You need to make the weekend a thing. Maybe I’m too European, but when I’m not on call, my workphone is off.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays those are release day for me.

Or - just a thought - don’t deploy on fridays.

This is something that can easily get refactored, because the purpose of alia the variables is right there in the name. This is way better that spending three days to try to figure out what the purpose of var1 is.

It could be about sending a message.

A missing knob is easy to fix. Bolting a wrench to the housing holding the knob in place is very explicit. It screams “don’t touch”

Exactly type rm -rf / instead of rm -rf ./ and you ducked up. Well you messed up a long time ago by having privileges to delete everything, but then again, you are human, some mistakes will be made.

I have learned, that in those circumstances a simple “wow this is a long text, I don’t have the time right now to give it the proper thought. Let me get back to you when things calm down”

Or simply, “sorry busy right now, let me get back to you later”

This way, you acknowledge the message but also give yourself breathing room.

New versions of java have a null coalescing operator?

I didn’t know that.

Edit: a short search didn’t return any answers, as far as I can see java doesn’t have this operator, the closest thing is the ternary if operator.

Yes, it’s very useful when applied correctly.

I’m always disappointed when I remember, that I can’t use such a feature, because I’m stuck using Java.

There’s a comment for you to explain the why.

Rule of thumb: code explains the how and what, comments explain the why.

He was very mad.

Good

Sometimes you don’t have a choice. Either park there or nowhere. Examples include, but are not limited to: designated parking spaces, or full parking lots.

But what websites can you trust these days?

YouTube? Serves up scammy bitcoin ads. Google? Places ads as “search results” Twitter?

Maybe that one website unchanged since 1998.

Or try having numbers or strings that look like they could be dates.

That would be unfortunate!

Try using Excel in another language than English. You have to hope someone, that speaks your language had exactly the same problem as you, because all the formulas get translated and Excel doesn’t recognize the English version when your language isn’t set to English.

The good old William Bell.

Fuck yeah!

I’m always a bit surprised when I hear it read references to Hogan’s heroes online, because Klink is more a bad guy in them. I grew up with the German version and don’t get me wrong, it has hatable characters like Hochstaetter, but Klink is mostly a loveable idiot who tries to be more or less good to the pows. Manipulated by Hogan, yes, but does try to be good to them.

YMCA

Heat energy is the amount of particle wiggling. With precisely tuned and oriented lasers you can clamp a particle in space, thus prevent it from wiggling.

No wiggling -> very cold.