It looks like it's considerably better then "Alice" which we had to suffer through in intro to CS.
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RE: "Easy" coding
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RE: Short Time To Live
Just ditch the company, why would you want to stay in a place that plays musical chairs with its employees?
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RE: Office politeness
@ssprencel said:
Does anybody else think it's funny that we (as in participants to a computer programming/IT web site) are giving pointers to each other about how to be sociable? Isn't that kind of like a wife asking her blind husband if this shirt goes with these pants? Maybe we should just stick to answering questions about pointer arithmetic and traversing hash tables. :D
Assuming we all have large social handicaps (not a great assumption?), it's helpful in that everyone has experienced pretty much the same feelings and frustrations.
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RE: Office politeness
@RayS said:
What am I supposed to do now? Shout down the hall "AND HOW ARE YOU TODAY???" at someone walking away from me? Come to my desk and we'll talk like old friends, but please for the love of bob, don't start throw those foul pseudo--mini-conversations at me in a hit and run fashion.
No, I think I'll just pretend to ignore you all, so I can actually feel sane at the end of the day, thanks very much.
I normally make it a point to give some kind of facial gesture/verbal confirmation of the other person's existence and this is mainly on a floor of engineering graduate students so social and cultural handicaps abound.
One thing that is interesting is no one seems to notice the janitor's existence, but I say hi when I see him, and for some reason his response is normally "hi,,, fine." as if he's anticipating a question I don't plan to ask. Not sure if he's annoyed that someone actually greets him or what, but it kind of irks me a bit.