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Re:Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques on Sunday May 15, 2016 @04:43PM (#11702654)
Pile on every cargo cult "quality assurance" technique until everybody keeps getting glowing performance reviews about how they helped implement the neat SWOT matrix that pointed to the need for better performance reviews whose consequence will make clear the path to even better SWOT matrices that will discover that more extensive performance reviews would result in...
As a kid, every time I tried to hoodwink my father into bogus school supplies expenses he would recite this joke about a medieval student sending a letter to his uneducated father. After some platitudes similar to the ones in the article, the punchline was more or less like this (loses a bit in translation): "Three books I have to buy: Marcus, Tullius and Cicero. At three royals each, nine royals I need".

The response was: "Marcus Tullius Cicero is one book. Here I send five royals, so you can send back two".

Re:Don't React (Presentation - Use arrows to navigate) on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @08:16AM (#8819212)
I have been programming for 30 years, 19 on the Web. I tried to learn Angular and Ember and failed, more than once. Earlier this year I had to prototype a fairly complex single page app and was severely time constrained. I tried React and succeeded beyond both my expectations and those of the client. I am in fact itching for a chance to use it again.
Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:16PM (#6844173)
This line from the readme file of his Craft.Net project neatly sums up Sir_Cmpwn's presence within the notchverse:

"Minecraft is not officially affiliated with Craft.Net."

Re:Objectivist C on Friday May 18, 2012 @04:22PM (#3993713)
In Objectivist C a reference to the current object can be obtained by the indistinct use of any of the following keywords: I self me my mine

Trying to use "this" results in: "Syntax error: Insufficient property assertion"

Also be advised that the "?" modifier for regular expression quantifiers isn't implemented.