The Official Status Thread
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
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...
I just watched the Honest Trailer for that - hilarious...
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Status: This is why I don't like job hunting! FFS!
Bonus: You can't have net loss in your employment apparently.
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@Tsaukpaetra Indeed. It's entirely possible to have "net loss" when you're doing freelance works at that time.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Score.
On Tumblr? Better not.
It's a pretty good position though.
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Status: Playing it safe and replacing the phrase "academic brown-nosing" with "academic lip-service" in my feedback on a master's thesis.
(and with the stroke of a pen went from xof@-territory to )
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
How does it take 5+ minutes per car to slap lettuce, cheese, and maybe-meat on a tortilla?
They've probably run out of pre-prepared items due to a rush earlier, so you're left seeing the actual time to prepare things from
freshfrozen. They're likely short-staffed as well; that adds to the time it takes.The key to running a fast-food place is getting most of the preparation done ahead of time.
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@dkf read it again. He was starting with expenditure and subtracting income
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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?
The fun part is that Google's demo implementation of a WebEx video call works right off the bat with Edge.
Too bad multicasting is not a part of the protocol.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Fortunately, I've been in contact with the conference organiser and he's going to help me sort things out. Good guy.
And the hotel staff finally emailed me back, and it's all sorted now. (I'm guessing that someone was on holiday and they've never thought of having a shared email address like
frontdesk@HOTEL
orreservations@HOTEL
. Sigh.) The actual hotel's people seem nice. The corporate side of things⦠well, they're just idiotic, but I don't see any reason for being mean to the employees over the problems of the owners.
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@Jaloopa DERP! I guess I also should have got more than 3 hours sleep last night⦠:p
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@dkf
Given that they're always slow (though usually only about half that slow), I think they're just poorly managed / staffed. But yikes. It was so bad that I seriously contemplated finding the spot on the corporate website to complain. But, you know, work...
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Status: Just finished setting up an IPAD from factory reset for a new user in the company.
Everyone at Apple should have wasps forcibly inserted in their urethras. Even the cleaners.
Edit: Now it needs Excel, so Office365 has to go on there. Already it's a PITA setting up an account. Don't make me wish the same on you Microsoft. Why do I have to have a different account for Office365 subscriptions anyway, what the hell is wrong with the Corporate Office account we already have?
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The problems of outsourcing last well after the code has been brought in house.
My company has made the decision in the last couple of years to bring code in house that used to be managed by external companies. Mostly this involves buying rights to the source code, having a support line for a few months while we get to know the code base and taking on any new development ourselves.
The one I'm in charge of is a website for insurance brokers to manage policies (I work for an insurance underwriter). we've had a few releases since taking on the code, and I'm fairly confident with the layout and making changes. What I have absolutely no confidence in is the similarity between the code I was provided with, what's deployed on the test system and what's on live. We've found significant differences between the three, usually just after a live release when everything tested perfectly but another part of the live system is expecting different things to be there.
I think what happened is that the developer just zipped up his solution and sent it over, without doing a Get Latest in TFS first, so parts of the code are old versions ha hasn't updated in months (I suspect he was also just doing gets on the parts he was working with rather than the full solution). We originally discussed the possibility of getting a full copy of their TFS history, but when we saw the checkin comments ("Changed some files" would be among the more descriptive ones) we decided it wasn't worth it.
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@Tsaukpaetra Don't blame Cisco, blame whoever decided to use them.
If there's no customer pressure to make products better, products won't get better.
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Today's Thesis Trinket:
(Investigating what people tweet about different apps to see if you can use twitter for product feedback)
The type of the βSkypeβ user was general based on the Tweets content, but the users who posted most numbers of the Tweets were camgirls and their fans. The camgirls liked to conduct a live show via Skype to earn money. That was what the Tweets told me.
I could have effing told you that six months ago! Instead you conduct a research process and write a bloody 100 page thesis to land in this conclusion!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg So⦠does this thesis include any recorded video evidence for what is asserted?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg So⦠does this thesis include any recorded video evidence for what is asserted?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think what happened is that the developer just zipped up his solution and sent it over, without doing a Get Latest in TFS first, so parts of the code are old versions ha hasn't updated in months (I suspect he was also just doing gets on the parts he was working with rather than the full solution). We originally discussed the possibility of getting a full copy of their TFS history, but when we saw the checkin comments ("Changed some files" would be among the more descriptive ones) we decided it wasn't worth it.
TRWTF is that they didn't just give you read-access to their source control.
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
read-access to their source control
Proxies and slow internet on their side meant that they posted a DVD with a password protected archive. Seemed backwards to me too, but that's what I had to work with
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
Yeah, . Germans use RAR for that.
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Status: Some idiot's managed to knock all my VMs offline. And not just mine. Lots of problems, and they're blocking me from getting work done (as documenting the fine details of a system that won't talk to me at all is either trivial β βIt's dead, Jim.β β or impossible).
Also, the cooties are bad today.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Vanguard
VanguardMil? Or is this a different vanguard?
"The Vanguard Group" (our company 401k is there)
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
Yeah, . Germans use RAR for that.
Yeah, our language is much better suited to the "R" sound than the meek "zip".
In other news: Samsung still working hard to convince me never to buy another Samsung product again.
Today I received an SMS which informed me that any Note 7 are completely banned from airplanes. This is several days after pretty much all our newspapers covered this very fact.
