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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month 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 61 points 1 month ago

Fear will keep them in line.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Docker: So we decided to ship his machine

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Deebster 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ulterno 0 points 1 month ago

Docker is not running on client machine.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's just a list of sins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

isn't half of programming just committing various sins though

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] 0x0 9 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, the foundation for docker and vagrant.

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