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  • That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

    And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.






  • chaogomu@kbin.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devifn't
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    10 months ago

    Basic used “else”.

    It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

    But yeah, “else” is nice.


  • Pot as a word for toilet actually comes from the chamber pot.

    There are a bunch of other words for a toilet, but tracking down their origins is hard.

    For example, calling it a John could refer to the inventor of the flush toilet, John Harington, or as a corruption for an earlier term the Jakes/Jacks. (Kit Harington is a relation)

    Jake and Jack were very common names in medieval England, much like John is today. So if you were a noble, your chamber pot would be emptied by a commoner, and the stand in name was Jake.

    Other toilet names like bog or loo come from the smell.

    The head was traditionally located at the front of ships, especially in the British navy…

    There are dozens more (in English alone), but origins are hard to track down for most of them.