The Ctrl+Z Resurrection

Content DDMIMIN WMMDD YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! WHAT THE FUCk ...

Trying to explain Brooks' Law to a project manager is like showing them these two chickens. On the left: a chicken burnt to a crisp after 1 hour at 900°F. On the right: a perfectly roasted chicken after 3 hours at 300°F. The PM's brain short-circuits when you tell them that nine women can't make a baby in one month, and throwing more developers at a late project just creates more merge conflicts and onboarding overhead. But they'll still ask if we can "just parallelize the work" while ignoring the codebase slowly turning into charcoal.

Content The recursive centaur: half horse, half recursive centaur

Someone out here preaching about fighting corporate aggression through open source contributions, then their "contribution" is literally changing "390 million" to "395 million" in a README file. That's it. That's the revolution. The diff shows they updated OpenOffice's download stats by 5 million users. Not fixing bugs, not adding features, not improving documentation in any meaningful way—just bumping a number that'll be outdated again in like three months. Truly the hero open source deserves. Meanwhile, maintainers are drowning in actual issues and PRs, but sure, let's spend time reviewing your stat update. This is why "first-time contributor" PRs have such a... reputation.

Content 88 I'm from Canada, but live in the States now. It took me a while to get used to writing boolean variables with an "Is prefix, instead of the "Eh" suffix that Canadians use when programming For example: MyObj.IsVisible Myobj.visibleth share edited Oct 25 '11 at 21:35 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 94 AlishahNovin 21 This is a joke, right? - Philip Jun 10 '11 at 19:09

Content While you are here.... In UCC, we don't have 404 errors. We have Peter Flynn (2nd from left) errors. Our first webmaster was the first person to ever break a link on the web, when he moved the location of a webpage on UCC's servers (9th website in the world). without telling Tim Berners-Lee. Suffice it to say, such a change resulted in the need to error handle such an occurance, and the 404 was born. Thanks to our own Peter Flynn. Peter retired in August 2018 but his impact on UCC, Ireland and ultimately the world won't be forgotten!