Conversations overheard
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Thanks, @Jerkoopa
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Don't mention it @Bumzilla
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"It's about time you sucked on a fisherman's friend"
Now I know what my candy selection for next week will include.
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You liberal, commie, pinko! Down with Roe v. Wade!
You are unsuccessfully trying to make a sane person sound insane.
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Since this topic has already been necroed, for no obvious reason...
@Jaloopa said:
"It's about time you sucked on a fisherman's friend"
The googling of that was...disappointing.
That turned out to be pretty much exactly what I thought it was. I'm not sure how I knew that, but it was one of those odd bits of trivia lurking mostly forgotten in some dark corner, to be called forth unexpectedly by an unexpected trigger.
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they are not candy, they are mints made of fire.
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What?
Fisherman's Friends Cherry is what keeps me alive when I have a cold.
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Not had those - just the standard ones.
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the cherry flavoured ones are probably exchange the fire ingredient for something slightly milder, like battery acid
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slightly milder, like battery acid
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Not overheard, but just said to me:
"There's nothing to test, it's not a GUI change".
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You are unsuccessfully trying to make a sane person sound insane.
The highlighted part is patently untrue, as demonstrated by the fact that the person in question is posting here.
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Cow orker 1: "I'll catch up with you later, I'm going for a flu jab now"
Cow orker 2: "You don't need a flu jab, why are you having that?".
Cow orker 1: "Because it's free".
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Cow orker 2: "You don't need a flu jab, why are you having that?".
Me: because i do need the flu jab, i work with freaking teenagers after work!
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Eugh, by choice?
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That looks fun and worthwhile so kudos for taking part. Also an excuse to repost this article which I enjoyed: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/building-a-better-person
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That looks fun and worthwhile
Have you ever been to a basketball game? you know that excitement that gathers as the clock runs down? the cheering? wel,l take that, distill it, purify it, and collect enough of it to last for three days straight. now drop that into an arena with 50 teams of highschoolers and mentors, where every team is shouting for every other team to win, and laughing together, experience the arena wide cry of disappointment as a robot tries for some goal and just misses it, followed by the universal cheer when it tries a second time and makes it! it's intense!
Then go grab a pair of safety glasses and wander around the pits, ask the teams there about their robots and listen to how excited the students are as they explain how their robot works, watch as one team bums a wrench off another, and a programmer from one team wanders over to help debug a program for a different teams robot. It's awesome.
As you wander around you realize. These are highschool students, young adults, not yet in the workforce yet, but here they are competing fiercely, yet still cooperating, still being polite and gracious to each other, allies and opponents alike. And you realize that this is a type of competition that we don't teach anywhere else, that you become great not only by being great, but by helping those around you be great as well. There's no where else we teach that lesson, and it's such an important lesson!
You will not walk away from the event with a voice, but you will walk away with the most incredible experience of your life. I cannot recommend the experience highly enough. If you are at all interested in the future generation of programmers, engineers, inventors, the movers and the shakers... Find a FIRST competition, and attend it, experience first hand how awesome it is, then find a team in your area and volunteer, every skill is needed from artists to business, to mechanical and electrical engineering to programming! You can help make a difference in some students life, a difference that will last them a life time.
And if there's not a team in your area.... well then maybe you can work to found one... That's awesome too.
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Cow orker 2: "You don't need a flu jab, why are you having that?".
Spoken like someone who's never had the flu.
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How did you know!?
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Why would you open a penis enlargement ad when you have a $2000 piece of hardware?
Because:
- You were gullible enough to buy the hardware at that inflated price, so why would you not be gullible enough to open the email?
- You have to be somewhat 'lacking' if you need that branded hardware to compensate, and we've already established (see 1) that you're gullible to a point that you'd probably truly believe methods to fix said lack would exist at affordable consumer prices.
No joke there, sadly: I would actually not be surprised if spammers would specifically profile Apple accounts for this kind of shit.
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You have to be somewhat 'lacking' if you need that branded hardware to compensate.
That... might have been the joke, yeah.
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Like what? The new driver model introduced in Vista was basically the end of that shit. Now all that's left is shitty applications that expect Program Files to be write-able, and MS put in folder redirects for those.
Except all the people that turn off UAC (like me) and do it bareback.
Yeah well I think you're dead-wrong on that.
YES! I'M WRONG BLAKEY! I'VE BEEN A BAD POSTER!
No.
OH YES, SHORT AND DEVASTATING! GIVE IT TO ME BLAKEY! GIVE ME MORE!
No. Or maybe yes. Your negative there is confusing me. I don't think the amount of money spent on the computer has any relation to the technical competence level.
If you don't believe me, talk to your nearest non-IT CEO.Not competence, the need. If you have money, you have less need to do shady stuff, thus less chance to get viruses.
I know this is over a year old, but holy crap, @cartman82, you actually got me to literally laugh out loud at my desk at work with this. It is a good thing it is only a few minutes until quitting time, and quite a few people have already wandered for the doors, or people would be coming over to check on me. I laughed hard for a good minute straight. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today after today's stupid staff meeting o_O
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How did you know!?
