If you have a troubled project, and you add more people, you have a bigger troubled project.

It’s a common trap for project managers … and in fact some pretty high brow projects blew up because of this.

When you are called in front of the board, and they say:

“Hey, your project is late, we get it, it’s not your fault, but we have to deliver on the 1st of the month. - and so we’re giving you our 10 best men to get it done”

I can tell you, it takes a certain amount of testicular fortitude to say “That won’t work”. More than I had at the time , in fact.

Would this have Bill’s code in it ? Or was he off the shop floor by then ??

640k should be enough for anybody

I like it, but you should test it.

Holy Brand Damage Batman !

How are you all so wrapped up in fake generational war ?? What the fuck , you’re all mental.

Looks like it might rain

After a barren period , I think there are more clients that feeds these days .

And it always works ….

He’s also not very good at it. They losst nearly 400 million dollars in 2022. And laid off 900 workers.

Such is his genius, he now blames this on Susan in Accounts. not working weekends.

Every CEO is a worm.

What an unpleasant and unnecessary turn of phrase .

A lots of purple

Even the shiny stuff ?

I’d love one at the right price - but aren’t e-ink screens expensive because only a couple of people make them ?

I think I paid about 30 quid for my first one - but since then kobo and Amazon have tried to force the value up and abandoned basic devices

And work until your 97

Yadda yadda ….And the shareholders are your pension fund after everyone has had their cut , so where are you going to break the cycle ?

You start by paying people properly, and allowing them to lead meaningful lives.

Oh look ! A programmers meme thread has descended into a technical argument.

I like the way you wrote this in history class

When I looked into this - the only answer was a dumb panel