Random thought of the day
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
The day we move away from flat design will be... a relief.
The Bas Jokes thread is
The Off By One thread is
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@M_Adams said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
The day we move away from flat design will be... a relief.
The Bas Jokes thread is
The Off By One thread is
/r/thirdsub
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Notebook is not ebook.
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@Gąska with less space.
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Humansona.
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I often have no idea how dumb a person is until I interact with them directly.
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Referencing the past is cheap. If Doctor Who wants to do time travel right, they should start showing future Doctors.
Pick an actor, age him 15 years with special effects, sign a contract for the series that starts 15 years in the future, then you can have him casually show up in anticipation.
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I thought about the birthday problem and how the probability of two people sharing a birthday grows much quicker than intuition would tell you, I got to wonder what was the likelihood of two random TDWTFers working in the same company, and whether it was higher than we might think.
Using the quick approximation and assuming 10 million IT companies exist in the world (there are apparently about 30 millions businesses in the US only, but many of those will never have an IT professional as permanent employee), if we have 1000 real users (this page indicates 5963 pages of 24 users each, but by number of posts only about the first 50 pages of users have a somewhat realistic number of posts) then the probability is about 5%. Not very high, but not really negligible either.
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
(of course the number of relevant companies is likely much higher in the world, and this doesn't count duplicate users -- although those obviously share the same company! -- but OTOH it doesn't count lurkers either, and every other kind of
you can think of, but hey, it's just a RTOTD...)
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
Interesting.
Fortunately, given the kind of forum WTDWTF is, there's a self-selection effect. Even if someone from the same company is reading what you write, it's pretty unlikely to be a manager, HR person, or even the colleague whose coding abilities you're bitching about.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
Interesting.
Fortunately, given the kind of forum WTDWTF is, there's a self-selection effect. Even if someone from the same company is reading what you write, it's pretty unlikely to be a manager, HR person, or even the colleague whose coding abilities you're bitching about.
And even if it was, they'd probably be nodding their head in agreement - well, unless it's one of "those" discussions...
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
I thought about the birthday problem and how the probability of two people sharing a birthday grows much quicker than intuition would tell you, I got to wonder what was the likelihood of two random TDWTFers working in the same company, and whether it was higher than we might think.
There was a guy about 10 years ago who I'm pretty certain worked at my company. Granted, we're a big company and I had never met him (and probably worked about 800 miles apart), though I believe that our organizations within the company have merged since then.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
I thought about the birthday problem and how the probability of two people sharing a birthday grows much quicker than intuition would tell you, I got to wonder what was the likelihood of two random TDWTFers working in the same company, and whether it was higher than we might think.
Using the quick approximation and assuming 10 million IT companies exist in the world (there are apparently about 30 millions businesses in the US only, but many of those will never have an IT professional as permanent employee), if we have 1000 real users (this page indicates 5963 pages of 24 users each, but by number of posts only about the first 50 pages of users have a somewhat realistic number of posts) then the probability is about 5%. Not very high, but not really negligible either.
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
(of course the number of relevant companies is likely much higher in the world, and this doesn't count duplicate users -- although those obviously share the same company! -- but OTOH it doesn't count lurkers either, and every other kind of
you can think of, but hey, it's just a RTOTD...)
We tend to have more programmers than systems guys, and the percentage of companies with programmers is probably lower than 30%, thus raising our odds.
I have a hunch that one of the managers at my last company was at the least a lurker here, because on more than one occasion he used phrases that are more common here than elsewhere, e.g. "El Heffe".
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
That's why I'm so careful about anonymity. In a company the size of the one I'm at now, I'd guess the chances are >99% someone else here reads TDWTF. I know someone at a previous company did; he's the one who introduced me to TDWTF, although AFAIK, he only reads the front page, not the forum.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
10 million IT companies
Except you've also got to count non-corporates and non-IT companies too. @abarker used to work for some sort of logistics firm, for example, and some of us work for universities and governments. (The ownership structure is different, the IT problems… not so much.)
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
It's common where I live. You put the bags into jugs and cut the corner, and pour from there.
