In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
@pie_flavor If I had one Euro every time my name gets written as Rémi
, I would have a lot of €
...
@bb36e Also, if your password is more than 140280 characters, we can't tweet it to you if you forget it.
Overheard in the office: one dev goes to help another on a build issue.
: oh yeah, you have this issue because you build by clicking the Compile button in the IDE, in this specific case (some build case that isn't handled by the IDE), you need to type make
instead.
: yeah but the IDE is the method that [myself] gave me and that I have noted in my notes file [yes, really... he has noted that to compile you need to click the Compile button...], I've always done that.
: sure but in this case it does not work because of [valid reasons], what you need in this specific case is just to type make
in this terminal that is always opened next to the IDE because you already use it for other tasks.
: I don't know what any of this does, I just always redo what I was told initially and that worked...
You're supposed to be a developer, you've been working on that code for literally months if not years, you have years of experience as a developer before, this build system is nothing fancy, and yet you don't even have the slightest idea or intellectual curiosity as to what you do...
@CodeJunkie said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
No one actually validates signatures anyway. Just like with credit cards ... there is no one validating the signatures on receipts back at the home office against known signatures of yourself.
The system relies on the user complaining, and then ignoring the user for as long as possible.
A couple of years ago, my mother paid a bill (to some sort of HOA) by cheque. A few weeks later she got a reminder to pay her bill, but her cheque had been cashed, so she started to investigate. Turns out that the HOA had employed a crook (he had been fired since then... for good reasons!) who simply stole the cheque and cashed it. My mother asked her bank for a copy of the cashed cheque (which by law they have to keep for some time, exactly for these reasons, and on which the recipient must write the recipient account details). It was absolutely obvious from it that the cheque was written by my mother as "pay to: <HOA>" and the recipient account was "John Doe." And yet the bank cashed it without any qualms, and when challenged about it they denied it was their fault (the recipient's bank said the same thing, btw). So for them, anyone can cash any cheque that they lay their hands on, no matter what is written on it.
In the end my mother's bank decided on a "commercial gesture" (no, not this one ) and to reimburse her, but this was clearly done so that she would drop the matter without the bank admitting any kind of responsibility.
@TimeBandit said in The most important part of selling a product: having a product:
At my previous job, my boss was often sending me emails written in all caps.
One previous boss wrote emails with subjects such as "!!!!IMPORTANT!!! $$$stuff and things$$$" (with the "stuff and things" part being the real subject of the email, albeit formulated in vague terms such as "new release" or "that code you sent me").
Weirdly, he never understood why many of his emails ended up in our spam folders and he had to resend them (yes, we could have configured the spam filter to accept his emails... but where's the fun in that?).
Although there may or may not have been times when we pretended to not have received an email from him thanks to that excuse...
@kt_ There are two main reasons for this kind of loss of colour: prolonged exposure to sunlight, and too many washes (usually in a dishwasher).
There are two easy solutions for these problems: stop having sunlight in your office, and stop washing your mug.
The first one will remove sun glare and unwanted distractions, making you a better programmer. The second one will remove social interactions and unwanted coworkers bothering you, making you a better programmer.
So really, you're just posting excuses for being a bad programmer.
@Onyx said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I just noticed "dildo" is on the list.
Seriously? Is this a swearword list, or "Little Timmy innocence protection" list?
That's just one of the many reasons why this kind of list is absolutely stupid:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla also, "scarfolk council water boarding" at the bottom (maybe it's only funny because I don't know what water boarding is other than torture)
It's a deliberate joke on that, the correct phrase would be 'water board'.
Hey, I didn't know that @Polygeekery did a school exchange with Scarfolk?
@topspin Update!!!111!
(or I just read it a few hours later than you...)
@PleegWat on a related note, one module I was developing was integrated some years back in one software that we sold to external users. So the support team was in charge of writing some doc about it (which they actually did! It wasn't "great" but it was there, and not entirely shitty either). They also regularly asked me more technical questions about the theory behind it, and I usually answered their emails with as much info as I could (I don't write Wall'O'Text only here!), in the semi-formal tone of speaking to a coworker.
Then at some point the branch selling the software got itself sold, including that module (I had a thread about it). I recently, for , had a look at their website and all the docs they have. And I could see that for this module, they had a bunch of varied "methodology" documents that were... my emails, with at most the greeting/signature lines removed!
I don't care about them reusing my words, they were written as a part of what got sold with that branch of the company so they get to use them as they want. But I'm not sure the semi-informal tone of how I wrote them really sends the message they want to send. Well, it's no longer my problem...
@PleegWat said in Programming Memes Thread:
Then again, there is something particularly satisfying in being able to respond to a service request with something along the lines of:
I agree. But it requires having written () that Holy Book and even if gave us time to do so (and to keep it up-to-date!), the is a strong . We all much prefer writing new features.
Or posting here, in my case. Mostly posting here.
More seriously (?), in our case, the users are all internal and maybe a couple dozen at most, so even if each and every user comes and asks us the same question (that could be answered if there was a doc and they read it), it's not that much of an issue overall. And the software is changing sometimes fairly quickly so keeping the doc up-to-date would be a lot of work. So all in all, in this specific case, I believe that not trying to have a full doc is the right choice.
But that single-sheet doc is still funny.
@ixvedeusi I don't know. The domain-specific community in which I work (i.e., the people I'm developing software for) do have their share of "common wisdom" but they also have a good dose of questioning everything (sometimes a bit too much...). This is a (minor) ((sub)branch)) of some scientific domain, and scientific research is well-known for (in theory...) asking questions, so that probably taints things. But most people are not doing any kind of research, just applying other people's results (inb4: so do most academic researchers ). And while we do regularly complain that they do so "blindly," their blindness is, uh, much less blind than software developers' blindness.
@ixvedeusi said in (are (arguments for (using lisp)) (still valid?)):
In other words, it was quite clearly intended to be descriptive rather than prescriptive.
As a young developer years ago (), I remember that it was quite useful both to see ways to achieve complex results (and/or interactions), but also to understand pieces of code I'd seen but couldn't make sense of it. "Oh, that was an 'observer' so now I understand why it was written that way and what it was trying to achieve!"
So yeah, an interesting training tool, but definitely not a reference guide to follow everywhere.
Then again, it seems to me that the software development community is much more into blindly-following and cargo-culting than other communities, so I'm not surprised it was abused that way.
@Zerosquare Absolutely. It is also pretty as we can (truthfully, but entirely uselessly) say to users "oh yes, we do have a documentation for the software."
It can also be seen as some sort of deep pseudo-philosophical statement about how some things are never finished. Or about how we're always running out of time to do stuff we should be doing.
All in all, I quite like it.
@Dragoon I'm sure it's totally a coincidence that they look like this kind of movies device:
@The_Quiet_One I've printed that one and stuck it on the side of my desk so that people coming to talk to me see it.
Of course, it only generates more talk as people who just walk by and wouldn't otherwise have talked to me see it and want to say something about it.
(next to it there's another print out, of the full documentation of the software we're developing (and have been for the past... 15 years?), this is a single sheet with the software's name and the only words "work in progress")
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The other truck looks... "interesting" as well.
@Bulb said in The Cat Status Thread:
because you've been sleeping too long and it's time for some fun.
My FIL's cat used to to send them to bed in the evening, and then get out for a night of fun (?).
She meowed and meowed and pestered them in the evening until they were in bed, and laid with them in a corner of the bed. But after 5-10 min max, she would get up and go outside, only to come back in the morning (and sleep during the day, of course).
That she was active during the night is pretty usual for a cat, of course. But the "send them to bed" part, that was new. I'm kind of wondering if that could be a piece of evidence in favour of the theory that says cats bring mice, birds... to their humans because they think they are still kittens that need to be shown how to hunt: as a good mother, she would make sure her kittens were in a safe place before leaving them for the night?