The Official Status Thread
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Could be worse, try to teach a teacher
I've been there. I thought everyone who said "teachers are the worst students" was exaggerating. Turns out they're usually correct, depending on the audience. It takes a firm hand to keep them on task; they tend to dick around in a manner they'd never accept from their own students.
I see this in my own faculty meetings. Off-topic conversations (and sometimes not even bothering to whisper), device distractions, etc. Makes me hate meetings even more than I natively do--which takes some doing.
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Status: I found a spot where past-@accalia has done coding at my current employer...
SELECT column AS InvocieNumberReference *snip*
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@izzion Only a spot?
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion Only a spot?
That's just one of the pieces that got missed in the cover up. If you lift the sheets there you'll find a much more appealing mess.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you lift the sheets there you'll find a much more appealing mess.
Ah, so that's where the furry porn's hidden!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
appealing mess
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oh shit!
Ah, that's right, I didn't get paid last week... Well then....
And here I thought my finances were tight (that overall total includes home and vehicle equity)
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Both MicroUSB cables I own, which were working perfectly just yesterday, have decided to stop working at the same time. Leaving me quite confused trying to diagnose that.
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Status: Coworker on another team tried to convince me that Node is way faster and more effective than most other languages, and NPM is the best package manager around.
The anti-blakey.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Both MicroUSB cables I own, which were working perfectly just yesterday, have decided to stop working at the same time. Leaving me quite confused trying to diagnose that.
Do they work for other devices?
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Coworker on another team tried to convince me that Node is way faster
Did he perchance provide any evidence of this… surprising factoid?
and more effective than most other languages, and NPM is the best package manager around.
The anti-blakey.
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@tsaukpaetra I've done extensive testing with 2 chargers and 3 devices. It's the cables, you can tell because they work when you bend them a certain way.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I've done extensive testing with 2 chargers and 3 devices. It's the cables, you can tell because they work when you bend them a certain way.
Bizarre.
Status: In other news, my 5 year old brother can spell out his eight-letter first name perfectly (even with a capital H!). You're gonna go far, kid...
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@tsaukpaetra Way to go, Hhhhhbob!
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Way to go, Hhhhhbob!
Since not all usernames allow eight characters, he's using "H-bomb" (WITH A FREAKING DASH!) as alternate.
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@dkf He just assured me that used correctly, people don't have many dependencies, and you don't have to think about them, and that he'd get work done much faster, especially since we could hire a bunch of less skilled people to do the 'menial work'.
He also seems to think using the same language on the front-end and back-end is a very good idea, and think Silverlight was always a bad idea.
A short conversation, filled with shock after shock, since I don't think even the Node users here like it that much.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Coworker on another team tried to convince me that Node is way faster and more effective than most other languages
Why do people always repeat this utter fallacy? Yes, Node can be faster than many alternatives when used correctly, but it's not a guarantee.
NPM is the best package manager around
It took until version 3 for it to be half-decent, and even now, it's not exactly brilliant. Still, it's not utter shit looks at Composer
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
He just assured me that used correctly, people don't have many dependencies
Sure, your project may not have many direct dependencies, but those dependencies have dependencies, and they have dependencies, and so on. When you factor in all the transitive dependencies, you have fucktons.
you don't have to think about them
Um… yes, you do. You just do.
he'd get work done much faster
Pfft. Yeah, right.
especially since we could hire a bunch of less skilled people to do the 'menial work'
But that's OK: with all the time he's saving not thinking about his zillion transitive dependencies, he can fix all the shit the less-skilled guys create!
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think even the Node users here like it that much.
I like it, but I'd drop it for C# and the .NET Framework in a heartbeat.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Coworker on another team tried to convince me that Node is way faster to crash and burn
He's got a point
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
I like it, but I'd drop it for C# and the .NET Framework in a heartbeat.
Which is what we use right now.
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Status: The Win10 holographic C# template uses SharpDX, and does not compile. I was able to run the UrhoSharp template on the Hololens emulator, but the screen was just black. I don't know if there's a way to make the emulator have some sort of lighting, but it needs it. The template set up some kind of directional light, but even so, the screen is just black while that's running.
Hoping my HP goggles work better than this emulator.
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STATUS: Bids for the apartment I wanted went a bit too high for my (current) liking. There is another cheap 2-room apartment about 50m down the street from my current, but I have mixed feelings about that one. May just wait for more to pop up as autumn comes around.
Also, was given another computer to restore to glory. This one may end up more of a challenge, however, as I need to find an Alpha version of Windows NT 4, as well as all the correct drivers. And I'm not talking about a pre-release version:
Up to 3GB ECC SDRAM in c:a 1997. Hmm... I do have a lot of ECC SDRAM, maybe can give it a little upgrade!
