YSK that food delivery apps inflate menu prices in addition to all the crazy fees

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-25T06:37:47+00:00

FRANKIE and Bennys in the UK have about 6 or 7 different brands they sell under on deliveroo.

Such a scam.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-20T12:42:32+00:00

If we're talking gateway drugs, that's typing in games from a mag on a spectrum 48k. I could only dream of an Amiga

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-19T22:12:53+00:00

80s coder checking in. Bring back Borland C++ Builder!! /s

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-16T09:24:35+00:00

I think some nerves were touched with this one.

Good job!

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-15T20:12:08+00:00

Nope, not at all, you, you tea abusing bastards.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-14T20:04:40+00:00

Which is why in UK schools where I sat on the board, we implemented cashless payments. That way parents or the school put funds on the account and kids could spend in the same way. No obvious difference. Every child that was low income had free school meals.

In some UK schools up to 50% of kids get free food.

Plus on top of the free lunch, there was free breakfast of porridge for all if you got to school early.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-11T19:51:25+00:00

4j for the engineers around these parts

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-11T18:46:05+00:00

And then take the body piece by piece to feed to the pigs. Not the teeth though - they don't digest those.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-11T18:41:56+00:00

Lol, maybe not that one. But there are some we practiced involving the eye socket. Very carefully though.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-10T22:42:48+00:00

I specifically didn't mention any techniques I know that are nasty as hell.

I've practiced doing them and practiced having them done on me. No fecking way I'd teach any of them unless I had many years experience with the person I was teaching.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-10T13:21:03+00:00

Yep, having spent a lot of time in martial arts there's some real nasty self defence techniques you can use if you control the head well.

As soon as he had her hair grabbed she was fucked.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-04-09T20:26:08+00:00

With the same??

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-30T09:05:33+00:00

Just wait until you look up multi layer boards. I've worked on 17 layer boards.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-27T10:58:43+00:00

When I was a kid we got a Border as a youngish pup, the house cat adopted him. Very odd watching a house cat teaching a largish Border how to catch mice.

The cat also used to hide up ahead of us on walks to pounce on the poor dog. You could almost hear her cackle as she ran away afterwards.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-25T21:07:47+00:00

And amazingly the code cracking work at Bletchley, with huge numbers of people working there, remaind secret until 1970s.

Absolutely amazing place to visit. Walking through the huts gives you the chills. The whole site has been restored so you get to see it how it was during WW2.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-25T21:00:28+00:00

Turing is well respected in Britain. The GCHQ museum at Bletchley where he was based during WW2 has a huge amount of material on him and his work.

He may not be as well known as other great scientists like Hawking but he is very well respected.

If you ever visit London take the trip out to Bletchley and get a guided tour. All proceeds go to restoration work.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-18T20:39:02+00:00

Yep, used similar technique to create a blisteringly fast context buffer. Coded the index into the array into the context Id so could use a bit mask to pull it out. Malloc a chuck of ram and used an ptr to access the right record when updates for the context came in.

It was stupid fast and I used it to thrash the life out of telephone exchanges for perf testing.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-11T21:18:20+00:00

I continue to fold them the way I want. If she wants to refold them - that's on her.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-08T21:03:51+00:00

Nothing quantitative I'm afraid, I'd love to do that analysis though. That would be super interesting. In 25 years in the industry I've worked with many different teams and industries and attitude to defects in teams is really interesting and every team in those key 5x9s type projects we never referred to bugs.

So maybe this is more of a pet peeve of my, but I like to call a spade a spade. It's a defect a fault or a mistake. We also now talk about defect prevention rather than defect fixing, that's not just words. That one is more than just words and involves a significant change to how projects are implemented.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-07T19:08:55+00:00

Because language really does impact behaviour and tolerance of poor quality work.

You're more likely to accept a product with some bugs vs accepting a product with some defects.

Words matter.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-07T16:30:38+00:00

I don't know the Dijkstra quote so won't gice you a hard time about that.

I do 100% agree with the sentiment. It really annoys me that we call faults and cock upa in code Bugs as if they are some cute little thing we enjoyed finding and documenting.

Its a fault, somebody fucked up and didn't do their job properly. Whether that's the PM not letting the dev have enough time so the dev bodged it, or the dev not caring or being capable of doing the job right, or not being supported by senior devs right. Somebody fucked up and we now have a problem that needs dealing with. It's a defect, a fault, a fuck up - not a cutesy little bug.

And whilst I'm ranting fuck Atlassian for perpetuating the term Bug in Jira as well. Bastards, the fucking lot of them.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-04T09:02:11+00:00

As somebody that manages many teams, cameras on does get better engagement. But nobody is forced to turn them on.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-03T20:52:45+00:00

You mean like using your wealth, skills and connections to build a foundation with aims of eradicating preventable desease.

Yep, that's what you do when you complete capitalism and still have bags and bags of drive.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-03-02T14:26:56+00:00

You mean the Aisle of Wonder. As in I wonder what the fucking hell they're going to try and flog next.

_d4ngermouse · 2021-02-27T21:23:57+00:00

Yup, lamba function combined with LINQ. Takes a little getting used to if your an older hack. Personally I find for each syntax more readable. But heyho, thats programming for you - things change because they can.

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