It literally means “to apply”, funnily.
But of course the majority of Chinese people are not English speakers, so they see “app” but can’t know it’s the same meaning.

I might be biased from speaking with so many Chinese people. Who I can forgive not knowing the origin of the abbreviation. Still pisses me off to no end D:<

What I hate even more, is that the morons who can’t read more than two syllables decided to shorten “application” to “app”, but now I only ever hear people reading that as “ay pee pee”! What was the fucking point?

Oh hey! That’s me for the last two years! Again!

I wish I had some hippocratic style oath I could lean on to not release unsafe, unoptimised, barely tested, possibly maintainable code.
Alas all I have is good, verbose comments and an email here or there expressing my concerns.

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

I think your system has made it abundantly clear that neither competence, nor mental state, nor age, nor criminal record are limiting factor to be a politician in the US.

Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I’m not a purist. As long as it’s properly designed for this I’m happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!

I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?

That reminds me of SEO shite introduced into HTML invisibly for the readers.

I bring swag from my previous employers to whatever employer I am currently at :)
Let them know how much I care about company spirit.

Could probably use a Bible from the way things are. Doubt they actually ever open those.

Oh you sweet summer child…

Aha! It is I ! L’Éclair ! Don’t you recognise me?

Ma remarque finale c’est pour le fait que c’est comme ça partout, en vrai. L’enfer c’est les autres. Y’a toujours du drama peu importe où tu vas (j’ai bossé dans plusieurs régions et pas mal à l’étranger). Le truc c’est de se mettre bien avec les gens autour de soi, de se plaire à son poste, et le reste en /ignore.

Would be interesting to see how they distinguish “personal consumption” and “transformative” consumption.

The AI did quite literally what any human educating themselves would have done : reading entire libraries to improve themselves. Then make money from it. So if little Timmy pirates 3DS Max or Photoshop to get a job, it’s fine yeah? Or a student trying to read their course without paying hundreds of dollars?

But wait, when Timmy reads a single virtual book, it’s thievery? It’s the loss of a sale? So how many sales were lost through all those virtual books stolen from paying customers by the AI?

They gotta decide one way or another at some point and stop taking the piss.

Also I wonder if the AI can actually remember the entire content of each book they read though. Or any. And if they do, then can that actually be proof, for each individual book thus regurgitated, that the copyright has been unfairly used since a full reproduction (or close enough as to fool a reader?) would be now available.

That’s gonna be some interesting jurisprudence.

Tried to do a proper analysis of a bug in homologation that’s preventing our future customer to test the product, while N+3 and N+4 demand twice-daily updates through video call with ten other managers on it. Two weeks of proper madness, that was.

Stopped the meetings for one fucking day and we had it fixed before 5pm.

For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who’s mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He’s ready to quit, just hasn’t found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he’s having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we’re in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.

Meanwhile I’m just like “eh, sure it’s not perfect but it ain’t so bad. You should see the last place I was at!”.

And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.

I can’t wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview…