@blek You... aren't talking to Fox, you know.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: 1 object. Just over 100 datapoints, no more complex than strings.
Upload, ask for it back: 6 seconds.
Sometimes, 1 in a large number is lost. Testing requires many hours.
6 seconds.
6 seconds.
Would be milliseconds on a local machine. Would be under a second with a SQL database behind a web app.
But we're distributed. Fast.
6 seconds.
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RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
I hereby give my full permission to use that quote in advertising material.
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RE: Disaster recovery drill
Do I also need to define SAN?
Of course not! SAN is the measure of your current sanity in the game of Call of Cthulu you're playing!
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RE: Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?
@pjh Moral of the story: Don't do banking software.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: "Oh, the government has the best for you at heart, oh yes, oh yes!"
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RE: Hollywood Hacker hacks wikipedia
not as bad as someone calling PascalCase camelCase.
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RE: Actual... testing!? WITH USERS?!?!?!?
@masonwheeler said in Actual... testing!? WITH USERS?!?!?!?:
Take an honest look at yourself; every one of you knows that there are certain skills you'll never be good at because your brain is just not wired for them. (For me, it's art and music. I'm quite capable of appreciating both, but absolutely hopeless at producing them.) For people who don't have the talent for coding, is it really a bad thing to have them think programming's not for them?
Except, in my case, that's literally everything. I have no overwhelmingly strong skills, but am not completely awful at anything either. The only thing I have going for me is a good long term memory and a decent amount of problem solving. And I absolutely reject the premise that basic programming is beyond most people. It's beyond some, even some who want to do it, but there's no way I'm going to accept that most people can't do it.
What I want is for people to have access to tools that will help them learn. If someone would not have the opportunity to enter this field because all of the tutorials and such are stupid and hard for no reason, I call that a tragedy. If someone finds they cannot do the work, fine. But I want as many barriers out of their way as possible. Because barriers to entry are stupid.
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RE: Goodbye
@yamikuronue You have to think about that 'W' and why you want to attach it to yourself. If you literally label yourself as something that attacks people (and there is no other reason to have a 'warrior' in existence!), you have to expect that people aren't going to take it well. That's all I'll say on this suject.
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RE: US economy doing great, on account of everybody else being kind of fucked
The beast of chaos has returned, and all whose sanity remains must retreat from the insane clanging of its horrifically intangible voice, which rings out like a thousand wails of terror across the dead stars, corrupting all that hear it. And the name of the beast was Fox.
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RE: In other news today...
@rhywden THAT'S NOT HOW I REMEMBER IT. MOST HUMANS END UP THIS WAY. NOW IF I CAN ONLY CATCH UP WITH THAT RINCEWIND...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gribnit This isn't even a problem I should be having, except Unix for brains hate binaries, so they make you download libsass as a C++ project and compile it instead of just giving you the compiled code, which would make it so you don't have to have a specific visual studio C++ development tool installed (WHICH IS NOW OLD!).
Also, notice that it's a
.vcxproj
file? That's a Visual Studio format. That they want you to compile with a WINDOWS application, and they can't deal with SPACES!!! -
RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: On sunday, I was playing video games with friends online, when I started to get lightheaded and my vision got weird: There was a highly light-sensitive streak in the top of my vision, reaching just to above and to the left of my center of vision, that kept changing colors, and wouldn't let me see detail in anything behind it.
Alarmed, I laid down for a while in the dark, and soon it was gone and I felt fine, if a bit shaken. I went back to my PC, and played for a couple minutes more, when suddenly my headset's battery died at the exact same moment my arm started to go numb. It was fine again within about two minutes, but at this point I was scared.
(All of this, I might add, with only the mildest headache!)
So I called my parents, and they drove to my house and took me to the hospital (the nearby urgent care place was closed). It went very quickly, probably 45 minutes from entering the door until leaving - and they told me everything was fine, it was probably just a number of things all at once causing the symptoms. After all, my coordination and speech and vision were all fine.
I of course was overjoyed, and am in a kind of giddy mood even the day after I basically spent a day resting.
