TheOneWithTheHairA good deal of IT work, too
shiroininjaI literally made money on a contract this year doing something I’d never even done. Thank you google. Love it
You never did it, but still made money for claiming that you had?
Assume they meant “previously”
If they meant it, they’d have written it.
Must be a government contract
I did do this for web dev for a government contract. I got brought on for mobile optimizations but ended up doing full UI/UX design and marketing copy with no experience. All through their shitty in house WYSIWYG. $60/hr for a full year lol.
Nah, business.
I’d : contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.
"I did something I had never done (before / in the past).
“Before” is not implied.
0xDLooks like everyone but you understood it correctly - maybe you should brush up on your language comprehension skills?
Maybe y’all could try having a sense of humor about things.
Wrongly calling someone out while being too fragile to accept correction isn’t a “sense of humor”.
I’m not the one too fragile to accept correction.
You never did it, but still made money for claiming that you had?
I’d: contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.
"I did something I had never done (before / in the past).
“Before” is not implied.
Uh, it’s right there. So yeah, you clearly are. Right here in this very thread.
Okay, nooow I’m blocking the troll…
I don’t know what you think you proved. I’ve never met anyone as obtuse as you before.
You are too down voted to call others obtuse, goose.
Oh no, a bandwagon. I feel so excluded.
Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)
It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
Well the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense
No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.
i.e. at all before that time
No, they never said “before.”
For someone who only posts insulting others and correcting (incorrectly a bunch too….) their grammar, you sure lack any amount of reading comprehension.
Striker@[email protected] I see a lot of toxic behaviour from you here and I will be keeping a closer eye on you in the future.
As you @[email protected] try not to bring disputes started in other comment chains into this one.
I’ve tried just reporting them before. Doesn’t seem to do anything, so sorry for having to point it out. See this person all over Lemmy in lots of communities.
In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
No English speaker would say it life that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”
No English speaker would say it like you said.
aardIn IT contracting (at least the fields I’m around) it’s quite common that “being able to acquire new skills quickly” is one of the skills you get paid for, and the time needed for you to do that is accounted for in the project planning.
As someone who worked in tech support and a sys admin role, yes, and thank you. I would say 90% of all issues and problems I had were either solved or pointed in the right direction since 2006, the year I started.
I’ll do you one better. I’ve learned that in the absence of online information for a bug or fault, that I’m most likely attempting something that is better solved another way. Like, nobody does it like the harebrained thing I just invented, so it’s just me and everyone else with a (different) working solution.
I’m old enough that when I was in school, teachers were telling us that we’d never have calculators in our pockets wherever we’d go.
Thats a stupid statement in any year after the “pocket calculator” was available in the 70s
Not really. The first ones were quite expensive, and it was uncommon to have one on your person at all times like we now do with smartphones.
Yes really, if your job requires lots of calculations you’d be stupid not to have one, even back when they were expensive.
Every machinist I know, even the crusty old ones, carry a calculator in their pocket. It’s indispensable. Why wouldn’t you carry one if you need it all the time?
Pretty sure the teacher wasn’t assuming that every single child in class was going to be a machinist.
In fact, most people aren’t machinists.
And yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you’d be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don’t, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.
OK? That’s not the point.
Uh what, that’s literally the point lol. The “you won’t have a calculator” has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.
Bro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years
No actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao
If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn’t you go out and buy one?
Of course. But, again, that’s not everyone. Not everyone went out and bought pocket calculators and carried them around everywhere.
It’s even more stupid when it’s the same class that required the purchase of a TI-85 to complete the course.
how big are your pockets cmon
There was a period of time when I wore only carpenter jeans so I could fit my TI-83 in my pocket and I’m still not ashamed
I’m that old, too. Can you imagine a student back then saying, “I’ll have a calculator, flashlight, camera, video recorder, music collection, and games to pass the times I have to wait on others.”
“Oh yeah and it’s also a phone”
“Oh yeah and it’s also a computer that’s more powerful than any computer you’ve ever laid eyes on that has access to an unimaginable wealth of human knowledge via a wireless connection to the Internet.”
What the fuck is an Internet?
Tubes bruh
Altima NEOThe under is a communications tool, used the world over, where people come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another!
You forgot about cat photos
kratoz29I listened recently to somebody on a podcast saying that only psychos or close family would dial you in this day and age… And I kinda agree.
Or medical providers, professional contacts, service providers …
And also near immediate access to an unimaginable wealth of human knowledge.
I’m only 27 and I was lucky enough to hear that one, no Wikipedia and no Google.