The Official Status Thread
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Except that the hotel booking just crapped out half way through.
I've been chasing this up further, and it turns out that the problem appears to be connected to the fact that I'm trying to reserve a room in a hotel in the US despite using their website from the UK. Fuckwitted numbskulls. Also, they don't respond to their email address and the only time I can call the hotel is when they've not got staff available to answer usefully. Their booking line is US-only toll-free, and I can't figure out the horrible telephone menu system they've got on their UK-equivalent. It's a literal shit-show of epic proportions.
Fortunately, I've been in contact with the conference organiser and he's going to help me sort things out. Good guy.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this where went after @arantor's company got rid of him?
Ugh sorry, I'm not caught up on any of the mega threads. Need to take the time to go through them...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I live in a world where I now like Excel more than I do Word...
That's because Excel is a cool app where you can do all sorts of neat things and Word is the devil incarnate that needs to be burned on the stake.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
So: If I added accounts to my game, who here would be willing to:
- Sign in with your Google account
- Sign in with your Facebook account
Either of these would be tying my real name to the forum, since we'd want to know who we were playing against as a persona rather than just IRL identity.
I assume you'd do password storage properly since otherwise someone here would manage to find out and mock you mercilessly.
- You would use your social credentials to authenticate to the app. Your authentication method would not me made public. You would choose a username and avatar just for the game, and that's all that would be publicly visible.
- I was thinking bcrypt.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa nope, didnt believe in unit tests. Or documentation, because the code was the documentation.
Literate programming?
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Status: I toiled long and hard to improve the codebase and lo, I was recognised and rewarded and called to better things, to a place where all is shiny and new and automated. Or it will be automated as soon as we finish writing the CD pipeline, because at the moment it's so new that it mostly doesn't exist. But I see enough of the old project to keep me thankful for what I now have.
And I have a cool new computer with all the dev tools I want and a proper browser.
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@CarrieVS nice to see you back. Noticed you comment on the front page the other day and realised you hadn't been around for a while
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@Jaloopa Thanks. I used to mostly visit from work, and I ended up with IE9 ("you don't surf the web, you suffer it") as my only browsing option. So when this forum stopped even semi working in that browser I stopped coming here.
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Status: Went home yesterday thinking, "Wait, was I concatenating strings in an exponential problem?"
Came in today, saw that it'd run out of memory.
Changed the
.Aggregate(string.Empty, (total, next) => $"{total}{next}blahblahblah\r\n")
to.Aggregate(new StringBuilder(), (total, next) => total.AppendLine($"{next}blahblahblah"))
.It finished immediately.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Went home yesterday thinking, "Wait, was I concatenating strings in an exponential problem?"
Came in today, saw that it'd run out of memory.
Changed the
.Aggregate(string.Empty, (total, next) => $"{total}{next}blahblahblah\r\n")
to.Aggregate(new StringBuilder(), (total, next) => total.AppendLine($"{next}blahblahblah"))
.It finished immediately.
How does that compare to using String.Join?
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@aliceif I don't know, that may have worked too, but a stringbuilder seems like the appropriate thing to use, given the growth rate from a given input.
I'd like to think it'd be the same.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Currently arguing with the developer of a game who introduced an alarm feature with an annoying ticking sound. Said alarm has no immediate and obvious "Dismiss" or "Snooze" button/key. Hell, even the ECG monitors in hospitals have something like that.
Turns out, you have to go to the source of the alarm and turn off alarm reporting completely.
Developer insists that this piece of information was easily available, obvious and that I'm doing it wrong.
Some guys work really hard on convincing me not to give them money anymore in the future.
Update: Guy uses Steam forums as his "bug tracker" and then lashes out at people if they dare to report a duplicate bug or one that has already been fixed (but the game has not been updated yet).
Not to mention that his patch notes contain insider jargon.
Classy.
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Status: So now that I know my results are pretty much always going to be too long for our proprietary compiler to deal with, I have to solve a new problem: properly loading in the data for the tests.
