The documentation black hole

In 2008 I started my second job at a big defense firm. Before that, I worked a couple of years at Mekensleep, a video game studio; it was fun, but I didn’t earn enough to cover my expenses. After the dot com crash there were few jobs for inexperienced software developers. The defense firm was notoriously cheap; they avoided hiring people with more than a few years of experience. The company was…