[OT] Extra time spent

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/6/14, 5:03 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

Don't worry, they'll call back.