The Official Status Thread
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today is my last day and I still have like
23 (just added another one now) coding tasks to do. Obviously there is no need to handover...In the end, I have 3 hours of OT on my last day, which will not be paid because there is no time card record.
again
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
raisins
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
delicious
No.
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@cheong said:
In the end, I have 3 hours of OT on my last day, which will not be paid because there is no time card record.
Oh fuck that. No pay? No work. What are they going to do - fire you?
Obviously there is no need to handover...
Not Your Problem !!!
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
VS insists on doing... something with TFS (no idea what) when opening a file.
I learned long ago, don't let VS do source control. I'll handle it externally with dedicated tools (even if that means command lines with git). Maybe it's better now, but trust is a hard thing to win back after being burned.
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Status: The dumbest part about Markdumb is that it's a "standard" in the Linux sense. Meaning that every new application that uses it results in two more syntaxes necessary to make it do what you want.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I learned long ago, don't let VS do source control
I don't mind it doing source control. What I do mind is how it flatly refuses to do so in the background, where it should do it.
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@RaceProUK Hence, my
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@dcon If I could find an external tool to interface with TFS (hosted at [fatchance].visualstudio.com), then I'd happily do that.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
If I could find an external tool to interface with TFS (hosted at [fatchance].visualstudio.com), then I'd happily do that.
tf
? I mean, all I know about it is that it exists, but it's there...https://www.visualstudio.com/pl-pl/docs/tfvc/use-team-foundation-version-control-commands
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Status: Not my bug
None of the {remote_test_units} have reported in since the 31st!
Hmm, the logs show data was received, processed and stored since the new year...for June?
Your date code probably has a bug
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The raw bytes off the wire confirm the remote units think it's June
Let me check my firmware...
Turns out jan and june share the same ASCII bytes at index 0 and 2 and that might trip up your optimised conversion from stringly-date to integer-date.
At least it's an easy fix, little UPDATE for the data that's already arrived and a quick adjustment to the timestamp decoder until we get to Feb and it works properly again.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
If I could find an external tool to interface with TFS (hosted at [fatchance].visualstudio.com), then I'd happily do that.
tf
? I mean, all I know about it is that it exists, but it's there...https://www.visualstudio.com/pl-pl/docs/tfvc/use-team-foundation-version-control-commands
Hmm...
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@Tsaukpaetra There's always a few numbers on the end of your name, usually hidden, so you are uniquely identified.
Like Blizzard's Battletags
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra There's always a few numbers on the end of your name, usually hidden, so you are uniquely identified.
Like Blizzard's Battletags
Well, yeah, but since I'm the only tigger I should be fine, right? If I'm not... Someone's going to get assimilated!
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Status: Happy new year, etc.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm the only tigger
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy new year, etc.
How was your trip through the timecube?
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Status: finished some development, just need to check in.
We finally got Firefox upgraded because we needed to use a tool that wouldn't work in the ancient and decrepit version we had. Then we found out why we'd never upgraded before.
It's not as though Rational/Jazz (honestly, I'm not really sure where one ends and the other begins, having never used either before this project) was a paragon of usability at any point, but now we're in an unsupported browser and stuff just doesn't work.
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Status: Skipped about 500 posts.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Then we found out why we'd never upgraded before.
Keep a portable version around just in case?
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm not sure I'd have the permissions to run different versions even if I had them - I can't even change mouse settings - and I dread to think how long it would take to get approval and get the old version back.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not as though Rational/Jazz (honestly, I'm not really sure where one ends and the other begins, having never used either before this project) was a paragon of usability at any point, but now we're in an unsupported browser and stuff just doesn't work.
So it doesn't work in the newer version of Firefox? Was this software written by @Lorne-Kates?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Trim a little off one leg. Check whether it's even. Nope, trimmed a little too much off. Trim other leg(s). Check if even. Nope, trimmed a little too much off. Trim first leg. Check if even. Nope. Repeat until all legs have len == 0.
That's how a junior developer would solve the problem. A senior developer, on the other hand, would optimise most of that away and simply remove the legs
A Web 3.0 developer would give you a chair with one leg. It's always the perfect length!
Sure, it wobbles, and you have to constantly shift your own balance to keep from falling over, and in the end it's absolutely useless for sitting on-- but the LENGTH is PERFECT. It's beauty. It's minimal. And it is suitable for all
devicessitters.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Was this software written by @Lorne-Kates?
It's an IBM product. Also it's possible we're on an old version of it, I don't really know.
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@CarrieVS Facts jokes
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@loopback0 Sorry.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Not my bug
None of the {remote_test_units} have reported in since the 31st!
Hmm, the logs show data was received, processed and stored since the new year...for June?
Your date code probably has a bug
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The raw bytes off the wire confirm the remote units think it's June
Let me check my firmware...
Turns out jan and june share the same ASCII bytes at index 0 and 2 and that might trip up your optimised conversion from stringly-date to integer-date.
At least it's an easy fix, little UPDATE for the data that's already arrived and a quick adjustment to the timestamp decoder until we get to Feb and it works properly again.
