Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: Appearance et al...

"No. I'm sorry, I haven't the foggiest."

The better option is to call over to someone else "There's somebody here who's lost their memory. Do you know who they are?"

Re: Monkey on my back

It is. You got there first, dammit.

Re: Not me, but someone else

But satisfying.

Re: Not me, but someone else

"they took one look at this ruffian clutching a supermarket carrier bag"

One of the best - and truest - lines in LOTSW was along those lines. The scruffs were wandering through a car showroom. One salesman to another: "Shall I throw them out?" "Nay lad, round here they can look like that and be millionaires."

Re: Inappropriate garb

"almost an acknowledgment that your interview was just a pony show to get you in the door"

It is. Just like the CV is written to get past the gatekeepers in HR.

Re: Appropriate attire?

"Being both young and foolish I agreed, especially as it came with a 15% pay rise."

Nothing foolish about accepting a 15%rise. I trust you kept it after abandoning the suit.

Re: Appearance et al...

I suppose that's one occasion when "Do you know who I am?" really was appropriate.

Re: Dress Code

OTOH about 20 years ago I had gig where my client wanted me to do some work on site at their customer's HO and insisted that I wear a suit on site. So I ended up working in a rapidly dishevelling suit in a heat wave (spending as much time as possible in the machine room to take advantage of the aircon). The customer manager I dealt with was in shorts and sandals in the office. He was the one with appropriate attire.

Re: China

his platform seems to be essentially "Vote for me, I'm not Trump"

To be fair, it's a line with a lot to recommend it.

I assume the shortened URL (a curse be upon all shortened URLs) was to something like this latest news of Dido Harding's relentless failing upwards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53813480

Re: Nope

"local press particularly hard hit and virtually out of business in some parts of the UK. I don't believe that Google is the primary cause of this"

Quite.

Taking "press" literally the problem is delivery networks. Our local newspaper shop can't get kids to deliver to us any more and I'm not trailing all that way every day just to get a paper.

Online they totally disregarded GDPR with needing to provide 100+ opt-outs every time you went online, one of the many reasons why I have one browser set up in amnesiac mode.

Since then things have got worse as, with so many in the group their domain is $OLD_TITLElive.co.uk and, amid the mess that's now its UI, persists in wanting to throw at me local stories from all over the place except here.

Re: Just another example of why

It makes no difference if they are when senior management find it too expensive, too inconvenient or just too unnecessary.

Common sense may be sense but it's quite uncommon.

Re: Not possible?

I'm fairly certain I just heard someone saying "challenge accepted".

I wouldn't be surprised if similar thinking was behind the reply-alls that followed it.

Re: Hardly surprising

unless China has already acquired set out to make the necessary equipment

FTFY but does it feel any more reassuring than the original

Re: YAM = ??

"the South Sea Bubble (ca 1720). It was an early financial scam,"

Money's been around a long time and I'm sure scams followed PDQ. You couldn't really call the 1720searly.

Re: Software verification

"Developers never got near the production builds."

So how could they tell whether what they developed was what was built for production?

Re: Investment?

"a huge implied "Beta" tag on its front door"

That's an insult to Beta.

Mr Barnum can explain it to you.

Re: Wish us luck. We'll need it.

"It's now 244 years since the people of the United States freed themselves from the rule of George the Third. "

And yet they didn't separate the head of govt. and head of state roles.