No, really, it was corporate social media, and also the smartphone (iphone particularly). They don't need to know anything anymore thanks to those two. I mean even MySpace had kids learning CSS at least.

"We used to make our own webpages...!"

That's because every version of Windows since XP has been kind of dogshit

Dark Crystal vibes

I will say when I rented a car in Wales in the mid 2010s they had like literally 2 automatics and they were double the rate. It wasn't at all common there then.

People don't like this? Come on, a classic

Like many such movies, it's damn awesome if you don't take it seriously. Fuckin hilarious movie.

When YOU were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME...

When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we'd used for the older systems, and we'd learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.

Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren't just using JMeter.

They eventually cut those guys because they weren't able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn't even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn't seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don't get the cloud.

It's funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I'm now suddenly starting to remember why.

It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn't a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it -- I'd probably still be working there four years later.

I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though

Yeppers. When I worked on a D365 transition we were upgrading from a 1980s era DOS based thing (D3 aka Pick). We literally had like one of the last Pick developers left on earth. He ended up training his two kids on the system so they could take over for him. They all ended up having to learn X++ instead. I wonder which was worse to deal with.

I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can't prove it though

Sometimes you can't help but acknowledge the cleverness of evil.

All I need now is the knowledge, sense of balance, and confidence to ride a bicycle

Lemme get one. One rib.