• Federico (unregistered)

    I love the double nesting with the same condition, but wouldn't it be great if there were two entirely different else-blocks accompanying them?

    Brownie points for not breaking the loop at the first invalid character (we wouldn't want to overoptimise!), refusing to acknowledge the existence of regular expressions, and using explode() instead of the trivial str_split().

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    It's like that slightly weird sorting algorithm that was recently proven to be correct. It always runs in n^2 steps, and does a lot of unnecessary comparison, but it's short and easy to copy/paste.

  • Hans (unregistered)

    I assume the shareholders blamed the successor CEO for the bankruptcy that followed?

  • (nodebb)

    As always, the real WTF is upper management

  • Trolly (unregistered)

    CEO sounds like Elon Musk.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to Trolly

    This is basically what Musk is trying to do to the federal government right now. So, yeah, very similar.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Rob

    Except the government has been stealing our tax dollars and spending it on bullshit that nobody wants.

  • Hasseman (unregistered)

    ooh, this is nowadays a political forum?

  • Jonathan (unregistered)

    Oh god the Elon defenders are in here.

  • Naomi (unregistered) in reply to Hasseman

    "Nazis are bad" is not political.

  • TechHound (unregistered) in reply to DocMonster

    And just as predicted, the flood gates have been opened, allowing all the low-info types to come in and regurgitate the misinformation they keep hearing from people with a vested interest to preventing anything to be done about corruption and waste, all thanks to Remy's article from a little over a week ago showing that it is ok to mix in politics into places that people go to avoid it. Congratulations.

    Oh god the Elon defenders are in here.

    It is not about defending Elon. It could be anyone who wants to take an initiative to finally do something about out of control spending and blatant misuse of tax-payer funds as well as the rampant corruption. It really is mind blowing that anyone would actually be against all this. Seriously, stop listening to people who helped create the problem in the first place, and do some actual research of your own.

  • Adolph McDonald (unregistered) in reply to Naomi

    Way to prove Hasseman's point!

  • matt (unregistered)

    WARNING: UNMATCHED - The half-spaced hyphen dash is bad enough, but could you at least not skip the closing dash (after copy/pasted), so the sentence is correct and reads clearly??

  • (nodebb)

    I think it's important for us to know the name of the company, just so that we can avoid it

  • Pabz (unregistered)

    People disagree with having a department that attempts to stop the government from spending tax on complete rubbish? I'm in the UK and we could do with that here!

  • Naomi (unregistered) in reply to TechHound

    Well, since you've clearly done the research, why don't you share some of it? What exactly has Elongate Muskrat accomplished, and why is it good? How do you answer the common criticism (you must know what it is, since you've done the research)? How do you reconcile "fighting corruption" with illegally laying off government employees and replacing them with his own companies? If you've done the research, none of those questions should be hard for you, so let's hear it.

  • Naomi (unregistered) in reply to Pabz

    It isn't about stopping the government from spending tax money inefficiently; it's about curtailing oversight of Musk and Trump, weakening protections for marginalized people, and funneling money to Musk's companies. It's also blatantly illegal, especially around Social Security (Social Security payments aren't government funds in the first place, so it's literally theft).

  • Lurk (unregistered)

    DocMonster > "...stealing our tax dollars ..."

    Wow! And I thought education in the UK was getting bad. Sorry chum, the tax dollars are the government's to do with as it decides. You may not like what the government does with your taxes, I get pretty ticked of with some of the uses HMG puts the tax money to, but they didn't steal it. However, if someone from the IRS (or HMRC) was to lurk on a street corner and cosh you from behind before emptying your wallet, now that's stealing.

    techhound> "...all thanks to Remy's article from a little over a week ago..." Remy's site, Remy's rules. Don't like it? There's the door over there. Oh, and before you go, how much were you paying to view the content on this site?

  • Argle (unregistered) in reply to Naomi

    "Nazis are bad" is not political.

    No, but labeling political opponents Nazis IS.

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