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Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020– ) - IMDb[^]
If you enjoy cringing at actors pretending to be devs, hollywood-style brainless scripts of "Very Intelligent Discussions" (read: buzzwords interspersed with drivel) between technical specialists, and ridiculously poor impersonations of Michael Mann's directing style, this is the show for you!
I gave up after 14 minutes -- a little while after the presentation (because all people who have real jobs do all day, every day, is prepare for and give presentations that their jobs depend on, don't they?)
I keep hoping someone will do it right, one day, but I don't see it on the horizon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They just don't understand . . . . or wish to hide from the public . . . . that we are, in reality, like spiders in a web with the powers to ruin their insignificant lives and bring corporations to their knees if we happen to be having a bad day. Or the pizza is delivered cold and late. All Seeing. All knowing.
Maybe it's best kept quite - until we decide to pounce.
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Reading the synopsis, dev is secondary to the plot, which is that a company has a secret division that could be behind someone's disappearance. It doesn't say what the company does, but it might as well be a weapons manufacturer, large bank, or oil company.
To do it properly would mean having a scriptwriter work with someone familiar with dev, and them coming up with a plot line that requires dev. For example, hacking into the COMEX trading system to expose the Fed's activities.
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Greg Utas wrote: a company has a secret division that could be behind someone's disappearance. It doesn't say what the company does, but it might as well be a weapons manufacturer, large bank, or oil company.
That sounds so sinister! Most certainly it's a company involved in organic produce distribution.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes, produce sold at organic prices when it's actually GMO! But that would be biochemistry, not dev.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: organic
Isn't that Latin for "grown in pig sh*t" ?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: Isn't that Latin for "grown in pig sh*t" ?
No 'bacon' is Latin for pig sh*t
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Quote: hacking into the COMEX trading system
A young "dev" with tattoos and a nose ring types frantically at the keyboard while old C listings flow by on the green text terminal. After a few seconds the dev stops, exclaims, "I'm in!" and high-fives anyone nearby. That's the Hollywood way of "hacking".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 Done that way because in real life it happens at a glacial pace, which Hollywood can't abide.
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Well, the first show starts with an in-depth discussion of security protocols over breakfast -- which would have had me laughing, if it hadn't given me such horrendous head pains.
It then moved on to an "I gotta get this presentation on new computerisated technology that I designed and built right, if I want to get the job!" scene, which, as we all know, is precisely how things work in the IT field, because "everything is in the pitch" isn't just the credo of hollywood, oh no.
Worst, though, is the low-mental-acuity, artless impersonation of Michael Mann's directorial style. If that kind of thing isn't done right, the result is just tedious, annoying, and embarrassing to watch.
Better to watch Mann's lowest-rated movie than this noisy drivel.
Hell, I'd rather sit through Plan 9[^] again!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Greg Utas wrote: would mean having a scriptwriter work with someone familiar with dev
Yeah - where on Earth would they find one?
FWIW I would donate my time to any movie writer who needs help understanding developers. I even have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go if they need me to present to their team...
It's like we're a completely foreign organism that no one on this planet understands. Having said that, I bet you doctors, lawyers, milkmen, firemen and teachers all say exactly the same thing when they see themselves portrayed on the black mirror.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If they "got it right", it would be boring to anyone but other devs. It would also have to be a comedy, but it would, again, only be funny to other devs.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well, so far today, we've found that a dev will tie dead people's shoelaces together, before burying them, so that they can't rise up as zombies and steal his bicycle.
Any director who can't get a laugh out of a zombie trying to steal a bike with its shoelaces tied together really needs to find another line of work.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Was Captain Ahab's real enemy the White Quail?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Moby it was. I wouldn't be harpoon on the matter.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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call me a bogan: wasn't that the book being an allegory of Elmer Fudd chasing a wascally wabbit?
...a guy with a lisp having a bad day (names changed to avoid plagiarism claims.)
perhaps the other way around? ...TV never said
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Some Typee of confusion is evident.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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lopatir wrote: a guy with a using lisp is always having a bad day
FTFY
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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This morning we learnt from relatives that stores in Australia are running out of commodities like toilet paper. So, on my weekly groceries run this morning, I bought some extra stuff just in case.
Which made me wonder: Are any of our members stocking up on non-perishables as a precaution?
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I bought a couple of extra USB thumb drives - they were made in China so might get short.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I bought a 3D-printer and downloaded some files to print an Uzi, just in case this goes to Zombie Apocalypse.
The rest is not needed to be stocked up.
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Quote: The rest is not needed to be stocked up
I hope you're right  But I plan in case you're wrong.
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But you can pretty much get the rest, if you have the Uzi.
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I believe these little guys[^] also follow the leader.
(Pssssst! A secret: This 'cliff hanger' is not a real event - even they know not to be hyped into action)
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You should use it to print what is far and away the best tool to use during a zombie apocalypse, despite hollywood not having twigged to the idea:
A bicycle.
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