Dan Lyons

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Dan Lyons

Mar 24, 2019 22:48

@FrankHopkins I would add, as hinted above, that a handful of states also have laws that specifically invalidate such clauses if the right conditions are met (e.g., Kansas Statute 44-130). Given the description, this particular statute may not help, but other states' or countries' versions may have different restrictions, and we don't know where the OP is.

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Dan Lyons

Nov 14, 2018 20:24

+1 for finding feasibility of fatal finger-fencing :)

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Dan Lyons

Nov 10, 2018 03:35

@Childishforlife because most people will stick with an underpaid job (up to a point) to avoid the hassle of changing jobs, and it's in employers' best financial interests to take advantage of that.

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Dan Lyons

Dec 23, 2017 07:03

Inevitably, such an investor would goad Santa into adding micro transactions to his toys so he can end up turning a hefty profit.

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Dan Lyons

Aug 9, 2017 17:36

heh

Dan Lyons

Aug 9, 2017 17:36

> Dear dotnet bot, > > Given your solid experience in software developement, we invite you LOL

Tweeted by terrajobst on August 8, 2017 at 8:50 PM

Dan Lyons

Aug 8, 2017 18:13

the text editor part, menu bar, and properties go dark, but the object explorer and results are still light

Dan Lyons

Aug 8, 2017 18:11

you can open C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\ssms.pkgundef in notepad and comment-out the lines under "Remove Dark Theme"

Dan Lyons

Aug 8, 2017 18:10

there's a hack to enable it, but it's incomplete

Dan Lyons

Aug 8, 2017 18:03

still no official support for a dark theme in SSMS 17.2 :(

Dan Lyons

Aug 1, 2017 17:49

the most important thing to change is the owner ;)

Dan Lyons

Jul 31, 2017 18:37

@Legato or 2816, depending on which endian you use

Dan Lyons

Jul 31, 2017 17:54

this room currently lacks the quorum required to effectively answer that ;)

Dan Lyons

Jul 21, 2017 18:20

I need to wear one of those to work

Dan Lyons

Jul 21, 2017 18:20

teespring.com/if-you-try-to-talk-to-me-i-wil

Dan Lyons

Jul 18, 2017 17:58

heh

Dan Lyons

Jul 18, 2017 17:58

Is nobody going to point out the electrical circuits/common ground pun?! — Jake 5 hours ago

Dan Lyons

Jul 18, 2017 17:44

that's certainly a unique "here be dragons" comment

Dan Lyons

Jul 17, 2017 18:19

I can imagine :o

Dan Lyons

Jul 17, 2017 18:14

ikr

Dan Lyons

Jul 17, 2017 18:14

‘programming’ is a delightful pastime in which you debug for hours only to discover the real problem is: you can’t read, and you can’t count

Tweeted by direlog on July 16, 2017 at 10:56 PM

Dan Lyons

Jul 10, 2017 17:49

@RMunroe fluid dynamics was a PITA :|

Dan Lyons

Jul 5, 2017 17:23

♫ Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take some sad code and make it better. ♫

Dan Lyons

Jul 3, 2017 18:05

If this project kills me I would like the dev team to act as pallbearers at my funeral. That way, they can let me down one final time.

Tweeted by sadoperator on June 30, 2017 at 5:44 PM

Dan Lyons

Jun 29, 2017 17:17

@CommitStrip that's what the couch in my office is for :D

Dan Lyons

Jun 28, 2017 17:20

heh, you could have said //todo star

Dan Lyons

Jun 28, 2017 17:19

Dan Lyons

Jun 23, 2017 18:21

I'm not really sure, either - seems like almost anything is free game

Dan Lyons

Jun 23, 2017 18:14

Dan Lyons

Jun 23, 2017 18:14

These AI stories remind me of the 'be careful what you wish for' trope. Kinda like the old programming joke: A programmer and their partner are getting up and organising breakfast, but they have no milk. So their partner asks "Can you go to the store and get a bottle of milk?". Just as he is about to step out the door, their partner calls out "Oh, and if they have eggs, get 6!". The programmer returns and places 6 bottles of milk on the kitchen counter. "Why did you get so much milk?!?" their partner asks, to which the programmer replies "Because they had eggs!" — Robotnik Jan 15 '16 at 4:53

Dan Lyons

Jun 23, 2017 18:09

or at least make it easy to read so it doesn't get too much worse over time :P

Dan Lyons

Jun 20, 2017 18:25

33-34 all week here

Dan Lyons

Jun 19, 2017 17:43

ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf

Dan Lyons

Jun 19, 2017 17:43

@Vogel612 not according to the ECMA standard

Dan Lyons

Jun 13, 2017 18:20

for example, one of our products' latest deployment package is stored in /old/current_release

Dan Lyons

Jun 13, 2017 18:17

my workplace implements security through chaotic and irrational folder organization on our file servers

Dan Lyons

Jun 13, 2017 17:28

that's more amusing to me than it probably should be

Dan Lyons

Jun 13, 2017 17:27

CIO hired an outside pentesting consultant, then gave the consultant access to our internal network. So we failed right away didn't we?

Tweeted by sadoperator on June 13, 2017 at 4:55 PM

Dan Lyons

Jun 8, 2017 17:44

that's a little surprising - I would have expected at least in 10 that most stuff would scale properly

Dan Lyons

Jun 8, 2017 17:42

which version of windows?

Dan Lyons

Jun 8, 2017 17:40

they're great for demonstrating how comedically bad most applications are at high DPI scaling, too :)

Dan Lyons

Jun 8, 2017 17:36

my desktop has 4 1980x1200 monitors, though

Dan Lyons

Jun 8, 2017 17:35

@skiwi we have big 4k screens for conference rooms, as they were cheaper than high quality projectors

Dan Lyons

Jun 5, 2017 18:02

I really wish clicking reply all on company-wide emails would give people electrical shocks

Dan Lyons

Jun 5, 2017 18:01

the junior dev will be far better off elsewhere, at least

Dan Lyons

Jun 1, 2017 18:19

likely the single quotes around temp_1 is telling it to select the string "temp_1" for every row rather than the value

Dan Lyons

Jun 1, 2017 18:07

Dan Lyons

Jun 1, 2017 18:07

Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

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Dan Lyons

May 26, 2017 17:52

@Mat'sMug except agree on tabs vs. spaces or Allman vs. K&R brace style

Dan Lyons

May 24, 2017 17:41

@IagoSousa so you know what to make next :)