Haha, vooral die laatste reactiearmageddon_2k1 schreef op dinsdag 18 december 2012 @ 14:37:
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Fantastische soap daar met een paar hele mooie quotes:
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Heerlijk die opbouwende kritiek van de developer op z'n verheven troon.
CODESQUIDS'S BRIDGE
Like all jokes, codesquid's bridge becomes funnier if you make it more true. So to better define the analogy, I had to adjust the roles > played by
The Bridge > The Server
Cars and trucks > programs that "drive" over The Bridge
A clueless engineer for Filezilla cars and trucks > codesquid
The customer > bigjames
The hero and winner > CoffeeCup
A customer tries to drive a Filezilla truck over a bridge. It makes it over the top, but the brakes fail, the truck careens over the other side, rolls three times, and falls into the ditch.
This is a major issue so Filezilla sends out an engineer to inspect the crash.
"The bridge is broken"
"... what?" says the proud owner of the 2009 Filezilla truck.
"The bridge is specified to have a maximum of 7% grade. I just measured it, and it has a 7.5% grade. You should replace the bridge, it's horribly broken" says the engineer.
The customer is caught of guard. Does this engineer have a sense of humor?
"You realize that every other brand of car and truck is safely passing over the bridge right?"
"Yah, engineers for those trucks must not have read the specifications on the bridge. Those truck drivers really ought to buy new bridges. You should really fix that bridge"
No, the engineer really did exist in another world. Not only was he incapable of understanding that a bridge costs more than a car or a truck, he didn't even understand that many people do not own the bridges they drive over. He even thought that customers would prefer his truck because it couldn't drive over this particular bridge.
It has been three years now. CoffeeCup cars and trucks continue to traverse the biggest and steepest bridges. The customer has switched brands, and Filezilla continues to fade away.
The end
“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”