So you're letting air in? That kind of defeats the purpose of having it in a bag.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
Just to be on the safe side I refer to anything I did any time in the past as "a million years ago"
"An uncountably infinite number of moments ago"
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@brie said in Random thought of the day:
@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
It's common where I live. You put the bags into jugs and cut the corner, and pour from there.
So you're letting air in? That kind of defeats the purpose of having it in a bag.
It's probably not much different from having it in a carton, loosely closed.
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@brie said in Random thought of the day:
"An uncountably infinite number of moments ago"
Since a moment is a 40th of a solar hour…
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
I'm 100 percent someone from my company is reading what I write. I wrote it, after all, some amount (no matter how small) of reading is required.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I'm 100 percent someone from my company is reading what I write.
We are completely aware that you're reading what we write.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I'm 100 percent someone from my company is reading what I write.
We are completely aware that you're reading what we write.
But not all of it, let's not be unreasonable!
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@brie said in Random thought of the day:
So you're letting air in? That kind of defeats the purpose of having it in a bag.
It's probably not much different from having it in a carton, loosely closed.
And it's easier to close it with a clothespin, come to think of it.
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@coderpatsy TIL about Youtube's
&end=
parameter.
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@anonymous234 Other video embeds around here have used it, or at least something with the same effect.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
I often have no idea how dumb a person is until I interact with them directly.
You appear to be too new, your cynicism is not properly calibrated yet.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
I often have no idea how dumb a person is until I interact with them directly.
You appear to be too new, your cynicism is not properly calibrated yet.
I usually assume they’re drooling retards, that way I could be pleasantly surprised.
Usually, I’m not.
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From a conversation originally involving Thomas the Tank Engine:
Let me introduce you to the manga about a door lock that's a girl and gets fucked by keys every day.
Everyone is special, I suppose...
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"arthropomorphism" sounds way cooler.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
"arthropomorphism" sounds way cooler.
As opposed to....?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
"arthropomorphism" sounds way cooler.
As opposed to....?
The over-used word anthropomorphism.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
"arthropomorphism" sounds way cooler.
As opposed to....?
The over-used word anthropomorphism.
Gotcha.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
"arthropomorphism" sounds way cooler.
First thought: Oh no, not more group theory.
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status: pondering if being in the state of circumcised is what causes.... Nevermind...
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I wonder how many people named Gil work with Python.
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@Zecc I wonder how many people named Gil have pet bullfinch.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
status: pondering if being in the state of circumcised is what causes....
...you to upvote almost every post?
No, I'm pretty sure it's unrelated.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
A YouTube video I've been watching had a very interesting observation: on a 7-segment display, 4 uses 4 segments, 5 uses 5 segments, and 6 uses 6 segments.
And on a 7-segment display, do you know what uses 8 segments?
8.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
The memory could not be red
Try bluing it instead?
If you have any audiophile friends, you could have them try pinking it.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
So, don't be so sure no one from your company is reading what you write...
I once had a coworker comment on my front-page articles back when I used to do that. I was surprised because I just assumed no one else at my company knew of this site. As far as I know, none of my coworkers are active on the forums though.
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Why does it seem that all male product designers always have weird hairstyles?
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The shorter it takes someone to finish a video game, the more time they've spent with that game.
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@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
Why does it seem that all male product designers always have weird hairstyles?
Because women doing weird things with their hair is extremely common, so much that you don't notice it on female designers.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
Why does it seem that all male product designers always have weird hairstyles?
Because women doing weird things with their hair is extremely common, so much that you don't notice it on female designers.
All our women designers have normal long hair. The guys have shaved sides and long and/or spiked hair on top. Sometimes colored.
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@dcon 'Creative'* people tend to be 'creative' in their appearance as well, as they usually like to stand out in some way. Women have all sorts of ways they can stand out in their appearance through clothing, even in a business-dress environment, whereas men are often expected to wear a standard business suit. If you like to stand out, and you are forced to wear clothes that blend in all day, often hair style is the only way to stand out.
- Creative is in quotes because often their 'creativity' is just copying someone else's 'creativity' and isn't creative at all.
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@dcon Are you sure you don't have NSA agents designing your products?
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@hungrier Aye matey, that’s a pirate.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@hungrier Aye matey, that’s a pirate.
I'm not sure any sensible pirate is supposed to look like his parrot.
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Mr. Cotton’s parrot: same question.