Oh shit! So is mine!

It sounds like you may be ready to Obey The Testing Goat

If you want to put several people to work on a project, divide it into components and give each to one person.

This helps ensure that each person who will eventually leave causes maximum damage to the project’s long term viability.

Bankruptcy Judge Craig T. Goldblatt sided with pension funds over how to calculate the penalty Yellow must pay for canceling workers’ retirement plans when the company shut down last year. The ruling, issued last week, means there is little chance the company will have any cash left for shareholders like hedge fund MFN Partners after Yellow finishes selling its real estate portfolio and paying the pension penalty.

Fuck yeah. A contract is a contract. A pension is a particularly important one, in the “preventing brick to the head of shareholder” category.

Shareholders need to wise up about pension obligations, or move their money back into index funds.

That’s something, at least.

I want to show more empathy, but the dude made the choice to start a new war in the nuclear era when we cannot afford war anymore. (And yes, I’m aware he’s not the first.)

I wonder sometimes if we face a choice between strictly rejecting his kind (war starters) from our species, or accept that our species is destined to cease to exist.

Return the internet to the pre-“smart” phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.

Yeah. I think that’s happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I’m not sure if they’ll be welcomed into every community here.

History tells us there’s also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.

It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I’m not a billionaire, so I can’t say I understand their motives.

Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and aa rot13 transformation.

Lol. You’re not wrong.

I’m kinda jealous. I don’t miss maintaining production Perl code, but Perl was more fun to code in.

Maybe they’re just very careful never to promote anyone from engineering to the bridge crew…

Lisp is the more logical choice.

Relevant XKCD. Python has replaced Perl, but things have otherwise changed quite little.

The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.

Or, considering that they’re mostly introverts, if they look approvingly in the general direction of your shoes…

Oh gosh! Someone bet the farm on something they didn’t understand and is using their massive influential resources to try to turn a bad bet into a good one?!

I’m glad this is the first time that ever happened. (/sarcasm)

like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it

Yeah! Without a proper backspin toss, it’s not going to land in their palm correctly, or in time for their next throw.

This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing’s primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing’s workers, away from it’s current leadership.

Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing’s leadership lately has.

The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing’s customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it’s Armed Forces.

I think they forgot to pay themselves to use their product.

You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

I’ve been told that, as well, but I’m not sure I see it… Seems like a lot of effort… (This is sarcasm. Or is it just too much honesty?)

Thank you for this. This is awesome.

shittingTurtle and victimTurtle are going into one of my professional slide decks as soon as I think I can get away with it.

I love it!

All great code started out as a shitty work-around that happened to work.

(I say this as someone with one of the more prestigious pedigrees in “not writing shit code”. All the theory I’ve learned helps, but at the end of the day the most important qualities of a line of code are: whether it got the job done, and whether is was obviously correct enough that the next developer left it alone.)