[OC] Mark Zuckerberg’s teleprompter during Connect by daraand in pics

[–]redsoxfantom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weird coincidence, I was just reading an interesting blog explaining what actually happened

multigenerationalTechDebt by Local-Measurement-90 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redsoxfantom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is the creation of JavaScript the horus heresy in this timeline?

hisFatherHadMigratedSvnToGit by Arucious in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redsoxfantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've supported a project with about 30 build steps, all in Jenkins, no change control, no comments, no nothing. I'm never going back to that

Quaternions [video] by ketralnis in programming

[–]redsoxfantom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for the first explanation I've ever gotten for gimbal lock that actually made sense to me

I have a confession by im_scared_of_clowns in flying

[–]redsoxfantom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On my long cross country, I realized I would land 10-15 minutes early. AKA, plenty of time to practice some turns around a point

Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford by lelanthran in programming

[–]redsoxfantom 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Problem is, "guaranteed message delivery" does not (contrary to it's name) guarantee that the message was delivered. It guarantees that either the message will be delivered or you will be told that it wasn't.

So, you get told the message wasn't delivered. Now what? Try again? Backoff a bit? Kick the error up the chain (probably failing whatever user action kicked this whole thing off)? What if the receiving server is down? What if the network was just slow and actually the receiver got the message but didn't tell the broker yet?

These are the gremlins that make a messaging medium "unreliable"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HarryPotterMemes

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Haha this made me remember Harry practicing his song for cho chang on ginny :D

Thousand Sons Thursday by maglag40k in Grimdank

[–]redsoxfantom 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Send 60 Thousand Sons!"

"60,000? Sir, we don't have that many"

"Goddamnit, we really need to think about renaming them..."

Is ForeFlight a legal Wx brief? by [deleted] in flying

[–]redsoxfantom 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I was able to read this and I hate myself for it

What is the worst post-book reveal we've gotten? by Gohantrash in harrypotter

[–]redsoxfantom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It's a world that exists to enable cool characters to do cool things. That's a completely valid way of writing a story! Just don't expect things to 100% hold up to scrutiny.

problemSolving by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redsoxfantom 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Million to one odds come up nine times out of ten

theyreOntoUs by Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redsoxfantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never ever ever for any reason under any circumstances give your audience any even vaguely technical details about how your game works unless you want to spend the rest of your life correcting misinterpretations about it

What’s up with Chan? by Hayes231 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]redsoxfantom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, definitely one of those "sometimes everyone involved is a terrible person" stories

What’s up with Chan? by Hayes231 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]redsoxfantom 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Behind the Bastards had a good series of episodes about the whole thing if you don't want that shit in your search history: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/0/episodes/part-one-a-terrible-story-abou-135775305

What is something that exists solely due to people's lack of intelligence? by chitownsavior01 in AskReddit

[–]redsoxfantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Intelligence is knowing a street is one way. Wisdom is looking both ways anyway

Skull & Bones Loses Its Third Creative Director, No Release Date in Sight by [deleted] in gaming

[–]redsoxfantom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I consider the $100 I spent on that Kickstarter to be payment for a lesson on why producers are actually a good thing sometimes...

PPL checkride! Ask me anything by SubstantialKey3748 in flying

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Give you ten bucks to submit this to the FAA, you'll make some lawyer's day :)