EvanKnowles

Feels like a bonus to me.

If I click Join I am immediately redirected to a "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access doge.gov" CloudFlare page. That's odd.

"Where's my new server gone? ... oh, it's hanging out in us-east-1, damnsit."

Avoid them for ethical reasons too.

Problem is, sometimes you don't need the best-world-class coders, you need cheaper coders to align a button.

I think a lot of devs go through a "I'll just store code in the DB and evaluate at runtime!" phase. Some of them never get through it though.

We had this, but HR moved so slowly that the (good) guy that was fired was still there when the new guy arrived.

That feeling when you ask a question, they go "uhhhhh", in the background you can hear mechanical keys clattering, and suddenly they can give a textbook definition.

More fun is when you can google their answers and find the website they're reading from.

"A few years back, Will added a share house as a McDonald’s restaurant. It didn’t didn’t last long before it was removed by Google, he told Crikey in a phone call this week, but it appeared to fool at least one person. “A car drove past slowly with its driver looking pretty confused,” he said."

Perhaps he could not make the information available on the internet even worse?

Eventually enough content will have been produced that a human could watch an incredible series every day of their lives without anything new coming out. That's when humanity will peak and crumble happily away.

I mean, a bunch of us here are sitting on the continent right now.

We used to use a VCS called Borland (yeah, Delphi Borland) StarTeam, which was basically the exact same flow. Luckily for us they audited us at some point, decided we were using too many licences, and insisted we triple our monthly expense or stop using StarTeam - that was the incentive to persuade business to let us slow down dev for a bit while we changed to Git.

My web client was behaving waaay better than my desktop client on this issue.

It improved suddenly in the third season, I was about to give up.

Wait, people aren't breathing through noses?

We have Popeyes in South Africa, we just don't like it.

The kind of houses that could be bought for that starting value in South Africa, in beautiful, safe neighourhoods, with 1gb/s internet connections...

I always read a dead channel as pure static.

When I get to actually dev, totally. I work at an insurance company, I ended up here after I got hired by contract house (from a referral from a friend, who was hired by that contract house because they picked up grads), and they posted me here ~11 years ago, then I went permanent.

Actively coding in Java in a large system at the moment (so we can't Kotlin), but if I were to start a greenfields I'd give serious consideration to doing it in Kotlin.

Illusions by Richard Bach. I notice something new everytime - a far cry from when my mom told me to read it, and I read the back and cringed. I've given away so many copies now.

Unrelated, your Stable Diffusion image compression article was amazing, thanks for that.

I was in the Kruger this weekend, and our guide was lamenting that they've already lost over 340 rhino this year, and said poachers keep hacking their radios and finding out where the rhino are, even when they change code they speak in.

I find the chance of that to be roughly zero though - clearly a bunch of the guides have been paid off. This isn't a problem tech can solve.

The number of times we've had developers commit passwords that they never should have had to Git, and then "revert" it, following which we had to have the passwords changed, is annoyingly high.

That left/right cursor key bug is the worst. I'd assumed there was just something wrong with my keyboard until my colleagues also reported seeing it.

Gods, Enterprise Architect. Such a generic UML app that tries to do so much that it's impossible to find what you want to do.

And then you look for alternatives and find that it's years ahead of the rest.

Just saw this yesterday in Two Minute Papers.

Superb application of Poe's law until the end.

Such a great terrible film.

Weird, don't know if they changed something maybe, but I'm in South Africa and I can hit it.