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[–] 110 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

Yeah but "half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn't been updated since 2005" isn't really a valuable secret, is it?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.

    I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.

    There used to be more just a few years ago, but I've managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Isn't VB.Net just .Net with weird syntax for the loops and its?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago* (1 child)

    Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2

    It's the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.

    There's also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB

    This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.

    Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.

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  • [–] 54 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Hey NK, if you send me a hottie Korean gf I’ll give you all off my company crentials.

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  • [–] 38 points 11 hours ago (19 children)
  • [–] 42 points 11 hours ago* (14 children)

    Wikipedia says it’s a word for people of mixed white and Asian descent.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 hours ago

    Note that the term is most common for people of East Asian backgrounds! And, at least from my experience in HK, the term is also used for Asian people (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in Western culture.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

    There is also blasian, same idea...

    I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Wasians themselves often use this term as well. It's just a shorthand.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Not that i would equate the two, but we should all be aware of how meaningless "they use it themselves" is from the n-word. Every time i hear a white guy say "blasian" anywhere on social media its when they talk about how hot a woman is and how its "the best mix". I know its also used completely innocently, but thats just what my experience with hearing it is.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    I think youre just looking at too much porn online. Go to a city like Vancouver where like 30% of the population is wasain and you’ll see people use the term descriptively all the time and it’s not a slur.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago*

    Westernised Asian, mostly used to describe mixed people (East Asian and European), but I have also heard it being used to describe Asians (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in a western culture (at least it's common in Hong Kong).

    It's sometimes used for people who are proud of their heritage / background, but it is unfortunately also often used in a negative sense by bad people.

    I am not too big of a fan of the term, it's a bit silly and too generalised. Somebody who is part Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. will all have different cultures, experiences, and traditions! It also doesn't help that it's another term that generalises "Asians" as specifically meaning just East Asian people. However, some people are perfectly fine with the term, and that's ok too!

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  • [–] 23 points 8 hours ago

    Imagine how much cybercrime NK could commit if they just started a mail order bride program.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 hours ago

    (Psst... I know where facilities keeps the key to the thermostat...)

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  • [–] 11 points 9 hours ago

    you might have to sign some boobs

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  • [–] 8 points 4 hours ago

    The best I can do is social media with an AI thumbnail

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm thinking we need a federated wiki leaks. Post your "secrets" and they propagate all over the world in a few minutes.

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