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I usually don't read programming themed cartoons, or cartoons at all, unless someone posts an "obligatory Dilbert."
Marc
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With no bio, I can't be sure - but if it is assumed that you're new to this business, then as soon as you get some real experience (and possibly slit the throat of a user and/or manager or two) you'll understand.
If not, there's always a job selling artisinal ice cream treats to grouchy assholes. You need to worry about cartoons there, too. click[^]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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For you, I updated my bio. There is a reason "anal" appears in "Artisanal". But I like ice cream, but at my age, you might not enjoy me eating ice cream.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: as soon as you get some real experience (and possibly slit the throat of a user and/or manager or two) you'll understand.
Wait, what? This is an option that's available to us?
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You're usually allowed only three per year.
In Canada, however, you're only aloud to shake your finger at them whilst speaking crossly.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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What if the customer isn't Canadian?
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You misunderstood!
It doesn't matter if the customer is Canadian or not.
If the developer is Canadian he/she must remain polite at all times. Even the bit about speaking crossly to those who deserve to have their face microwaved took a special vote of parliament and their mother's permission.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Who do you prefer: Dilbert, D. Hilbert, or Dr. Hibbert?
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Quitting isn't your only option, you know. Drinking heavily and often is another. Or, if you're in Wales, you could raise sheep for, erm... recreation.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've been to Wales. The one-and-a-half lane roads frightened me going around curves. Especially when I forgot to drive on the left side.
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One and a half? Luxury!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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After reading your bio - Yes. It is time to quit*, any profession...
*Based on your bio, yous should be somewhere over 70, so it is time to start a life...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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He wrote 'many', not 'all'. Otherwise, given that some CP'ers are in their 70s already, he would have to be approximately 100 years old! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Your seventh post in nine years is that you don't have a sense of humor?
You should really work on your presentation skills 
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I believe that having a sense of humor and getting programming jokes are mutually exclusive concepts. I don't believe one can have both.
And you are exaggerating. I'm pretty sure I've made at least 10 comments here in the last 9 years.
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BGArts wrote: I believe that having a sense of humor and getting programming jokes are mutually exclusive concepts. I don't believe one can have both.
I guess that proves you have SOME sort of humor... 
BGArts wrote: And you are exaggerating. I'm pretty sure I've made at least 10 comments here in the last 9 years.
You did, but this was your seventh, I counted 
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I've put together a simple website for this non-profit[^], and one of the features is to search for participants. The search is very simple -- type in any part of the participant's first or last name, and a list of matches is displayed on the right from which to pick.
My client said it wasn't working. I showed her it was working, and then I asked her to do what she was doing before. Meantime, I was watching the console trace.
To my amusement, I noticed she was typing in the entire name, like "Marc Clifton" (no, I'm not a black breastfeeding mom -- see link if that's a WTF for you.)
First off, I had a bug -- I wasn't parsing the parameter correctly, so it was trying to find "Marc%20Clifton" My bad -- if I was using a commercial server, instead of having rolled my own, this probably wouldn't have happened.
But the other problem is that she was typing in the whole name. So now my search algorithm handles:
"M" (any case, that was working already) as a fragment in the first and last name fields
"Marc Clifton" - searches specifically for first name like "Marc" and last name like "Clifton"
"Clifton, Marc" - same as above.
So you can also enter in things like: "M C" or "C, M" and it'll work too.
Moral of the story is -- you figure the user shares some common context of how a "Search" button works, only to realize that that is not the situation, and I coded something as simple as search for my contextual understanding of how search works, not theirs!
Gads. Even a simple search isn't simple.
Marc
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Yes, this is a nice illustration for the "common grounding" idea and how much we need it to make our software users happy ...
Regards,
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I'm curious if this is a personal project or something your company does?
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This was a project "my company" does - as in, as a consultant. I had been doing some Ruby on Rails work  for Health Connect One, and the BMBFA folks, who are loosely connected, were interested in a website to track contact information for their moms. So they contacted me to see if I was interested. I originally considered using RoR, since a lot of the framework was already written and I could re-use it, but realized, every time I look at RoR I get  and I really wanted to use modern tools like jQuery, Bootstrap, and jqWidgets. I ended up rolling my own SPA, Javascript-based view layout engine, and data binding, as I took the opportunity to understand better why (and why not) to use existing frameworks like Backbone, Angular, Knockout, et al, which I'd only had minor experience with and didn't really like any of them.
I also charged them 1/4 of what it really cost, mainly because 1) of their budget constraints, 2) I really wanted to do a "real" website, 3) and I also do a variety of pro bono and reduced cost work for projects that are trying to do good in the world, as compared to my main income, writing ATM and cage software for casinos.
Probably a longer answer than you wanted.
Marc
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Good read, especially on the 1/4 cost reasons and pro bono work. I was just curious because all I've ever worked on are government contracts and never real world everyday your-kind-of applications.
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Hi All,
Standard bank holiday in the UK parents have several items that are bound for the tip, Kenwood food blender from the early '60s, simple repair to mains cable using solder and some heat shrink & insulting tape. Fridge is filling up with water, find drain and stick a bottle brush down it, cleared. Telephone not ringing long enough, find manual on BT web site change number rings to give more time. What can they break next? 
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: What can they break next?
Computers.
It's always computers... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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