It’s like night and day.Beyond all our doing, there is a balance to the way things are. They can even express admiration and wonder when someone does something clever or slick.
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I was rather sad when they fired me, but I have been so much better off ever since the people I work with now actually know what humor is, and how to play. Apparently the team had been stewing on this “insult” for the whole two weeks, making it worse and worse in their minds. Instead, I had a meeting with HR and the VP of Engineering about how I was mocking them, disrespecting their work, how unprofessional it was, and on and on and on. I anticipated that on my return we would all laugh at these funny names in our weekly meeting, that the team lead would request that I rename these two methods, and that I would then push to master with English names. They were perfect! I committed, pushed to a branch, wrote up a pull request, and then started a two–week vacation the next morning. I laughed so much when I found both of them. I ended up with the names “afsluiten” (literally “off–close”, or “to close off”) and “αναγράφω” (“anagrapho”, to inscribe, record, or publish). I had the implementations written and tested, I just needed good names. I had to lock some files to deny anyone permission to read them, and I had to record the actions taken in a database. I needed names for about six or eight methods, and the last two were the hardest. To keep myself interested, I pushed myself to continue the trend.
I had to “ask” the user for confirmation, and I had to “authenticate” a widget. I had been given the task to add an insignificant feature to a minor subsystem, and by chance the first two methods I added to my class had names that started with the letter A. Sadly I once worked on a team that didn’t understand this. A certain amount of word–play is necessary for a happy and healthy life. And I, like an imbecile, I'm walking!Īgreed. When one goes forward, the other wants to overtake it. "My right foot is jealous of my left foot. Et moi, comme un imbécile, je marche ! - Raymond Devos Quand l'un avance, l'autre veut le dépasser. > Mon pied droit est jaloux de mon pied gauche. It's a pun on "complément d'objet direct" (the object that is put directly after a transitive verb), intentionally being misspelled as "compliment d'objet direct" to mean that it's a direct compliment from an object. "If some day a chair tells you you have a pretty ass, you'll find that weird but it's just a direct object compliment." > Si un jour une chaise te dit que t'as un joli cul, tu xtrouveras ça bizarre mais c'est juste un compliment d'objet direct. "Mathematically, a cuckold is a whole who shares his half with a third. > Mathématiquement, un cocu est un entier qui partage sa moitié avec un tiers. It's a pun on René Descartes' "Je pense donc je suis" (I think, therefore I am). Translations for the few quotes that are in French: It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand. At 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes".
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I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10-minute explanation of the "knowledge is power" bit but nothing on "France is bacon". Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd, but thoughtfully agree.
If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon", they nodded knowingly. When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon." I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is bacon."įor more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two.
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