@Demolishun > "unless someone likes Twilight. If they do, you explain that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight Fan Fiction."

I'm waiting for an honest/accurate adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series. Eddie's 'Dead Baby' jokes may not translate to the mass audiences, but THAT IS WHY I WOULD PAY TO SEE IT!

Even today's woke crowd could appreciate Detta Walker telling the (white) shopkeeper she's going to rip out his tongue and wipe his ass with it.

@vane > "jira is actually nice software"

My boss is pushing the system replacement to be developed in-house because "we can".

He's a level 10 intellect capable of building rube-goldberg machines Rube-Goldberg would say "Whoa...stop...that's too complicated"

Came back from a meeting with upper-mgmt and I'm pretty sure he sold them developing it in-house would save us money.

@ars1 > "they don’t get to the top by being nice to the customer, after all."

Small correction, you get to the top by being nice/having the best product/etc. Staying at the top becomes a different game entirely.

@fullstackcircus > "are you a damned Apple employee?"

Nooooo! Only a happy recipient of future retirement returns. 😁

That's how the company keeps making more $$ per hour than you+me.

My 401K thanks you for your business.

I say go for it.

We had a DBA that sort of did this. He quit and the plan was to start at the big hiking trail in California (don't remember what it's called) and work his way back to his original home state in North Carolina. Hike until he ran out of money, work until he had enough to go again, wash-rinse-repeat. He said with his DBA skills, he had no problem finding work and only had to stay in one place for a few months, then back on the trail. He said he met some amazing people along the way and would do it again.

#adventuretime

@vane > "As I see how opensource is beating those multibillion dollars products I have a good laugh"

Just found out we (upper mgmt) are seriously considering replacing/migrating a highly customized (embedded JS, CSS styles, XSL styles, etc) business critical SharePoint list (manages all the company's projects) to Jira. My boss has already written an app to port the SharePoint data to Jira.

May the Lord have mercy on our souls.

It's going to suck, keep a daily directory with a word doc (for pasting into OneNote) with screenshots of what you posted, proving you posted to OneNote. When the mgr emails everyone "You need to do a better job at documentation!", you can confidently reply "I did, here is the content <screenshot>. Did you accidentally delete my notes again?".

You'll soon be labeled "Queen CYA" and they will question you less and less when OneNote screws up.

@vane > "why don’t you switch to the opensource solutions"

Outside my pay scale. Like a lot of companies of any size, there is a lot of internal politics involved. Going to opensource may solve one problem, then introduce 10 new ones.

The book "The Unicorn Project" illustrates this perfectly.

@vane > "This is 8 years old software"

It was 'cutting edge' at the time, the last on-prem version of SharePoint Microsoft was going to offer.

We are licensed for SharePoint Online and confident 90% of our content would "just work", but it's the remaining 10% that wouldn't work and the company is falling back to "Oh well. If it ain't broke..".

@Deres "Why would you care about what others think of you having shitty car or super car or whatever?"

Amen.

In our parking lot, there is a new Tesla in front of me, a new Ford Super Duty on the right, a new Ram truck on the left. Next to the Ram is a new BMW and a lot of big/new trucks/cars spread throughout (new>=2020). Pretty sure majority are financed out the wazoo.

I drive a 2012 Malibu that has 140,000 miles (had a little over 10,000 miles when I bought it). Paid cash ~9 years ago and I hope to get another 100,000 miles before I think about a new car.

They have no idea how little I care about what they think.

@vane > "maybe you don’t pay enough bucks"

We're using SharePoint 2016 on-prem.

It's happened before, some file/list 'thing' hasn't been updated/viewed in X years and no amount of searching will find it. Then when it's viewed/updated, all of a sudden it shows up.

I care zero when an accountant wants some random spreadsheet they haven't seen in 5 years (just to see if some column still has a 7).

My blood boils when someone says "I would have fixed the error, if PaperTrail would have documented the process. We searched the intranet and it's not there." and *I know* I wrote the document.

I search, nope not found. I then I poke around our folders and find the doc. I re-search with the same string...then it shows up.

TL;DR, I've contacted support and their response is/was the equivalent of "Have you rebooted the machine?"

@Demolishun > "I think oil will not run out"

Exon and others will take that challenge. :)

Read recently that they will/could start commercially mining ocean floors for nodules rich in nickle, copper, cobalt, and other metals used in battery production. Large enough deposits (trillions of these nodules) along with expansion of nuclear power, we'd be sustainable for hundreds of years.

We'll never see that. Liberals/socialist will claim the mining disrupts salmon spawning in Alaska

and/or the Exon types will claim they can only process one nodule a year (at 1 billion $$ a nodule) then collude with the government to only allow one company (them) to mine. Then Exon screws everything up and disrupts salmon spawning in Alaska.

@Lensflare > "will we run out of resources like we will with oil?"

I'm confident our elected officials have thoroughly thought this out.

Source: "The Great Reset" by Glenn Beck.

@tosensei > "so far, i haven't found an exception"

We've got a few good ones. In particular they lead by setting the goal, defines the parameters, and *stay out of the way*.

Right now with some of the others, I feel like the swing swung too far the other direction. Ex. if they didn't have 'Manager' in their title, you'd think they were part of the office furniture. "No, that's not a chair, that's our mgr Ken."

