Our company is on the verge of releasing a major new version, v2.0, of our core product, while still actively supporting the previous version, v1.12.
A concerned colleague asked me how we were managing the flurry of development in v1.12 and how we were deciding what to merge forward to v2.0.
In software development this is a common scenario, and it can get complicated fast without well defined QA and dev processes.
“We have it mostly under control.” I replied. “Mostly.”
I then go on to explain our actual procedure for ensuring only tested changes make it into v2.0. Colleague seems satisfied.
“So was that a reference to Alien then?”, he asks.
“Huh?”
“You know in Alien, when the girl says to Ripley ‘They mostly come at night. Mostly’. They did a take off of it on South Park as well.”
“Oh, I don’t remember that”, I say, revealing my sci-fi movie ignorance. “What was the girl’s name anyway?”, I continue.
“Gosh. I don’t know. But google will”.
My colleague types ‘they mostly’ into the search bar.
The answer is immediate.
Sweet Google.
Newt. Rebecca Jordan. EVERYONE knows that!
You were discussing that in front of a computer. You do know Google listens to everything that’s said in range of a connected PC via the sound card and microphone and uses that to tailor the search results right?
Also that was in Aliens. Not Alien. Two COMPLETELY different films.
Not sure my last comment went through