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Dec 2019

Best of 2019: The Internship of Things

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Did you get some nice shiny new IoT devices for the holidays this year? Hope they weren't the Initech brand. Original --Remy

Mindy was pretty excited to start her internship with Initech's Internet-of-Things division. She'd been hearing at every job fair how IoT was still going to be blowing up in a few years, and how important it would be for her career to have some background in it.

It was a pretty standard internship. Mindy went to meetings, shadowed developers, did some light-but-heavily-supervised changes to the website for controlling your thermostat/camera/refrigerator all in one device.

3 comments - Last comment @ 2020-01-16

Best Of 2019: The Hardware Virus

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We continue our holiday break by looking back at the true gift that kept on giving, the whole year round. Original. --Remy

Dvi-cable

Jen was a few weeks into her new helpdesk job. Unlike past jobs, she started getting her own support tickets quickly—but a more veteran employee, Stanley, had been tasked with showing her the ropes. He also got notification of Jen's tickets, and they worked on them together. A new ticket had just come in, asking for someone to replace the DVI cable that'd gone missing from Conference Room 3. Such cables were the means by which coworkers connected their laptops to projectors for presentations.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2020-02-06

Best of 2019: Temporal Obfuscation

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It's the holiday season, and we use this opportunity to take a week and reflect on the best stories of the year. Here, we reach back to January for a tale of variable names and convention. --Remy

We've all been inflicted with completely overdesigned overly generalized systems created by architects managers who didn't know how to scope things, or when to stop.

We've all encountered premature optimization, and the subtle horrors that can spawn therefrom.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2020-02-16

Classic WTF: The Glitch Who Stole Christmas

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It's Christmas, and we're going to spend the next week remembering the best moments of 2019, but for now, let's go back to an old Christmas classic. Original.

Every Dev down in Devville liked Christmas a lot…
But the PM who lived in the corner office did NOT!
The PM hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows his reason.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It could be, that his project timeline was too tight,
But I think the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his brain was two sizes too small.

2 comments - Last comment @ 2019-12-26
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