You'd probably have a less cavalier attitude about it, if you had it.
It's like pneumonia. You don't think much about it until you catch it and spend two weeks in bed.
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Just heard in my office
We can't have an API endpoint that just returns json data from an ID. Its too easy for a kid in his bedroom to just iterate over them. We have to have it behind a login page. At that point we might as well just give them a CSV download, so we will do that.
This is from my new technical director about an internal (I.e. not internet facing) API a customer had requested... What have I got myself into?
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This is from my new technical director about an internal API a customer had requested...
Pull a Dexter on him? You'd be making the world a better place.
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I am getting more tempted by the hour. I keep finding more
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Not sure if whoosh or just being Luhmann...
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If you don't get that it is a specific garment I call a whoosh on you
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You were gullible enough to buy the hardware at that inflated price
Why is it that the cost of a computer is only ever considered to be for hardware? As software developers shouldn't we assign some value to the OS that comes with it?
I for one am happy to shell out a little more for a mac. They own the complete ecosystem which has lead to a more stable environment - at least in my experience.
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@Shoreline said:
Pull a Dexter on him?
[spoiler]Didn't she die before he faked his death and grew a beard?[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]
Sounds like you believe there was an 8th series. You're wrong, There were 7
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(Not much of a spoiler :P)
It's got Matrix Syndrome then (whatever that's really called).
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(Not much of a spoiler :P)
Carrying on the spoilery conversation.
The Animatrix was good, main sequels less so
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That sounds like your development environment is pretty broken. Have you looked into using things like udev to set up your system properly when you plug the dev boards in?
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Apparently, one of our politicians has said that a “rapid review” (after a most embarrassing defeat on a piece of financial-related legislation) ‘would not be rushed but would be carried out “in a measured way”.’
I'm glad there's not going to be any rushing of a rapid review. We wouldn't want that, would we? ;)
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The Animatrix was good, main sequels less so
I'd completely forgotten about The Animatrix...
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You'd probably have a less cavalier attitude about it, if you had it.
Mild pet peeve: People with the sniffles saying "I have the 'flu". No motherfucker, you just have a cold. You're out of bed, walking around, not sitting on the toilet, you don't have the 'flu. There's a reason why it kills people, it's not just a runny nose and a cough, it's a serious disease.
It's like pneumonia.
I've had this too, or so the doctors told me. I'm not sure I believe them because I didn't really feel that sick and they didn't even seem to agree with each other. On the good side, I'm asthmatic, so at least when I turned up wheezing I got into the ER pretty quick instead of spending hours in the waiting room. On the bad side, not being able to breathe is... panic-inducing. Only by great force of will did I not go completely bat-shit.
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Having had pneumonia more times than I like to think about, I can tell you that it can definitely catch you by surprise sometimes. It can vary from 'deathly ill from the first day' to 'a mild cough for a week and then suddenly unable to breathe' to 'sudden fever with no other symptoms', depending on the particular infection and how healthy you've been recently. Since pneumonia is a general term for a syndrome (an infection that causes the alveoli to become inflamed and fill with fluid from the immune response) rather than a specific illness, the etiology can be very non-specific, and 'walking pneumonia' (any instance where the patient isn't immediately prostrated) can be the most dangerous kind, since the victim isn't likely to seek medical help until the infection is deeply rooted, and because it usually occurs when the patient's immune response is delayed.
The most common cause is from a Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, but there are several other infectious agents - bacterial, viral, mycoplasmal, fungal, amebic - that can cause it, and even S. pneumoniae has dozens of strains that have different behaviors. I seem to have some kind of deep rooted lung infection, which is asymptomatic most of the time but becomes active when I get any sort of bronchitis from a chest cold.
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The Animatrix was good, main sequels less so
What sequels?
Unrelated, you know what would be cool? Highlander 2.
sudden fever with no other symptoms
That's the one I caught. No breathing problems other than constant coughing. Got off lightly, but I was still bed-ridden for a month (doctor's orders).
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Mild pet peeve: People with the sniffles saying "I have the 'flu". No motherfucker, you just have a cold. You're out of bed, walking around, not sitting on the toilet, you don't have the 'flu. There's a reason why it kills people, it's not just a runny nose and a cough, it's a serious disease.
But the influenza flu is also not the "stomach flu" that makes you sit on a toilet.
I've had this too, or so the doctors told me. I'm not sure I believe them because I didn't really feel that sick and they didn't even seem to agree with each other.
Must have been a very mild case. I'm not really asthmatic now, but I was as a kid. Pneumonia was much worse, largely due to the crippling pain and alternating burning up (along with profuse sweating) and feeling frozen and nearly impossible to get warm.
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Another one from my new boss. This was said to a customer
We should really look into setting up some sort of test environment. At the moment we have no way of knowing if the reports are correct or not; you keep changing the data so we have to go by what looks reasonable.