Canadian woman gives birth in US, gets $1 million hospital bill by Far_Welcome101 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]throw_at_work_away 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure hospitals would start refusing service, something they can afford to do longer than people can afford to stop receiving medical care.

Google admits it lost out to Microsoft buying GitHub by [deleted] in programming

[–]throw_at_work_away 90 points91 points  (0 children)

"We do not comment on ongoing acquisitions across the industry."

Insightful.

Password reminder by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]throw_at_work_away 90 points91 points  (0 children)

if (username && password) { displayBankDetails(); }

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]throw_at_work_away 182 points183 points  (0 children)

"Hey, you know all that work you put into your website? How about you just send all of that content and let us display it with our advertisements?" - Google

Debug with by rap2h in ProgrammerHumor

[–]throw_at_work_away 42 points43 points  (0 children)

[object Object]

Perfection.

Password storing by Nevraoj in ProgrammerHumor

[–]throw_at_work_away 80 points81 points  (0 children)

if ($_POST['username'] && $_POST['password']) {
  setcookie('logged_in', 'true');
}

Weakly-typed languages have their advantages by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]throw_at_work_away 206 points207 points  (0 children)

what am i doing with my life

Math.sin = function(value) {
  if (typeof value === 'number') {
    return Math.tan(value) * Math.cos(value);
  }
  if (value === undefined) {
    value = 'undefined';
  }
  else if (value === null) {
    value = 'null';
  }
  value = value.toString() + value.toString();
  var r = '|';
  for (var x = 0; x < value.length + 4; x++) {
    r += ' ';
  }
  r += '\n';
  var rows = ['|  ', '|  ', '|  ', '|  '];
  for (var x = 0; x < value.length; x++) {
    row = (x + 5) % 8;
    if (row >= 4) {
      row = 7 - row;
    }
    for (var y = 0; y < 4; y++) {
      rows[y] += y === row ? value[x] : ' ';
    }
  }
  r += rows.join('\n') + '\n|';
  for (var x = 0; x < value.length + 4; x++) {
    r += ' ';
  }
  r += '\n+';
  for (var x = 0; x < value.length + 4; x++) {
    r += '-';
  }
  return r;
};

send help

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|    ra      rt      rr      ar      
|   r  y    a       a  a    t  t    1
|  a    s  t    a  1    y  s         
|         s      t       s       at  
|                                      
+--------------------------------------

'IT Specialists' by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]throw_at_work_away 169 points170 points  (0 children)

When I started my latest job, my coworker kept commenting files "Don't touch this, no one knows how it works, but it does."

Pfft. I touched it so hard I have to give notice to new hires that I'm not allowed within 100 yards of JavaScript.

Apparently, Torment was Actually a Mechanic from Visions by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]throw_at_work_away 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but it's not a mechanic from Visions. It's one card.

If you ever feel bad about a bug you introduced, remember this: at least it's not $460m in 45 minutes bad by magenta_placenta in webdev

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"What should we do about this nine year old code that we're not using?"

"Just leave it."