[OT] Extra time spent

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:37:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Techie A: Hey dude, this morning I got this crazy kewl idea on 
> how to
> 	make our spreadsheet app play a flight simulator!
> Techie B: Really?! Let's see it!
> Techie A: Here, you put this formula in this cell here, and it 
> exploits
> 	the automatic solver system to generate flight coordinates! And
> 	it uses the built-in graphing function to do 3D rendering!
> Techie B: But it doesn't let me shoot missiles at buildings.
> Techie A: True. But if we replace this function here with this 
> other
> 	equivalent that does almost the same thing, but does this other
> 	thing when called with these unreasonable parameters, then we
> 	can simulate exploding buildings!
> (2 months later...)
> Techie A: Dude, how come our product isn't selling, while 
> Dumbass
> 	Corporation's clearly-inferior product is so popular??!
> Techie B: I dunno, maybe we need to market our product?
> Techie A: But I already talked to 50 customers, but all the 
> deals fell
> 	through 'cos they keep insisting on unreasonable deadlines!
> Techie B: Yeah, why are customers so dumb?! They don't deserve 
> our
> 	product! Oh BTW, did you pay the rent yet?
> Techie A: What rent?! I thought you paid for it! I'm broke, man!
> Techie B: So am I! Looks like we're gonna hafta close shop...
> Techie A: But what about the flight simulator...?!
>
> ;-)
>

Techie A: Man we really fucked by choosing ruby on rails. Our
codebase has become unmaintainable. We must do something.
Technie B: Let's migrate to Node.js