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Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard?
Karma asks: "The other day I saw a Slashdot comment which read, '[Projects] don't start getting interesting until you are dealing with Staff Years to develop them. Anything under that and you can actually keep the full design in your head'. An immodest boast, but not too funny. This made me wonder, in the macho worlds of IT and developers, what are the funniest and silliest boasts or bragging claims you've made, or heard? Tell us how they came back to haunt the overconfident."
Of course there are disputes as to whether this was actually said or not, or the context...but certainly one of the funniest and most famous tech boasts.
You can restart the service and still keep your uptime and provide the testing you require. However it is true that a complete down and up would be good to do when everyone is prepared to sort out the mess and the least impact on your business. Warm swaps would be a good idea if it is that critical.
wow.. that is horrid code.
want to learn verilog? the crap we get to do makes gotos look classy.
I explain what it is if they say they don't know what I mean. I am not trying to be cruel. I just want to see if they can solve a SIMPLE problem.
Most can't.
Upon graduation, you need to know the fundimentals of CS. Part of what you need to know is the terminology. A singly linked list is not an advanced topic, neither is hastable, balanced binary tree, stack, heap, queue or anyother CS201 data structure.
Yet, I've had to describe what a hashtable is and how to use it to multiple professional programers in a couple different companies.
Data structes are the tools of CS. If a building contractor showed up the first day to work and couldn't hand me a framing hammer, I'd let him go too.
Joe
Joe Batt Solid Design
Here is my solution, written in LISP. Since the OP didn't specify where on the list to add the item, I will add it to the front.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Some years ago, my boss had a meeting with a colleague of mine about a new product. In the end he asked him how much time he needed to develop that. The guy answered "two weeks". It took him a year. We still use the "two weeks" joke to refer to never-ending projects.
Once, I was talking with my boss about how stupid some blue-collar people are when they refuse to use helmets or safety-goggles at work, just to play macho. Then I said a stupid joke about macho IT workers: "True men don't make backups". It was intended to be a joke, but some weeks later we lost our entire codebase because the server disks fried. The server was managed by a different department. The guys that were in charge of nursing it didn't have any backup, in spite of THAT being THEIR job. I think my boss still shivers when he remembers that joke. I'll keep it as a motto, and never trust anyone to backup my work.
As a joke a friend of mine and I started pronouncing C# as "see pound." My friend had a job interview and he kept calling it "see pound," and only realized this a few hours after the interview. Oops? No job for him.