I felt sorry for you until you mentioned the Browns. Now I feel really sorry for you. Browns Bros Untied!

Where I live now (Philly suburb) there used to be a local bakery which was beloved, but their landlord raised their rent on them and they had to shut down. The location then sat vacant for about 7 years. I’m no finance wizard, but how does it make any sense to go from whatever their rent was previously to zero fucking rental income? A couple of months ago a fucking Wonder finally opened there, so maybe that explains it – no real business can possibly compete with a company burning through venture capital.

The new GoBlo Yourself.

Corporations hire masses of people to create the illusion of growth. Then they fire masses of people to create the illusion of competence. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

I really wish they’d had the balls and/or the legal power to keep calling it FruityLoops.

“Flaming death cheese sandwich”

Ironically, my grilled cheese method is to build the sandwich open-faced, place it under the broiler to melt and brown the cheese, then fold it up and cook both sides in a pan. This allows me to fuck it up three different times instead of just once.

I don’t think it’s even “they” any more.

The only thing that would dent animal food production in the US is if the billionaires develop a taste for human flesh. It’s possible they already have.

Rocket Mortgage had this truly nasty commercial that showed some schlub walking towards his house with three bags of groceries while the voiceover says that it used to be six bags. Then the guy’s house starts talking to him, reminding him that he has a tiny bit of equity in the house and he can get a second mortgage to pay for groceries. Then the guy starts dancing happily.

Just astonishing that a corporation can sell borrowing money for food as a good thing. Rocket Mortgage’s owner Dan Gilbert also owns my favorite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers); I would be happy that they’re getting the shit kicked out of them by the Knicks if it weren’t for the fact that the Knicks’ owner is just as big of a scumbag. At least Gilbert doesn’t pretend to be a blues musician.

a sudo-academic platform

There is no escaping Linux here.

“The board” is mostly just CEOs of other companies. All they have to do is vote for each others’ absurd compensation packages, no smartness required. It’s a true circlejerk.

Whatever sense of self-importance a person has can’t survive the first day spent snaking shit out of a sewer pipe.

I had an archaeologist friend some years ago with a “Reunite Gondwanaland” bumper sticker on his car. One day a Florida redneck in a giant pickup pulled up next to us at a red light, stuck his head out the window and yelled “yo, fuck Gondwanaland!”

I had a boss who wrote a script to automatically remove all comments from code for pull requests. Since nobody ever added meaningful comments to their commits (or made any contributions at all to the alleged documentation), the code base was a complete mystery to the people who were actually working on it. God knows what it seemed like to new developers added to the project. But hey, comments are a “code smell” (his exact words) so it was all good.

His primary justification of his “comments bad” philosophy was that if comments aren’t kept up-to-date with the code, they can mislead and confuse future developers. This gets said a lot but it is something that I have literally never seen in 25 years of programming (I’ve witnessed – and participated in – a large number of project failures, and misleading comments have never been the cause of the failure). I pointed out that the same exact thing could be said about method and variable names but nobody ever advocates not using descriptive method and variable names; he had no response to this.

In my 25 year career as a programmer, a majority of my coworkers did that kind of stuff just by showing up.

8000 people with experience running social media

Is it that hard? As a programmer, I’ve never seen anything on Faceblerk that made me go “wow! How did they do that?”

I kind of agree it’s a multiplier.

It’s definitely a force multiplier, it’s just that the factor after the X can be less than 1.0.

Visual Sauce Safe, for us oldheads.

which famously can vary by 4 orders of magnitude

That’s why “Hiroshima” is now a unit. We’re lucky “Tsar Bomba” isn’t.

No, I literally drive a school bus. I like the gig, but as a manager he is making something like eight times what I make (and probably a lot more than that).