I’m a contractor, and I can’t express it enough how much a competent Govie makes a difference on project success. My last Govie was amazing, unfortunately he got promoted. He got replaced with 2 new govies that were formally contractors, and they are the worst, they are dumb micro managers that don’t even understand how our program operates. One of them litterally sends us emails of his Gemini questions and responses with highlights. The other leads and I are very competent and have all worked for 10+ years on our project, and he sends us fucking AI responses about shit he doesn’t understand about shit we do understand. Our morale has been absolutely crushed, and I have a running chat with my other leads which is just a non stop bitch fest about how fucking useless they are.

They are talking about Judaism,Muslim, and Christians

Loved that game

Tetris has a better case, think of all the casual games that have spawned since.

SMB, and Doom, or an early RPG imo.

I had to start paying my rent by check again landlord trying to dodge taxes by cashing checks instead of depositing them.

You’re confusing gen-x and millinials

Should be 30 :1 on whichever is lower average or median salary and contractors count if they perform core business functions/work on location.

For me it’s like, you have a lot of stuff to do but you could play sudoku first. 3 sudoku games later, Ok let’s get started. I should get a drink first. Let me play another game of sadoku to resettle my mind. Ok let’s get started. Ok reading my email, let’s craft a response. Wife comes in and asks me to watch the kid for a min. Ok back to work, but let me check on my idle game real quick. 45 mins later.ok let’s get started, on that email response I have 5 mins before a meeting I scheduled perfect. 10 mins later, sorry I’m late got caught up on something. Let’s look into this random issue someone is having they brought up in the last meeting I have 20 mins before my next meeting perfect. 35 mins later I join meeting. 2 hours left in the day let’s work on what I needed to do. Normal time off comes up wife starts asking me when I’ll be done every 10 mins for the next hour.

No but I’ve done construction plumbing, and have had cleaner looking work that gets hidden behind walls. I’m sure the plans didn’t call for the angle to be messed up so they didn’t align and have mismatched sections.

It’s really not, getting it correct wouldn’t have been hard.

Jesus Christ you are a fucking idiot.

.net can run on Linux now

I started my career in Java and transitioned to c# a few years in and c# is much better imo, especially now that .Net can be run in Linux.

I run a team for a large project (13 deployable components apis/ Windows services/ desktop applications/ websites/mobile) that has mix of vb.net/c# .net framework 4.8 and .net 6 soon to be 8 with angular for Web and wpf for desktop. Slowly but surely working to kill off our legacy code and consolidate.

Some of the older vb code (that existed long before I joined the project let alone became the lead dev) is so bad that a bug fix for nhibernate that stopped silently failing and began throwing exceptions breaks everything if we try to update to a later version. it’s such a tangled mess and I’m probably the only one on my team that could unfuck it(but I didn’t have the time to do it) it’s not even worth fixing even though our version of nhibernate has a CVE with rating of 9/10 (we don’t actually use anything that is affected from the finding thankfully) and are just biding our time till we kill off the offending apps.

Ohh and I have a new PM that isn’t technical and likes to email me his chat GPT queries and results about technical things.

400 trillion

It’s supposed to be unique and might actually be now, but there are def duplicate ssns out there. Craziest identity situation I was told by a project manager of government system that is all about identities. Same First, Same last,same Date of Birth, same SSN; different people.

His mental illness doesn’t excuse it, but the guy is legit crazy. He def could have started spiraling out at any point and went down an anti-semitism rabbit hole and just went full Nazi then. My guess would be around the time he first started talking publicly about Jewish people was about the time that occurred.

I have figured it out. Kanye West is actually Andy Kaufman and this is his final troll.

I mean there is def an uptick, but lets make sure we’re not conflating anti-Israel/anti-zionism/anti-genoside with anti-semitism.

Ahh I get it now, you’re just a fucking idiot.

You’re right, I didn’t start using computers before Windows 3.1. I don’t lead a team of developers for software used all over the world and is the largest of it’s kind. I definitely never have developed software on Linux. I’ve also never built my own computer. I surely don’t have a degree in computer science. What is a computer anyways I obviously only have an iPad.