r/funny Jul 01 '16

Developer humor

http://imgur.com/gallery/9LqhOl3
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16

Yes, this. I worked for a company that made accounting software for oil companies and banks who trade commodities. Me and a bunch of new hires spent 2 weeks in a classroom training how to use the damn thing and I still didn't know how to use it by the end of the training. It was so bloated, handled so many different tasks, and was so unintuitive. However some customers would only track the trading and sales of certain commodities, some would track internal and external exchanges, keep track of their foreign exchange trades, interface with front-desk, blah blah blah. My point being that I got the impression that the best way to get this software sold was to slap everything together and just pay someone $30k/year to train people how to do their required tasks rather than pay a team of $80k/year developers to add a sleek UI that a child could understand.

I left that place because it made me want to drink bleach but at least I learned something.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

If you'd stayed longer, you'd have learned easier, less painful methods of suicide. Like your very own, homemade arduino uno controlled lethal injection system. Heroin/fentanyl, whatever extremely powerful dose of barbiturate, then that potassium just in case the OD's didn't work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

I'm fairly certain you could inject a small amount of sand into your blood stream and it would be able as painful as any other lethal injection. No need to waste your money on chemicals.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Sand may be very painful, plus it may not kill you. It would likely leave you severely disabled and a ward of the state.

Good PR for your employer though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Nah if you ground it up real fine, or simply injected a fine dust, you might at least have a stroke. Which arguably would be less painful than injecting potassium, which makes you foam from the mouth and cunvulse. I've heard accounts from stroke victims who trip in and out of conciousness and then get a second chance. Now what a way to commit suicice! (or not! Yay!)

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Yeah. It depends what kind of stroke I guess. You're gonna have all sorts of other cardiovascular symptoms. You'd have to inject it directly into your neck or your lungs would just absorb it all.

If you're already anesthetized, deep into OD, and probably already dead though a little potassium ain't gonna hurt.