@DLMousey, I'm using this.

Make of it what you will, but every time I get one of these sales calls/emails trying to convince me that they are not, in fact, trying to sell me something, they come from India.

Perhaps there is a cultural gap involved. Is this approach typical of the way salesmanship is done within India?

Hi Sandeep,

Since you are not looking for any business opportunities, you may as well stop emailing me. I mean, what's the point? Are you bored or something? Lonely? Need a friend?

Regards,

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Yikes. The X and later can play 4K just fine. Not that it makes any sense to do that... Nearly no one can tell the difference even between 720 and 1080 on a screen that small. I can barely tell the difference between 1080P and 4K in my iPad Pro 10.5.

So, first Python no longer has a BDFL. Then this crap gets merged. This is the first of a never ending series of acquiescence to fabricated social demands. It will not end well.

If a salesperson has zero attention to detail in the pre-sales process, guess how well they will do when you actually have to work with them.

The followup:

"Hi xxxxx,

Not an attention seeking sales tactic, Sorry you read the email wrong.

I left you a voice mail and would like to come out on Monday or Wednesday of next week to shake your hand and get my name out there.

Please let me know if that works for you."

Me:

"Hello again, zzzzz.

In that case you are somewhat confused, because in addition to not saying what you meant in your first email, and blaming me for your mistake, you also did not leave me a voicemail.

We are not interested. Thank you."

They are seriously tempting fate. Remember the IE lawsuit?

POTS lines suck. And to think this used to be the norm in every company of any size.

Render much?

I was looking for something concrete, and was ready to instantiate a child, but she was all abstract and didn't like my methods. When I tried to talk to her about polymorphism, she got offended. Later I found out she was philosophically opposed to multiple inheritance.

You know you're getting old, when your community considers a Pentium II laptop running Windows XP nostalgic.

Here's my first portable computer: http://aoaforums.com/frontpage/...

Remember Larry Wall’s three programming virtues: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.

http://threevirtues.com

Though Larry didn’t say so, not reinventing the wheel falls under laziness.

If the past is any guide to the future, this just means they will keep re-submitting the bill in one form or another until it passes. Eternal vigilance is the cost of freedom.

I don't know what the rules on this are like in the EU, but in the USA when an unpopular bill like this fails, some jackass attaches it to some other bill while no one is looking, so it can get passed in the dead of night.

The world before JPEG. Progressive GIFs FTW!

My title used to be CTO. But we don't sell our tech. The development I'm over is all internal facing. Plus I'm also over infrastructure and support. I finally convinced them that CIO was the correct title. Not sure if that was a wise move on my part or not.

Probably someone who couldn't hide a laptop on his person, and just dashed and grabbed what they could.

Once you go Capslock, you never go back. If you can also make a Capslock tap = Esc, all the better.

Yes, this is a real thing. As much as I love Touch ID, I hate that it activates when you just want to go to the home screen.

When that happens, you have to remember to click with a finger you do not have fingerprinted. But that takes overriding your reflexes. Very frustrating.

Now if only Serif can make it possible to change the zero point for the rulers in their apps, you know, like every other graphic design program developed in the last 30 years.

Good coffee tastes good even when it’s at room temperature.

If your coffee does not taste good after it has cooled down, then your coffee was not good to begin with.

@LinusCDE You mean this one? https://www.dict.cc/?s=kitz

I actually do better with the 16th century German of Upper Saxony / Thuringia.

@Skayo So I understood that, except for the "litter" at the end.

@Alice I guess there's no accounting for taste. Then again, I don't do deep fried anything.

Jah, @Skayo, es nicht mein erstes Rodeo. ;)

@LinusCDE It's a cross-linguistic play on words. Because we often say "kids" in English, when that literally means "baby goats." Which is what "kitzen" means in German.

Is "3 Kitzen" any better?

@Alice Eh. Well Arschkrampe by itself is a thing, but not exactly easy to translate. "Clueless idiot" comes close. The best insults are the ones that don't translate.

@Alice Was ne großartig Wort! I'm adding that one to my insult vocab.