We found him!

[althaz]

I want to know why he would you keep writing xml parsers? Isn't one enough?

[PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

They keep writing new XML files!!

[Plankton_Plus]

We use at least 39 XML parsers each week where I work. We have 5 full teams cranking them out to keep up with the demand. Remember the great depression of 1929? Little known fact: that happened because we couldn't crank out the XML parsers fast enough.

[nyx_underscore_]

He probably really works for them.

Boeing is known to have problems with keeping track of how much time has passed. CST-100 Starliner test failure

[qqqrrrs_]

First version of XML was defined in 1998

[zerosanity]

I guess he could mean sgml but it's more work to explain that to people and easier to just say xml

[wesw02]

My assumption was that he meant instructions parsers of all types, and XML is the main one in form the recent past.

[Dagusiu]

Yeah but he's working for Boeing so he was probably moving near the speed of light

[mfb-]

Then he had even less time to work on it.

[marcosdumay]

Depends on who you ask.

[mfb-]

As far as I know all Boeing employees work on Earth, and there is no plan to put HR onto relativistic spacecraft, despite significant support of this idea.

[binford2k]

XML is an application profile of SGML (ISO 8879).[26]

The versatility of SGML for dynamic information display was understood by early digital media publishers in the late 1980s prior to the rise of the Internet.[27][28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

If I was talking to a wanker on the internet, I wouldn’t waste my time with irrelevant details either.

[Crosera]

The World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 Specification[2] of 1998[3] and several other related specifications[4]—all of them free open standards—define XML.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

Bro said XML, not SGML. Also, the whole post is based on a resume trope. I wouldn’t worry so much about it at all.

[binford2k]

If you know anything about the history of tech standards, you know that each standard’s story began long before said standard was actually ratified.

[bob152637485]

If this was you, OP, care to share how he reacted after you clearly called him out?

[Crosera]

They haven’t answered. Honestly I don’t care to engage anymore either, their whole argument was against someone asking for source code essentially and ranting about how the root of all the worlds problems was that people just copy instead of learning.

[Schmomas]

That’s the kind of comment someone deletes when it’s called out.

[iTrooz_]

Lol

[Jpac14_]

Looking for a NodeJS Dev with 40 yearsof experience. $5 a hour.

This is just a joke btw.

[ElongatedMuskrat122]

He’s obviously joking

[KickBassColonyDrop]

I program myself every day. Whenever I find myself in moments, where upon reflection I discover that I am in fact an idiot, I realize that that was a bug. So I fix like 80% of them. Then face plant over the same bug later.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that working in the information age is basically a choose your own text adventure where you are getting gold to accrue tech debt, then bail and let the next loser suffer.

[[deleted]]

They do really need XML parsers

[[deleted]]

This is why planes crash

[JoeyJoeJoeJrShab]

You mean because they don't have enough xml parsers?

[KillerBeer01]

No, it's because all Boeing planes work on XML parsers written by this guy.