In retrospect, probably because I’m on the spectrum and I found computers far easier to deal with than people.

LISP is too old to care any more.

He was exactly the kind of guy who doesn’t get hired any more because companies “know better”.

And stuff gets crappier every year somehow.

I still fondly remember the QA guy on the first consumer electronics project I worked on. He didn’t do scripting or test harnesses or dependency injection, he used the product and filed good bugs telling us what would fuck up our customer’s expectations.

A good QA person helps with product design too if you let them.

Andy B, I’d work with you again in a second.

I dgaf about indices starting at 0 or 1, I can deal with case-insensitivity, but syntactically significant whitespace drives me up the wall.

Stardew Valley runs on C#.

ROASTED

My friend partially explained how the build safety system worked for Rust and my first reaction was “holy shit the link stage must take a century”.

“Yes.”

“P4 server’s down.”

“Sports Page, or Tied House?”

How many times did I push at 2am so I could go home, get to the freeway entrance, realized I fucked something up, sighed, and turned around to go back and fix it…

(This was like 1999, we didn’t have access to Perforce from home).

After a year or so I realized I should just develop the willpower to check it in after sleeping on it.

I’m with you, exceptions sound good but are a bug factory.

This is their community, so can’t get butthurt about it.

LK-99 is allegedly a room temp superconductor.

I think it’s a mistake that got amplified by fraud at other locations.

The only piece of software I love like you guys love Sync is Emacs.

I’m one, I joined in 2012 during a difficult recovery from cancer surgery.

A shitpost on r/slaythespire sent me to r/egg_irl and that tipped the first domino in my gender transition.

r/noncredibledefense was a huge community of other weirdos alarmingly like me, never felt more at home in an online community.

Huge amounts of time on r/nba and r/soccer…

Losing RiF was gonna be the end anyway, but as soon as the threat to install scab moderators came through I knew I was never going back.

Dude in the pale green shorts and white t-shirt on the left is a hottie, maybe ask him if he knows your friend Sean Cody…

Given that she referred to hot pot, I’m guessing SE Asia.

I used to work at Google and one of the engineers I worked with showed up to interview a guy from eastern Europe (like 15 years ago).

He looked at her and immediately said “I thought this was going to be a technical interview.”

That was the extent of his Google interview, didn’t even get the cafeteria lunch.

I gather that guy would fit in a lot better with the Google of today sadly.

Having worked in the advertising business (on the tech side), I can assure you that the content is hugely important to the vast majority of brand advertisers. Somebody like P&G will not buy ads promoting their fabric softener in any place that will turn people away. Tucker Carlson’s show lost advertisers even though it was the highest rated news show on TV.

Direct-response advertisers (like Google search advertisers, say) have a higher tolerance but will still restrict the hell out of their placements.

For example, go to a browser without ad block and search “Disney”, you’re gonna get an ad. But try, say, “Disney barf” or “Disney beer” or “Disney ugly” and those ads just disappear; they don’t want to be associated with any negative valence.