I had this pinned to my cube wall after a dept mgr had a pre-pre-meeting to go over the agenda for a discovery pre-meeting for a big project kick-off meeting (which mostly consisted of very top level "We want to do this .." items)

We had the pre-pre-meeting, a few days later that comic was published and it went 'viral' around the office.

Dev1: "Dude, you better take that down. John is pissed. He thinks you submitted that idea to the Dilbert site"

Me:"John can think anything he wants. Maybe he should use Dilbert as a guide of what stupid things not to do."

Microsoft has *a lot* of very talented web developers. There is one in Arkansas, couple in Missouri, one in California...

Oh..that work together? That's a big task for a big corp bogged down by competing politics.

@kiki > Our 'barn cat' rescue here is falling asleep, tipping over, waking up, <wash-rinse-repeat>, several times before he realized if he lays down flat, he can go to sleep.

My daughter: "He never would have made it as a barn cat"

4. Don't be in places where robbers like to wait for sheep

5. Learn and become a conceal-and-carry

6. Unable to #4 or #5, be ready go to the ground and get nasty. Win or lose, bad guy(s) are gonna know what it means to earn $2 (my average wallet contents)

@AlgoRythm > " I'm not storing anything, the user is."

I'm not familiar with that technology. Does it protect you in the case of a breach?

ABC company uses your app to store customer user name/passwords, credit card info, etc, ABC is hacked and the press release is "It's not our fault, AlgoRythm didn't use the military grade encryption XYZ, blame him!!"

@Lensflare > "That‘s like arguing about the aerodynamic properties of different toy cars."

We (as a company) likely spent millions on making the toy cars roll down the slide 'faster'.

Funny/sad/not sure, other mgrs are recently unraveling some of the complexity asking "Why in the world was *this* done?"

All I can do is "Gather around the campfire kids, grandpa Papertrail has a history lesson."

@retoor > "aaaaaarrrgghhh"

And at the time, we had a weeks worth of on-site training with Xavier Pacheco, author of 'Delphi for .Net Developers'. I have signed copy of his book, somewhere.

Ahhh..those were days.

@kiki > " 1. faster 2. more readable"

Falls into the "it depends" bucket. Faster is relative. I'll take real world performance analytics over a long period of time versus a single 1-to-million "for .. loop" test contrived to sell ice water to Eskimos.

Readability is another area of relativity. What's readable to me could be very different for someone else.

I agree 100% if someone wrote a long switch statement for a couple of values where a simple if..then..else would do the same job, I would call replacing the 'switch' a win. The micro-optimization of performance is a single sprinkle on the cake.

For me, I usually see long, (10, 15, 20+) switch values, all with specific (and sometimes duplicate) behavior being executed. Didn't start out that way, but falls prey to the "just one more" feature creep monster.

I wish these contrived tests that knowingly 'exploit' a perceived flaw would be abolished.

If you're writing a 1 to a million loop in your code, complaining about <1 second perf difference, and then 'fix' the code with 50+ nested/convoluted 'if' statements because it's 'faster', please stay out of our code base.

I know..I know...upper mgmt is too stupid to tell the difference and when you brag "Look at me! I increased performance by 50%!", you get awards, new cars, praise and worship...yadda..yadda..yadda.

No thank you.

@retoor > "I did delphi.NET dude"

ME TOO!! Tried to attach a screen shot, but devrant wouldn't let me.

Here is a sample of a .bdsproj file.

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<Option>

<Option Name="Personality">DelphiDotNet.Personality</Option>

<Option Name="ProjectType">AspProject</Option>

<Option Name="Version">1.0</Option>

<Option Name="GUID">{A2BA4C5D-F843-40B8-98EC-D14F70A0B587}</Option>

</Option>

</PersonalityInfo>

<DelphiDotNet.Personality>

<Source>

<Source Name="MainSource">MW360.dpr</Source>

</Source>

<FileVersion>

<FileVersion Name="Version">7.0</FileVersion>

</FileVersion>

His name wasn't John, was it? He sounds very familiar, or maybe it's the same behavior of type-A psychopaths that end up in upper/middle management.

@Demolishun > "I bought MotoG Stylus for $250"

My father-in-law bought a Moto for around $200 (urged by my wife to save him money) against my better advice to spend a little more and get at least Samsung (better specs+reviews).

The phone would drop/delete his bluetooth hearing aids and I was constantly having to re-pair them. Pictures where grainy and videos were just as bad.

Wife: "Why did you listen to me and get him that crappy phone when you knew better!?"

On the plus side, that phone was nearly indestructible. Cracked screen, cracked case...that old man must have dropped the phone a thousand times. Despite the problems, it still worked.

Couple of crappy phones later, he upgraded to a Samsung S23 (my suggestion). He said it was best phone he ever had.

You'll regret paying $100 for the Motorola or OnePlus that keeps dropping the bluetooth connection.

It sucks about the Asus, but in most cases, you get what you pay for.

@NeatNerdPrime > "almost 18 years"

18 years!? Jeez, your heart must be broken. Take some time to grieve, brotha'.

@AlgoRythm > "I’m not storing anything!"

So when the app closes/machine reboots, anything/everything is lost?