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.

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.

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.

which famously can vary by 4 orders of magnitude

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

Make Americans Gimps Again

“If you’re doing business with a religious son of a bitch, Get. It. In. Writing. His word isn’t worth shit, not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.” -William S. Burroughs, Words of Advice for Young People.

FWIW trump isn’t really religious, of course.

Survey Monkey?

Just replace “togas” with “mass graves” and we’re good to go.

Shit, I remember when Nixon resigned. I also remember thinking that Nixon was as bad as Republicans could ever get.

I’m so old I remember when Facebork was just for young people.

That reminds me of the old expression “a sucking chest wound is Nature’s Way of telling you you’ve been in a firefight.” I think Sun Tzu said that but I’m not sure.

My favorite is still the killer whales capsizing rich people’s sailboats. Although that would have been even better if the orcas had eaten the free snacks.

As someone who grew up in the '80s, no single person has ever disappointed me as much as Bono.