They speak a bit differently over the pond.. Biscuits, Scones, Cookies, and Crackers are all very different things on the various sides of the pond...
How can you list those and not list "fag"? Or "pants"?
Pant-less subway riding means a whole other thing in UK English (and it's almost definitely illegal)
even for $300-400 not a whole lot of people want a 10 year old Crown Victoria with 300k-400k miles on it and an interior that had a whole bunch of police equipment once mounted but now ripped out.
Jake and Elwood might disagree
LOL, ever run across something you wrote a year ago and say 'who wrote this shit'?
Try having a kid, then coding in their early years... Looking back at some of my code from that time, my "logic" did the job, but it was so un-necessarily convoluted I could hardly work out what it was supposed to do.
Obligatory Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With added spoof of Tomorrow's World
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specifically designed to solve the retirement problem as countries around the world face an increasingly elderly population
Given the average age of the leaders of the world's countries, that would seem unlikely - they'd be shooting themselves in the foot!
I'm not necessarily friends with all my coworkers but we have a mutual respect for each other and the job, sideline conversations at the coffee pot can be very useful.
Currently working from home since March 7th. Being a sociable chap, I miss the small interactions - even saying "hello" to the guy who maintains the office. Also interactions with other people who I've known for many years, but whose work life doesn't interact with mine any more.
You can live without that low-level interaction, but it's less healthy without it.
Hang up and call your financial institution
ON A DIFFERENT PHONE
Sorry to shout, it's incredibly important!
Half of England is on Gin-Tonic anyway.
"Gin & Tonic", at least in UK English
It's a bit early for that here, but maybe later!
I do go lunch at a fast food place once a week wirh my wife - during my lunch hour.
You hopeless romantic, you!
This is covered in a Spectacular Failures podcast
The German comedian Henning Wehn tells a joke about a British couple who adopt a German baby, who doesn’t talk. After several tests they find nothing wrong with the baby, but when he is five he is served apple strudel, and the child says: "This strudel is cold." The astonished parents ask the child why he’d not said anything for all this time and the child says: "Up until now everything had been satisfactory."
Financial services IT (in London anyway) seems to be an ageing profession, judging by the number of grey heads I can see from my desk!
Banks won't hire younger staff because they need to train them up, and then they just leave for more money. They seem to prefer paying good money to retain good older developers (thank goodness).
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I just don't see any kind of punishment there. If I had choice to spend my prison time in real time or suspended animation, I would take the latter.
Prison should be about rehabilitation, not punishment!
"Went to buy some camouflage trousers yesterday. Couldn't find any"
So, is this a huge public health issue, or is it just... a storm in a tea cup?
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
