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Code base is shit. We’re not doing what we’re promising or any close of it. We’re probably going to bankrupt in a year or two.

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The programming team that is working hard on your project is just one dude and he smells funny. The programming team you’ve met in your introductory meeting are just the two unpaid interns that will be fired or will quit within the next two months and don’t know what’s happening. We don’t do agile despite advertising it. Also your project being a priority means it’ll be slapped together from start to finish 24 hours prior to the deadline. Oh and there will be extra charges to fix anything that doesn’t work as it should.

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I think we work in the same company, the dude does not smell funny to me but maybe that’s just me.

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Are you that dude?

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No he is many things including functioning alcoholic and a choleric but I could not detect strong odor.

I do not know what my thing is because that’s obviously my blind spot.

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Can confirm. I am the smelly guy. Leave me alone and you get code. Bother me and you don’t.

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It’s pretty depressing, but the fact that soil and groundwater are almost certainly contaminated anywhere that humans have touched. I’ve seen all kinds of places from gas stations, to dry cleaners, to mines, to fire stations, to military bases, to schools, to hydroelectric plants, the list could go on, and every last one of them had poison in the ground.

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Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.
A place not far from where I live had a chemical plant which just dumped loads of chemicals on a meadow for years. Now there are ground water pumps installed there which need to run 24/7 so that the chemicals don’t contaminate nearby rivers and hence the rest of the country.
When taking samples from the pumped up water you can smell gasoline.

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We’re house shopping and there has been a house on a lake sitting on the market forever. I got curious and researched the lake and… It’s a literal superfund site. The company that was on the other side of the lake just dumped their waste chemicals right on the shore and it has polluted both the lake and ground water forever essentially because they don’t break down. I looked up the previous owner… Died of cancer. The shit that companies are and were allowed to get away with is just insane. Meanwhile right wing nut jobs want to get rid of the EPA (which was ironically created by Richard Nixon).

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The largest lake in the UK by area got massively polluted and turned into a swamp of toxic green algae. It’s crazy how people just let stuff like that happen.

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A large pizza chain, it costs about $1 to make a large cheese pizza. Cheese is re-used as much as possible.

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How do you reuse cheese? That is concerning.

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If it was poured on the pizza and fell off, it’s picked back up and put back in the bin if the health department allows it.

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Just from clean sanitized surfaces? If so that I can get. Otherwise, icky 😬

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To be fair, from a food-conservation standpoint, I’d expect cheese (and other materials) to be re-used. No need to throw it away just because it fell on a reasonably clean surface, especially prior to baking.

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I worked at an ISP. The DHCP server we use for our DSL offering was made in the 90s and hasn’t been updated since.

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Frankly, I don’t see this a a problem as long as the software is up to date and the hardware is sound. I bet there are thousands of SPARC servers out there processing data 24/7 since 1995.

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Might want to get on updating it soon for IPV6 though

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I don’t know, I remember hearing that everything would soon be IPV6 a couple decades ago.

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I’ve worked for a few of the larger ISPs in the US. They all have their own special weird shit like a windows NT machine shoved in a corner in a CO in west Texas that you have to remote desktop into and run some java applet from the 90 to log into a hardwired machine from the 70s just to set up a voicemail box for a phone line. Ain’t broke don’t fix it leads to some wild setups at companies you wouldn’t expect it from.

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I’d actually rather this than making new software with all kinds of bugs

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If it works and is secure, what’s the problem

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