Have you ever been to PowerShell Summit? It’s the only nerd conference I’ve ever attended where only about half the attendees actually realized they are nerds at a nerd conference. I love the vibe. It’s got style and pizzazz.
That said, the added entry for PowerShell would still be: “You are a nerd.”
Well shit. It’s got me dead to rights on a couple of these.
Kindness can be learned. The difference between being genuinely kind and just constantly successfully mimicing what a kind person would do is - no difference at all, really.
Ultimately, I think people who started as natural assholes make the best kind people - beacuse we don’t just do what feels kind, but we have to examine the results of our attempts at kindness, and adjust if needed.
That’s evil. I love it. I’ve used variants of:
“its-all-caps-AND.all.dash.separated”
Obviously I had to quit it beacuse, done well, it’s completely insufferable.
Nice. That’s a whole tale of joy, adorableness, frustration, and brilliance, all in a Wifi SSID.
I think we should bring back web rings, but nobody else seems to miss them.
Edit: I’m so old, I should probably link to what a web ring is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I’m bummed that no one in this thread has an exact duplicate post with more upvotes. Can we make it happen to my post, or is that too childish?
It probably wouldn’t work, but I would warn Martin Luther King’s event organizers or security detail.
I’m old enough that I could have lived in a world where Martin Luthor King Jr was still an active activist in my lifetime. It’s heartbreaking to think about what his loss meant not just symbolically, but in terms of how much better the entire world could have been with almost an extra half century of his influence.
I’ve given up huge piles of cash by choosing to not work for megacorps.
It’s worth it to me.
Confronted with the likelihood that we cannot achieve climate goals.
The current trend line sucks, but we’ve seen plenty of times in history what the ultra rich ignoring the plight of everyone else looks like. Someone please pass the “not with them” list to me to sign when it’s time to chop their heads off.
I wish I was joking, but I’m not. Seriously. I’m not with them. I would like to keep my head while we adjust course abruptly.
Edit: To be clear, I am not advocating. What should happen is that our climate, inequality, and injustice trends get fixed through peaceful cooperation. But our current crop of billionaires don’t show a lot of sign of either wanting that, or having any real awareness of where their current path, historically, goes. Which wouldn’t really be material to me, other than beacuse I’m at risk both from the climate, and from how guillotines historically kill a lot of bystanders.
"When we decided to give the test to the development team (about 15 developers) — most of them got scores that were lower than our threshold (45%), despite them all being rock-solid developers. Also, there were some candidates who managed to get 95% and above — but would then just be absolutely awful during the interview — we would later discover that they were paying someone to complete the technical test on their behalf.
There is no substitute for taking the time to sit down and talk to someone."
That’s pretty good advice. Interesting read.
I can’t think of a single time I’ve-
“… They were going to annouce it on Thursday.”
That is true.
Yeah, I was gonna say “there’s links to reddit?!”. I blocked those so long ago I had forgotten about it.
Yeah…We do it beacuse we’re cheapskate bastards, trying to get more than we’re willing to pay for.
Source: I worked for a cheapskate bastard, at one point.
Nice. I didn’t realize there were do many awful Vulcans. This has been enlightening.
Can we get an honorable mention for Spock’s brother?
Agreed. PornHub is probably a pretty solid representation of all web traffic. --Todo: insert obvious joke here–.
And a Python developer is born!
Source: I moved on from an abusive relationship with JavaScript to a healthy not-at-all-controlling equal partner relationship with Python. And four spaces makes perfect sense, once I really considered Python’s point of view…