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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I used to work in local television news production and one of the most common occurrences was something not working, someone calling engineering, and then it starting to work when the engineer walked in the room.

[–] BurningTurtle 62 points 2 months ago

Fear will keep them in line.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

That's a universal magic trick, it applies to every industry and situation imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Happened today with a password prompt. He didn't think he could type the wrong password 3 times.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Docker: So we decided to ship his machine

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they put it in the whale. that is how docker transports things and you cannot change my mind.

[–] Deebster 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The oldest known container: github.com/bib/Jonah/Dockerfile

[–] ulterno 0 points 2 months ago

Docker is not running on client machine.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

I have this a a sticker. I also have my machine always ready to ship to the client, if they will kindly return the previous one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This image is from here: https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements

They’re all great. I’m definitely an Arborist.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's just a list of sins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

isn't half of programming just committing various sins though

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I'm a proud owner of several "It worked on my machine before I went to bed last night" awards.

[–] 0x0 10 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, the foundation for docker and vagrant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago