I find your lack of faith disturbing...

I would hope that the wand at least makes a sound when activated...

They're doctors, dammit, not geologists...

There would be one but the person who was going to provide it got shot in a tragic hunting accident.

Preferably a dictionary so you can spell "poring" correctly...

I'm still stuck reciting 2... being able to get to e is a pipe dream

My 11 year old shitbox was a shitbox when it rolled off the assembly line. Now it's not as shiny, but it can still do over a ton without red lining or otherwise exploding.

Horsen of coursen.

What's more fun is the collective nouns for goosen: flock if on the ground, skein if in flight...

Take 2: "those who can write *insert framework*..."

Use take 2.

And it too will have its own way of doing things that nothing else does, just like Angular and React are right now. At least jQuery was open from the beginning that devs should know the language that it mostly shielded them from. Now it doesn't seem to matter; job postings are mainly for those who can write , not JavaScript. Don't know the particular framework du jour (or preferably *all* of them)? Tough.

And Reagan.

I hear you. I'm in two minds as to whether I go for a Head of Development job as it has a requirements list a mile long (because as well as managing the teams and directly reporting to CEO you should be prepared to keep updating your coding skill set and crank out solutions like all the other code monkeys). To me it looks like a job that two people would be better at than one, but maybe that's just me.

Journalistic rigor mortis

At a review (KPIs, fuck them) when the possibility of raises not happening was mentioned if after number crunching - where all non-tangible benefit you bring to the team and the company is discarded as irrelevant - you didn't do as well as it was hoped (read "expected"), I casually asked "not even for cost of living increases?" (that wasn't even 2% according to RPI) and was met with a disbelieving look as if I'd asked to film a blowbang with his wife and daughters.

I don't work there any more.

Yeah, I have a life that doesn't involve being in front of a screen all fucking day. That's why I *don't* have a mountain of code written on my own time, because it's nice to be outside doing other pointless shit.