Geek Jokes Volume 0b10

[ajprice]

8bit said:

[Clockwork Cupcake]

8bit said:

In fairness, you kind of get what you deserve if you choose to develop like that.

(I shall now go bury this kitten)

[The_Doc]

8bit said:

It's Diet Coke that produces the highest plume.

Mythbusters did it with most variables and regular Coke is lesser.

Disappointing meme.
Robot wants accuracy

[MartG]

[e-honda]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

In fairness, you kind of get what you deserve if you choose to develop like that.

(I shall now go bury this kitten)

I didn't really get it to be honest.
I get the premise but I feel like the person making the meme has never actually done it, or maybe I just have never come across anyone choosing to develop like 'that'

[Clockwork Cupcake]

e-honda said:

I didn't really get it to be honest.
I get the premise but I feel like the person making the meme has never actually done it, or maybe I just have never come across anyone choosing to develop like 'that'

Oh, I have had some monster merge conflicts in the past that really have been "like that".

I remember at one client I was tasked with sorting out the whole mess, and an email was sent round to all teams to say that the Trunk would be broken until these massive merges had been done, and then after that things were going to change to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

During this process I was constantly interrupted by people coming over to my desk to ask me if I knew the Trunk was broken. It got to the point where the Project Manager waded in to get everyone off my back and somewhat robustly enquired what part of "the Trunk will be broken until we let you know it is fixed" did people not understand.

But I digress.

[kowalski655]

I thought it related to merging 2 businesses. Or like when Employment Service and Job Centre merged

[Clockwork Cupcake]

kowalski655 said:

I thought it related to merging 2 businesses. Or like when Employment Service and Job Centre merged

Being a developer, I thought it related to code merges where the code branches have diverged so radically that merging is a nightmare. Hence my anecdote.

[8bit]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

kowalski655 said:

I thought it related to merging 2 businesses. Or like when Employment Service and Job Centre merged

Being a developer, I thought it related to code merges where the code branches have diverged so radically that merging is a nightmare. Hence my anecdote.

That's how I read it too. I stole it from Facebook, probably from some IT or software development meme group.

[MartG]

kowalski655 said:

I thought it related to merging 2 businesses. Or like when Employment Service and Job Centre merged

ES and DSS merger was a nightmare as far as data network were concerned - we had to rationalise and merge two completely different IP address schemes just for starters

[BrokenSkunk]

I think you're all missing the most salient point, which is that whilst the plastic sheet would be superb at preventing the Mentos from mixing with the Coke, it would not be quite as effective in stopping the Coke mixing with the Mentos.
The meme is just Cottingley faries.

[MartG]

Elevator control panel at Pad 39A, Cape Canaveral. Numbers are height in ft from the pad

[Desiderata]

MartG said:

Elevator control panel at Pad 39A, Cape Canaveral. Numbers are height in ft from the pad

If they had an elevator that went into space, why did they piss about with overgrown fireworks for so long?

Edited by Desiderata on Friday 24th February 12:54

[ZesPak]

Desiderata said:

If they had an elevator that went into space, why did they piss about with overgrown fireworks for do long?

wp

[MartG]

[Nimby]

Looks like it's goodbye to Dilbert.

[vaud]

Nimby said:

Looks like it's goodbye to Dilbert.

Good bye to it in the press, he can keep being a racist online.

[MBBlat]

vaud said:

Nimby said:

Looks like it's goodbye to Dilbert.

Good bye to it in the press, he can keep being a racist online.

Scott Adams has been descending into a right wing wibble for the past decade so hardly surprising.

[Halmyre]

MBBlat said:

vaud said:

Nimby said:

Looks like it's goodbye to Dilbert.

Good bye to it in the press, he can keep being a racist online.

Scott Adams has been descending into a right wing wibble for the past decade so hardly surprising.

I read it every day but if it disappeared I wouldn't miss it. Too much of Adams's annoying subtext, not enough geekery.

[havoc]

Halmyre said:

I read it every day but if it disappeared I wouldn't miss it. Too much of Adams's annoying subtext, not enough geekery.

I've been thinking the same.

Used to really enjoy it, but he is a rather unpleasant little tit now, isn't he?