I also finally received the return delivery sticker. It includes the admonishment to pack everything and send it back. Last time I was allowed to keep the USB charger, headphones and adapters. Not this time, though.
Not that I needed those, but still.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Vanguard
VanguardMil? Or is this a different vanguard?
"The Vanguard Group" (our company 401k is there)
Ah that Vanguard.
VanguardMil (makes military rank and stuff) is pretty bad too, that's why I thought it might be them :)
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Well, yeah, if things updated faster than molasses in Maine in January, maybe I would have known!
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Status: Wrestled our SSL layer back into submission. Hopefully. Did some refactoring along the way, but there's some goto laden gunk in the main control flow that's gonna be near-impossible to get rid of covertly.
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@dcon
Clearly your ranting mode has the spellar skillz of a Maine vulpine.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Today's Thesis Trinket:
(Investigating what people tweet about different apps to see if you can use twitter for product feedback)
The type of the βSkypeβ user was general based on the Tweets content, but the users who posted most numbers of the Tweets were camgirls and their fans. The camgirls liked to conduct a live show via Skype to earn money. That was what the Tweets told me.
I could have effing told you that six months ago! Instead you conduct a research process and write a bloody 100 page thesis to land in this conclusion!
Science confirms the obvious, part E_OVERFLOW.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, yeah, if things updated faster than molasses in Maine in January, maybe I would have known!
Don't underestimate the power of molasses in New England in January:
The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150.
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ProcrastinatingDone studying for a midterm I have in three hours. It's at that point where if I don't know it by now I'm not going to learn it.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
ProcrastinatingDone studying for a midterm I have in three hours. It's at that point where if I don't know it by now I'm not going to learn it.You reached that point already yesterday
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
You reached that point already yesterday
Probably.
Also, just got a text from my ex, first one in a year and a half. WTF? Definitely not replying to it until after the midterm, as that's not a head space I want to be in.
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Status: Mental facilities restored. Estimated normalized capacity 72 percent. No unreported physical damaged detected.
Warning: real-time clock validation failed: external tick rate validation test indicates higher-than-average inconsistencies.
Beginning Free Roam mode.
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Status: apparently Go has server cooties too:
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Status: Filling out USCIS Form I-9. Anyone want to be my Authorized Representative and validate my passport represents me?
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Current version:
Next version:
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think what happened is that the developer just zipped up his solution and sent it over, without doing a Get Latest in TFS first, so parts of the code are old versions ha hasn't updated in months (I suspect he was also just doing gets on the parts he was working with rather than the full solution). We originally discussed the possibility of getting a full copy of their TFS history, but when we saw the checkin comments ("Changed some files" would be among the more descriptive ones) we decided it wasn't worth it.
TRWTF is that they didn't just give you read-access to their source control.
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
Me. It's more efficient to copy this way over Remote Desktop... :P
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think what happened is that the developer just zipped up his solution and sent it over, without doing a Get Latest in TFS first, so parts of the code are old versions ha hasn't updated in months (I suspect he was also just doing gets on the parts he was working with rather than the full solution). We originally discussed the possibility of getting a full copy of their TFS history, but when we saw the checkin comments ("Changed some files" would be among the more descriptive ones) we decided it wasn't worth it.
TRWTF is that they didn't just give you read-access to their source control.
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
Me. It's more efficient to copy this way over Remote Desktop... :P
!!!!!!!! I saw someone doing this exact thing and almost fell off my fold up chair.
I considered it repercussion from when I made code with minimal curly brackets..
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think what happened is that the developer just zipped up his solution and sent it over, without doing a Get Latest in TFS first, so parts of the code are old versions ha hasn't updated in months (I suspect he was also just doing gets on the parts he was working with rather than the full solution). We originally discussed the possibility of getting a full copy of their TFS history, but when we saw the checkin comments ("Changed some files" would be among the more descriptive ones) we decided it wasn't worth it.
TRWTF is that they didn't just give you read-access to their source control.
Who the fuck is zipping code these days?
Me. It's more efficient to copy this way over Remote Desktop... :P
!!!!!!!! I saw someone doing this exact thing and almost fell off my fold up chair.
I considered it repercussion from when I made code with minimal curly brackets..
Well, in fact I've done this a lot of time because most of features I added in my current application starts as "toy quality code" that I game with in my home, and you don't use source control on projects that you know you're just playing to get familiar with the technology because the parts that you throw away are usually totally worthless.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Beginning Free Roam mode.
NOOO.
An unhandled exception had occurred: timeout callback failed to dereference to a function in the expected scope.
Awaiting command.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw someone doing this exact thing and almost fell off my fold up chair.
fold up... were you sitting the bushes spying on people again?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw someone doing this exact thing and almost fell off my fold up chair.
fold up... were you sitting the bushes spying on people again?
Why does it have to be bushes?
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@Lorne-Kates OCD version:
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw someone doing this exact thing and almost fell off my fold up chair.
fold up... were you sitting the bushes spying on people again?
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STATUS:
Bass calls me on cell. A contractor is raising hay that server is caching files that he had deleted and that we need to fix this NOW.
I ssh in. Everything looks OK.
Send him a pic. Exchange a few confused links.
Turns out he's been SSH-ing into the dev server, while browsing the production server all along.
Me: Wait, so did you delete files from dev or prod- You know what? I don't care. Bye.