I have a colleague who has a fear of closing any window. He'll let his Mac run for months on end without closing any of the windows he's opened. He also has all kinds of browsers with tons of tabs open. He's a designer so I get his urge to not do all the technical bits and bobs every day, but for the love of zalgo restart your computer once in a while. Or at least close windows you don't use. It's come to a point where non of us want to help him, because helping him out takes forever with his slow as shit computer. We've asked/told/joked about it too him several times, but he just doesn't want to listen. At one point when I was helping him everything took so long that I decided to reboot for him. And of course Mac had to go and reopen every window that was open during shutdown, which took another good fifteen minutes. Shite OS. And naturally he spent the next hour fixing everything the way he liked it. He hasn't turned off his computer since (couple of months ago), except for when we moved to a new building a month ago.

Just had to get that annoyance of my chest.

Github can be creepy sometimes

AAAAA ITS ZALGO QUICK CLOSE THE TAB

Oh hello there, caffeine deprivation headache

Fuuuuuuu̵u̢u̶u̢ųu͡u̡̨u̢̨̢u̷̸u̵U͊̆ͯ̈́̌̂ͥͫ̓̄ͮ̏ͤ̀̑̔̈́̍́͏̛̹̗̬̥̯̱̜͎̼̲̤͔͍̪̰͙͈̮Ų̷̻͙̥͇̘̘͎̝̤̭ͭ̄ͧͭ̀͜ͅͅU͂̔ͭ͆ͤ̓ͥͨ̅̾ͪ͏̜̤̤͔̳̠͖͈̠̜̤̹̟͚̰̯̬͜ͅƯ̸̢̪͕̼̞̒͆ͮ͗͌̒̚͢Ų̨̐̑ͥ̚͘͟͏̰̱͈̯͍̩̝Ů̴̴̸̺̥̮͓̺̖̟̐͐̔̃̐ͯ̓ͪ͗͒̍̑̀͠ͅU̡͆ͩ̾̇̉̐̉͌͝҉̞̠̗̙̱͎͈͇U̅͌ͤ̿͑̐̚҉҉̩̟̫̻Ư̜̻͈̰̘̦̩̮͔̣̝̝̤̐̍̇̽̑̆ͤ̌ͭͨ̓̋̐́ͨ̒̾̾͘͢Ų̨̙̟̤̬͎̣̠̖͐̆̑͋̔̑̈́̐̆̿̔ͦ̀ͪͮ̇̐̕͜Ŭ̡̗͖̹͚̯̙͕͌͑̂͛͜͝Ṷ̷̦͍̹̹̙͋͗ͩ͂͜U̧̩͚̻͈̰̱̺̩̤͐ͪ̊͋̎̓̌͛̽ͥ̓̏̎̾̑͛̀͜ͅ

Anyone else have that kind of manager who you ask a simple, single sentence question of, and get a ten volume essay of a response back from?

How do you deal? I'm usually a very capable, independent and initiative driven person but holy fuck.

All we need here is a:

"Hey manager, you assigned me this thing. I'm wondering what we should do about this particular edge case I've seen a few times in past roles?"

and a

"I'm not sure. Check with Steve, he should know, as his team worked on it and did x, y and z. If he doesn't know, come back to me"

and we're done.

Instead I get the entire Lord of the Rings saga written in zalgo.

Testing to see if @dfox cleared up zalgo problems

T̬ͤ̒̈ͩh̸̬̲͚̺̹̘̍̑̐͂i͚̪̫̜̹̙̦ͥs̝͒ ͚̺̹̮̯͜i̞͔̝̼̣̻͊sͦ͆̅҉͉̗̳ ̢̰̰̪̼̠͖̃ͨa͓̮͉̞͚ ̨̹̩̯ͫ̌̌͂̃t̢̻̬͖̱̦̗ͣ͌͂ͤ͋̎ͮe͙̦̞̖̳ͨ̈̈́̔͒ş͍͚͓͖t̵͕̆ ̼̯̾t͖̲͙ͯ͋̒ͭ̓͒ơ͓̦͌ͨ̇͊͐ͣ ̬̗̉̍̄ͥ̋ͦ̕s̅ͧ̎̉̓͛e̛̻̱̺̟̘͍̫͐̂̍̈́ͤ̑e̡̻̯̘̦̩̖͆́̆̒̌͛̌ ̬͔̦̈́̍̅ͨͥ̊̈͞ȉ͖͚f̣̱̄ͅ ̠͔̱̹ͯ̐͋̕ͅd̘̲̀́ͩf̮͗ͫͫ͛̃̆̽o͇͖̤̤̱͖̊̆ͪx͎̻ͦ̏ ̪̣̤͉ͫ̌c̵̥̪͙͚̺̑͂̊̈́͂͒ļ̖̈́̄͂͊ͩ͌̄ë̘̱͋̐̇̆͂͟a̍r̓̂ͫ̏̂ḙ̵͓ͣͪͮ̎ͦͭ̚d̫̘̜ ̭̣͗z͏͈͓̗a͚̜̜̝͕͕ͤ̌̒̎̓̍̽l̜̜̜̭̰̩̽̂ͤͩͥ̆͝ġ̝̝̠͚̘̗͎͐̆̅̄̀̚o̜̱̫

So, i just spent an hour and a half looking at a 4 line section of code wondering why it wasnt working correctly...

I had to add 1 fucking line in outside of the brackets...

I hate myself, i truly do.

Everytime i go to my class for java i forget a shit ton of what i learned last class.... and i hate it