You could spend 100m in a day on real estate where I live. There are multiple 40-50m parcels available all over the place.

I hear you, but I disagree. My people are great at slacking me or each other when they need stuff. We have a great collaborative atmosphere. They set up meetings with each other and with me as needed, and I’ve heard over and over that they really like that. I have weekly 1:1 meetings with each of them, and usually we hang up after 15 minutes because they know what they’re doing and can get back to it.

Imagine actually going to daily standup, wow

I made a daily meeting invite, and told my team to never show up to it. Lets them show up to work an hour later since I put it in the calendar for 930-10.

Also my fav OP :)

Rcpp is probably the best thing to ever exist.

I reject tidyverse though

How come people use sql instead of just using text files? I just use text files for everything

I do, exclusively

Getting rid of caffeine (decaf still has a little) has been amazing for me.

Dude what, replace all of those with me skiing while my mouse jiggler keeps my slack status active lol

But the browser can’t handle other languages? That seems a bit silly

I don’t work with web stuff, why is js so weird? Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?

The beginner job is grad school.

It’s why I left academia. You aren’t rewarded for being a good scientist. You’re rewarded for being good at understanding funding trends and playing the nepotism game. Grant writing is less important than talking to program officers and having big names write letters for you, and have your readers know those names.

However I’ll say that after spending 5 years in industry, these people have no fucking idea what they’re doing and it’s hilarious. Higher quality of science in academia. But I’m getting paid now.

If I didn’t do this, I wouldn’t have a job

Gotta leave unfinished tasks and make frivolous jira issues so it looks like there’s a reason to keep paying me to do 2 hours of work a week

Let’s say I’m a carpenter, and occasionally I open up a cad program and draw up a wrench or lathe chuck and have it cut out of sheet steel. Yes, I did some engineering but I’m not really an engineer.

Likewise let’s say I’m an artist. Maybe I write code now and then to program my automatic paint mixer or whatever.

Code to build something: engineer

Code to use something: programmer

Working for your own reasons is fundamentally different than laboring and having part of what you produce taken from you by an employer

Pretty sure in the old days, when there were fewer people, you could just fuck off into the forest and build yourself a cottage. If your feudal lord found out you’d be in trouble, but they didn’t have satellites or whatnot to track you down.

We have this weird unwritten assumption that the cost of technological advancement (esp medical) was our own domestication. That we sacrificed freedom and privacy for health and safety. I wonder if that’s really the case, or if it’s some bullshit post hoc justification

Where the hell do you think Detroit is

Also this is partially a map of “who can’t afford a car”

Management should not exist

No software project should have more than 3 contributors

GUIs should not exist either

The internet was a mistake as well

I don’t do web dev, I write math software that makes very rich people richer. But I often hear of this centering and layout crap

Why doesn’t html just have hcenter and vcenter tags or something? Why is centering so hard?

Don’t get mad at me I’m just explaining it

That’s the joke

It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming