“If you’re doing business with a religious son of a bitch, Get. It. In. Writing. His word isn’t worth shit, not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.” -William S. Burroughs, Words of Advice for Young People.
FWIW trump isn’t really religious, of course.
Just replace “togas” with “mass graves” and we’re good to go.
Shit, I remember when Nixon resigned. I also remember thinking that Nixon was as bad as Republicans could ever get.
I’m so old I remember when Facebork was just for young people.
I’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.
How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?
“Definitely don’t try to blow up our data centers or our Amazon shipping facilities! That would be very bad for us!”
That’s probably why they did it. They know trump is most likely to be shot at by one of their own nuts.
Probably copy-pasted from some other app … which is also lying about data security.
On my first day at a new job in 1998, I watched a guy get escorted out of his office and the building carrying his stuff in a cardboard box. My use of the verb “escort” is ironic because it turned out that the guy had been running a prostitution ring. He’d gotten an 800 number that redirected to his office phone number, and he kept track of everything (names and phone numbers of his clients and girls and records of every arrangement) in a spreadsheet on his work computer. He only got busted because the company upgraded everybody’s PC and had techs look through all the old PCs to make sure nothing important was going to get deleted; this dude had named his spreadsheet something like “call girls.xls” and had it on his Windows desktop.
This seemed amazing to me, but after working there a few months I realized how somebody could get that sloppy. IT Security at this place was fucking lax. None of us programmers had an identifiable boss or anything like clearly-defined responsibilities, or even rigid work hours. I remember one stretch for about a month where in a room with 50 people in it, all everybody did all day was call into the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hotline and try to get onto the show.
My favorite thing about phone interviews was when I’d ask a question and the person would pause and I’d hear keyboard noises and whispering in the background. I was like c’mon dude, even if you get a job this way what the fuck are you going to do your first day at work if you don’t know how to do anything yourself?
I just don’t get all this shit. I’m a programmer and for years at my last job I did most of the interviewing for candidates and had the final say-so for whether or not we hired somebody. I could tell in a 15 minute phone call whether somebody knew what they were doing or not and could make a positive contribution to the project.
Ads on the fucking moon are going to do it for me.
aerodynamic efficiency
For internal door handles?
we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks
You mean every company? I never worked for a company that did or would have done anything different.
most engineers don’t really like it because it’s making things harder and way less fun
This is how I felt about managing teams of junior developers and/or offshore teams. Just too much annoying work and the result was invariably shitty. The only times in my 25-year programming career that I enjoyed myself and produced work that I was proud of was when I did everything myself.
Maybe they know we’re cooking ourselves off the planet and they want to speed things up.
Make Americans Gimps Again