The Belt Onion club
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@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin in Shanghai no less! The old guys don't code much themselves nowadays.
Also, "do you know how to navigate between functions with Visual Studio?" is definitely one of the weirdest interview questions I've ever had. And they were completely serious about it. For them, having code for a single feature split between multiple files is still a new concept (most of the business logic lives in stored procedures).
Run.
I knew that as soon as I heard "1986". Still, big respect for those guys.
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Get our resident swamp observer on the case, it sounds like his kind of code.
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin in Shanghai no less! The old guys don't code much themselves nowadays.
Also, "do you know how to navigate between functions with Visual Studio?" is definitely one of the weirdest interview questions I've ever had. And they were completely serious about it. For them, having code for a single feature split between multiple files is still a new concept (most of the business logic lives in stored procedures).
Run.
I knew that as soon as I heard "1986". Still, big respect for those guys.
Ah, what you're feeling is more precisely termed
pity
. Similar is observable in Conrad's use ofregret
vs the contemporarymiss
. :justeslthings:
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@Gribnit I've been a developer for mere 7 years and I'm already falling out of touch with modern technologies that are everywhere (cloud mostly). I can't imagine what it must've been like keeping up to date for 4 decades. And yes, they have been keeping up to date. They already had one rewrite-everything, they're about to start another one to adapt it to AWS.
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Let's all welcome the newest member of the club, @Gąska!
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To me, it's the best console startup jingle ever made.
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@Zerosquare Something is conspicuously missing from that article.
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@hungrier what a fucking scumbag that uploader, cutting off the end like that.
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@Gąska Always leave em wanting more, they say
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@hungrier Thank you. Since I've never had a PS<anything>...
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@hungrier Thank you. Since I've never had a PS<anything>...
Same here.
PS: I do have a PSU.
Actually, scratch that. I did have a PS3, although technically it's my GFs.
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Epic fail of the <del> tag. (closed where you'd expect it)
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@boomzilla I resemble that remark.
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@antiquarian I only partially resemble it. Other than a couple of days following surgery, after I couldn't take the real pain medicine any more, I haven't taken ibuprofen for several years. (My doctor told me to take acetaminophen, instead, because ibuprofen can cause stomach bleeding, to which he thought I might be particularly susceptible.) If I stopped caffeine, though, I'd be quickly unemployed; employers tend to frown on falling asleep on the job.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
though, I'd be quickly unemployed; employers tend to frown on falling asleep on the job.
Just get a mouse jitter device for your computer and get classified as full time remote
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@izzion said in The Belt Onion club:
get classified as full time remote
I already am. And I was told it would stay remote for the duration of the contract, regardless of pandemic status. The client is preparing to have employees and contractors work on-site again, and they do have an office in my vicinity, but AFACT it may be only a sales office, not engineering, so I'm probably safe for staying remote.
However, being remote doesn't relieve me of having to make progress on the project. (See recent Lounge status post for more on that topic.)
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Heh...looking at this I can taste them.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Heh...looking at this I can taste them.
... and the paper turning to pulp in your mouth... bleh.
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@remi said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Heh...looking at this I can taste them.
... and the paper turning to pulp in your mouth... bleh.
I couldn't keep the fuckers lit.
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@remi said in The Belt Onion club:
... and the paper turning to pulp in your mouth... bleh.
We used to peel the paper off. Which generally took longer than eating the surrogate chocolate it used to be wrapped around, and not even because we liked it so much.
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Yeah, the chocolate wasn't any good, either.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
Yeah, the chocolate wasn't any good, either.
Hmm...interesting. They were not chocolate in the US that I ever had. And I don't remember any wrappers, either. They were the kind in the picture. They were a sort of chalky sugar substance.
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@boomzilla we had the chocolate wrapped in paper ones but they got banned years ago.
The chalky sugar stuff is also available here but as candy sticks which aren't packaged or marketed as anything related to cigarettes.
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@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla we had the chocolate wrapped in paper ones but they got banned years ago.
I decided to check if they’re still around, in the Netherlands anyway. Turns out that they are, except they’re not marketed as imitation cigarettes anymore but as more generic candy sticks.
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@Zerosquare I am not in this post, but only because I haven't had any contact with anyone I went to high school with since the last reunion I attended, um, between 25 and 30 years ago. And I'm not sure if there will be another one; my high school no longer exists.
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@HardwareGeek There is no legal requirement to hold a reunion in the original building of whatever it’s a reunion of.
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@Gurth Of course not; IIRC, it was always held in the ballroom of some nice nearby hotel. But I've completely lost contact with the alumni association, if it still exists. They probably don't know how to contact me to notify me of a reunion, and I don't know how to contact them to update my contact info. If the school still existed, I could contact them to get info about the alumni association, which they would be happy to provide (because alumni donations$$$$). But the don't. There's the internet, of course, but .
I didn't even know the school didn't exist any more until, IIRC, I was looking at Google Maps and saw a different name on the school. I poked around the internet and found out the school had been closed and the campus sold to another private school several years previously.
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Ah, that way. I took
my high school no longer exists
to mean: “The building in which I went to school, has been demolished.“
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
Ah, that way. I took
my high school no longer exists
to mean: “The building in which I went to school, has been demolished.“
Ah, that way. I took it to mean "the institution which parallels what you call 'high school' in my development, has been so thoroughly erased by the sands of time that no trace remains but me upon this earth. "
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I’m ahead of my time.
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@topspin
Conclusion: I'm definitely way too old for this shit
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@Zerosquare neither does the one you woke up in, tbf
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@boomzilla you're right! Those lists being sorted numerically is a real problem. Seniors love to gamble, so random order, maybe? Alphabetical? Wheel order is maybe doable but, I'd need to see the rest of it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gurth Of course not; IIRC, it was always held in the ballroom of some nice nearby hotel. But I've completely lost contact with the alumni association, if it still exists. They probably don't know how to contact me to notify me of a reunion, and I don't know how to contact them to update my contact info. If the school still existed, I could contact them to get info about the alumni association, which they would be happy to provide (because alumni donations$$$$). But the don't. There's the internet, of course, but .
I didn't even know the school didn't exist any more until, IIRC, I was looking at Google Maps and saw a different name on the school. I poked around the internet and found out the school had been closed and the campus sold to another private school several years previously.
I have never once been to a high school reunion, and I just don't have that much interest. Facebook came out not too long after I graduated, and it fulfills the purpose of "catching up with the high school folks I used to know" to the point that any reunion plans fizzled.
Mind you, maybe the reason I've never seen any reunion plans was that my parents moved shortly after I graduated, and I've never received an invitation to one. (But their phone number didn't change, so if the reunion committee was going to call, that could have worked.)
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Doesn't your post belong in the Emergency Sad Things thread?
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
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