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by wombatpm 4y ago
It will be attacked by the FOSS purists and the corporatists who will scream “see the GPL is a cancer to commercial code”
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Obligatory XKCD. https://xkcd.com/810
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Be cheaper to buy them for 2.4 billion
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by wombatpm 4y ago
I've heard it as : 1) You can't win 2) In a perfect universe you could break even 3) The universe isn't perfect
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Your comment gave me flashbacks to FORTRAN data files with fixed width data descriptors.
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Make them test their disaster recovery plan. One organization I worked for took three tries before they could even simulate disaster their recovery process.
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Comments in code are like pizza or sex. When they are good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s better than nothing
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by wombatpm 4y ago
I can spend a divided. Especially if I have to take a mandatory distribution. You have to sell (at the right time) to get profit from a buyback
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Makes me wonder about cholesterol. It is used in the brain, but we have had a generation on anti-cholesterol drugs with rising rates of dementia and Alzheimer's
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Ah the 1980’s when Neutron Jack Welch (he kills the people but leaves the buildings intact) was seen as a visionary. He was ahead of the curve in massive layoffs while doing tons of mergers and acquisitions that years later seem to have bee
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by wombatpm 4y ago
I’m sure their are management consultants who watched the first season of Andor and thoughts “Now that’s what I’m talking about”
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by wombatpm 4y ago
People were scared during the pandemic. Until the fatality rate for COVID goes up significantly, people are going to ignore the risks.
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Loved my Peril Sensitive Sunglasses from HHGTTG
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by wombatpm 4y ago
What is a waste is interviewing for a Sr backend python role and being given a timed online test to implement a linked list class scratch. IF I ever needed a linked list, I’d use collections.deque like a professional.
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by wombatpm 4y ago
And the smile program was another example of that. Had to use the correct url or nothing went to charity. They could have made it a setting for the user, or an option during checkout. I bet if the offered round up for charity in the checkou
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Do your hours get billed to a contract or client? Then it makes sense. It’s just a shitty contract that does not account for overhead properly If it doesn’t, then you are just working for assholes
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by wombatpm 4y ago
That’s only a complaint for people who use CSV. If you use the ascii characters for record, file, unit, and group there are no problems with data payload
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by wombatpm 4y ago
You only needed to enter a few commands to process your stack of punch cards so ergonomics didn’t matter
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Use spaces like a psychopath?
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Refer them to St Jude’s Childrens hospital. Childhood cancer is their thing
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by wombatpm 4y ago
I have a diabetic child. There was a point in time where I had the high deductible plan with a max out of pocket of 10,500. When I ran the numbers for other plans, what I was allowed to save pretax, etc. the high deductible plan actually ma
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by wombatpm 4y ago
I wrote an awk script to rip through supposedly ascii text files to deal with CP1252 extended ascii characters that would creep in. Those characters played havoc with the output of our bindery’s commercial inkjet print heads. That stuff was
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by wombatpm 4y ago
With a dividend I get income and still own the stock. With a buy back I have to sell to see my money. Not the same
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Seriously. For some internal process tools, Django admin with custom models registered gets me 90% of what I need. The remaining 10% usually gets covered in a custom command that I can run from the shell
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by wombatpm 4y ago
XML is like violence. If it’s not solving your problem, you need to use more
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Phone calls are ok. Voicemail is the real waste of time
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by wombatpm 4y ago
What’s the funding situation like, now that the SPAC is off the table?
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by wombatpm 4y ago
This reads like a No True Scotsman argument
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by wombatpm 4y ago
While I would love that, I much prefer a gut compatible diff for excel files. I’m so tired of files like budget-final-v2-final-final-approved.xlsx
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by wombatpm 4y ago
Or you could be getting Calvin’s dad kind of answers: Calvin:how do they know the weight limit for a bridge? Dad: they drive bigger and bigger trucks over it until it collapses, then they rebuild the bridge and put up the sign

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