Hmm, I must have missed the Brady Bunch episodes where the boys and the girls had a competition to see whether they could get more food by spending their allowance now or earning interest in a bank account, but Alice accidentally put half the boys' stock in a giant meat loaf.

[quote user="KrakenLover"]It never occurred to them that I might like to eat sometime next week and need to be paid for my time[/quote]  That's how they knew you're trying to take advantage of them. The invoice is from a company, not from you. Everyone knows companies don't eat food.

[quote user="Weng"]This is exactly what we're looking for. Most often, this order is completely inverted. And the ones that invert it are also always the ones that completely miss the "No explanations. Just number them" part and blab on and on about why they're right. [/quote]  [quote user="Weng"]Also, ...

I'd actually question all three of your definitions, and possibly even give different answers depending on whether we were using the words, or the definitions you have given the words. [quote user="Weng"]Efficiency. As in the resource footprint of the code on the hardware.[/quote] This is only one type of efficiency - and its ...

Wow, just wow. What is your employer's purpose? Manufacturing new and interesting layers of WTF? It makes me think that every server room construction or refurb should include budget for constructing a small fake server room for people to tour. Blinkenlights, machines that go ping, maybe even some old tape drives whirring backwards and ...

[quote user="Arioch"]Astrology or computer virus detection, which one has better share of exact science? The question may look tough, but the answer is rather obvious. This is all about resolution: to draw a proper horoscope one has to operate on hour granularity, and to tell an infected file from a clean one knowing the date is ...

[quote user="OzPeter"]I'd guess that the sign is actually intended to face the intersection to the left. Its not 100% clear but the median in the middle of that intersection seems to angle the traffic towards the left. In which case having a "No Right Turn" sign facing that traffic would make ...

[quote user="snoofle"]The consulting company obviously just typed what they were told.[/quote]  Which makes them clearly competent to consult on ethics. Oh, the irony! If you go back and look at the entire survey replacing "ethical" with "management-approved", does it suddenly make a whole lot more sense?

[quote user="robbak"]No, you put the results of a random text generator into all three, and forget about it. Yes, my mothers maiden name is {J}sj}reFm)iq6Rcb}ehIs!`=@S!q7uba[lZ72kB6o0$R20mb\nmRUJXoT8oO+7[/quote] I used to do that, until I discovered a government site that I'd registered for demands you answer two (randomly-chosen) ...

[quote user="Ben L."]ome kind of DB-automated replication that would let you write code that queries a single table instead of some 50000 line SQL monster that queries a table and then inner joins it on itself and unions a few others. Surely that would be faster and still fill Snoofle’s sanity quota…[/quote]  How long until the ...