Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

An Ask Lemmy topic recently was “what are some video games that don’t exist.” I gave three answers, but held one back because it does technically exist.

SQIJ! for the ZX Spectrum was designed to be terrible by a programmer that, as I understand it, was contractually obligated to program a game, but had grown to hate the company. He wrote a game that turned the caps lock on so none of the movement keys worked, and if you edit the code with a memory poke to turn caps lock off, you’ll find there’s no game. It was written in BASIC, and the first line is the most passive aggressive thing I’ve ever read:

1 goto 2

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