It’s the same stupid that thinks a dictator will preserve their freedom.

Ironically, there is nothing ironic about fascism.

It needs 3D borders.

The double-space between “Excel” and “of” is what hurts me. Such a boss thing to do.

StrikeThree

why is it always the monitor to get beat

Because it’s within arm’s reach and the developers aren’t.

Shorts are pretty annoying in general, but I’ll be damned if they’re not great for presenting a recipe in a very short amount of time. Like, you don’t need to see the chef dicing four whole onions in real time.

That’s like seeing a basic electronic calculator in the 60s and saying that computing won’t expand much more.

“Who would ever need more than 640K of RAM?” -Bill Gates

It also helps that it’s in Las Vegas.

You push a button and it makes Little Leaguers do whatever you tell them to do. Very potent, should never be misused.

Yes, testing the new Little League control module on a field full of Little Leaguers was not the best plan.

Ironically, the worst thing I ever saw a coworker do was to change a function that accepted an Integer value between 0 and 32767 to one that accepted a Float between 0.0 and 1.0. Perfectly sensible change except that it resulted in a 120 mph knuckleball fired a foot above a 10 year old kid’s head, followed by a fist fight between the client and my boss.

Not really relevant, but I used to think Axl was singing “take me down to the very last city”.

I occasionally get texts offering to buy a house I used to live in. Which was in a state 800 miles from where I’m living now. Which I lived in for six months almost 30 years ago. And in which I just rented an apartment, the unit of which is part of the address they include in the text message. For bonus points, this house was torn down years ago.

no pun intended

None taken.

I used to work for Comcast and one time after they had won the “Worst Company in the World” contest two years in a row they sent out a company-wide email telling them to participate in the contest and vote for some other company. Everyone I knew there participated in the contest but we didn’t follow the instructions exactly lol.

I meant to say commits and not merges, and yes he removed the comments before committing. It made no difference in long run because every new release broke all the accessibility stuff anyway. It’s amazing how little developers can be made to care about blind people - almost as little as managers. The only reason my company cared at all was they were facing million-dollar-a-month fines from the FCC.

I spent a year making my company’s iOS apps accessible (meaning usable for the blind and people with vision disabilities). I had to do a lot of weird shit either because of bugs in Apple’s VoiceOver technology or because of the strange way in which our code base was broken up into modules (some of which I did not have access to) and I would always put in comments explaining why I was doing what I was doing. The guy doing code review and merges would always just remove my comments (without any other changes) because he felt that not only were comments unnecessary but also they were a “code smell” indicating professional incompetence. I feel sorry for whoever had to deal with that stuff at a later point.

I’ve never had a manager that was even aware of the comments vs. no comments issue. If I ever had, I would have just told them that a lack of comments makes the original coder harder to replace.

lazy programmers

I don’t think they’re lazy, I think they’re not good writers. Not being able to write well is very common among programmers (not having to communicate with written language is one reason a lot of people go into coding) and in my experience the Venn diagrams for “not a good writer” and “thinks comments are unnecessary” overlap perfectly.