Things I wish I could say to my customers
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and here i guessed "Husky"
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You named your son Hoover? You're weird
That would be perfectly reasonable in the US, they have a strange habit of using surnames as first names.
[EDIT: random nouns too, so Husky would be in. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there are numerous USAlien kids running around with that name. I didn't find it on the first baby names website I checked just now, but I did find Humvee...]
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Husky
To me, that's one of those dogs that people use (about 10 of) when they want to go to the North Pole
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"Hey Escalator! Get down from there at once!"
"Ok, Stanley, it's your time to cut the deck."
"All right, Stetson, keep your hat on."
"Pipe down, Tannoy!"
"You're a slick one, Vaseline..."
... Am I getting nearer?
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Try 100. As Amundsen said "Dogs are food too".
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Give you a clue there, he is trying to learn some magic tricks...
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It's Pepsi, isn't it? Or was that a different thread?
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Try 100. As Amundsen said "Dogs are food too".
When Richard Hammond went to the (Magnetic) Pole on Top Gear (with an experiended explorer obviously), they used a pack of about 10 or 12; I was basing my figure off of that ;)
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I think 10-12 per sled is about right. But an expedition may have many sledges.
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Some way down:
Amundsen, by contrast, took an entirely utilitarian approach.[14] Amundsen planned from the start to have weaker animals killed to feed the other animals and the men themselves.[1] He expressed the opinion that it was less cruel to feed and work dogs correctly before shooting them, than it would be to starve and overwork them to the point of collapse.[11] Amundsen and his team had similar affection for their dogs as those expressed above by the English, but they "also had agreed to shrink from nothing in order to achieve our goal"[15] Such a procedure was claimed to be distasteful to the British. At the same time the British were willing to eat their ponies.[1] Amundsen had used the opportunity of learning from the Inuit while on his Gjøa North West passage expedition of 1905. He recruited experienced dog drivers. To make the most of the dogs he paced them and deliberately kept daily mileages shorter than he need have for 75% of the journey,[16] and his team spent up to 16 hours a day resting. His dogs could eat seals and penguins hunted in the Antarctic while Scott's pony fodder had to be brought all the way from England in their ship. It has been later shown that seal meat with the blubber attached is the ideal food for a sledge dog. Amundsen went with 52 dogs, and came back with 11.[11]
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So, um, you want to tell your customers to shoot and eat their sled dogs, I guess?
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That's what they call dogfooding, right?
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More to the point, I tell them to kill their darlings.
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More to the point, I tell them to kill their darlings.
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http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-chlamydia-1183535.htm
There isn't a big enough… especially since Discourse limits images to 500px max.
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plot.ly
yeah that is interesting the options one has....
cool software but it does make you work with it rather than the other way around.
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it does make you work with it
"It's not so much operating a [program] as it is tricking it, fooling it into doing what you want it to do.. you have to kind of sneak up on it. I don't feel like I'm operating [plot.ly] so much as sharing the [plot.ly] experience."
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I hope that is only people trolling that website and not serious!
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"I'm the primary JDE support on this application and I've never seen it before."
Wish I could retort, "That's because we can't retain developers worth shit anymore."
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obNecro: Reminds me of the scene in the otherwise-forgettable movie Mad House (the 1990 comedy with Kirstie Ally and John Larroquette) where the Joisey wife is going through baby names and decides that 'Treblinka' would be a cute name for a girl.
**Bernice:** I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka" **Claudia:** You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp! **Bernice:** I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella. **Claudia:** You moron! **Bernice:** I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!
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If you really were as an advanced user as you claim to be, you'd know this basic shit that even your half-braindead coworker can figure out.
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I'm the customer! I'm always right
Funny side story. The origin of, "the customer is always right," was back in the early 20th century department store clothing sales departments. The intent and logical purpose of the saying was: STOP ARGUING WITH THE RICH PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR CHOICES OF COLORS/FABRIC/ETC. IF THEY HAVE THEIR WALLET/PURSE OUT, TAKE THEIR MONEY!
It is insane that such an obvious business-centric phrase and tactic has morphed into, "please cater to every mouth-breathing moron trying to scam every store out of everything they possibly can, like they are not the walking poster-cases for mass sterilization of all sub-room-temperature IQ morons on the planet."
.... oops, sorry, did that slip out? *__*
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like they are not the walking poster-cases for mass sterilization of all sub-room-temperature IQ morons on the planet
Like if we needed poster-cases for that !
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advanced user means he/she 's skilled in fucking things up. an user without training couldn't fuck things that bad
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It is insane that such an obvious business-centric phrase and tactic has morphed into, "please cater to every mouth-breathing moron trying to scam every store out of everything they possibly can, like they are not the walking poster-cases for mass sterilization of all sub-room-temperature IQ morons on the planet."
If anyone's using it that way, they still doing it wrong by todays standards. Nowadays, it means "you are a bottom-rung paid-by-the-hour employee that cannot be trusted to communicate candidly with customers, just smile and nod and tell them to speak to a manager if that doesn't work".
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It resurfaces, this time as a request to redesign it. By the way, asks the customer, I still don't understand why it broke login when we took it out. So that we can avoid breaking it in the future, can you tell me exactly what it does.
IT BROKE LOGIN BECAUSE IT'S DOING PART OF THE LOGIN PROCESS. IT'S A FUNCTIONAL PAGE, IT DOES STUFF BESIDES DISPLAYING VISUAL CONTENT. YOU WILL NEVER TOUCH IT DIRECTLY, YOU NON-TECHNICAL IMBECILE, AND YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE YOU RAISED A REQUEST FOR A DEVELOPER TO MAKE THE CHANGES. YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS AND YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT ANYWAY. THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO TO NOT BREAK IT AGAIN IS NOT DO WHAT YOU HAD ALREADY BEEN TOLD BEFORE YOU DID IT NOT TO F*CKING DO.
I totally disagree with your attitude. When someone asks how it works, you should explain. Otherwise it's your fault that they are a non-technical imbecile.
But then again, I'm in academia, so explaining is a big part of my job.
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But then again, I'm in academia, so explaining is a big part of my job.
Some academics act exactly like they need @CarrieVS's rant thrown at them. It's a minority, but whoever complained about the people who aren't a problem?
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Source please.