lifeofasoftwareengineer.tumblr.com/post/95733715738/…

I just wanted to drop that in here. It's really relevant.

famous last words right there

@ratchetfreak "Well, that didn't work"? Yeah.

Then it... does?

no you put in 80 hour weeks to make it work with ducttape

It depends. You only use duck tape if it moves and shouldn't.

but my bottle of WD40 is out

I'm still trying to figure out what to do to make it work if my 0s and 1s are dripping out of an ethernet port and clogging the gears.

I think it's a hardware problem - the ethernet port is supposed to have a cable connected.

That's my solution.

or kill the process that's leaking

Well. The train ahead of us hit someone.

That's not good.

@ThomasOwens I bump back into that about once a month or two...

@Ampt Did it hit you?

@JimmyHoffa Nope but it was fatal...

@Ampt :(

stay off the bloody tracks

my wife's dad was a train conductor for like 25 years in Chicago, she says that happens constantly....

Yeah... more than it should

people try and cross at the last second

I've seen some closer calls than I care to be witness to in the short amount of time I've been taking the train

@ratchetfreak the problem is that a lot of the tracks require you to cross them to get to the track you're boarding on.

there are a lot of center islands between two sets of two tracks, so if your train is going to be on the inner two tracks, you need to be on the island before it arrives

and people being people wait until the last minute to cross to the island

and no tunnel/bridge?

Not trying to justify it, but that's how it happens.

nope

no tunnel/bridge

a crossing nearby to warn them?

google.com/maps/place/Palatine/…

theres an example

yeah theres always a warning

but people will ignore it in hopes of making their train

they play the "Get to work on time versus getting hit by the train" gamble

there should be signs: "if the crossing signals red then a train is coming through at high speeds, stay off the track."

they have signs

they do voice announcments

they have posters

when has a sign or a poster ever stopped anyone though

you only see those that ignore them

Oh I Agree they do good, but theres always going to be someone who ignores it

I know we almost had one person try and cross way too late and ~500 people all yelling "NO" simultaneously stopped them in their tracks

@MichaelT lol. I'm not even sure it helps

@MichaelT prey on their weakness for facts

@MichaelT that may be the core of Math.SE

@ratchetfreak I love this video in a really morbid am-I-really-ok sort of way

plenty of parodies there

Anyone have any background with react.js?

Does it contain any CSS or is it solely used for making editing your dom very fast

I didn't think that it did, but I'd be happily wrong

I know that Backbone+React is a common marriage among web devs around here

but I haven't ran into the problem that it solves yet

so I've been holding off

@WorldEngineer Good because it's dramatic, or good because it's a reasonably accurate portrayal? I'm guessing the former.

In other news, did SE just change the font in the chat room? I like it.

@Ampt Have you seen the demo?

todomvc.com/labs/architecture-examples/react-backbone

@Ampt [rolls eyes]

I did another one pointing out that the derivative of an integral is the original function again but deleted it

didn't want to come off too trolly

@WorldEngineer they're just hints!

@RobertHarvey I actually made that with just Backbone, no react needed

@RobertHarvey You can pick from a bunch

Yes, one of those is batman.js