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Coworker on another team tried to convince me that Node is way faster and more effective than most other languages
Why do people always repeat this utter fallacy? Yes, Node can be faster than many alternatives when used correctly, but it's not a guarantee.
NPM is the best package manager around
It took until version 3 for it to be half-decent, and even now, it's not exactly brilliant. Still, it's not utter shit looks at Composer
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
He just assured me that used correctly, people don't have many dependencies
Sure, your project may not have many direct dependencies, but those dependencies have dependencies, and they have dependencies, and so on. When you factor in all the transitive dependencies, you have fucktons.
you don't have to think about them
Um… yes, you do. You just do.
he'd get work done much faster
Pfft. Yeah, right.
especially since we could hire a bunch of less skilled people to do the 'menial work'
But that's OK: with all the time he's saving not thinking about his zillion transitive dependencies, he can fix all the shit the less-skilled guys create!
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think even the Node users here like it that much.
I like it, but I'd drop it for C# and the .NET Framework in a heartbeat.
Anything <100 LOC node is perfect for. For example, I have a really simple nodejs script that updates things when it recieves a
POST
at a specific URL.Anything >=100 LOC you're better off using a Real* language for IMO
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Anything <100 LOC node is perfect for. For example, I have a really simple nodejs script that updates things when it recieves a POST at a specific URL.
Anything >=100 LOC you're better off using a Real* language for IMOThen why bother with node ?
You can do <100 LOC projects with a real language.
Hell, you could even do it with PHP.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Anything <100 LOC node is perfect for. For example, I have a really simple nodejs script that updates things when it recieves a POST at a specific URL.
Anything >=100 LOC you're better off using a Real* language for IMOThen why bother with node ?
You can do <100 LOC projects with a real language.
Hell, you could even do it with PHP.Because it's quicker to get set up. If it takes 5 minutes to write the code, there's no sense in doing all the work to set up a project...
You could do it in PHP, but then you're using PHP, so you're screwed
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: Bids for the apartment I wanted went a bit too high for my (current) liking. There is another cheap 2-room apartment about 50m down the street from my current, but I have mixed feelings about that one. May just wait for more to pop up as autumn comes around.
Also, was given another computer to restore to glory. This one may end up more of a challenge, however, as I need to find an Alpha version of Windows NT 4, as well as all the correct drivers. And I'm not talking about a pre-release version:
Up to 3GB ECC SDRAM in c:a 1997. Hmm... I do have a lot of ECC SDRAM, maybe can give it a little upgrade!
I may have an Alpha NT4 disk somewhere. I know I used to....
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That's what she said
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I SAID
You're not my bitch though...
Besides, I still don't have moneys for that , why would you say anything like that at all unprovoked? ;)
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Status: ... don't.... know? Does it?
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Status: Oh noes! Detected!
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.... Um..... Wat?
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@tsaukpaetra you felt threatened just now, right? That means it's correct.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra you felt threatened just now, right? That means it's correct.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: Bids for the apartment I wanted went a bit too high for my (current) liking. There is another cheap 2-room apartment about 50m down the street from my current, but I have mixed feelings about that one. May just wait for more to pop up as autumn comes around.
Also, was given another computer to restore to glory. This one may end up more of a challenge, however, as I need to find an Alpha version of Windows NT 4, as well as all the correct drivers. And I'm not talking about a pre-release version:
Up to 3GB ECC SDRAM in c:a 1997. Hmm... I do have a lot of ECC SDRAM, maybe can give it a little upgrade!
I may have an Alpha NT4 disk somewhere. I know I used to....
I found the curriculum it came in, complete with serial numbers.
The disk sheet, however, is not present.
It's probably wherever the fuck my PowerPC boxes got to. Frankly, I recommend running a BSD on it. NT suffered as it ran the 64bit CPU as two 'virtual' 32bit CPUs.
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@tsaukpaetra That may be some internet moron's misconception. There was definitely no actual 64-bit public release.
Windows 2000 RC2, however... Is a real 64bit Alpha build.
Whether it can be located in the year 2017, however.... Yeah I'm pretty sure I just found it. @Atazhaia PM me if you want directions to the appropriate dark corner.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
appropriate dark corner.
It's too bad, I actually had a full MSDN set only 9 months ago, would have been happy to provide the images...
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a bunch of less skilled people to do the 'menial work'.
Run for your life. Put a bunch of newbies in a static typed language and you get a mess. Put them in a language flexible like js and you get cthulhu
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Silverlight was always a bad idea.
