Fox News viewers would need the concept of “sharing” explained to them first.

And don’t even get them started on doors.

I’ve been asked for a referral twice in my life. Both times the person the referral was for still worked for me, so I got them to write it and just sent it on.

If somebody wants more money than we pay I won’t stand in their way. I also don’t care if you get a good employee or not. Shit, I’d write a complete dumb-ass a glowing referral if you’re a rival company.

I still do.

I wish they’d open source Delphi (and most of the libraries). Might actually breathe some life back into it.

Fortran has a logo now?

I’d rather recommend every CEO see it in action…

They’re the ones who would be cock-a-hoop to replace us and our expensive wages with kids and bots.

When they’re sitting around rocking back and forth and everything is on fire like that Community GIF, they’ll find my consultancy fees to be quite a bit higher than my wages used to be.

I consider boilerplate code output like that to be well within reach of simple tools though. Tools that didn’t need a year to learn from hundreds of terabytes of examples, 20GB of VRAM, or the power use of a small city.

Given how it “learns”, asking for the same homework questions people have asked for on stack overflow a thousand times already would likely give a decent answer.

Asking it something new will produce plausible looking gibberish.

It has no idea which is which. It doesn’t know where the limits of its knowledge lie. It just knows that the answer looks like code and is very confident, and that any follow up issues can be dealt with by outputting more nonsense code and an excuse.

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks…

ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.

Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.

It’s even worse than tar.

Depends if you’re centering the div or the things in the div. Which has probably been the main issue since CSS was invented.

“Can we jazz it up a bit?”

This is a real request from a real manager. They have played us for absolute fools.

Many of our customers store their backups in our “cloud storage solution”.

I think they’d be rather less impressed to see the cloud is in fact a jumble of PCs scattered all around our office.

If you’re not using Notepad, I don’t even know what to tell you.

My main issue with JS is you can use it wrong, and it pretends to work, and often looks like it works.

But then shits its pants explosively the second you fall outside that.

Good old JS, because exceptions are a sin.

We all know what it is.

I honestly don’t know why they even have -> instead of just a dot like everyone else. The compiler knows whether it’s a record, object, pointer, or any level of pointer to pointers.

Why make the programmer do the donkey work?

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.