We had a booger wiper at our urinals at work. Every day a new smear on the wall. I left a note. Something like: Savage who has not discovered Kleenex technology....with other shaming tactics.

I think it helped.

@M1sf3t They knew they had made a system for a decent and literate society. As long as society remained decent and literate...well. Perhaps their flaw was in not acknowledging that no prosperous society had ever sustained decency for long. We had a good run. In fairness, even perfect founding documents, without fidelity to them, will result in the mess we have now. You know, like a Center of Excellence.

@M1sf3t On top of that, the new devs added features that no one asked for, and that were inconsistent with the original architecture. While the original version was well documented, the custodians were illiterate and greedy tyrants.

I did non development IT work. Servers, networking, support. I think it is a good start for devs, to understand the greater landscape. Speaking of landscape, I supported myself as a landscaper. And as a waiter. And as a machine operator in a machine shop. Kinda makes you appreciate IT, to not have to pick metal shavings out of your hair.

I work with my company's recruiters often, and I think a quality LinkedIn profile has the highest ROI. Maybe that profile has a link to your site?

Fucking bosses.

Depends on how/where the degree was earned. I have seen it as both a waste of money and totally worth while. The degree is not going to mean much for those students who believe that the paper is enough. If you really study and augment the paper with self study and personal projects, you will kill it. If money is an issue, find the cheapest school and get the paper, but do your own study after class.

Context: I dropped out of school, no degree. But I pretty much kill it. Maybe I'd have got there earlier with the paper? Maybe not.

Parallels. One extra button click. Done.

@electrineer I barely use the HP, so a mouse for that one would just be clutter. I have a mouse on the Mac.

@ajit555 Go ahead. Make fun. But them shits is comfortable. Especially for the mouse elbow.

Should upgrade to Vista.

MacBook pro with several VMs of many flavors. It is a beefy Mac.

Welcome to 1997.

Dude. We have all been there. One time, I tried to reboot a server that was in a colocation. Except, I hit shutdown. On a weekend. During a release. We were all working the weekend, trying to go by the numbers so we could go home. I was popular that day.

@monkeyboy Few author tests that test anything. Even fewer author code that is testable in a meaningful way. Is it covered? That is not so hard. Does the test tell you when something is broken? (for real) It does not seem like it to me. It is dogma at that point. I completely agree.

@monkeyboy also, IT is trendy. Decision makers do not deal well with bucking trends. When something goes wrong, some dipshit consultant will tell their boss that their guy did not do something that is industry standard at the given moment. Who is going to put their neck on the line that way?

@monkeyboy Wrong think. I hear ya though. I feel like test writing is a make work project for our industry. I would think otherwise if anyone gave 2 shits about tests actually testing something. The concept is right. The implementation is garbage.

Buy the car. It is the American way.

I kinda dig my cars. I also dig not living in a metropolis. I dig having the autonomy to come and go when I please. I work from home and homeschool my child, so I am not exactly resource intensive. I worked in London for a bit, so I get where you are coming from. It would be dope to have better trains in the US. First things first, let's get the fricken freight on trains. US highways are 70% trucks. If we could get freight on trains it would be so much more efficient from any angle. I worked in logistics for a time, and the problem seemed to be that trains never ran on time, and there was massive scarcity. That is not a good formula for an on demand economy. It is a vicious cycle. Cannot use rail because it is unreliable, cannot invest is rail because no one uses it.

No one is concerned about shooting microwaves into the head? That's why I always go with a wire. I had Google glass and other wireless headphones quite a few years ago, and I always got a headache and sharp pains/ burning behind my ears. Since then, I am wired only. As far as sound quality goes, I keep it wired too, outside the ear.

@McTschecker Don't care about efficiency? Yup, sounds like school.

Have you tried Unity? Lots of tutorials, and you can write in c#, which is pretty marketable if you want to stop with games at some point. The tools are free. I taught a high school class last year using Unity.

It might make sense. Using the length method may be more resource intensive than calling it once, assigning its value to a variable, and using the variable from there on out. Unless that length method returned value is changing along the way, then you may need to use the more resource intensive method.

Dizzle. Keep at it. In no time you will be fucking up your subordinate's code.

@mt3o good points. I think we agree.

Here is the big however: pop science kinda acts like they have it all figured out, and pop culture eats it up, to the point that folks can be irrationally caustic to those who remain unaffiliated. This goes both ways, of course.

I think that scientist have become less scientific in the last few decades. The peer review process seems to have a few holes in it, no? Funding influences outcomes, and that cannot be good if truth is a desired outcome. Maybe I am being pessimistic. As an untrained but interested party, I find that it is required to be a bit more critical these days. Perhaps I always should have been.

@mt3o I have heard and often read many of the theories. I have yet to hear or read one that is satisfactory to the question, what was the primary mover/creator. Often, they get to A starting point and not THE starting point, to my untrained sensibilities. I am not a theist, and I would ask for the same proof for a creation story...where did God come from?

In your example, there was a black hole. Black holes are made of matter which has mass. Perhaps the black hole pinched itself off from another universe, but that only gets us so far toward an answer.

Unless there is a flaw in effects having causes, we have much work to do.

@gitpush for me it comes down to something you mentioned: when reviewing code on the first pass or in an emergency, I would prefer that there is as little ambiguity due to style as possible. Having brackets sometimes required is more ambiguous than always using brackets. The compiler sees them as the same thing, but in that case why use any CRLF at all? Why use indentation?

I also agree that the braces do not matter, so long as there is a single standard. However, when I am picking the standards I will ask our devs to use braces every time.

I use the old Van Halen brown M & Ms approach. Braces and other style choices are the brown M &Ms. If I find them, there will likely be bigger problems that cannot be ignored.

For those who do not know, Van Halen asked for M & M's in their contracts, brown ones removed. If they appeared to a bowl full of unfiltered M & M's, they knew to expect trouble due to lack of attention to detail.

@Stebner55 at least I know I am not completely nuts then. Unless you are, in which case, my condolences.

Oh, I have one.

If(true)
Do something

No brackets. Discuss.

It makes me want to wretch even typing the example. I think younger devs like this.

I am ok with belief or disbelief, just refrain from asking me to pick an allegiance. Started out an atheist, but finding a respect for what some religions have contributed to our species. It's not a perfect record, for sure.

Still having trouble with: in the beginning there was nothing, and then nothing exploded. Every origin story, religious or science based, seems to end up as a "turtles all the way down" type explanation.