It wasn't the best idea, but not because C#
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@jarry He's on a different team, so I don't think the danger is all that high.
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Fuck YouTube and their buffering shenanigans.
That is all.
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@magus T҉̙̠̹͔̥͙͖h̩̳̞̜̫̰̘ȩ̱̙͔̤͓̼̰ ̛̮͚̰͚̫̟̰͙͍̀N̶̡͎ȩ̳̗͓̭̭̝̣̠z҉̗͚̘̲͈̭̻̹p̶̮͍͎̱̪̕ͅͅe̖r̞̣̯͝d̥̘͢i͝͏̣̲̟̬ͅa̡҉͔͈̪̭͚n̨̞͙ ͏̧̞̮̲͎̬͞h̫͓í͏͎͞ͅv͈͚̻̹̲̤͓̰e̴҉͓̙̯͙͍̪̻̲̙-̷̨̫̰̮͖̼ṃ̻͎͙̀i̷͍̩̞̩̦̰͜ǹ̘͍͕͚̱͈d̨̥͔ ̡̜̪͖͖̭͟o̹̣̞̣̫̳͟͢͡ͅf̨͕̘̗̫̭̞̳̗ ̖̲͖͉̙̫̕͢͞c͍͓̲̼h͏̤͈͎͇̹̟a̠̞͇̫͎̹̹̹͡ͅo͕̰͓̬̟͡s̢̩̤̭͍̜͙͚͞.҉̢̪̫͉͖̥ ̨̢͓̦̼ͅZ̩̤̝͚͎͍̯a̞̙̣͉̻̦̩͈l͎̬̙̤̤̳̤g̵̸̦̳͉̭̳̠o̯̙̺.̛̳̫̳͢ ҉̞͎͇̫͉̤H̯̥e͏̯ ̖̳̱́͜ć̶̝o̷̮̰͖͖m̳͓̙̝̤͈͇e͜҉̧̭̱̖̻̻̝̘̣s̘̼͔̜̞͖
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@jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus T҉̙̠̹͔̥͙͖h̩̳̞̜̫̰̘ȩ̱̙͔̤͓̼̰ ̛̮͚̰͚̫̟̰͙͍̀N̶̡͎ȩ̳̗͓̭̭̝̣̠z҉̗͚̘̲͈̭̻̹p̶̮͍͎̱̪̕ͅͅe̖r̞̣̯͝d̥̘͢i͝͏̣̲̟̬ͅa̡҉͔͈̪̭͚n̨̞͙ ͏̧̞̮̲͎̬͞h̫͓í͏͎͞ͅv͈͚̻̹̲̤͓̰e̴҉͓̙̯͙͍̪̻̲̙-̷̨̫̰̮͖̼ṃ̻͎͙̀i̷͍̩̞̩̦̰͜ǹ̘͍͕͚̱͈d̨̥͔ ̡̜̪͖͖̭͟o̹̣̞̣̫̳͟͢͡ͅf̨͕̘̗̫̭̞̳̗ ̖̲͖͉̙̫̕͢͞c͍͓̲̼h͏̤͈͎͇̹̟a̠̞͇̫͎̹̹̹͡ͅo͕̰͓̬̟͡s̢̩̤̭͍̜͙͚͞.҉̢̪̫͉͖̥ ̨̢͓̦̼ͅZ̩̤̝͚͎͍̯a̞̙̣͉̻̦̩͈l͎̬̙̤̤̳̤g̵̸̦̳͉̭̳̠o̯̙̺.̛̳̫̳͢ ҉̞͎͇̫͉̤H̯̥e͏̯ ̖̳̱́͜ć̶̝o̷̮̰͖͖m̳͓̙̝̤͈͇e͜҉̧̭̱̖̻̻̝̘̣s̘̼͔̜̞͖
ShHh! ThEy HaVeN't CaUgHt On YeT!!!
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Status: Lots of cooties recently....
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I just typed
implenetatoipon
in an email.Status: Clearly not yet fully awake.
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This post is deleted!
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Status: Wondering why this is in today's article:
It's clearly a webinar that's being run three times, and you select which one you want to attend.
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@raceprouk
ZOOM! ENHANCE!
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@izzion Right, it's a link to change your timezone which will change the times listed to the timezone you select. Not really an error, just bad UX, given it's not obviously a link.
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering why this is in today's article:
It's clearly a webinar that's being run three times, and you select which one you want to attend.
/me looks at the date.
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/me looks at the screenshot
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/me looks at the date
-siiiiiiigh-
I'll call the doctor.