No, he would become a martyr which would only strengthen the resolve of the MAGA people

It’s not just you, I guarantee your cat doesn’t give a damn about anyone

And then managers go “why does shadow IT exist?”

…you have my condolences

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt

Hybrids: the worst of both worlds.

If you want to keep relying on gasoline then just buy an ICE car

It’s like rebrands.

Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and “rebrand” looks good on your CV.

A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put “designed Netflix user interface” on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something

I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you’re testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you’re wasting time writing tests until you’ve iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

Is the joke that the main river in Paris is so polluted that swimmers would need to wear protection?

Never mind that the swimming events would be held in a pool instead

“Fuck off Jesus” memes (or equivalent) are the best

It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

Me too. 2000 seemed… Slow compared to XP on the same hardware, but to be fair the hardware I had was cobbled together from parts that my father’s employer was going to throw out

I was there, 3000 years ago…

MSSQL in Microsoft* cases

FTFY although arguably Microsoft and Stupid and synonyms

My house was built in the 1960’s, to New Zealand standards.

We build houses for the climate we wish we had, not the climate we actually have. All the wall cavities are empty, especially the external walls

Some things, like honorifics, dont translate well to English.

For example, the -chan, -sama, -kun etc suffixes are super annoying when the English voice actors try to use them.

They’re fine in the English subtitles against the Japanese audio though

Still kind of relevant today; benevolent big corporate appreciating the work of its faithful office slaves

/s just in case

If you’re American and you’ve been eating the food-like product labelled as “Cheese” in your supermarkets then Yes