✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@octodon.social
I'm Ben. This is a dormant account.
@DialMforMara That's sort of amazing. What will/would you be doing for them? Is language related directly to their core product, or...?
@DialMforMara "Freelance linguist" as the first two words in your bio contributed in no small part to my following you. I've a BA in linguistics, but only use it really for listening to intensely interesting podcasts and yelling at other programmers and product folks about why we're doing everything wrong in order to have goo localization of our shit.
New blog post: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Language" http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language/
More than happy to talk about this on here with folks, too, if they want.
@sydneyfalk @Pookleblinky both: 💩 🎲
linguistic prescriptivists should collectively sit in a box labeled "shame" for the rest of time
@catgoat Yeah. At this point I'd settle for "no one cares about this as much as the effort and time you've put in so far, so let's just forget about it." But IDK how likely that is...
@catgoat Funny you should ask! I literally just posted, "I have been at the "Do I even know how computers are intended to work" stage of debugging for about 4 business days, so far." 😭
I have been at the "Do I even know how computers are intended to work" stage of debugging for about 4 business days, so far.
A warning to folks following the new MST3K series, that episode 8, "The Loves of Hercules" contains transphobic jokes in the second half.
@NinahMarie 🍍 Amaroq, octodon.social
nightmare. gun violence. kids. Show more
@shivian Oh yeah. I just need to get off/stop thinking about Mastodon and learn Scala so I can get back to writing Ruby for work. The price is the context switch. 😝
Now stop being so nice and interesting!
@kelsey Haha. I guess: it's easy to adjust the length slider, so even if the gain is minimal, effort is also minimal. The threats you're worried about are the same ones I feel are mostly likely to get me.
@benhamill I wonder what your Maintenance page would look like? I'm thinking a Jackson Pollack of sugar, tea, cream and profanity.
@evilchili I have had some similar dreams in the past, but thankfully not regularly and this was 💔by far💔 the worst one.
@shivian Yeah. Maybe this evening I will have time.
The new emoji picker search box is awesome, but:
• I want the mouse to auto-focus in it when I click.
• I want it to collect some most-used emoji at the top (local storage is fine).
• I want it to pop-up in context when I type something like :tong and suggest 😝, 😛, 😜, and 👅 or whatever.
@evilchili I have... see my nightmare thread from before. I don't think it helped. 😝
This morning not going awesome on all the little things:
• Opened the packet of the tea bag before I put anything else in the cup.
• Dropped the sugar pack right on in the cup.
• Poured about 2x as much cream as I like.
• Regular vocabulary lookup failures.
Maybe I should take me down for maintenance. 😝
