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Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments

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Post by icebraining »

tomjen3 wrote: post #36
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #15

This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth…

Most developers would have bigger issue than their build if they started menstruating...

#casualsexism

Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments

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Post by candu »

icebraining wrote: post #41
tomjen3 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most developers would have bigger issue than their build if they started menstruating...

#casualsexism

It's not necessarily sexism to point out an (unfortunate) demographic fact (at least, in the US [1]).

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm

(Don't get me wrong; I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the grandparent comment either, as it could be taken in a normative sense. I just dislike kneejerk PC callouts more.)

Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments

#44

Post by icebraining »

candu wrote: post #43
icebraining wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#casualsexism

It's not necessarily sexism to point out an (unfortunate) demographic fact (at least, in the US [1]). [1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm (Don't get me wrong; I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the grandparent comment either, as it could be taken in a normative sense. I just dislike kneejerk PC callouts more.)

The fact in itself isn't sexist; but I don't see how bringing it up here is relevant except to say "Hey people, remember that almost everyone here is a guy!"

Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #37
vidarh wrote: post #31

One of the first startups I was involved in was founded by a guy that refused to sign contracts if the stars were not "favourable". Unsurprisingly the company eventually failed.

That is a great sales hack, actually. You can always claim that as an excuse to post-pone a deadline, since there is no good way for the other party to call your bullshit.

> there is no good way for the other party to call your bullshit.

Er, actually...

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