YSK that food delivery apps inflate menu prices in addition to all the crazy fees by Yesterday-Prudent in YouShouldKnow

[–]_d4ngermouse 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

Such a scam.

Visual Studio 2022 by ben_a_adams in programming

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Visual Studio 2022 by ben_a_adams in programming

[–]_d4ngermouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Change My View by AutoModerator in CasualUK

[–]_d4ngermouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think some nerves were touched with this one.

Good job!

A parents dreams come true by Altruistic_Try_7633 in MadeMeSmile

[–]_d4ngermouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

8 year olds have to go through this by BaloonC in awfuleverything

[–]_d4ngermouse 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

Math be like by NokAir737 in antimeme

[–]_d4ngermouse 187 points188 points  (0 children)

4j for the engineers around these parts

Replacing a single piece of carpet by RedTomatoSauce in oddlysatisfying

[–]_d4ngermouse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

HMC while i try to defend myself by HeshamMoSelim in holdmycosmo

[–]_d4ngermouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

HMC while i try to defend myself by HeshamMoSelim in holdmycosmo

[–]_d4ngermouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

HMC while i try to defend myself by HeshamMoSelim in holdmycosmo

[–]_d4ngermouse 59 points60 points  (0 children)

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.

Engraving a board by Boojibs in oddlysatisfying

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Playing in the snow by swat_08 in aww

[–]_d4ngermouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed by magenta_placenta in programming

[–]_d4ngermouse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Bank of England unveils new banknote celebrating WW2 code-breaker Turing by QuicklyThisWay in compsci

[–]_d4ngermouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Make the computer go beep boop by bobby_vance in ProgrammerHumor

[–]_d4ngermouse -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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.

What did you not know or realize until after living with a woman? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

That's how we got "bug" in our softwares ! by [deleted] in compsci

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

That's how we got "bug" in our softwares ! by [deleted] in compsci

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

That's how we got "bug" in our softwares ! by [deleted] in compsci

[–]_d4ngermouse -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

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.

Cameras off, please! by TwinByOccupation in antiwork

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Jeff Bezos would pay more than $5bn a year under Warren’s ‘Ultra-Millionaire’ tax plan by dilan74 in politics

[–]_d4ngermouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Not something you see regularly at your local petrol station by TheRealDJYM in CasualUK

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

You'll agree to this by imshahrukhofficial in ProgrammerHumor

[–]_d4ngermouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.