That’s what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable.
If I’m on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don’t need to know anything about me specifically.
We’d still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement
Adams sucks and it’s embarrassing that people here elected him.
This is what I always say. Put the tickets in order and we’ll do them.
Management always pushes back.
I am going to get a lot of use out of that URL.
I’ve been telling people they need to put a dollar in the jar when they do that, but I haven’t actually been enforcing it.
I know pre 1.x.x is kind of a wild west for versioning but uh is there any logic to the version numbers here? I’d think a new feature would be a minor version bump, not patch
I understood that reference
Opportunity cost is a pretty well understood concept.
Like, inagine you have 100 gallons of water. You could use all of them to water a single water intensive plant that will feed one person, or you could use them to water a whole farm that will feed a community, and also let people drink and bathe and stuff.
The resource is limited.
Sure, we could try to get more of the resource and make it less expensive, but we should also not squander what we have.
Reminds me of the cover of slothrust’s “of course you do” https://slothrust.bandcamp.com/album/of-course-you-do
I mostly work in Python, but we use types at work. For a hack day project I skipped typing stuff for like an hour, and then went “wait this sucks” and added types. It was easier overall.
Maybe it’s part of an elaborate vampire hunting scheme. It seems like something idiot PCs would do in a role playing game, and the protagonists of “What We Do In the Shadows” would fall for.
Kind of off topic but some people are really bad at writing jira tickets.
“Show the user a list of projects [eof]”
Ok but like, only their projects, right? Do they need to be ordered? Searchable? Paginated? Only active ones or soft deleted ones, too? Do you just need the name or do you need metadata too?
Somehow product doesn’t love my stance of “if it’s not on the ticket or in a sop, the behavior is undefined and you get what you get” stance.
I am taking this opportunity to share what I coincidentally found this morning: https://froglord.bandcamp.com/album/save-the-frogs
Frog core? It’s like doom/sludge metal about frogs and the dangers of pollution.
401 is “I don’t know who you are. Get fucked”
403 is “I know who you are and you’re not allowed here. Get fucked”
People weren’t happy that planning meetings were taking longer because of all of the “what do you want it to do if such-and-such?” questions.
Which kind of rolls into product not wanting to do their job, sometimes, but here we are.
I get pushback at work about how I need to “be better at working with incomplete or vague instructions”, but “if it’s not in the spec the behavior is undefined, and you get what you get” is unacceptable.
Still mildly peeved about when product complained a list wasn’t sorted alphabetically. They’re lucky the order was deterministic at all
My computer doesn’t meet the requirements so I guess I’ll just not.
I was a QA engineer. I think one of the guys on the team I was on developed a stress response from hearing me walk over to his desk.
Lots of “page crashes if the user doesn’t have a last name”
“Why wouldn’t they have a last name??”
“No idea, but 372 users in the DB don’t, and 20 of them were created this month so it’s not an old problem”
“incoherent muttering and cursing”
We just had a whole talk about our “retrospective” about how random edicts from management have costs. I don’t think anyone in a position to take that feedback is going to listen, though.
Mouselook, huh? More like Quake. :old man yells at cloud:
I also don’t have any social media unless you count this account. I had a similar thought years ago that it was just going to make me unhappy.
People at work the other day were talking about how they stress about which photos to post. I’m like why. That’s such a self inflicted wound.
I used to have a FB account because people used it for events, but I never posted, and I used adblock to hide the main feed.
Now when I do parties and stuff, I just send out Google calendar invites. (I should de-Google but that’s a long road I haven’t started down)