The term dates to 1974 (1968 if you accept “Application Program Interface”). The concept is decades older than that. My boss was just a fucking moron.

That’s pretty impressive. I started school in 1973 and I can remember a couple of teachers’ names at most.

I guess Bootsy Collins was wrong … sometimes you do learn.

I was actually referencing Fatboy Slim referencing Dune.

I think they meant “a file path not being right in that there code”.

I’ve been coding since the '80s. I’ve never once heard anyone refer to a bitmap as a “bump”.

Appetizer at Applebee’s? “app”

This one probably drives me the most crazy.

I had a (non-technical) manager come to me one day and say he wanted us to start using this hot new technology he had just read about called an API. This was in 2010. He showed me the article, which somehow never even attempted to explain what an API actually was. I just laughed and said I would make it an action item.

Then: Fire, Rocks

If you walk with algorithm, you won’t attract the worm.

Apparently liquor stores make their money off of hard-core drinkers and alcoholics, so liquor ads (and liquor store employee customer support) are designed not to attract new customers but rather to make the existing customers think their level of drinking is normal and acceptable.

“I didn’t realize it was possible to cough up your pancreas”.

I really hope I’m dead before we have androids.

Years ago I realized I was drinking six 24 oz. cups of coffee a day - which is literally MORE THAN A GALLON OF FUCKING COFFEE. One of those cups was even right before going to bed, which is a sign of how much tolerance I had built up to caffeine. Now I just drink one 8 oz. cup every morning and that’s it, and my desire to slap the shit out of every human being I encounter has gone way down.

For reference.

Can’t hear the dialog | Christopher Nolan

Javascript is basically just C with some syntactical sugar, right? RIGHT?!?

Easy, breezy, beautiful … clever girl.

They’re not common at all, but I prefer a desk suspended from the ceiling with chains or whatever - complete and total freedom for the legs.

I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn’t word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn’t even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.

I’ve long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I’m not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.