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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm ~40, so I don't date or spend much time with people in their 20s.

I have seen the occasional profile demanding a certain height, but I just skip on it immediately.

I wonder if it correlates with other attributes? I'm also very left wing so I don't interact with conservatives much, for example. Maybe "I need a tall man and I'll say it out loud" happens more there?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Use a different language" is a common defense of javascript, but kind of a weird one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah. My last job, a PR with commented out code typically wouldn't get approved. Either leave it in version history, or stick it on a branch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Not to my face. But as someone else said, it's rare for you to be told the rejection reason (for early dating). There are a lot of reasons for this, but part of it is people kind of suck at taking rejection. And on top of that, a significant portion of men are dangerous.

No one wants to risk the man flipping out, spewing cruelty, or worse. A gentler letdown seems safer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Do you think they realize that they made her look fun (smiling) and him look awful (scowling, wearing a school child backpack, bad haircut) ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The bar is set REALLY low

There's a saying "the bar for men is in hell"

I thought it meant there was a drinking establishment for men in hell. They go and drink with the devil, and that's where they get all their bad ideas. They're doing shots and the devil's like "say she's fat", and the guy is like "good advice bro".

Turns out the saying just means the bar is super low. So low you don't even have to jump. It's so low, it's deeper than the depths of the earth and in the fires of hell that burn below.

But yeah, so many men are so horrible, it's shockingly easy to rise above them.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)

[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 days ago (10 children)

This kind of problem falls under "communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood". Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.

https://xkcd.com/169/

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Most email is short. I don't see a need to summarize it. Google is run by idiots and assholes.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tech companies don’t really give a damn what customers want anymore.

Ed Zitron wrote an article about how leadership is business idiots. They don't know the products or users but they make decisions and get paid. Long, like everything he writes, but interesting

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers, as the modern executive is no longer a person with demands or responsibilities beyond their allegiance to shareholder value.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Call the function from the if block.

Now your tests can more easily call it.

I think at my last job we did argument parsing in the if block, and passed stuff into the main function.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I had a director of eng once who asked me to mind my language when I said "For fuck's sake it returns 200 OK even when there's an error".

So I started naively replacing "fuck" with "fudge". "That's pretty fudged up." "Well, fudge it, we'll deal with that next." "Fudge if I know."

He didn't really like it, but he can go fudge himself.

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