The language the test has to be in isn't fit for that kind of thing, but it can call C#, so I'm going to do a loop where I set up the environment for each test with a C# call.
please work
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Currently arguing with the developer of a game who introduced an alarm feature with an annoying ticking sound. Said alarm has no immediate and obvious "Dismiss" or "Snooze" button/key. Hell, even the ECG monitors in hospitals have something like that.
Turns out, you have to go to the source of the alarm and turn off alarm reporting completely.
Developer insists that this piece of information was easily available, obvious and that I'm doing it wrong.
Some guys work really hard on convincing me not to give them money anymore in the future.
Update: Guy uses Steam forums as his "bug tracker" and then lashes out at people if they dare to report a duplicate bug or one that has already been fixed (but the game has not been updated yet).
Not to mention that his patch notes contain insider jargon.
Classy.
Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself a proper
Discoursebugtracker
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@Rhywden name and shame!
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@Rhywden Wow.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Yes, Windows, I know it's installed. That's why I'm running the updated installer to update it...
Doing versions right. It's hard.
edit: More seriously, unless the installer specifically allows same version installs (or downgrades), if the (installer) version number is the same in the 1st 3 parts (part 4 is ignored), you're installing the "same" thing. This is not the default behavior as really weird things can happen because of component versioning rules.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Yes, Windows, I know it's installed. That's why I'm running the updated installer to update it...
Doing versions right. It's hard.
edit: More seriously, unless the installer specifically allows same version installs (or downgrades), if the (installer) version number is the same in the 1st 3 parts (part 4 is ignored), you're installing the "same" thing. This is not the default behavior as really weird things can happen because of component versioning rules.
Yeah, it's an MSI produced by CMAKE. Probably a config option wasn't set or something.
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@Tsaukpaetra Do you know about Orca and InstEdit? (The latter is like Orca on steroids). Great for poking around inside an MSI...
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Status: I was going over my budget for the next month, adding up the various payments I'll need to make and subtracting my current bank balance and the paychecks I'll be getting, to make sure I'll have the funds to cover all of my payments. I think I should probably stop getting 4 hours of sleep, because I started freaking out when the result was a negative number.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Do you know about Orca and InstEdit? (The latter is like Orca on steroids). Great for poking around inside an MSI...
I know of it, not invested enough to screw with the package every time a new release comes out.
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Status: Oops, let my phone drop to 1% so Android was like, "Peace, I'm out!"
Then it failed to boot.
And then after rebooting it decided it needed to rebuild the cache. Or something.Battery pic for posterity.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oops, let my phone drop to 1% so Android was like, "Peace, I'm out!"
Then it failed to boot.
And then after rebooting it decided it needed to rebuild the cache. Or something.Battery pic for posterity.
Forgot to charge overnight?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oops, let my phone drop to 1% so Android was like, "Peace, I'm out!"
Then it failed to boot.Once I left my tablet without charging for a really long while. Finally plugged it in - it took some 20 seconds to realize it's on the charger, then proceeded to the bootloader sequence, complete with two pretty solid speakers' worth of sound.
That strained the battery just enough for the tablet to shut off. When it did, of course, it figured it's on the charger, so it wanted to show the charging status screen - first going through the bootloader...
Took it a few hours to finally break out of the reboot loop.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oops, let my phone drop to 1% so Android was like, "Peace, I'm out!"
Then it failed to boot.
And then after rebooting it decided it needed to rebuild the cache. Or something.Battery pic for posterity.
Forgot to charge overnight?
No, I usually don't, because I'm typically in a position to immediately plug in after startup. In this case, issues occurred which delayed my normal operating behaviors and procedures.
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oops, let my phone drop to 1% so Android was like, "Peace, I'm out!"
Then it failed to boot.Once I left my tablet without charging for a really long while. Finally plugged it in - it took some 20 seconds to realize it's on the charger, then proceeded to the bootloader sequence, complete with two pretty solid speakers' worth of sound.
That strained the battery just enough for the tablet to shut off. When it did, of course, it figured it's on the charger, so it wanted to show the charging status screen - first going through the bootloader...
Took it a few hours to finally break out of the reboot loop.
Yeah, tablet design is lacking... I typically mandated that they should not drop below 30% in my house because of crap like this.
