The Official Status Thread
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Intern: I put these nonsense stock images here, they can later provide the real-
Me: No. There is no "they". Everybody above you is busy with their own tasks. This is your task. Do the best job you can.
This has nothing to do with experience too. I've had senior developers who'd participate in a planning session and conclude that "they" just need to provide a cleaner spec.
There is no "they". It's only us.
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Hey that was a long time ago my old friend ... screenshot in .xls
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Status: trying to wrap my head around exactly what's being done in a 400 line button click handler that does things in the wrong order, so I can try to rewrite it in a sane manner.
There are no unit tests, natch
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Thought there was an increase in Game of Thrones trivia on the Internet today. Turns out there was a new episode last night.
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huh....... according to FEDEX a package that is due to be delivered to me today in Portland ME USA, that was shipped from Louisville KY USA, is out for delivery..... in Shenzen CN.......
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Status: Rebuilt our job manager service to not be quite such a big pile of stupid. It is still Doing It Wrong in a lot of ways (why does the silly thing insist on using pickling for state persistence when any sane programmer uses a DB?!) but it might be a little bit more possible to convert it into something sane in the future now that the server core isn't one humungous class that does everything from threading through to high-level protocol responses.
Also, don't let PhD students write critical bits of your runtime infrastructure, everyone. They don't know what error handling actually is or why it mattersβ¦
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status: power is down!
Let's see how long this thing actually lasts...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
power is down!
status: power is back!
Kinda disappointed, I wanted to be there when the UPS forced itself off despite declaring the batteries were full.
Also, totally forgot that the backup server is set to automatically power on when power is restored. Whoops.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
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huh....... according to FEDEX a package that is due to be delivered to me today in Portland ME USA, that was shipped from Louisville KY USA, is out for delivery..... in Shenzen CN.......
aaaaand delivered......... in Ankorage AK, and i have the package in my hands......... i have NFC what is up with the scan locations.......
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@accalia From Kentucky to Maine via China and Arkansas.
Seems legit.
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@raceprouk
Except AK is the postal code for Alaska.
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@izzion What's Arkansas then?
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@raceprouk AR
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Status: I don't think 'enjoyed' is the right word, but I enjoyed reading Private Eye on the train today. At least, it provided some satire with my news which I appreciated.
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@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
it provided some satire with my news
That is what it's for ;)
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@raceprouk I have long been a Hislop fan.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
Thought there was an increase in Game of Thrones trivia on the Internet today. Turns out there was a new episode last night.
I only watched Season 1 a while back, and somehow, I am still not spoiled on what happens afterwards (although all those Stark characters are suspiciously absent from all the trailers).
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@cartman82 They all went on vacation to a farm two towns over and were so happy there that they stayed.
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Status: ehehe
Well, that was uninteresting
Next experiment: install all packages.
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Status: What's company policy on taking sick time for a severe acute case of the dumbs?
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
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huh....... according to FEDEX a package that is due to be delivered to me today in Portland ME USA, that was shipped from Louisville KY USA, is out for delivery..... in Shenzen CN.......
aaaaand delivered......... in Ankorage AK, and i have the package in my hands......... i have NFC what is up with the scan locations.......
Proof Santa needs a job in the off-season.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What's company policy on taking sick time for a severe acute case of the dumbs?
It's probably cheaper for them...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
Thought there was an increase in Game of Thrones trivia on the Internet today. Turns out there was a new episode last night.
I only watched Season 1 a while back, and somehow, I am still not spoiled on what happens afterwards (although all those Stark characters are suspiciously absent from all the trailers).
There are so many characters that each one only gets a couple of minutes' screen time an episode, so I can't even remember what half of them are supposed to be doing.
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The code-leaking candidate who got away from my mettle's wrath by becoming a contractor now has issues building the project.
Boss, he and I are in the same skype thread where they are discussing what to do. I stay quiet. I know eventually Boss will ask me to fix it, but I want him to have to do it. I don't want to volunteer and make it easy for him.
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Status: spent a few minutes trying to diagnose why
uint46_t
was not defined before finally seeing it .
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Status: Started Forza Horizon 2 (yes, I'm late to the party). After an hour, I wanted to reach into the game, grab hold of the guy who keeps telling me banal shit like "Win races to win championships!", and tear his little fucking head off. Maybe then he'd leave me and my quarter-century of racing game experience alone.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
No. There is no "they". Everybody above you is busy with their own tasks. This is your task. Do the best job you can.
A few months ago I put shitty ms paint image I made as a placeholder until the marketing guys delivered the final one they promised.