Today I sometimes think I feel pressure in the back of my head, but I'm fairly certain I'm imagining it, since it goes away when I rest my head against things, and feels more like a tight muscle or a blocked ear than actual pressure.
I hope I stop being paranoid soon.
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RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@bugmenot said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
If the only interface to your program is its CLI, then your program's human and machine interface are one and the same and you're an idiot.
FTFY
You should at minimum have an actual API, and not be like stupid git.
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RE: My favorite color is Hitler
@gurth said in My favorite color is Hitler:
glittery gold is easier to see against the black
Are you sure the bag isn't blue and white?
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
@AyGeePlus said in Programming Confessions Thread:
This is a crazy thing to say. Someone has control over what engine to use. Nobody is hit by falling game engines.
I was assuming it was mandated by a C-level:
"Hey guys I just herd this nw tech called Unity people lik it. Rebuild the game to work in that asap. Btw we're gonna use git now. Think agile!
Sent from my iPhone"
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RE: Reason #24,329 why modern software ecosystems suck
@Gąska there are plenty of reasons. One day all browsers may announce that they're dropping the version of tls your packages use. Three months later, something else will come up. The burden of security isn't getting easier to deal with.
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler Subvocalization as a command system has been seen in scifi for a while now. I do like the idea. MIT's looks dumb though. It'd go well with Google Glass.
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RE: WTF Bites
Looking through some ancient code the Highly Paid Consultants wrote, trying to figure out where it made Coverity angry, I stumbled upon the following glorious gem in the middle of a 50-line method.
var queryForUser = GetQueryForGetCompleteCase(userCaseResultId, userId); var includes = new List<string> { "User", "Answers" }; includes.ForEach(i => queryForUser = queryForUser.Include(i));
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I was driving home from down town yesterday, when suddenly the exit dropped me in the leftmost lane, and I needed to be two to the right eventually. The guy to my right would not let me merge right to let him past, he had to get in front of me, no matter what, so I eventually had to slow down and make all the angry, left-lane people even angrier so he could get past.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@tsaukpaetra New Game; the first episode of the second season came out today.
Also, it features @RaceProUK !
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RE: Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?
@polygeekery said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
No, not at all. That increases productivity of everyone. Is there anyone who thinks this or did you make a strawman just for me?
I mean, I have had vim users talk to me about how all anyone needs is a text editor.
@groaner said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
The general public has dollar signs in their eyes when they see developer salaries, completely ignorant of what it takes to earn those salaries. I don't know how to fix that problem.
And yet, I still think you're overvaluing certain points about software development, which hurts it in another way. I have known amazing programmers who you'd never guess were programmers at all, and people who would be amazing at it but have no interest whatsoever. I don't think we have any real data saying what portion of people can really do the work yet.
@mott555 said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
Here's an exercise for someone more motivated than me: Estimate what percentage of the total population is developers, then multiply that by the percentage of good programmers. The result ought to be amusingly tiny.
I'm fairly certain that the number of people who could be good developers is about the same as people who want to be developers. I don't think they're the same group of people, though.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
We could tell Fox we've migrated and the flame category is the new forum. This idea just gets better!
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RE: Impromptu testing a junior's mettle part 4
Meanwhile some of us are writing code humans can read!
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Gąska said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Wait, Lojban contains a backdoor to insert English literals into Lojban words? Doesn't it defeat the whole purpose of Lojban - to communicate unambiguously?
@Gąska said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
to communicate unambiguously?
@Gąska said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
communicate
...in... lojban? Good joke.
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RE: In other news today...
@rhywden Congratulations, I think you just came to understand how Trump got elected.
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Don't you know? You aren't allowed to make observations. Observations are subjective and therefore discriminatory.
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RE: Popular Gmail-address
Wow, sounds like you are highly sought after!
By people in India and every state I don't live in, yes.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: I noticed that our backlog had something that sounded easy. I went and looked, and it looked like a one line fix. I was right!
