My manager once accused me of overinflating my (granted, very conservative) estimates just to be able to pull off a Scotty and be early in 10% of the time.

Teach this to your manager: At the beginning of a task, uncertainty is highest. Under no circumstances should you give an estimate in ‘man-hours’. Even days is too precise. The first estimate should be in months or years (of course depending on the size of the project). Then, as your insight into the project grows, you refine that to months, then weeks, later days. A vague estimate with a lower and a higher bound is way more useful to your manager than a ridiculously ‘precise’ but highly speculative number.

This lesson was brought to you by either “Code Complete 2” or “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnel, and by my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.

body weight (not including body fat)

On the contrary (same source):

Very little alcohol enters fat because of fat’s poor solubility. Blood and tissue concentrations are therefore higher in women, who have more subcutaneous fat and a smaller blood volume, than in men, even when the amount of alcohol consumed is adjusted for body weight.

On an empty stomach, blood alcohol concentration peaks about one hour after consumption, depending on the amount drunk

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543875/

So unless the girl threw up within an hour (give or take) after drinkinging, throwing up won’t do much.

To provide a source:

On an empty stomach, blood alcohol concentration peaks about one hour after consumption, depending on the amount drunk

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543875/

A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.

Honestly, I find it great that Linus still manages the Kernel after all this time.

datev?

I had two deployments today and then left for an early weekend.

Readonly friday is for pussies.

You can’t detect all credentials reliably,

Easy. You check in the password file first. Then you can check if the codebase contains any entry on the blacklist.

Wait…

This will inevitable lead to “works on my machine” scenarios

Isn’t that what Python is all about?

The author should be killed for indentation alone.

Forgive my ignorance. SQLite is a database software. Why would McAffee create lots of database files?

[Edit:] I’m not asking why a program needs to store data. I’m asking why that necessitates many files. One database file (or one per table) should be enough, right?

I do this constantly. undefined: not retrieved yet. null: Error when retrieving. Makes it easy to reason about what the current state of the data is without the need for additional status flags.

they also pay 3000$/mo for a moldy apartment

the rule is flagging a false negative

false positive?

I’m sad that there are people who call themselves developers who need to be told this.

Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong with the tool?

– Yes, that happened.

Sure, Java can tell the difference. But that doesn’t mean that the guy writing the API cares whether or not he adds a key to the dictionary before yeeting it to the client.

I used to think that at least the parts that are Fairtrade wouldn’t be affected as much.