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Status: My playlist reached
https://youtu.be/d9N1qrv2dI8?t=618
now. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I'm the only one here who likes this band, but...
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STATUS
"Buying" all the free books on leanpub, like some book hoarding asshole.
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Status: my iPod's battery died literally overnight. It's been working perfectly for the last few months, no diminished capacity, nothing - and suddenly bam, damned thing charges up to 35% in 2 minutes and just... stays there. And yeah, it loses the charge in 2 minutes as well.
Replaced the disk with an SD card, replaced the cracked screen twice, now it's up for a battery replacement... Dammit, I'm trying to like this thing.
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@cartman82
I like how they added quotation marks to that PHP book for you.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: my iPod's battery died literally overnight
Those things still exist?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Those things still exist?
Joys of the second-hand market.
Sad think is, the Classic iPod line are probably still one of the best MP3 players in existence. And with Rockbox, you don't even have to fuck around with iTunes.
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Status: too lazy to crawl on the floor with a thumb drive to transfer this file from the computer on top of my desk to the one underneath it.
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Status: WTF it's just a fracking video, is it too hard to provide this as a standard video format?!?!
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@Tsaukpaetra FSCK YOU!
How the frick can I have a work phone yet, idiots?!!!?
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@Tsaukpaetra just put any phone number that you're reachable during the daytime (so, probably the same as Cell Phone).
And if it complains that Work Phone and Cell Phone can't be the same number, then you start throwing things.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF it's just a fracking video, is it too hard to provide this as a standard video format?!?!
Look, "Edge" is a brand new browser. It's fresh on the market. It's extremely unreasonable to expect that every single company will instantly adapt to it. That takes a lot of design and development resources. And a tiny mom-and-pop operation like Cisco doesn't exactly have international offices of developers just sitting around working on core products or anything. Okay?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How the frick can I have a work phone yet, idiots?!!!?
Because 99.34534% of people applying still have a job. (My work phone is my cell phone. If I wanted a separate work phone, then I need 2 cells. Fuck both options. Oh well, at least work pays my phone bill now...)
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF it's just a fracking video, is it too hard to provide this as a standard video format?!?!
Look, "Edge" is a brand new browser. It's fresh on the market. It's extremely unreasonable to expect that every single company will instantly adapt to it. That takes a lot of design and development resources. And a tiny mom-and-pop operation like Cisco doesn't exactly have international offices of developers just sitting around working on core products or anything. Okay?
Yeah - Vanguard sucks worse. They try (well, they don't warn you like Cisco did). Once you're past the login screen, it looks like someone puked diarrhea. (a colorful layout in all the wrong places)
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Status: Dammit, I should know better than to use the drive through at this Taco Bell. Though they are absolutely CRUSHING it today. I'm going to blow through 15 minutes TTL, and 20 minutes is very much in play.
How does it take 5+ minutes per car to slap lettuce, cheese, and maybe-meat on a tortilla?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF it's just a fracking video, is it too hard to provide this as a standard video format?!?!
Look, "Edge" is a brand new browser. It's fresh on the market. It's extremely unreasonable to expect that every single company will instantly adapt to it. That takes a lot of design and development resources. And a tiny mom-and-pop operation like Cisco doesn't exactly have international offices of developers just sitting around working on core products or anything. Okay?
Hence "Standard Video Format". I don't care about the company making their Windows-XP-Era UI plugin work on all browsers (we've moved past that, I hope).
All I want is my damn video to play without needing extra shit installed on my computer. I thought we moved past that via widely-adopted standards. But snowflake Cisco wants to have fake "Participants" and "Table of contents" features on a video, something impossible to do with normalized technology these days without an extra executable that had to launch using a Vista-shim!
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Status: Somebody give a cigarette, because it's been fucked all day.
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I used to read WTF while doing a build. Now I have to do a build while reading WTF. Serious cooties...
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Status: Just saw a youtube ad for that ghostbusters movie no one liked. An extended edition with over 3 hours of additional content...
I don't get why they'd even bother advertising it after last time...
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Status: Huh. I forgot I even had a tumblr.
Too bad that user's blog is just boring pics of women in underwear. *sigh...*