The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Benjamin-Hall The guy waving the flag rocking out to Slayer in the hurricane is well known outside of Florida
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I have never needed to refer to a photograph of a whiteboard.
I have needed it. Only rarely though, especially so since I stopped being the meeting secretary.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I love whiteboards for brainstorming and communicating complex ideas. I know some people always try to record the contents of our whiteboards. I have never needed to refer to a photograph of a whiteboard.
Yeah, but you weren't a security poobah for major Microsoft products who needed to cover his ass on incidents like this. I'll bet the picture went to someone's secretary who turned it into a memo about the meeting.
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@Benjamin-Hall Those Publix chanclas tho...
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@Captain said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall Those Publix chanclas tho...
For some reason Floridians have a cult of Publix. It's not even that good. And it's quite a bit higher price than most others. Better than Winn-Dixie, but that's a low bar.
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Their deli is pretty good.
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@Captain said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Their deli is pretty good.
Eh. I've never been that much of a fan. Their subs are ok (better than Subway or other fast-food places, but again, low bar). Their fried chicken has way too much breading. And their rotisserie chickens are just sad little birds.
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid here they told us working from home is a privilege that they don't intend to give out unless you schedule it ahead of time, or in the long term only if you have a specific plan for getting work done in a home environment.
Corona-chan is here for you!
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I love whiteboards for brainstorming and communicating complex ideas. I know some people always try to record the contents of our whiteboards. I have never needed to refer to a photograph of a whiteboard.
Photos of whiteboards are useful when you're using it for several days and your office has overzealous cleaning ladies who don't respect the DNE header.
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I guess I have a photographic memory for diagrams.
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@Benjamin-Hall
I like how they perfectly frame that wall socket
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I love whiteboards for brainstorming and communicating complex ideas. I know some people always try to record the contents of our whiteboards. I have never needed to refer to a photograph of a whiteboard.
I guess your boss doesn't lead by brainstorming a product's alarm voltage thresholds on a whiteboard.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And their rotisserie chickens are just sad little birds.
You'd be sad, too, if you'd been beheaded, plucked, gutted, skewered, and roasted.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Gah! Half these people seem to have no concept of scansion or meter!
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(not in spam thread since I am subscribed)
Has @Polygeekery changed employers?
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@error And then reasonable complaints get lumped in together with these.
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Saw a sign at the restaurant where I went to lunch:
We're hiring! If you're awesome, apply within.
If not, try down the street.
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@error Seen that before, but it's still funny.
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target radar
I know two meanings for the word "target", and neither fills me with optimism in conjuction with "FedEx".
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error Seen that before, but it's still funny.
Ditto. The list predates FedEx, and given that they're an American company they wouldn't be doing spellings like "tyre" either. What I guess I'm saying is I call shenanigans.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Saw a sign at the restaurant where I went to lunch:
We're hiring! If you're awesome, apply within.
If not, try down the street.Sounds like the management disputes the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error Seen that before, but it's still funny.
Ditto. The list predates FedEx, and given that they're an American company they wouldn't be doing spellings like "tyre" either. What I guess I'm saying is I call shenanigans.
Meh, it's like the plot to a porn. It provides some context but is mostly unnecessary and unbelievable.
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@Tsaukpaetra The next video: he looks at his wrist and see that his watch has been working for years with the same battery!!!
(plot twist: actually he has some sort of "smart" watch that needs charging every day or so)
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Anyone else leave messages to themselves from on day to the next?
As in: saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment, so it will cause a syntax error in the relevant place you need to work on next?
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Well usually my OCD prevents me from leaving it as plain text (argh, the red wavy nightmare!), so I'll put it in a comment but I'll put a
#error "bleergh"
next to it to get the same effect.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment
I do it as comment, but introduce it by text
// FIXME FIXME FIXME CONTINUE HERE FIXME FIXME FIXME
and have all relevant editors configured to highlight the FIXMEs in bright red background.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well usually my OCD prevents me from leaving it as plain text (argh, the red wavy nightmare!), so I'll put it in a comment but I'll put a
#error "bleergh"
next to it to get the same effect.That has the advantage that I won't have to fight autocomplete or type in a comment first. Nice.
