@whimsical And a reverse proxy, after a few drinks.

As the saying goes, "your mom is an exit node".

@yenaidong It seems like a fair suggestion to me. If you want to route your OF traffic through someone else's connection, you might as well choose someone who knows you and who is partly responsible for you having ended up that way.

@BordedDev It's not about being able to afford it.

Most of the financial industry runs on VBA macros and desperate interns who don't mind coming in at 5am to "run the spreadsheets".

@include0000 No.

I kind of like rust. Don't kink-shame.

What are you expecting rgb() to return in JS?

Devs: there's no point making this into mobile apps, the web app works fine on mobile devices, we're not doing any funky hardware and we don't need to store data offline. It's just another thing to go wrong.

Management: all my friends have apps.

Devs: we'll have to do everything three times and charge you three times, and we'll also start to really dislike you.

Management: my 13yo kid made an app, it's really easy.

Devs: fine, here's your fucking app.

Don't underestimate the comedy value of a really convincing plastic shit.

Seeing anything in capitals with an H at the start gives me '90s WinAPI flashbacks.

Before answering, please note that the definitions of most of those have recently been broadened to include putting the bins out on the wrong day, supporting brexit, using a phone immediately after driving, and calling a politician a pimmel.

From what I've seen I reckon it scores poorly on all four metrics:

1. How easy is it to slap something together that superficially works but is actually shit? (Far too easy.)

2. How difficult is it to build something elegant and robust? (Extremely hard.)

3. How bad would the slapped-together solution be? (Terrible.)

4. How good would the elegant and robust solution be? (Mediocre.)

It's the combination of #2 and #4 that do it for me. It's just not worth the effort.

Nobody is completely fluent in javascript.

You mean what kind of jobs should people still do but not get paid for?

@djsumdog Don't forget the one at the top that says:

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The value of bullshit verbiage isn't in what it says, but in the fact that a member of a gatekept profession is putting their name to it.

If there's any blowback, management can say "when we sacked Dave, we got an experienced HR professional to review the paperwork", and they're in the clear. It will be a long time before they can say "we got an AI-powered virtual HR consultant to review it" and not look like idiots.

Annoyingly, with tech it seems to be the other way round.

Probably concurrency issues.

This guy explains it perfectly: https://youtube.com/watch/...

If your choice of json seraliser makes the difference between running out of memory on the server or not, then the thing you're serialising must be absolutely hideous.

Whatever it is, you almost certainly don't need to serialise that bastard all in one go.

Microsoft's internal bureaucracy must produce about 1TB of .pptx files every day, and yet they haven't got round to making powerpoint less of a pain in the arse to use.

Although, given that some of their mobile apps are (quite sensibly) built with react native rather than MAUI, I wouldn't be surprised if all their management slide decks are done in keynote.

I do that already, I thought everyone did?

@Lensflare That's a bit unrealistic.

In a big grown-up company like MS, the dev would have to go through at least two committees to talk to the executive.

This is how programmers think about sex, and it explains an awful lot.

You're getting rejections?

Lucky sod.

Interesting weekend. Had a really long conversation with my ex. Proper fucking Maoist struggle session.

As for stuff an immature adult would say, I should've taken notes. I would have had enough material for a coffee table book with a pull-out wall chart.

What is it with you continentals pulling up the cobbles whenever you cop the arse about something?

Makes work for the guy who puts them back, I suppose.

@afaIk You're assuming he doesn't do this around people who know him?

The suspect is believed to have suffered a psychotic episode after his 32,768th trip to the gym.

Both the actress and the bird are named after the Greek goddess, probably.

If the bird is named after the goddess and the actress is named after the bird, then that makes no sense and is a violation of OOP principles.

Thickens, then dries out, then has to be scraped off with a spoon.

Anyway, the en-US spelling of diarrhoea just looks wrong, and makes me think of that ostrich thing, or that actress from Better Call Saul.

@Lensflare Pommes de terre de l'arbre.