And unskippable ads in solitaire
And unskippable ads in solitaire
TL;DR: “Look, you are here to make value for shareholders only. Everything else is expendable.”
Except in this case it won’t be open and all profits go to the idea guy
Reasonably confident, yes. Fully confident, no.
Because the world is seen and directed by layers upon layers of abstractions that get divorced from reality but do give monetary benefits when manipulated in some way.
They are just the biggest asshole in the room
That’s always fun in sales. The vendor that brazenly promises two-and-a-half mirage for half the price will win the bid, and the sales people will move on to a different employer when the real budget for the project becomes clear.
One user during the night shift tested every possible key combination on the computer to see what would crash our software, so it became a race between the programmer locking the thing down and the user finding new holes. It ended when the user resorted to sitting on the keyboard and breaking the keyboard that got their bosses involved who told the user to knock it off.
The standard foreign affairs 4 step program to deal with atrocities:
Step 1: there is no genocide
Step 2: there might be a genocide but were should not be doing anything
Step 3: okay, there is a genocide but there is nothing we can do
Step 4: there was a genocide but it’s too late now to do anything
Then you ask a PM for specs before you start, or at least a brief with what needs to be done, and maybe a rough planning based on estimates and not what the customer said what are the deadlines, and they get really offended.
Not always a good idea
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
And C/C++ are like that by design. Compiled languages were new and the developers were afraid additional checks would decrease performance. It was certainly performant in racing toward a crash.
The car now phantom brakes for anything remotely suspicious, like a shadow from a tunnel or light fixture, causing numerous pileups behind it
Last I heard a lot of right wingers are perfectly okay to turn USA in a dictatorship as long as Trump would be the dictator. You can already hear the "but I thought he was going to protect us, not (many things possible here) "
Salvador Dali would like a word
Yes, it’s fun when you make an estimate and planning for the lastest sale and it turned out the three weeks sold is three months of work. No, I don’t care what you promised, it’ll be ready in three months. Ask for an estimate before you make that promise next time.
Like buying a reverse lottery ticket. If you’re unlucky, you suddenly have to pay a big amount somewhere in the future.
Oh, it’s now tied into Xbox Live so you need an Xbox account, get achievements, collectibles, challenges and making it ad free requires a subscription of €1.99 per month. Not shitting you.