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That extra $0.64 could lose you the job, because you'd appear to be insane and obsessed with tiny unimportant details


My old boss loved to calculate our salaries (increases always in percentages) so the actual dollar amount would contain our birthday or be $123456 or whatever.


We're currently on Kubernetes version 1.23.4 and I'm trying very hard to convince people we can't upgrade until it hits 2.34.5.


Looks like you were too late to convince Kubernetes to deviate from semantic versioning and instead move to Knuth versioning with the version getting asymptotically closer and closer to 100/9^2.


Oh so they were actually insane, got it :)


His reasoning was 5% is just as arbitrary as 5.02% or whatever he would do. Also it really pissed off finance, which you rarely get to do with impunity. I miss him. My new boss is more concerned with my haircut and beard than anything else.


Then shake a leg and get a 6% promotion


yeah, birthday date is a clever trick to add in a number


Sadly I wasn’t born on 99/99/99.


It's not too late for that!




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