Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 14

My general impression, after years in the IT industry, is that customers are a pain in the rear end, and you must interact with them as little as possible.

This, I suspect, is the reason that no one at customer service can offer any service. Customer service is there to shield everyone in the company from having to actually interact with the customers.

In fact, to make absolutely sure that it can't happen, customer service is usually in a completely different country.

@elomatreb A large portion of the vocabulary of the modern Scandinavian languages are loanwords Low German. This comes in addition to all the loanwords from (High) German, French, Latin and English.

It was a mistake to sign a contract with them. They are irritating to be around and I want out of the contract, but that's difficult, since they already paid me.

The founders are both about 25. The sales guy is the CEO and he is street smart but not book smart. His cofounder has a marketing degree, but is in reality a bit of a stooge to the CEO, and isn't what you'd call terribly bright. He says he used to smoke a lot of pot as a teenager. It shows.

One of the reasons I no longer want to work with this particular startup: The founders keep calling our codebase "the codes", no matter how many times I tell them that it's not *that* kind of code. It suggests a fundamental lack of care for a very important company asset.

They have sales and marketing backgrounds and it's painfully obvious. I think tech startups need founders with at least a little bit of tech knowledge.

@Algot Well, it depends on how you define study. I don't really dig very deeply, but on days where I just want to escape for a bit, I like to time travel.

@hil I mean, it's obvious why, with the Germanic language heritage and all. I think I'm basically drawn to these kinds of texts because later iterations of English have less of the Germanic influence and take on more of a Norman French character, and it's kind of interesting to see an England that speaks a language that more resembles my own.

@hil It doesn't have the "square edges" of German, but the word order and the grammar in the sentence I quoted is probably more typical for German than Dutch. I don't really speak German properly, and only know fragments of it, but it's probably one of the easier languages for a Norwegian to grasp because of the shared vocabulary. Many of the words in this text look like warped versions of Norwegian, Swedish or Danish words to me, and that's the case for German too, but in a different way.

@Algot I'm by no means an expert, but I find myself drawn to what happened in Northern Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages.

@Algot I think I've read the Wikipedia articles on Saxony, Anglia and the Anglo-Saxons some 5-10 times, together with other articles on the Jutes, the Danes, the Normas, the Kelts, etc.

Many of the affixes and much of the Grammar in this Anglo-Saxon text reminds me of German:

Þis wearð þa Harolde cynge gecydd

My knowledge of German isn't extensive, but to me, the sentence above looks a bit like:

Das worte dann Harolde könig gesagt

In English:

This was then told to King Harold https://octodon.social/media/_tCAB0rdzN5Fh48CvIc

Many of the affixes and much of the Grammar in this Anglo-Saxon text reminds me of German:

Þis wearð þa Harolde cynge gecydd

My knowledge of German isn't extensive, but to me, the sentence above looks a bit like:

Das worte Harolde könig gesagt

In English:

This was then told to King Harold https://octodon.social/media/YQAT2NTqCZvfxeMq-sU

Ah... It's one of those days. All the thoughts and memories that are floating around my head today are either negative or humiliating.

Everyone and their uncle wants a website and a smartphone app, and it's almost always a website that no one will visit, or an app that no one will use. I'm not convinced that this is how I want to spend the rest of my career. If I never had to make another website or app again, I'd be much happier.

I'm having some kind of weird issue with UPnP/SSDP on my network ever since I put my Philips Hue bridge on a switch in my living room. Some kind of multicast traffic is being eaten by something.

"What is the meaning of life?"

"What is the meaning of fires?" is an equally good question.

Life and fires both happen because they can, and persist because they are self-perpetuating, so long as fuel and oxygen (or carbon dioxode) is available.

@chr Meh.. Celsius calcium, potato potato.