It’s been a looooooooong 1.

Oh right, I need to watch Trick r Treat again

YES EXACTLY! Learning how to set up a good test and a good control and then having the willpower to execute that and come to a conclusion… I swear that’s what will keep me employed into old age.

Honestly, the problem I encounter most with junior devs is that no one taught them to use the scientific method when trying to troubleshoot issues. Seems like everyone wants the answer to be handed to them on a platter and that just ain’t the way it goes.

Definitely sounds like a trap.

(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.

Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.

I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.

YUP

Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

I wouldn’t say “perfectly” polite, but it’s definitely not offensive.

The response in the OP definitely doesn’t need further tonal clarification, though. It’s tough for anyone to classify that response as hostile.

The Pearl by Steinbeck is quite short

Till that “cafetière” is another word for French Press.

I loved Semesame Street when I was a chlid

I always feel like the features I’ve worked on become my coworkers or like pets. When a specific feature breaks often, I’ll think “damnit Frank! One of these days I’m going to patch that edge case once and for all!”

Then I patch Frank and he quiets down so I can focus on the next thing leadership wants.

You get to know these things and you put care into designing them (if you didn’t put care into them, you’d likely be a hack of an IT person). It’s always hard to see them go.

Sorry for your loss.

Found a funny one of an Eastern European kid in blue shorts spinning himself around to make himself dizzy. I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid.

Then YouTube started blocking the videos because it thought I was a bot:/

A lot of practical steps, which is nice to see in an article like this.

Thanks for linking the HN thread 👍

Damn. It’s amazing to read some of the HIPAA and FERPA fines out there for exposing data accidentally. Then you’ve got this kind of breach, which is probably endemic and at a much larger scale.

Great read

Oh shit - good to know!

Off the grid it is, then

Doritos are probably plenty powerful enough