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All of us non-consultants are laughing it up and having a good old time (as we contemplate the consultants who surround us and are more highly paid than us).
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I was a consultant for a bit. It was soul crushing, but it made this funny.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: I was a consultant for a bit. It was soul crushing
I think you had it backwards. You were supposed to be crushing the souls.
You have to get bigger shoes next time and an extra large suit and start stomping around and yelling out, "Well, I _THE CONSULTANT_ can see the solution to your meager problems. I don't know why you people even try around here!!! Here, put some assembly code here and a sprinkle of JavaScript over there and you're all done."
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"just put some inline assembly in the javascript and you're golden"
And then folks wonder why this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js[^]
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The Two Ronnies would have been proud of that one!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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damn i wasn't even on here in 03. I'd say none of the node.js developers here were even born then.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I wasn't either, but I'm sure I saw it here.
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I just heard it today. Guess I'm behind. Maybe it was told behind my back when I was a consultant, but I thought it was funny.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Has a measuring cylinder graduated?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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before graduation they would be gradients?
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Both women and meniscus this question, looking for a solution.
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Don't flask me; I think there are beaker questions to be answered.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Has a measuring cylinder graduated? No, it failed and has to take the glass again.
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«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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CodeProject sent a marketing email today for ossum which "streamlines development, from idea to release." I thought, "hmm, that sounds interesting." So, I clicked the link and I cannot for the life of me even tell what the software does.
It has a link for "Why ossum?" but that just scrolls down the page to a paragraph of buzzwords. I click "Pricing" and it scrolls down the page to the pricing section. "Got ideas" is a feedback page.
"Resources" does not have much helpful.
I can't find anywhere that shows basic screenshots or videos or even descriptions of what the software even does.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's typical of modern products. You buy a bunch of buzzwords and then have to sort out the mess when it's dropped in your lap.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Buzzwords have been very good to me.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: Buzzwords have been very good to me.
Genuine LOL occurred here!!
I almost squirted coffee out my nose!
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I think it's for people who code in spacesuits. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think it's for people who code in spacesuits. I'll guess I'll have to wait to sign-up. My suit is on back-order.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Screenshots? The best software is not visible to the eye; it's working silently in the background.
For that matter, what would a screenshot of .net look like?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: what would a screenshot of .net look like? I'm not sure. I've heard they just updated the icons.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: what would a screenshot of .net look like?
Screenshot follows...
[-- CLOUD-ORIENTED SOLUTION SOLVES ALL YOUR PROBLEMS!! --]
Customer icon with dialog bubble: "But what about...?"
[-- YES, IT SOLVES THAT TOO! --]
That should clear it all up.
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Thank you thank you thank you!
We're working with them at the moment and this kind of feedback is gold. It's a very common thing where a company or marketing team are totally into what they do and what their product is capable of and, well, kinda forget the rest of the world isn't as obsessed as they are with what they do.
So we remind them: there's lots of options for us developers. Lots. Tell us what problem you're trying to solve, how it helps me, what it does, and skip the buzzword bingo.
More often than not there's a sheepish "ahhh...right. Oops" and they tweak.
Not that any of us would ever be so totally absorbed in what we're doing that we forget the rest of the world can't read our minds and be as excited as we are.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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