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RE: I hope Belgiumites don't like playing video games
@polygeekery Yes. And people have been to court for running gambling websites and advertising them as if they've just discovered them, giving themselves lots of good luck, and watching the money pour in.
There's a reason people have been getting more and more upset about this over the years. It's actually being abused.
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RE: I hope Belgiumites don't like playing video games
@pie_flavor You do know you haven't gotten any less wrong on this, right? Just checking.
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RE: Unit Fighting
@kt_ Calm down man, he's active on stack overflow. He can't help it. He probably has javascript on him.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: I hate Java and everything to do with it and Jetbrains. Android studio is horrible and unintuitive, and is absolutely loaded with the Android notification philosophy of spam endlessly for maximum torture. I really hope they let me go back to C#. I am probably more knowledgeable on C# and visual studio than anyone else here, and they're making me defile myself with the abject horror that is Java. If that pie kid tries to tell you Java is better these days, tell him to shut up. I thought, before I got saddled with this mess, that I'd just refamiliarize myself with the monstrosity, thinking it must be better than it was when I was in college. How wrong I was...
I tried unintellij, eclipse, and just plain notepad. Not a single one of them could compile, and installing several versions of Java didn't help. I couldn't even get any code to compile using the command line switches Java tools me to try to fix its inability to do the one thing it's there for.
Android studio works, but we use TFVC, so I have to manually tell it that I do actually care about changed Java files before I can check in, which I have to do using VS anyway...
And then we have Android itself! Ha! Something doesn't work? Luckily stack overflow can tell you all the wrong, deprecated solutions you could ever want.
Java needs to stop existing.
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We need more stereotype-filling quotes
Continuing the discussion from Deploying packages to Oracle:
In an effort to avoid polluting the coding help section with unuseful comments, but unable to control myself:
“it's not like I'm proud of this unplanned abomination”
Tsundere developers.
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RE: In other news today...
@hungrier Of course it's too much to ask! It's probably powered by javascript now, so we'll never get there.
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RE: In other news today...
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
is the 'dark side' of the federation? Have they even watched Star Trek?
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RE: Raymond Chen disses StackOverflow
@Groaner Anyone who appends the word "new" to something that is meant to stay around forever and not replace the old thing immediately should be hung.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Just tried to tell a younger coworker something funny, and had to spend the next half hour explaining the joke. Oddly, someone half HIS age probably would have laughed immediately, but he had no idea what I was talking about.
All I did was mention an image my friend linked, of an open grave with some dirt piled up next to it, captioned "Logan Paul Apologizes for Controversial New Unboxing Video".
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@polygeekery No reason they wouldn't though. It's a sensible design.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
This codebase:
var query = new StringBuilder(); query.Append("SELECT * FROM"); query.Append(" ["); query.Append(tableName); ...
Also this codebase:
var list = new List<string>(); foreach (var frob in craggle) { list.Add(frob); }
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Vixen correct. I do not intend for this to change.
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RE: Python - My take
Do you prefer Python 2, Python 3, Jython, or Iron Python?
No matter your answer, someone will be along shortly to tell you why you're wrong!
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RE: Finally, a sensible code indentation standard (with bonus Atwood spotting)
@remi Which is why any indent strategy other than "Indent with tab, tab is whatever size you want" is stupid.
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RE: In other news today...
@tsaukpaetra Typically trying to resynchronize is forbidden by law and/or society anyway.
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RE: Random Rant of the night.
I don't know. I don't much trust most official western localizations, because I know what they do to things from, say, Japan.
You take something contemplative, with a plot, and you notice that there are times where people aren't talking. I assume that what happens in the studio is that some guy with a cigar says,
'This looks like someone drew it.'
'Er, yes sir, it's from Japan, it's abou-'
'Hmm, kids like things that are drawn. Why aren't they talking during this bit?'
'Well, sir, the situation is really rather gri-'
'Jokes.'
'Sir?'
'Forget what they're saying, it's too quiet, kids won't watch this. Add more jokes!'
'But sir, this isn't targeted at children, and everyone is about to di-'
'I'm paying you to make what I tell you!'
-or so I imagine.