Ah, I misread. I thought they were saying acetone = acetic acid but actually they were just saying there was something worse

I believe you’re mixing up acetone with acetic acid

Yeah, but, like, how many hours will it take for you to deliver 5 complexity points?

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!

I hear this all the time in my field.

“Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?”

Well, as far as I’m concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn’t even close to being that level of bad

Teams is relative.

At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.

In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.

Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.

Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.

It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre

Actually, it makes perfect sense.

The loose terms like morning, noon, night etc are related to the suns position in the sky and exist regardless of what the wall clock happens to say

var context = RuntimeSingletonFactory.getCurrentFactory().getCurrentRuntimeSingleton().getContext()

Came here to mention this

Front end programmer doing full stack:

Apes together strong!

I love educational threads like these.

Even though the original point was “using international standard units makes it clearer for everyone”

Yeah, it’s about applying physics to real world problems to come up with real world solutions.

Often in a more practical form because unlike in Physics, you can’t start off with “assume zero gravity and a spherical cow shape”

Probably your explanation needed more morphisms and a monad

Hey, don’t knock the Sandwich Engineers at Subway. They do the Lord’s work

Purescript is like a modern Haskell. Completely different programming paradigm, much less accessible to your average JS developer just wanting to tighten up their code without having to learn category theory

Why is it that security guys always think their issues are more important than any other issues?

Like well done you, you ran an automated tool over the codebase and it picked up some outdated dependencies.

We cant just update these dependencies because the newer versions have breaking changes and we already have a backlog of 32767 issues to deal with.

It’s not security debt, it’s just general technical debt.

Why is the issue that is only exploitable in a contorted scenario where the user has broken out of a VM and gained root on the hypervisor more important than the issue preventing our largest customer from tripling their volume on our platform?

Not to mention the joke that’s been made of the CVE system due to resume padding by the security industry…

Clickbait me harder daddy

If I didn’t have Google Maps Transit to navigate western Europe, Singapore and even Los Angeles I’d be completely screwed because I come from a country with next to no public transport and had no idea how it was meant to work

SELinux is one of the first things I disable. It causes way more problems than it solves.

All my workloads are containerised so I’ll trust the security of that machinery to sandbox them instead