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and have all relevant editors configured to highlight the FIXMEs in bright red background.
I leave TODOs and FIXMEs around as well, but they unfortunately tend to accumulate. I'm talking about "don't go no further until you get this done" kind of things here.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra The next video: he looks at his wrist and see that his watch has been working for years with the same battery!!!
(plot twist: actually he has some sort of "smart" watch that needs charging every day or so)
I am staying in the glorious times.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I leave TODOs and FIXMEs around as well, but they unfortunately tend to accumulate.
Signle TODOs and FIXMEs accumulate. This was a sixtuple one though.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I leave TODOs and FIXMEs around as well, but they unfortunately tend to accumulate.
There is a joke about the evolution of a software developer waiting to be made here (by someone else than me), as you get more and more used to leaving cruft behind.
You start with a nice comment "this should be improved", then move on to aggressive comments "fix this!" before starting to use semi-standard syntax highlighters to show the "TODO" and "FIXME" in bright red, and finally putting an "#error ..." as I suggested. What's the next step? Instructing your IDE to send you emails about it every day? Then (rude) emails to your boss? Automatically leaving a voicemail on Polygeekery's number with your house address?
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You start with a nice comment "this should be improved", then move on to aggressive comments "fix this!" before starting to use semi-standard syntax highlighters to show the "TODO" and "FIXME" in bright red, and finally putting an "#error ..." as I suggested. What's the next step? Instructing your IDE to send you emails about it every day? Then (rude) emails to your boss? Automatically leaving a voicemail on Polygeekery's number with your house address?
You sell somebody in the management the idea that number of TODO markers shall be a quality metric. And then use them whenever well grounded, which roughly means ‘there is an unhandled case or high risk of bug here’. It is made significantly easier if the code is covered by ISO26262, IEC61508, IEC62304 or DO-178 as the regulators already bought the aforementioned idea and the managers don't have any easy way around them.
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… I mean, this company does some projects for medical, and when I worked on such, before release we did go through any TODO markers, reviewed them again and either confirmed there are no unhandled cases or added appropriate handling, because the “build audit” simply won't let code with TODO markers be released.
The project management there was crap, because instead of doing bug-fixing and clean-up throughout when something can still be done with unforeseen problems, the management metrics forced pushing it all to the end, so then it had to be rushed and had to go through more rounds of formal testing than if it was actually properly managed, but at least no unfinished tasks could make it to the release.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The internal clock in my Gamecube still works. It's not a perfect clock so it does need adjustments from time to time, but still going strong. Clearly I need to be scared of this fact, like Mr. Clickbaity Youtuber over there.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
need adjustments from time to time
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What's the next step? Instructing your IDE to send you emails about it every day? Then (rude) emails to your boss?
Totally read that as "Then (nude) emails to your boss?" and was like that might be a bridge too far.
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Paging all our local car nuts:
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Anyone else leave messages to themselves from on day to the next?
As in: saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment, so it will cause a syntax error in the relevant place you need to work on next?
I do that in my writing, usually in all-caps in parentheses
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment
I do it as comment, but introduce it by text
// FIXME FIXME FIXME CONTINUE HERE FIXME FIXME FIXME
and have all relevant editors configured to highlight the FIXMEs in bright red background.
If I'm really in that situation, it has to be:
FIXME((({{{FROM HERE: "any notes I want to bother with"
That's a crashingly huge syntax error right there so it's not something that gets left alone or committed.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Anyone else leave messages to themselves from on day to the next?
As in: saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment, so it will cause a syntax error in the relevant place you need to work on next?
My wife's most commonly called number is the direct line to her office. She calls and leaves herself voicemails as to-dos for when she is back in the office.