Comment Re:What is the actual point of this? (Score 1) 487
"The good news is, the school bully can steal your lunch money only once today."
"The good news is, the school bully can steal your lunch money only once today."
Oh, well, that makes it perfectly okay, then. *eyeroll*
I don't live in a basement. But I am concerned about being held liable for what others do with my connection.
You must not ever have been to Chicago.
The patterning comes from young children not challenging their parents' misbehavior, for genetic fear of being left to starve on a hillside.
That is one of the silliest things I've read in quite some time. Unless you were going for Funny, in which case it's not. Thanks!
...It's just that the term had yet to be coined.
Well played.
You've never experienced the touch of a woman other than your mother, have you?
It has become a running joke at the office. They are buggy, shitty, and mostly sitting in drawers.
Whether or not you approve of the über-casual dress code, that's still not a very nice thing to say about your co-workers.
The guys at MS are professional engineers--they may have different philosophies or coding styles or project priorities than you do, but they're not slowing things down in order to make you buy the next product.
That's right--they're professionals who are coding what they get told to code.
And you might not like MS, but they haven't been a disreputable company for decades.
I must have missed that. My Bing-fu is a bit weak at the moment--perhaps you can post a link to a news article or something showing me when they started being reputable?
ProTip: If you didn't spend so much time trying to show us what a small-minded jerk you're capable of being, and actually paid attention to what you're responding to, you'd look a lot less stupid.
You are not Hammurabi, and you do not get to choose who lives and who dies. I hope.
Would you care for some sauce to go with that chip on your shoulder? Geeez.
No big systems go into production that don't have a slew of bugs...of not working according to the intent of the programmers (and analysts, managers and stakeholders).
Apparently it was intended at one time, then discarded. I've done that with logic in programs, too (you make a mass substitution and miss a thing or two, etc).
So a lingering bug from a discarded architecture: what do you think the boss would have to say when you explain to him that "the bug must remain because that was the intent of one of the original, long-gone programmers"?
A buggy paragraph in a 2400 page text. Hmm. Actually, few systems go into production that big that don't have a slew of bugs...of not working according to the intent of the programmers.
I have a very rational hatred of Thomas Edison, why is your wife's hatred of him irrational unlike mine?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