Nice optimization. It's not like they couldn't have just gone with the bytes at index 1 & 2, which are unique for all 12 months:
AN EB AR PR AY UN UL UG EP CT OV EC
Shit, they even passed up the perfect opportunity to do some C-style pointer casting magic, because those 2 bytes are consecutive...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
A Web 3.0 developer would give you a chair with
one leglegs that are asynchronously loaded using JavaScript.FTFY
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Vacation over. =(
Back at the office
catching up on a few days of social media and forums since my laptop died 6 hours before 2016 ended"doing work"
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Not my bug
None of the {remote_test_units} have reported in since the 31st!
Hmm, the logs show data was received, processed and stored since the new year...for June?
Your date code probably has a bug
... ...
The raw bytes off the wire confirm the remote units think it's June
Let me check my firmware...
Turns out jan and june share the same ASCII bytes at index 0 and 2 and that might trip up your optimised conversion from stringly-date to integer-date.
At least it's an easy fix, little UPDATE for the data that's already arrived and a quick adjustment to the timestamp decoder until we get to Feb and it works properly again.
Nice optimization. It's not like they couldn't have just gone with bytes 1 & 2, which are unique for all 12 months:
AN EB AR PR AY UN UL UG EP CT OV EC
I would point that out, but at the moment I'm just very glad it wasn't my bug
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I would point that out
You could also educate them on a concept known as numbers ;)
But seriously, why are they using strings anyway? At least if they use numbers, there's no i18n/l10n issues.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
But seriously, why are they using strings anyway? At least if they use numbers, there's no i18n/l10n issues.
That one is a sub-system vendor's fault. The Real Time Clock part of a hardware component only returns strings back to the main processor. I'm sure it made sense to someone...
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@RaceProUK Its checking teh repository to make sure the "act like Visual Source Safe" box hasn't been ticked and exclusive checkouts aren't in play.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Shit, they even passed up the perfect opportunity to do some C-style pointer casting magic, because those 2 bytes are consecutive...
You don't want to do that. You really don't want to do that. Non-aligned accesses to numbers are a world of nasty and may result in the CPU giving you a stupid-programmer-smackdown-exception. (Byte accesses are "special" for C string raisins.)
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@dkf aww, shucks... I guess they'd have to use
(uint16_t) (*(uint32_t*) month >> 8)
or something if they just wanted to get those 2 bytes, then...
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Status: kids in bed, Darjeeling first flush brewing. Bliss.
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@CarrieVS Having used RTC, I feel your pain.
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@anotherusername Yes, that's the sort of thing one has to do, possibly with an
ntohs()
thrown in for good measure. Another option is to do something with a packed structure. It's ugly, but hopefully can end up being compiled to something sane.
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That's an impressively high rate. Especially given how few vans actually roll over.
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@Weng well, on the plus side, 80% of them were already killed between 2003 and 2007. That only leaves 20% for pre-2003 and post-2007 combined, so there should be relatively few unbuckled van occupants left at this point.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure it made sense to someone...
Someone needs electroshock therapy — on every tick of that real-time clock.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@cheong said:
In the end, I have 3 hours of OT on my last day, which will not be paid because there is no time card record.
Oh fuck that. No pay? No work. What are they going to do - fire you?
Nope, I fired them. XD
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welp...... i think i broke that map...... i'm building those super towers so far out from spawn now that the bloons aren'te ven capable of getting to me anymore, and i have those support towers overlapping so much that fully half the towers in the fray are earning double or more bucks.....
maybe i should try this map on a harder mode.....
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status: huhhhh
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@Tsaukpaetra that's pretty much how I'm feeling right now
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Trim a little off one leg. Check whether it's even. Nope, trimmed a little too much off. Trim other leg(s). Check if even. Nope, trimmed a little too much off. Trim first leg. Check if even. Nope. Repeat until all legs have len == 0.
That's how a junior developer would solve the problem. A senior developer, on the other hand, would optimise most of that away and simply remove the legs
A Web 3.0 developer would give you a chair with one leg. It's always the perfect length!
Sure, it wobbles, and you have to constantly shift your own balance to keep from falling over, and in the end it's absolutely useless for sitting on-- but the LENGTH is PERFECT. It's beauty. It's minimal. And it is suitable for all
devicessitters.That's called a one-legged stool, and people who milk cows and do other work that requires a lot of sitting have used them for ages.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
At least if they use numbers, there's no i18n/l10n issues
You've reminded me of another story from my days importing CSV/Excel/Random delimiter separated phone bill files.
One format was French and used three letter abbreviations for month names instead of anything more universal, so I had to make a lookup table for the translations to month numbers.
Of course, there was no actual spec for this format, just a sample bill. Which covered one month, so had two months' abbreviations from which I extrapolated that it would be three letter abbreviations, and had to work out the most likely abbreviations from them. I can almost guarantee that I got one wrong and it broke at some point in the next year
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
At least if they use numbers, there's no i18n/l10n issues.
Ahahahaha no.
Not everyone has the Gregorian calendar with its 12 months.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
At least if they use numbers, there's no i18n/l10n issues.
Ahahahaha no.
Not everyone has the Gregorian calendar with its 12 months.so.... everyone should use the Julian Date system? (possibly with an epoch moved to a less inconveniant time.... say 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z?)
I'd be all for that actually.