Software Development Fun
After attempting to redeem a coupon code on an order, the prices to jump quite a bit…
Each item is supposed to be around $100. It would appear there is a slight bug in their code, ehh?
I like the “No matter what, you will always receive the best discount available.” Nearly a 21 million dollar total doesn’t exactly seem like I’m getting a good deal, though I am getting nearly $9,000,000 off 
Love this tweet by @paisleyboxers:
awesome. You know DHH right? The creator of Ruby on Rails. Anyway, here’s a gist of an e-mail he received from a recruiter today…
Hi David, I came across your profile online and wanted to reach out about Development Opportunities here at Groupon. The company is growing, and we’re always looking for folks with solid skills that can make positive contribution to our continued success. Any chance you’d be open to a quick conversation about opportunities, or for any possible networking potential? If so, let me know when you’re free and we can set up a time to chat. Also, if you are interested, it would be great if you could forward a current resume over that I can take a look at. I look forward to hearing back from you! Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, <Yet Another Clueless Tech Recruiter>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… Hey tech recruiters… GET A CLUE! Do a little research before you just send out SPAM to everyone. It’s good to know that I’m not the only developer that gets this kind of junk sent to them. Anyway, I think the “solid skills” would apply here, don’t you?
Finally, here’s DHH’s reply:
Hi , Smile, you’re on https://twitter.com/dhh/status/124554951581118465, https://gist.github.com/1285068, and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108229. After you’re done laughing, maybe read http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2598-why-are-technical-recruiters-so-clueless. I also wrote a piece on what I think about Groupon’s business that you might find interesting: http://shortlogic.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-this-deal Have a nice day!<]]>
Computer just came in with the complaint…
It’s running a little slowly.
It took 45 minutes to boot up. Yep, 45 minutes (“a little slowly”).
The computer had 32KB free on the hard drive. Not a GB, not a MB, KB!
Tried connecting an external hard drive to move stuff off and it ran out space trying to install the USB driver.
Hello Shift-Delete
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<]]>When your document fails to print, smashing the print button repeatedly usually doesn’t fix it. Then when someone smarter than you goes to fix the problem, your document prints way too many copies.
As a developer I’ve written my share of auto-complete textboxes, but the suggestions here are pretty funny. Now this isn’t some “adult store” or anything, so it was a bit odd to see these suggestions come back.
Having some wrist issues (probably because I’ve written my share of auto-complete textboxes), I was on a well-know online retailer looking for a wrist brace. Most of the braces I’ve used have cut into parts of my hand/wrist so I was looking for a larger size than “one size fits all.” I was in the “Health and Personal Care” section of the website, and these are the auto-complete suggests that I got after typing the word large… (my intent was large wrist brace BTW)
Uh huh huh huh auto-complete #FAIL
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So i have a user here who says her laptop doesn’t connect to the Internet when she’s at home. Turns out she doesn’t HAVE Internet at home because she thought she was “using the Internet from here.”
<]]>This sounds too familiar. Skip a couple hundred dollar purchase to only end up spending thousands and thousands over the long haul.
Love this tweet by @martincronje…
<]]>Last words before restructuring a 170 project solution; “NO! We don’t need Resharper for this”. They now have ~2000 build errors. #FAIL
Unbelievable. User comes into the office claiming that he accidentally uninstalled Windows. Excuse me?
I accidently uninstalled Windows.
How does one “accidently uninstall Windows” you ask?
One puts in a CD that one brings from home and boots to it…
Accidently…
Obviously…
Then one follows the prompts… Accidently… to install Windows XP Home
Users really never cease to amaze me. {{ shaking head }}
<]]>User: “My projector image is hard to see.” Solution: Plug it in You just can’t make this stuff up…<]]>