The Official Status Thread
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Status: fixed a problem with apostrophes in names being converted to their HTML codes (Fuck you Mr. O'Sullivan). Now running through the big list of naughty strings to make sure I haven't opened up any more vulnerabilities
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Status: Oh hey, this thing is on again!
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@Jaloopa Mr. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) works, although it shows up as Mr (???) in the front end
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My smoker colleagues get to take a five minute smoke break every hour, and no one bats an eye.
But when I want to take a short jerkoff break in the lounge, it's suddenly a big issue.
#injustice
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@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
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Boss is offering to buy me some swag and is generally being extra nice to me. Usually happens after he fails to find competent people to hire.
Motivation to up the difficulty of my interviews ++.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
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@cartman82 less and more
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Status: Looking into KeePass or LastPass, probably should make a topic for it when I have time.
I woke up today with 16 2SA emails from GOG.com from Russians trying to log into my account. Granted, the password I used wasn't very secure, but I am reusing passwords otherwise, and changed my login there to an already used password.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
That's no five minutes.
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Months ago we were told we no longer had to produce micro-design documentation for our code, and there was much rejoicing. That stuff is so impenetrable it's barely any use, so inconsistent it's impossible to know what the right way is to write it, so obsessively detailed that it's nearly as much work to update the documentation as the code, so much written by EFL speakers that it's often hard to understand precisely what was meant, and in spite of being a requirement to update it for every change, frequently so wildly out of date that it's nigh-impossible to work out where your changes even fit in.
This sprint it's been officially decreed that we do have to produce micro-designs, and now we have a backlog.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
Depends on how close you are to their face.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
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Bass calls me on cell.It's all about that bass.
A contractor is raising hay
Okay, that's two strikes. So now you've primed me to notice and autocorrect your typos. Let me start from the top and re-read.
BsssBoss calls me on cell. A contractor is raisinghayhell that server iscaching filescatching fire that he had deleted and that we need to fix this NOW.Uh, yeah, I kinda agree with your boss. The does need to be fixed NOW.
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These awful stickers... Who thought this was a good idea?
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Status: bought a Windows 10 tablet. The manual has a whopping 58 pages per language, of which 29 are dedicated to "safety warnings"
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Status: annoyed.
On Tuesday, I ordered one PS4, one TV, one HDMI cable, one copy of Skylanders for PS4. This was Tuesday night and I ordered One Day Pickup delivery to go to the collection point on the way between my new office and my home.
All four items were "guaranteed" delivered today.
Except the PS4 and Skylanders are "on time" for delivery tomorrow.
Tuesday to Friday is not in any possible definition "one day pickup."
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@fbmac welcome ba... oh nevermind.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: bought a Windows 10 tablet. The manual has a whopping 58 pages per language, of which 29 are dedicated to "safety warnings"
It came with Windows 10, that's why there is so many "safety warnings"
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@fbmac welcome ba... oh nevermind.
i see he hasn't changed one bit.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: bought a Windows 10 tablet.
The worst thing about Windows 10 tablet are Windows 10 apps.
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Status: Been reading on my tablet on the train lately. Got an email a couple days ago, saying that amazon is pulling their kindle app from the windows store, because they have a desktop version, and so I won't get updates, and if I format, I can't reinstall it.
But the app hasn't been updated since early on in Win8 as far as I can tell, and I have a kindle. If this means they're killing the phone one too, or not making the phone one cross platform, I have only disdain for them.
More and more people have Win10 tablets, and cutting them off your service is stupid, almost as stupid as never fixing any bugs in your app that you 'actively support' for this many years,
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 jerking off in front of other people is usually an issue...
That's no five minutes.
Depends on the show. Could be half a minute, could be half an hour.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
More and more people have Win10 tablets, and cutting them off your service is stupid
Cutting yourself out of less than 4% of the market is not really stupid.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
More and more people have Win10 tablets, and cutting them off your service is stupid
Cutting yourself out of less than 4% of the market is not really stupid.
Your chart doesn't actually mean anything, though. PCs and tablets with Windows 10 are growing. If you only look at the tablet market, and pretend that no one but 'other' on your chart makes win10 devices (where the truth is, only Apple doesn't), you get a story that has nothing to do with reality.
