Giant cat in Teletubbies world?

When it comes to driving a self-propelled crematorium, I’d primarily be concerned about the internal door handles.

aerodynamic efficiency

For internal door handles?

Fun fact: the United States hasn’t signed the international agreement banning child soldiers because the military allows 17-year-olds to enlist (although they don’t actually start their service until they’re 18).

We had an army recruiter come talk to our history class in high school (this was in the '80s). After the guy’s talk he said “any questions”?" My friend Rob said “yeah, I have a question: does napalm still stick to kids?”

I assume everyone has heard the Arlo Guthrie thanksgiving song. “I wanna kill, kill, kill, kill!” “You’re our boy.”

we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks

You mean every company? I never worked for a company that did or would have done anything different.

most engineers don’t really like it because it’s making things harder and way less fun

This is how I felt about managing teams of junior developers and/or offshore teams. Just too much annoying work and the result was invariably shitty. The only times in my 25-year programming career that I enjoyed myself and produced work that I was proud of was when I did everything myself.

Maybe they know we’re cooking ourselves off the planet and they want to speed things up.

I graduated in the '80s. Most of the deaths were due to steering column impalements. Kids mostly drove cars from the '70s and '60s that didn’t have the refinement of the collapsing steering column, and almost nobody wore their seat belts. And drunk driving was still harmless fun.

Reminds me of the time I came home at 5:30 AM to my apartment in center city Philadelphia and saw a bread roll neatly tucked under the windshield wiper of every car parked along South Street. Nobody seems to know this, but the bakery that makes the rolls for all those Philly cheesesteaks just dumps transparent plastic bags full of rolls on the sidewalk in front of each restaurant in the early hours, and some wag just decided to put them to better use. I’m genuinely surprised I only saw that once.

Reminds me of the guy who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and was then sent for treatment to a hospital in … Nagasaki.

Meanwhile the real future was smartphones and MS was like “lol no”.

I remember having a conversation with an MS salesman whose job was to plug Windows Mobile 6.5 … after the iPhone had come out. He had that sad quaver in his voice that people get when they know their task is futile.

Apple has a universal app switcher gesture that is harder to accidentally invoke.

Try teaching your 90-year-old mother to use that fucking gesture. Lol “Apple is so intuitive”.

It’s weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.

The way MS is structured internally, this is like being surprised that some NFL teams win the Super Bowl and some teams are the Cleveland Browns.

Oh, you’re depressed, is it? Don’t make me put on The Decembrists.

OK, which one of the things I mentioned do you think is vastly and objectively superior to all others? Genuinely curious here.

I’ve worked professionally on Windows and Mac; using Visual Basic, C#, Java, Objective-C and Qt Creator (which is C++ and Javascript); for web apps, desktop applications, and mobile apps (iOS, Blackberry and Android). I have my personal preferences but they’re all viable platforms/languages/frameworks/devices and anything that needs doing can be done on them one way or another. The idea that one of these is vastly and objectively superior to all others is just pseudo-religious nonsense.

So … just as good as any other AI.

Holy fraudulent ads Batman

Eh, as long as the laptops break within one year, it’s not fraud.