The Official Status Thread
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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Was downtown Toronto. Went by the Canada Walk of Fame. And guess what, finally?
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Is the Canada walk of fame on a wall?
I ask because in Canada milk comes in bags.
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Status: Happy that one change I made this morning has wiped out over 99% of
NullReferenceException
s in our ELMAH logs :DAFAICT, these errors were never seen by customers, only in the ELMAH logs. Still, as the UK's largest supermarket chain says, every little helps.
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Status: For the last couple of days my harddisk has been solid at 99% active time and the vast majority of the I/O is Chrome. I have maybe a couple of hundred tabs open in 5 windows and it just can't cope.
So I've moved to Vivaldi. First impressions are it's very nice. I can have my tabs on the left in groups and, so far, it hasn't crapped itself. Plus all my Chrome extensions still work.
And Performance Monitor isn't showing it doing a million file operations in the background like Chrome. Memory usage is very reasonable too, 65MB for this same tab set. Chrome was nearly two gigs!
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@cursorkeys But doesn't Vivaldi use Chrome underneath?
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Months ago I was finishing up a rudimentary text messaging system. On a whim, I added a quick markdown parser support.
Today, they suddenly decide they wanted to include an image in a message to a customer.
Well, guess who was johnny on the spot with a nice surprise.
I just needed to carefully guide the non technical customer rep in how to write a markdown image tag, but it worked out great. Pretty soon they won't even need Word or any of those awful WYSIWYG GUI-s.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys But doesn't Vivaldi use Chrome underneath?
Yup, the website says it's based on Chromium. Obviously just the good parts
It's still showing 65MB for the same number of tabs Chrome was using Gigs for. Not sure what they are doing mechanically to get this difference but it's pretty dramatic!
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The production side of company just got a huge pile of manure dumped of them. Asset recording was fumbled and there is no way to redo it. It will take a LOT of ridiculously fiddly post-production work to get anything done. Estimates are in terms of multiple weeks just to get back to where they'd be if the assets weren't botched.
The deadline for the project is this Friday.
On my part, so much delightful schadenfreude to enjoy. I've put on my headphones and are happily coding away on unrelated tasks, while occasionally glancing at the fallout.
I'll try not to whistle too loud.
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@cartman82 you can always offer them a fruit database.
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TIL that Sonic's Spin Attack or shooting an alien in the face is a repetitive task that would be mind-numbingly dull for a person to perform.
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
shooting an alien in the face is a repetitive task that would be mind-numbingly dull for a person to perform
After a couple millions, yes
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Status: Learning is fun!
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@raceprouk Related: We get a lot of traffic on pages I didn't think were heavily used
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Status: That stinking-pile-of-fœtid-donkey-shit C++ program is now a significantly-less-shit-but-still-not-great Python program. Handed it over to my colleagues because I'm going off on vacation!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox I got one a few days ago that was from "my credit card provider" who had a better deal.
I asked, "ok, before we go forward, one question for you: what bank is my credit card through?" When she couldn't answer I just hung up.
Unhelpful question for me. There's a 80% chance they get that question correct.
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Status: Wishing I remembered ANY of the VBA I learned a handful of years ago. I'm tempted to try and automate one of my weekly reports so that I don't have to spend so much damn time on it, but I'd have to relearn VBA and Excel's specific portions of it in order to even try...
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Status: when you add the "run Resharper analysis" task to your build in VSTS, the task downloads Resharper's CLI analyzer. And puts it straight in the artifact staging directory. And doesn't clean up after itself.
I was a little surprised when my build artifact size suddenly jumped by 100 megabytes...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wishing I remembered ANY of the VBA I learned a handful of years ago. I'm tempted to try and automate one of my weekly reports so that I don't have to spend so much damn time on it, but I'd have to relearn VBA and Excel's specific portions of it in order to even try...
Record a macro then clean it up?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wishing I remembered ANY of the VBA I learned a handful of years ago.
No you don't.
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@tsaukpaetra Eh...I think it's more complicated than a macro.
Basic report structure is thus:
- Grab exported list of tickets in "Open" and "Resolved" statuses created earlier than today from the ticket system
- Paste into Excel workbook on designated sheet
- Add two columns to the beginning and add column headers
- Label all Termination, New Hire, etc tickets as such in first column
- Locate and label all internal tickets as such in first column, list reason for each in second column
- Locate and label all tickets currently escalated via checking the ticket system for properly marked activity lines, mark as such in first column and list ticket number in second column
- Mark all other tickets as "Updates Current", but filter on the "Last Updated Date" column to make sure no tickets are being unworked
Then if this is the "weekly update" version of this (practically the only one I do), I then make a new sheet, make some pivot-tables and some charts, put a bunch of that in an email to my team's management and ship it off. I'm also SUPPOSED to go through every open ticket one-by-one to identify any failures by the technicians, but that would increase the time this takes from ~1-1.5 hours to between 4 and 8 hours, depending on how many open tickets we have.
I wish I could just automate all of it so I could push a button, but I don't have interface capability with the ticket system and I'd still have to do parts of it manually anyway. Bleh.
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Status: We got slack. Can anyone tell me (in less than 10 words) why I should care?
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@pleegwat I wish I could get my team Slack. It would make things a lot easier than the shite Lync IM client we currently use for non-voice communications here...
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: We got slack. Can anyone tell me (in less than 10 words) why I should care?
You need it to defeat The Conspiracy.
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@pleegwat
Instant Messaging. Historical Record. Phone App. Giphy reaction postseverywhere!Quasi-Fake Edit: Oh, damn, you said "less than 10 words", not "10 words or less"
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Status: G'dammit Microsoft. The most recent SSMS update included some expansions to the Query Store graphical views, added a couple additional sort orders that are actually pretty useful.
