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  Makes me question the food. How dare you? I’m sure the food is the finest Sysco has to offer.

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  Reminds me of "yellow snowcone" from the first *Jackass* movie.

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  My favorite: ``` for (int i = myArray.Length; i --> 0; ) { //do something } ``` Perfectly valid in C-style, even if it does look a bit puzzling at first.

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  I grew up in an era when they didn’t pass kids to get rid of them. This is why I had a friend in the 8th grade who had two kids.

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  Every cybertruck I see where I live has some company logo or wrap on it. It’s great advertising – it lets me know never to hire that company for anything. The most hilarious one is for a company that does waterproofing. Like yes, I’m going to hire a waterproofing company that just spent $100K on a vehicle that can’t go through a car wash.

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  I wrote mobile apps from 2005 to 2019, first on WinCE/Windows Mobile and then iOS. Briefly in 2010 I wrote a TV Guide-type app for Blackberry. Up to that point I had had nothing but contempt for Blackberry but that experience really changed my mind almost instantly. The keyboards on those devices were just so incredibly good, and even though the screens were tiny, the trackball was a fantastic pointing device that allowed pinpoint precision even on that tiny screen (cleaning the trackball was de...

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  That's obvious. I'm pointing out that your logic doesn't support your opinion.

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  Well, the T-800 (Schwarzenegger) was never seen blinking because he (almost) always had shades on. The T-1000 never blinked because the actor Robert Patrick spent weeks practicing shooting without blinking.

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  I started coding professionally using Visual Basic (3!). Everybody made fun of VB's `On Error Resume Next` "solution" to error handling, which basically said if something goes wrong just move on to the next line of code. But apparently nobody knew about `On Error Resume`, which basically said if something goes wrong just execute the offending line again. This would of course manifest itself as a locked app and usually a rapidly-expanding memory footprint until the computer crashed....

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  A rule of thumb is that a corporate employee costs their company roughly twice their salary. Probably not very many Oracle employees are making just $37,000 a year.