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look dude you are on dilbert!

Really? Can you tell me where they pushed out the unofficial patch packs and so on. Well we already know they didn't, because there's no way to mod on consoles or fix problems like that. Then again, I suppose if you want to use a console and get taken to the cleaners it's all up to you. But let me point out that a $450 PC built today will crush both consoles in terms of graphics alone, and let you mod, play MP games, and not charge you for it.

Hey! You're that guy from the internet! http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-...

Hey everybody, it's Dick from the internet. Dilbert just had a cartoon on you today.
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-...

Parent was not talking about efficiency, Dick.

superior compensation. period.

There is a must-see Dilbert for that: http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-...

"Basically a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means: find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them."

Developers hate commenting their code. So should the manager spend all their time doing that?

Hey, you're that guy!

HR departments have learned that most people will accept whatever low-ball initial offer is made, and companies take advantage of that fact. Of those that do negotiate, most of them do a poor job of it, using the lowball offer as the starting point for negotiating.

Anchor price Apparently it works in salary negotiations too.

You could be the honest man, if you wanted to be. Pick a model, and compare the prediction for 2014 with the "data" from 2014.

Note that this has already been done for various ensembles of models. You can see the chart for yourself, on page 3 of the paper that gives you badfeels.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-...

Sounds like Elbonian banking.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-...

it's only devolution in action :)

Obligatory Dilbert comic strip. Who's got the obilgatory xkcd strip? Anyone?

Yeah, or maybe this?

Many of us have seen what happens when that oily salesguy you'd like to to kick sells something which is complete fiction, and that it is now someone else's problem. His check clears, he gets a new car and a vacation, and everyone else is stuck building a fucking unicorn.

Scott Adams summed it up nicely.

> There's a risk of regression when exposing the code to many more systems

The risk of regression is due to refactoring, not due to testing. Ironic, given that the post cites de-obfuscation as a reason for doing this. Or perhaps our submitter just got an MBA and is learning to think and speak in management-ese.

Don't crash into anything while moving from point A to point B is a fairly unambiguous goal which computers should be able to handle, even if the details in reality are fairly complicated.

Given the number of computer games I've played with horrible pathfinding ... I'm guessing that this must be an even more complicated concept than we are aware of. (Scott Adams had something to say about that ...)

Fix your users... Heh heh...

...was covered almost 20 years ago by Scott Adams: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-...

It reminds me an old Dilbert strip, http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-12-26.

I'll admit, whenever stuff like this comes up, I always think of this...

http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-...

For an interesting take on gender bias and pay disparities, check out this recent discussion over on Scott Adams' blog. It's one of the more balanced treatments of the issue I've seen.

Maybe they'd get more callbacks with this approach.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-...

How long to create a string of 9's?

Do any of the prizewinning "security researchers" have commit access on any of these browsers?
"I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"

bingo!

Oh wait. Were we not playing that?

Yes, I should have said on average or something, but it's unnecessary. By definition if each combination has the same probability in each drawing, then drawings are independent, so that's implied.

Of course you can never be sure.

Business can't plan or talk to customers or have any strategy whatsoever without at least some estimate...that's just the real world. If devs don't give estimates, managers have to make estimates. If managers don't make estimates, business makes estimates. You want devs to do the estimating.

I suspect the problem is not so much the estimates, it's that a manager demands an estimate from their underlings, tells them they don't like that estimate and give them a quicker estimate, promises their customers certain completion by the quicker estimate, and then complains when the programmers can't finish on time or have buggy code. That's without the obligatory change in the project requirements halfway through. At some places the estimate is nothing more that bending over for the manager.

Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-02-22

This seems like an odd bug to have happen, how bad were the effects? Just 'weaker' randomness, or without randomdev_init_reader do the random routines just return the same series of pseudorandom digits every time?

Also, obligatory Dilbert reference

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-17 http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-18

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-17 http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-18

Idea stolen from here

Oblig Dilbert

There is a solution for selfie-taking flying car drivers.

The Vast Power Of Certification

Who would ever have thought... See this Dilbert Comic from 2015-01-21. Turns out a built-in selfie camera is a viable safety feature for air-borne vehicles! It could have saved these people's lives.

However, there is a *huge* shortage of tech workers willing to work for peanuts.

Perhaps the one thing worse than working for Peanuts Worldwide is working for Scott Adams' company.

If you understand how different food influence cravings, and you understand the glycemic index, you can eat as much as you want and lose weight. That's what I do. (Your mileage might vary.) If you want to compare results in a highly non-scientific way, my half-naked 57-year old body is at the end of this link: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1.... I would be interested to see how you look with your method. Using willpower to reduce calories is a losing strategy because we now understand willpower to be a limited resource. If you use willpower for losing weight, you have less available for other things. And you probably need all you can get for exercise, avoiding Internet porn, working long hours, and not being a total dick to your loved ones. Obviously people lose weight (at least temporarily) using willpower. There are plenty of examples of that. The problem is that it is an unnecessary discomfort and a waste of willpower. The science of habit (and common sense) suggests you would train yourself to ignore your strict diet over time because we tend to avoid things that hurt. As evidence of that claim, I give you the obesity rate in the United States.

I see what you mean. You seem to suffer from The Curse of Competence:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2008-...

So in a picture it would be like this http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-... ?

Related Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-...

Only 22 years ago

Link

Selecting candidates from a broader range of experiences and viewpoints adds value to a company by allowing it to create a product that appeals to a larger portion of consumers. In this regard, the most technically qualified candidate may have equal or less value than a less qualified candidate who can lend a different perspective to development.

Dilbert’s user interface design is an amusing example of monoculture and the need for diversity. (If you haven’t seen a terrible UI, consider taking some design classes.)

http://dilbert.com/strip/2002-09-23

Reminds me of Dogbert Static Network

http://www.dilbert.com/2012-11...

If the Pointy Haired Boss had known about this, his scheme to breed owls for fuel for his SUV may have worked better.

And on that note, I am now going to have stuck in my head over and over, a little tune I recall my dad singing regularly back when I was a young'un.

o/~ If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a duck. I'd dive to the bottom, and never come up... o/~

Hmmm... Time to see if I can score a good copy of Rye Whiskey now on a 78 for him for his birthday that is coming up on the 12th.

With the recent news of the entertainment industry lying about numbers ($80 million settlement .. was a lie), how'm I to believe this rhetoric?

Remember, 106% of all statistics are a lie.
you expect me to believe that sales have been going up? What would people even be doing with all this vinyl if they don't even have a record player? That makes about a much sense as a recent quote by Abraham Lincoln.

An appropriate Dilbert strip.

Boring Little Story About My Windows

Right... and that's why you always pirate windows.

It's sad that the pirated version of an OS is better than the legit version, but with windows it's a fact.

Boring Little Story About My Windows