If Amazon had been smart and used a crossplatform system like Xamarin or one of the others, this would have come along for free. But they didn't want to be smart about it, so I have no qualms calling them stupid.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Bass calls me on cell.
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Status: I was just told that "Futurama-level stupidity flows out of you naturally." I take that as a compliment!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I was just told that "Futurama-level stupidity flows out of you naturally." I take that as
a complimentgood news!
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Status: Excited for the new software we are getting and the fact it was way cheaper than we thought means more hardware toys!
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So at work, we have one product in an old version of Delphi: a really important one that not many, but some of our biggest customers use. It's kind of a large, messy codebase, and it duplicates a lot of business logic in other systems.
Our team found a tool to convert Delphi to C#, and finally got approval to try it. We already know it will work for a lot of it, and not at all for others: some former employee hacked random bits in assembly because he felt like it. Still, if even 60% was able to be converted, it would be a huuuuge gain.
And apparently we got a mandate from the CEO to get it ported, us or anyone else. So, that's really cool.
Hopefully people start using my converter for our proprietary language. Within a couple years, we could be down to just three languages, and all of them ones people in the job market know!
(Hmm, not three, one team is doing some patch-together-frameworks-and-hope-for-the-best js development, and we have a large product in VB.NET... whatever.)
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
More and more people have Win10 tablets, and cutting them off your service is stupid, almost as stupid as never fixing any bugs in your app that you 'actively support' for this many years,
Why are all these people running west and surrendering, my glorious Werchmant is clearly winning!
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Status: VMs still kaput. Maybe things will be back in a few hours? VMware think they know what the problem is, so maybe…
(Not keen on the workaround we've had suggested, as that involves putting things on our other VM platform, and that's on hardware that's horribly over-committed.)
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
The worst thing about Windows 10 tablet are Windows 10 apps.
Yeah but the best thing about them is Windows desktop apps :P
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@anonymous234 true, but if you're hoping to use it as tablet, that's pretty rough experience.
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Status Feeling sorry for one of my colleagues.
He's busy with a deadline, and we had to evacuate the building yesterday evening because of a fire alarm (probably a false one, but nonetheless). Everybody went home instead, because who knows how long that will take. Today, the raid5 holding the bulk of the data he's working on is reporting that one of hard drives has failed and needs to be replaced. The cluster he's working on normally is also down for maintenance. On top of that, the coffee machine here is broken.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
On top of that, the coffee machine here is broken.
That's it ... that is far below acceptable work conditions for IT
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Status: Pondering car colo(u)rs ... proposal is Black like the current one but wife seems to prefer a lighter tone ...
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
wife seems to prefer a lighter tone
Pondering if my wife is becoming racist ...
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering car colo(u)rs ... proposal is Black like the current one but wife seems to prefer a lighter tone ...
Would some kind of grey work?
Filed under: There's over 49 shades to pick from!
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Status: enjoying the new Amaranthe album.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Would some kind of grey work?
Yeah that is what I'm thinking too ... plus it will make my car easier to find on a parking lot covered with near identical fleet cars.
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
There's over 49 shades to pick from!
Opel only knows 4
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@Luhmann if you are going to pick from the over-49 shades, you need to assert yourself. Strongly. Very strongly.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
over-49 shades
there are maybe 4 color candidates left ...
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Status: Looked online for the solution to a data analytics problem. It turns out to be an active area of research. Darn.
Now wishing I had done more higher level maths at University. Trying to implement an algorithm in a journal paper and having great difficulty with just the notation.
Annoyingly, when visualised, the problem is very easy to solve with the human eye. Redundant Array of Inexpensive People anyone? :)
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Redundant Array of Inexpensive People
You jest, but that's Amazon Mechanical Turk all over.
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Status: Noticing this site is painfully slow, and considering mailing my posts on floppy disks to @ben_lubar to manually insert into the database in the interest of improved speed and reliability.
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@mott555 use RFC 1149 instead.
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Status: Saw the Rocky Horror remake last night. It was ok. Hot Patootie was probably the best. Science Fiction/Double Feature was re-imagined well.