We're still using the shitty ms paint one.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: spent a few minutes trying to diagnose why
uint46_t
was not defined before finally seeing it .What, you didn't upgrade your 23-bit processor?
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status: Hmmm, my urine smells a bit weirder than normal...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Hmmm, my urine smells a bit weirder than normal...
Oh no, urine trouble!
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Status: Wondering why Azure cannot into maths:
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
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Hey that was a long time ago my old friend ... screenshot in .xlsFiled under: Zoooooooom..... Enhance......
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@accalia Is that SFW, or NSFW? I can't remember if I've seen it before, and I'm at work and don't want to risk it being NSFW.
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia Is that SFW, or NSFW? I can't remember if I've seen it before, and I'm at work and don't want to risk it being NSFW.
it's posted not in the NSFW channel and it's not a link to one of my avatar sources...... also you have seen this before in this very thread, just not in excel form.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
it's posted not in the NSFW channel and it's not a link to one of my avatar sources
On the other paw, it's you
It's definitely SFW.@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
also you have seen this before in this very thread, just not in excel form
Probably. And I've seen that trick before, but maybe that was in NSFW or something, which is why I was wary.
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Status: I just go to make a call on my cell phone and get: "dun dun dun Thank you for using Verizon wireless, don't hang up..." and it continues on to tell me that my phone is shut off due to non-payment.
Shit...did we forget to pay the bill or something? Weird, so I log in and there is no past due amount. I call customer service and they say they have no idea why I got that message. I try to make another call and it goes right through.
Verizon
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just go to make a call on my cell phone and get: "dun dun dun Thank you for using Verizon wireless, don't hang up..." and it continues on to tell me that my phone is shut off due to non-payment.
Shit...did we forget to pay the bill or something? Weird, so I log in and there is no past due amount. I call customer service and they say they have no idea why I got that message. I try to make another call and it goes right through.
Verizon
....and I just got a call from a bail bondsman. Fucking hell Verizon.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
....and I just got a call from a bail bondsman. Fucking hell Verizon.
I'm confused. Why is that one Verizon's fault?
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@heterodox they weren't calling for me. If I had to make a guess, I would assume that my account got crossed up with someone else. I called customer service and they are looking in to it.
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@polygeekery
Either that, or one of these jokers here got your cellphone number and signed you up for all kinds of spam calls
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox they weren't calling for me. If I had to make a guess, I would assume that my account got crossed up with someone else. I called customer service and they are looking in to it.
My mom is on AT&T and my sister is on Sprint and yesterday my sister called my mom and some random other call was also connected at the same time through the same cell phone "line" so there were two sets of two people talking who didn't know each other.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
My mom is on AT&T and my sister is on Sprint and yesterday my sister called my mom and some random other call was also connected at the same time through the same cell phone "line" so there were two sets of two people talking who didn't know each other.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WE'RE ON A DIGITAL SYSTEM AND NOT CROSS-CONNECTIONS ANYMORE; HOW CAN SUCH A THING HAPPEN?!
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
My mom is on AT&T and my sister is on Sprint and yesterday my sister called my mom and some random other call was also connected at the same time through the same cell phone "line" so there were two sets of two people talking who didn't know each other.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WE'RE ON A DIGITAL SYSTEM AND NOT CROSS-CONNECTIONS ANYMORE; HOW CAN SUCH A THING HAPPEN?!
I assume cell phones that picked the same frequency somehow.
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@heterodox
Someone was sloppy with their code on how the VOIP system bridges calls together (since your origination is one "call" from your phone to the system, and the outbound leg is another "call" from the system to your target number), and the system now has a bug that is causing it to mis-bridge calls.It's a super easy thing to do, Asterisk's native handling has had it crop up a few times (since they re-write the bridge code every other release, usually from the ground up), and once a server administrator decides they're going to help with some custom bridging for $raisins, then you have even more bug points to be introduced.
Erm, not that I've ever written custom call bridging code. :eyes_left:
Paging @Onyx
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I assume cell phones that picked the same frequency somehow.
I don't think that's possible; cell phones don't use just one frequency. If I recall correctly, they use FDMA keyed by the phone's identifier. I guess they could use TDMA and timeslots could run into each other but come to think of it, AT&T uses GSM and Sprint uses CDMA so no. Just no.
Someone done fucked up, maybe the way @izzion's describing.
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Status: I'm dealing with a bug. It's probably a free (to memory pool) of memory that is still in use. Which would mean that there is a reference somewhere which the garbage collector (custom) is not checking. But the only possible problem I can find would require conversion from 32-bit integer to 64-bit floating point to be inconsistent and somehow I'm doubtful that that would be the case.