And of course this is true in other languages too. So for example in my area there's quite a few people with the last name Haddad in my area. Sounds fancy an exotic but it's just arabic for Smith.

My main criteria for a girl are

1. Can not be bat shit crazy.

2. Not a midget. (How the hell did I end up on a blind date with a midget? It was like going out with a child, I think my 7 year old niece is taller. Before anybody asks it's true, I've actually been on a blind date with a little person, I'm not being sarcastic about that.)

Apparently it's going to be difficult to find both of those in 1 girl.

Realize "believe" is the wrong term when talking about science in the first place. (Man I hate it when people say that instead of "I accept evolution is a valid scientific theory as supported by reams of evidence and creationism isn't even science." )

I know I've brought this up before but I've had co-workers who were supposed to be tech savvy and couldn't successfully plug in a USB device and get it working. (Yes I was stupid enough to help them, I wanted them to go away.)

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Don't plan ahead, try to foresee difficulties and solve issue way before they come up. Instead blow things off, leave out important details and try to solve everything at the last possible moment. That's good management, or at least a interesting movie

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I always figured they added extra ascorbic acid to get it up to the 25% daily recommended. (Which it actually said on the front of the can.)

Did you know Orange Crush used to have vitamin C in it? (It did in the 80s.)

I would but we have a "help desk" that manages settings. (Pretty much they can push down software and put any settings they want on your system because we log into a domain. I've been tempted to take away domain admin's rights to my machine but I figured I'd get an earful from managers.) Also educating co-workers would be an utter waste of time. (Admittedly not the firmware or hardware team. They're so tech savvy they run Linux.)

I ask since that's what we use in work. It's one of the things that makes my system really slow(since it scans my hard drive constantly.) yet I've seen at least 2 people here that have gotten viruses anyway over the few years I've been here. (Considering the site is less than 50 people that sucks as far as I'm concerned.)

Where the really poor/stupid and the really rich/smart tend to vote democrat. The group that I've heard that tends to vote republican is the middle class, especially the upper middle class. (No I don't have a site for that. Also I'm not going to say lib/conservative because to be blunt they don't seem that different to me.)

The thing though is that I've seen people with experience write absolute shit code. (No comments, magic numbers, functions that are thousands of lines long.) I guess I lucked out when my first coding job the guy in charge kept pointing out all the shit things I was doing. (I thought he was a jack ass at the time but now, he was fucking right, the things I was doing was making it less readable.) I guess the big thing is that you have the attitude that you want to learn from others how to do it better.(The people that I see write shit code even though they've got experience don't want to learn from anybody else and won't listen.)

I wish they'd teach most people Software Engineering techniques instead. Basically I mean write code that is maintainable. IE actually write functions, use templates/generics, don't use magic numbers, don't have pieces of code for object A in object B, ETC.

He's of the opinion that you give your opinion once. If they choose not to listen to you well fuck them. (Admittedly my uncle is very smart, has an ivy league degree. Anybody that ignores his advice is royal fucked.) I'm guessing the best thing to do is start looking for a new job because some how I doubt they'll suddenly get smart. (They'll probably just manage the company into the ground and then blame you for it.)

Basically what I mean is that your company sounds like my company. Management has gotten away with doing everything half assed because "Hey we can dump this on software engineering and it's free!" So we basically do tech support for the rest of the company, drop things to take care of customer issues, manage servers, not to say managing releases as well. All this doesn't actually work that well but since we've been effectively shielding management from all their stupid incompetent decisions they aren't forced to do anything. So in the end until the shit hits the fan they're going to continue to be stupid. Admittedly you might get fired if you make them feel the results of their decisions. (I think one of the reasons they fired my manager was that he gave a lot of push back and tried to get them to understand how idiotic they were at times. But they didn't want to listen and just axed him and continued with the stupidity.)

Which is what pretty much happens where I work. So for example we had this communication protocol that probably should have taken a month to design implement and a week to test. But oh no, we need it in 2 weeks even though the hardware doesn't actually work. That got pushed off to one dev who basically had a week to work on it. But of course the manager didn't notice the guy was sick and couldn't work on it.(He said he'd work from home but that was just a fantasy.) So guess what happened when it was decided hey you can finish it up since he's out today. Pretty much I implemented and unit tested what I could in a day.(Based off of a toy version of the protocol which basically only handled the perfect case.) Suffice it to say it doesn't really work and nobody seems actually interested in fixing it. (Even though I've given them some advice on some extra code that would actually solve a lot of issues with it. Should I mention the customers notice it doesn't actually work?) God I hate "agile"