• SuperDuper
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      541 year ago

      Reminds me of another good joke:

      I got a job at Comcast and completed training so I could fix my own cable because it was faster than being on hold with customer service.

    • Eager Eagle
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      261 year ago

      “I’m leaving this company in a better state than I’ve found it. Don’t make me apply for this position again!”

  • @grabyourmotherskeys
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    581 year ago

    I remember finding a bug in the Linux kernel re AMD processors a very, very long time ago. I documented and reported it and later saw the report in a changelog or something. Still riding high off that 25 years later (I think, it’s been a while).

    • @QHC
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      241 year ago

      You should, sounds like you definitely contributed more to the benefit of human society than I ever have!

    • Björn Tantau
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      41 year ago

      Reminds me of the small feature I did for PHP 8.1. Felt really good to see a whole article about that in a more or less official preview post.

      Now I wonder what the girl is doing who was the youngest Linux kernel contributor because she saw “a sad little s” not being underlined in the Readme.

    • @Candybar121
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      1 year ago

      Years ago some guy made a pokemon mod called Uncensored Edition with 18+ jokes that eventually was discontinued / taken down, but if you look at the credits I’m like the 3rd person listed. Yep, that’s me alright. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    41 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.

    “I just searched for ‘tooltip’ in the entire code base, examined stuff for possible candidates, and inserted debugging print statements to follow the execution,” Zhu wrote.

    The timer would be canceled on a mouse-out event, which Firefox wasn’t getting when I used keyboard shortcuts to switch windows or virtual desktops."

    Zhu pushed a commit that made tooltip display based on Firefox losing focus, rather than the mouse leaving the application.

    Cobos Álvarez, who shepherded Zhu’s fix into a commit, wrote to us that “this area is rather tricky,” given various Firefox configurations and how they respond to different operating systems.

    On social media, especially the Mastodon instances where you might expect to find people with opinions on Mozilla’s XML User Interface Language, there was much rejoicing.


    The original article contains 864 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 80%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • @glimse
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      101 year ago

      Really bad summary