[OT] Extra time spent

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 07:49:47PM +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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

(2 months later)
Techie A: The Node.js implementation is now running but we still have no
	customers.
Techie B: I know, let's invent our own system from scratch! Then we'll
	know for sure it's better!

(2 years later)
Techie A: We've reinvented our system 5 times over, and we still have no
	customers, and now we're in debt and the bank is after us.
Techie B: I'm gonna get a job at McDonald's...


T

-- 
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In
English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some
languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can
form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah,
yeah."