You’d think by now Jean-Luc Picard would be a well known example and systems are able to deal with it.

Yeah, this is his daughter

“We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return.”

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

Israeli parts

Put an iPhone against his head,

pulled my trigger

Now he’s dead

fatal error: Too many errors emitted, stopping now

I usually say what unit of measurement we’re counting in: days, weeks or months. For more detail, more specs are needed.

Users expect to buy a game, a product, not a service. There are enough examples always needing to be online games where local single player stops working when sunsetting the server or just a connection issue.

They’ll do an outlook: cut features from the desktop version until it’s exactly the same as the web version, because every interface needs to be a facsimile of the web, right?

It’s not stupid. It’s just the bastard child of Germany, Dutch, French, Celtic and Scandinavian and tries to pretend this mix of influences is cool and normal.

And that’s how an iPhone with an interface that even a toddler can figure out sold a few billion units.

Standard earbuds with a cable manager. It was the time that all phones had an audio jack.

The usual response is to overload them with work and basically hound them for ticket numbers, time allocation, budgets and adhere to a very rigid “no ticket, no work” version of the company policy. Preferably with all colleagues at the same time, just waiting at his desk before the boss walks in.

Finally very detailed climate simulations to know how hard we’re screwed

The most important thing is what you’ll get. A few static pages and stock images with the watermark still present, sure. Beyond that the meter starts running.

Best comment ever was “It used to work like this but person at client demanded it work like that on this date” when the client complained it shouldn’t work like that.

Except in this case it won’t be open and all profits go to the idea guy

Reasonably confident, yes. Fully confident, no.

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