Santa's Impossible Developer Wishlist

• A new version of PHP • A project without deadline • An Intel Xeon E5-2670 server farm • A laptop battery which lasts several days • And if possible, close the 142 pending bugs !? FREQUENT STOPPING

Santa stands on a snowy rooftop with a sack labeled “FREQUENT STOPPING” and reacts in confusion to a developer’s absurdly demanding wishlist: new PHP, no deadline, a server farm, a long-lasting laptop battery, and closing 142 bugs. The joke is that the requests are wildly unrealistic, especially the impossible bug backlog, so even Santa is baffled. This meme is used as a reaction to unreasonable software-development demands. EN: Santa stands on a snowy rooftop with a sack labeled “FREQUENT STOPPING” and reacts in confusion to a developer’s absurdly demanding wishlist: new PHP, no deadline, a server farm, a long-lasting laptop battery, and closing 142 bugs. The joke is that the requests are wildly unrealistic, especially the impossible bug backlog, so even Santa is baffled. This meme is used as a reaction to unreasonable software-development demands.

• @ithueti / 3444 2020-12-27