Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for January 25, 2012

Until you have been up all night trying to get the code you wrote in the morning, that you knew was perfect, to run once. You have not begun. Wait until they want you to fix something you wrote years ago that many different people have futzed with, but you should know all about it since you wrote it….

It shouldn’t take that long to completely confuse the crap out of her.

What do you want to bet that she actually writes something that works?

At the end of which time Rita will expect to be able to write her own “Enemies” Facebook.

Is that a piece of apple pie on the comp?

I’d give her a crash course on sorting algorithms in LISP

Start off by telling her what PHP stands for.

Shes gonna surprise us all and learn this in an hour OR shes going to lose her patients and Murder Jay with that Lap top, Ed will have to take the fall for it :(……my god I have dark thoughts today

Unix. Just teach a few commands, and try to explain why they work. She’ll go away. Quietly.

Two words, Jay: ‘Hello World’

For those not in the know, the first assignment in many programming classes is to get the words ‘Hello World’ to print on the screen.

An hour? Rita must think Jay is going to go very slow and repeat a lot of stuff. She is management after all. Doesn’t she already know everything?

I’m from Chicago, that pie needs a scoop of ice cream