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| 10:01:01 | MoEnzyme | Jumping Jesus! Why can't media just accept the obvious explanations for a disaster. The Japan nuclear power plant disaster was caused by the biggest fucking earthquake they've ever had since the invention of the Richter scale. Somehow I thought that was obvious. |
| 10:01:02 | MoEnzyme | But now we get stuff like this ---> http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0316/Reports-Lax-oversight-greed-preceded-Japan-nuclear-crisis Oh yeah, right! Forget the earthquake. The power plant meltdown was caused by not enough government! WTF? |
| 10:01:28 | Sat | * Sat chuckles |
| 10:01:52 | Sat | Ya, and 40 year old nuke plant tech built in an earthquake rich zone |
| 10:02:08 | Sat | It's amazing how stupid humans are. |
| 10:02:20 | Sat | May we all get what we deserve. |
| 10:02:34 | CruelOctopus | * CruelOctopus cringes at the thought. |
| 10:04:50 | MoEnzyme | Well, that's true, but this earthquake was off the scales compared to what they typically plan for even in Japan. I mean sometimes Mother Earth is just gonna beat the fuck out of you. |
| 10:05:17 | MoEnzyme | So I don't they really deserve it. Bad shit just happens sometimes. You can't plan for everything. |
| 10:05:43 | Lucifer | it was a black swan |
| 10:05:56 | CruelOctopus | Nicholas Taleb, call your office. |
| 10:05:56 | MoEnzyme | exactly. What Lucifer said. |
| 10:06:08 | Lucifer | just like all the other black swans we've seen flying around the last few years |
| 10:06:20 | Sat | It was the perfect storm! |
| 10:06:36 | Sat | * Sat chuckles |
| 10:07:58 | MoEnzyme | Really the earthquake itself and the Tsunami caused a lot more damage and loss of life than than the nuclear plant meltdown will. |
| 10:08:15 | Lucifer | how is CruelOctopus dealing with all the slack between jobs? |
| 10:08:33 | Sat | Cruel you could come work at this job |
| 10:08:47 | CruelOctopus | Getting a bit restless, actually. |
| 10:10:01 | CruelOctopus | Learning about the framework we'd likely use for the new project (Ruby on Rails), but it's hard to get really focused on it without knowing if things are really going to proceed or not. |
| 10:10:14 | Sat | * Sat nods |
| 10:10:40 | CruelOctopus | So also spending time thinking about where I could look for a "normal" job, if that becomes the fallback. |
| 10:10:47 | Sat | rails looks fun. I've never had the motivation to do much with it outside of a paid gig. |
| 10:11:07 | Sat | * Sat likes Cake PHP a php rails thingy. |
| 10:11:24 | CruelOctopus | Yeah, it does look pretty impressive, for rapid website development. |
| 10:11:30 | Sat | * Sat nods |
| 10:12:08 | CruelOctopus | But after being in this business for over 20 years, I do get a bit cynical when confronted with the latest flavor-of-the-month technology. |
| 10:13:05 | Sat | * Sat nods |
| 10:13:26 | Sat | These new rails like frameworks are rather frikkin handy, I must say. |
| 10:14:33 | CruelOctopus | Yeah. Guess I'm wondering what happens if you have to step "outside the box", though. A lot of frameworks turn out to be great at one thing, at the cost of not being flexible. |
