if ((1 > 0) == 1)
printf("The OG truth\n");

Trump won the popular vote, all excuses are off this time.

Akcshually we use 0 and “not equal 0”, since “not 0” would be 0xFF…FF, and (at least gcc) gives back a 1 for a true expression. No idea about the spec, probably undefined…

Translation, proofreading, summarizing, brainstorming, boilerplate code, protein folding…

And you all complained when in C we used 1 and 0…

All hail xlookup

I also mostly deal with customer facing tasks, my calendar is 80% filled with meetings. If I need to prepare something important, it needs to have a calendar blocker otherwise I won’t physically have time for it. If I can do it immediately (send some email, provide some existing report or documentation, I do it immediately and arrive 3 min late for the next meeting).

If something slips through the cracks I apologize and say “I was busy with x, Y and z, haven’t found time for it yet”. Helps to have “fuck you” seniority I guess, I wouldn’t have dared doing that 10 years ago.

A few years ago speaking to a VP he told me every week he empties his inbox. Not in a GTD way, just mark all as read. Rationale: “if something is important they will call me”. Email and slack are best-effort channels for me since then.

But OP said they didn’t want to work at either and would take any other job regardless. Didn’t mention about negotiating, or anything. It very much didn’t happen.

A SWE that can get offers from both Amazon and especially Meta has no stress to get a job at any other company. If you want to get a job at aunt Mary ice cream and oil change shop, you will get it.

If you don’t want to work for Amazon or meta (who have famously hard interview processes, and very long too)… why do you apply?? You can much easier get a job at any local or international b-tier company.

Screw “say in how the company is run”, I’ll settle for the money. Pay me and I will work. Pay me more and I will keep working. My current employers understood the assignment, I still have a long career progression without going into management.

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this one happened the least.

As of late, calendar for meetings, memory for todos. If I can’t remember it, it wasn’t that important. If it was that important, someone will call asking about it. I’ve delivered too many “urgent reports” that sat unread for weeks, if at all.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe teapot.

It’s a device to brew tea in.

There’s like 2 syntax errors in this one liner.

Well, it’s the only thing people will reliably do. Each and every last of us.

Happy weekend, I guess.

They said “if you’re good”.

Or maybe you shouldnt be telling people how to live their lives? Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

That doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion. Either you want to ban paid content or you don’t.

Given that SQL is 50 years old, I’m not surprised they go hand in hand. I’d be more surprised if it integrates seamlessly with Kafka, k8s, MongoDB or lambda.