ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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Javascript is basically just C with some syntactical sugar, right? RIGHT?!?

Where is "sleeping 60 hours cat"?

They're not common at all, but I prefer a desk suspended from the ceiling with chains or whatever - complete and total freedom for the legs.

I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn't word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn't even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.

I've long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I'm not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.

Home Office Box Office. Kinda catchy acronym.

Sorry, I meant "motion capture Morgan Freeman". Harriet Tubman would be CGI of course.

Medieval history especially

At least we have Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

they tend to be great talkers and networkers

This is selling them a bit short. They're also generally pretty good at raping aspiring actresses.

does “Dr. Kwame Nkrumah” mean anything to you?

C'mon, there are lots of NBA fans outside of the United States.

AI Morgan Freeman

In the neighborhood with affordable houses ...

I used to work for a west coast tech giant. Their early retirement package was: "you are retiring now, goodbye" along with a severance just large enough to disqualify me from unemployment. At least I didn't have to spend months pretending to look for work.

I used to hang out with some behavioral psychology (BF Skinner stuff) graduate students. They transport pigeons head-down in juice pitchers; I asked them how they got the pigeons into those pitchers, and they showed me that they just open the cages and hold the pitchers up and the birds dive into them, sometimes knocking themselves out in the process. They are into that lever-pressing shit, although TBF that's mainly because they're maintained at 80% of a normal diet so that the reinforcing effect of the food pellets is maximized.

FWIW pigeons can be trained to do some pretty interesting shit. Skinner had them playing ping-pong, and really competing at it - like, they got rewarded for winning shots, not just for hitting the ball back. Skinner also had a scheme going to use pigeons to steer flying bombs into enemy ships during WWII.

You killed your appetite by drinking too much agent orange juice.

My former company had an offshore team in Bangalore (actually, 90% of our company was located there). We had a morning meeting right before a critical release, and the offshore leader told us that nobody there would be able to do anything or even be in contact for the next two or three days. Turns out they were moving to a new office building but nobody there had told the US team anything about it - even though they knew our project schedule. This was completely representative of our communication with them.

Or the outer wall of a 20th floor suite.

Born on third base and thinks he scored a touchdown.

Current company was just bought by a bigger company.

This is exactly what happened to me.

They will spend as little money on you as possible to make you go away.

I actually got a severance from my big company, first time I ever got anything for being let go. TBF it totaled about $100 less than what I would have gotten for unemployment benefits; this prevented me from qualifying for unemployment, but it did mean I didn't have to pretend to be looking for work for six months to get the money.

I knew my layoff was coming because they let me do absolutely fucking nothing for six months.

A toaster oven can do most things that a full-sized oven can do.