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Is that a "2001: A Space Odyssey" reference rather than a bit of sarcasm?
Also, frits.
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Calling the function probably makes a small donation on the creator's bankaccount (where the money comes from, depends on the application).
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This is literally how it's done at Initech
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Ah, yes. Office Space, still a great movie. Moral of the movie: Don't take away someone's stapler.
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"Office Space, still a great movie. " If you could call this function, that would be gr-e-e-e-e-e-at.
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* mumble * I could set the building on fire...Edit Admin
The words "Something Wonderful" trigger me. Back in the '90s, a series of three books were released as "Central Casting" (fantasy-contemporary-SF/Future) to help generate a background for your RPG characters. One of the tables in the book was "Something Wonderful", and it is the table you least want to be directed to. Yes, there is some great boon awaiting you, but at what cost? You are sponsored by a wealthy patron! (After the meteorite destroys your home town, leaving you an orphan.) You find a rare and powerful artifact! (And now everyone wants to kill you and take it...) The "Ah, Love!" table is a happier time, even when your beloved turns out to die/be exiled/be an inanimate object....
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If you still have these books, they look like they are worth some serious money now.
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The Comment That Started It All
It began innocently enough. Mark W., a mid-level developer with a reputation for writing clean, if occasionally enigmatic, code, submitted a pull request for a routine feature tweak. The diff was small, the tests passed, and the CI pipeline glowed green like a beacon of approval. But then someone—no one remembers who, though rumors point to a junior dev with a penchant for dramatic Slack emojis—left a comment on the function’s summary: “Does something wonderful?”
At first, it was treated as a joke. A lighthearted nod to the vagaries of documentation. But then the whispers started. In the break room, over lukewarm coffee and stale pastries, developers began to speculate. Was Mark being sincere? Was this a subtle dig at the legacy code he’d been assigned to maintain? Or was it something darker—a coded message, a signal to someone else in the organization that only a select few were meant to understand?
One senior engineer, let’s call her Sarah, was overheard muttering, “If it’s so wonderful, why doesn’t it say what it does?” She later denied making the comment, but not before three different people had already screenshot her Slack status and forwarded it to their respective team leads.
Management Gets Involved
As the days passed, the comment began to attract attention from higher up. The engineering manager, a man named Greg who once described himself as “a servant leader with a bias for action,” called an impromptu meeting to “align on documentation standards.” No agenda was sent. No calendar invite was issued. Just a terse message in the team channel: “Conference Room B. Now.”
When the team arrived, Greg stood at the head of the table, arms crossed, staring at a whiteboard that had been hastily scrawled with the words “What does ‘wonderful’ mean?” in red marker. He didn’t speak for a full minute. Then, in a voice barely above a whisper, he said, “We need to talk about tone.”
Someone in the back coughed. To be continued...