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Best Buy is dumb

From: privacymanager@bestbuy.com

> Bob said:
> Someone signed my email address up for reward zone program and it wasn't
> me. Please remove it, thanks.

Bob,

I am Chazy with Best Buy Customer Care.

Thank your for contacting Best Buy about your Reward Zone account. I
will be more than glad to assist you.

I am pleased to inform you that in order to provide the best service
possible, we will need more information from you. Please reply to this
email with your full name, mailing address and phone number so we can
find your Reward Zone account.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns. We
look forward to your next visit to one of our stores or to
www.BestBuy.com.

Thank you,
Chazy
Best Buy Customer Care Team


Yeah… I’ll get right on that, guy. I’m pleased to inform you that you are a moron.

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T-minus 1 month

We’re down to 31 days until the wedding, and pretty much everything is done, modulo the odd vendor meeting, dance lesson, and so forth. We have also sent sharp sticks by way of courier to the invitees who haven’t sent their cards in yet. *Poke!*

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I’m a slacker

I was thumbing through Joel Spolsky’s new book on hiring talented programmers at the bookstore the other day. He asserts in the first chapters that great programmers are ten times more productive than bad ones. Could that be true? I played around with git today to generate statistics to see how it looks on our refactoring project this year:

user    commits   files changed  LOC added  LOC deleted         
dev0:       453            4258     +81538      -100344
dev1:       152            2297     +54462       -45343
dev2:       104             550     +24779       -17475
dev3:        82             250      +6465        -7852
dev4:        73             209      +3920        -2782
dev5:        56             208      +5158       -10049
dev6:        24             116      +3297        -7823

Wow. Of course KLOC isn’t everything, but take it on faith that dev4 causes more problems than he solves (dev5,6 were only on the project a short time), and that dev0 is the most awesome programmer that writes on this blog. And I thought surfing the web 7 hours a day was too much…

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Wake up!

Dear Windows,

If you feel the need to download printer drivers at 3 AM, please don’t announce it by playing cutesy chimes. People are trying to sleep ya know? That goes double if the chime is just to announce a prompt to ask you if you want to search for updated printer drivers.

In other news, I’ve been using git at work a lot lately. There’s a steep learning curve and it took three tries to convince me that git is better than (version control of the day), but once I grokked it, I was hooked. So many hours have been lost waiting for subversion to show commit logs or perform commits. Also, I’m going back and forth to my laptop without being able to connect the latter to the network, so git-bundle and git-svn are much better than my previous solution of extensive use of patch(1). Branching and merging is so easy that I invent excuses to do them.