Having eaten at McDonald’s in both USA and Europe, I can say the food quality is noticeably better in Europe.

Obviously the DEA is dragging their feet. They’re going to lose finding due to marijuana legislation.

Magic can accomplish all of this, so I choose that

What does Denmark have to do with this? There are closer countries than that.

A lot of great answers here, but there’s another possibility I haven’t seen mentioned yet. When you are gathering information like this it says to the engineer that you want to change things, and they don’t know if that change is going to make things easier or harder for them. Usually things only ever get harder as a project lives longer. So they’ll be less incentivised to help you unless you give them an idea of what you intend to do and specify what problems you intend to solve to make life easier for them personally.

Also, as an engineer, things like this I generally see as less important than making sure the product works and that development is processing on pace. Having to explain everything about my job to someone coming in with 0 prior knowledge is a huge waste of time.

One tip I saw mentioned works well in this situation: get them to start complaining about things they hate about the current processes. Everyone likes to complain because it is cathartic.

It will help if you can educate yourself before talking to them. Present the info you have and ask them to fill in the blanks or make corrections. Must engineers like to solve problems, so present this as one for them to solve like a puzzle. Engineers are generally not novelists. Don’t ask them to just start spitting out history of The Process to you.

The whole point in being a whistleblower is to release the documents. Why would you tell everyone what’s happening and not provide the evidence? After you release it, there’s less chance of being harmed, and your job is done besides showing up to court.

Nice try. Romanes eunt domus!

Not even an employee, just an interviewee.

Fuckin A

They have access to X’s proprietary code to affect what algorithms it uses?

I would allow it and approve the PR, then I would ask the team lead if he wants to schedule time to update the style guide to cover cases like this, and set up a linter which can ideally autofix any existing code that violates that rule. Not everyone will agree with the rules set by a linter, but they ensure style consistent, and, more importantly, save everyone time and drama related to inconsequential differences in opinion (at least inconsequential to the bottom line).

You’re hired!

I would be ok with renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of North America.

Very common

Yeah sounds perfect for my living room. I’ll definitely pay an extra $3k for those features.

Recommending digital signage for personal TVs is still a bad recommendation.

I wonder if it is even sharp enough to cut anything

Fuck that, I’m going to the NLRC

Some people commute longer than that in a month

I still play ffxi to this day and I fully remember moments like that. Good nostalgia but I’m also glad they don’t make games like that anymore. FFXI itself has been modernized to remove this kind of grind and is still getting new content updates. You should check it out again.

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