Thanks.
I see nothing wrong with this by Sparticus789 · 2012-09-20 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

While they are at it, perhaps their accounting department should replace the plumbing in their office building, the secretaries should swap the engine in the CEO's car, and let's have the janitors install a new security system. What could possibly go wrong?

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Re:Appreciation Exercise by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-20 10:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I would have hated to get heart surgery from one of their doctors.