...And completely broke the "Custom Date Range" option, so that any custom date range you input gets interpreted as "the previous 24 hours". Yay
open sourceshitware...
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@e4tmyl33t We use Mattermost, because the data stay inside our building, and it's free
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LOCK AND LOAD!
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@maciejasjmj I honestly wouldn't bother with that anymore. You should be able to just add some analyzers to your project - I assume VSTS can deal with that.
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
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LOCK AND LOAD!
EEK!
I safe now.
that thing takes 6 DD cell batteries! and it shoots 40 foam balls at what appears to be .9c in a little less than a minute...... oh yes......
finding all the ammunition again will prove problematic......
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
that thing takes 6 DD cell batteries!
Crap, that's a lot of battery!
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and it shoots 40 foam balls at what appears to be .9c in a little less than a minute
And that's why :D
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@maciejasjmj I honestly wouldn't bother with that anymore. You should be able to just add some analyzers to your project - I assume VSTS can deal with that.
One of our quality metrics is no ReSharper warnings, so I'd need to take that upstairs. Unless I rewrite the entire ReSharper ruleset in Roslyn, but I have a feeling that's something Jetbrains should be paying me for.
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@maciejasjmj How much of their ruleset hasn't been rewritten already?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Eh...I think it's more complicated than a macro.
Basic report structure is thus:
- Grab exported list of tickets in "Open" and "Resolved" statuses created earlier than today from the ticket system
- Paste into Excel workbook on designated sheet
- Add two columns to the beginning and add column headers
- Label all Termination, New Hire, etc tickets as such in first column
- Locate and label all internal tickets as such in first column, list reason for each in second column
- Locate and label all tickets currently escalated via checking the ticket system for properly marked activity lines, mark as such in first column and list ticket number in second column
- Mark all other tickets as "Updates Current", but filter on the "Last Updated Date" column to make sure no tickets are being unworked
Then if this is the "weekly update" version of this (practically the only one I do), I then make a new sheet, make some pivot-tables and some charts, put a bunch of that in an email to my team's management and ship it off. I'm also SUPPOSED to go through every open ticket one-by-one to identify any failures by the technicians, but that would increase the time this takes from ~1-1.5 hours to between 4 and 8 hours, depending on how many open tickets we have.
I wish I could just automate all of it so I could push a button, but I don't have interface capability with the ticket system and I'd still have to do parts of it manually anyway. Bleh.
Dammit, if only I had gotten permission to export code I did at my last job, this would totally be doable with an Excel-based tool I built to do exactly this kind of thing!
It could do everything you mentioned, including the Pivot Table configuration...
Sometimes I wish my morals were just slightly more corrupt....
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Status: Windows has recently been prompting me to open everything from .txt to .bmp files with Chrome lately.
WTF, Chrome?!?
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@tsaukpaetra Now I'm wondering how long before it suggests you open Chrome in Chrome.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery
The moral of the story: never eat food that's going to be hot while coming out.But where's the fun in that?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Is the Canada walk of fame on a wall?
Ceiling. I'm Spidermaun.
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I ask because in Canada milk comes in bags.
Common misconception. Canadian Cows grow detachable udders, like fruit, which are picked and sold.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery
The moral of the story: never eat food that's going to be hot while coming out.
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Yes, I must be a robot, I just created this VM and because apparently by default there is no firewall, it's probably already been hacked and I don't know it yet....
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Nashville hot chicken
If you're in Nashville for reals, hit up Hattie B's for some ridiculously hot chicken. I ate it up, but it was causing visible physical reaction - my head was pouring sweat and anywhere the sauce touched skin around my lips, it would turn bright red.
I've eaten Bhut Jolokia, Habaneros, Red Savinias straight... there comes a point where it doesn't even matter anymore, you can't tell the difference in hotness. And this chicken was at that point.
Downside is... that place has a line every night stretching a full block down the road.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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Yes, I must be a robot, I just created this VM and because apparently by default there is no firewall, it's probably already been hacked and I don't know it yet....
Accessing Google in something claiming to be a web browser via an IP address owned by a server hosting company? Coupled with the fact that you've probably never visited any site that would give you a Google cookie before on that VM?
Seems suspicious.
Also, you are literally Googling "hijackthis".
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Accessing Google in something claiming to be a web browser via an IP address owned by a server hosting company? Coupled with the fact that you've probably never visited any site that would give you a Google cookie before on that VM?
I opened Chrome and it worked just fine.
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, you are literally Googling "hijackthis".
Yeah, was trying to determine if it was that or autoruns that helps tell me how a script is managing to run before user logon.
Turns out it was group policy! :D
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I opened Chrome and it worked just fine.
The act of opening Chrome probably requests stuff from Google in a way that Google recognizes as being a real browser.
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@tsaukpaetra I imagine Chrome offers itself as something that handles any file format or protocol, in case someone makes an addon that does, and so Windows lets it show up in every list.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: We got slack. Can anyone tell me (in less than 10 words) why I should care?
Share code with highlighting, won't get corrupted like Skype.
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Status: Just got an e-mail that actually ended with the request "Can you check this issue and do the needful" (emphasis mine)
That's the first time I've seen that phrase in the wild...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: We got slack. Can anyone tell me (in less than 10 words) why I should care?
Share code with highlighting, won't get corrupted like Skype.
Does Skype still fill your code pastes with :( , ;) and :D s if you dare to have any of those character sequences in your snippet?
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status back at work ... coffee is still terrible ...
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@onyx yup.
I think it actually de-emojifies them on copy, but I can't rely on that.
Slack has markdown like code blocks, which are great. But skype is better in all other ways.