From The Big Bang Theory:
Stephanie: So, how was your day?
Leonard: You know… I’m a physicist, so I thought about stuff.Stephanie: That’s it?
Leonard: I wrote some of it down…
I’ve gotten paid repeatedly before for walking around the block, since I declared (honestly) that I was thinking about a problem as I did so.
Modern society is awesome.
Modern society is awesome. Back in 1909, if you wrote:
$application_id = 4; // always 5 for this app
You would have been canned on the spot.
But today, that line of code, that quantum of thought, is worth $17.35 in wages and benefits.
Modern society is awesome.