The Official Status Thread
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Status: tea and birthday cake. What's not to like?
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Figuring out the tasks for a new junior dev candidate we are interviewing tomorrow morning. Will probably update the junior dev mantle thread later.
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Status: tea and birthday cake. What's not to like?
Current status: wished a happy birthday by my friend in Australia.
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Current status: just found out one reason that this app is so bad:
'Date: 07/23/2002
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I just swore very loudly:
(not exact)
Public Class ClassName Public Sub StoreError(...) ... End Sub End Class Namespace NameOfNameSpace Public Class ClassName Public Sub StoreError(...) ... End Sub End Class End Namespace
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Really???????
Public Sub Method1() Try Method2() Catch ex As Exception ' log it End Try End Sub
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@antiquarian said:
work until you drop.
and drop it like it's hot?
like it's hot in here, so take of all your clothes?
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What the fing f.
If CheckDataSet(DS) Then With DS.Tables(0) DT = DS.Tables(0) Return True End With Else Return False End If
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What? How else are you going to inform the caller DT has or doesn't have a valid variable? On return it might still contain the table it previously had.
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With SomethingThatDoesNotCareAboutThisWithStatement
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I'm not as familiar with VB.Net as I could be, so I have to nominate myself for a Whoooosh.
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More fun screenshots?
Yay!
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Wondering why I'm being asked to borrow more money to pay for my son's state university than for my daughter's expensive private university. Not to mention how I'm going to pay it back when I'm already up to my eyebrows in debt.
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TLDR - Status: Wasting my fucking time. Others are that is...
Monday, am BST:
Boss: How long before you can have another look at $LONG_STANDING_ISSUE and the problem with reverting $COMMON_SERVICE from version 7 (V7) to version 5 (V5) to mitigate the problem we had with V7?
Me: Um - you wanted $OTHER_FEATURE finished didn't you? I've almost finished but, at least another day to get something worth checking in for someone else to play with before I want to get distracted (yet again...)
Boss: Ok - Wednesday?
Me: Hang on, I just need to quickly check the test systems (over in EDT, BST-5) that were setup for $LONG_STANDING_ISSUE and the reversion to V5. Last time I looked only one was actually up, (and some twat had undone the changes to make them use V5, and was using V7 again)
for $COMPUTER in $TEST_SYSTEMS; do ssh $COMPUTER <simple check for version>; doneMe: Both systems are, unusually, up, But one is back to using V7 (WHY??!?) and the other is some wierd hybrid where V7 has been disabled, but of V5 - there is no sign.
Boss: Ok - update the FootPrints(TM) ticket to get them to sort their act out.
Me: waits for 5 minutes while our FootPrints site loads...
From: Me
To: US project team
Subject: FP666 - $COMMON_SERVICE downgrade from V7 to V5
Via: FP Website...
Please have the test systems at 2001:DB8:85a3::7445 and 2001:DB8:85a3::7446 (re-)patched to test the downgrade and have them set up to
- Be using V5, with V7 disabled - as pointed out last time if you don't disable V7, V7 overwrites V5 (making the whole exercise pointless)
- Have the (incompatible between versions) config reverted to the V5 one
- Remove that config block that shouldn't have been there since it [fucks up iptables which I suspected was the real problem]
Please have this ready for Wednesday, thanks
Tuesday, all day BST:
Me: [Spend day finishing up $OTHER_FEATURE, upon checking it in, notice/realise that $OTHER_FEATURE really needs some documentation...]
Wednesday, am BST:
Me: [Notice a distinct lack of communication from the US team regarding this. Which is strange since it was they who were screaming about $LONG_STANDING_ISSUE]
for $COMPUTER in $TEST_SYSTEMS; do ssh $COMPUTER <simple check for version>; done<identical output to Monday>Me: waits for 5 minutes while our FootPrints site loads...
From: Me
To: US project team
Subject: Re: FP666 - $COMMON_SERVICE downgrade from V7 to V5
Via: FP Website...
I note, with a huge amount of annoyance, that my FP update from Monday has been ignored, despite your apparent insistence that $LONG_STANDING_ISSUE be 'fixed last month.'
Sort your fucking test system out so that I can do some investigation on the issue that you're having that I cannot, for the life of me, replicate locally since it fucking works here and I need to find out which particular PEBCAK your're suffering from - and I can only do that if I can see the system as it was when you- tested it
- pronounced it working one day
- pronounced it fucked the next
and when asked what happened between 2 and 3 you replied "Oh - I was connecting to $OTHER_TOTALLY_IRRELEVANT_SYSTEM when I was testing" [i.e. they tested fuck all to do with $LONG_STANDING_ISSUE]
.. is what I would have liked to have written, I settled for something along the lines of "it appears that the two test systems do not appear to have been patched, would you let me know when that's going to/has happened please?"
Me: spend rest of day documenting $OTHER_FEATURE.
Wednesday, am EDT (pm BST):
From: US project team member
To: Me
Subject: Re: FP666 - $COMMON_SERVICE downgrade from V7 to V5
Via: FP email...
Test environment will be available Thursday2 minutes later:
From: US project team member
To: Me
Subject: Re: $UNRELATED_BUG that mentioned $OTHER_SERVICE
Via: normal email...
Hi, I have updated FP666 <snip copy of last FP666 comment>Thursday. am BST:
for $COMPUTER in $TEST_SYSTEMS; do ssh $COMPUTER <simple check for version>; done<identical output to Monday>
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Where Thursday means end-of-business their time. Friday to you, squire…
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Status: Deciding what to do now that my object graph is too big for .NET's BinarySerializer once the LOH gets a bit fragmented. Darn.
Edit: Horrible hack so it lasts until Monday. Then I'll fix it properly.
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Status: Loading slashdot for the first time today and getting this:
(it’s basically asking me if I allow their website to put cookies on my computer)
So, cookie law issues aside (I don’t know anything about them), i have the following rants:- Why use a full-screen page to show this message? For a second I though it was a “Website blocked” page.
- Why use colors totally unrelated to the main website theme?
- Why is it so badly centered the top part is missing, without any way to scroll to it?
- Why are there missing spaces in the text?
- Why does my cursor changes to the text selection cursor when I hover over the “Accept cookies” button?
- Why do I get the same dialog for each slashdot subdomain?
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Status: Feeling a little tired ...
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Status: Intern testing is fun, but not exactly conductive for work. Real work-related things finished today: ZERO.
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Status: in a meeting, reading TDWTF.
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But it is fun to watch from here!
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But it is fun to watch from here!
I'll be sure to tell the bossman you enjoyed it when he asks me for the status report
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Status:
Annoyed that the one meeting that was scheduled for over 3 days now that never happened didn't happen because they figured out they could work with the DB as it was with no problem, but didn't bother to tell me that.
So now, I'm supposed to have a different meeting about a different project that, like others, started out as a "build something to show off" that's immediately turning into a "full steam ahead", but this meeting should've happened a week ago.
And, now I'm supposedly going to be doing more design work to re work the front end design of a site for one of our clients, but it's not one I'm particularly fond of, but more importantly, I'm tired of doing design work shit because I'm not great at it and it's definitely not what I like doing.
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Status: Craving Sid Meier's Colonization (the original 1994 version) but I'm at work.
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I'm not sure what it says about me, that in this day of AAA high-graphics games, I'm still more likely to play games from the 1990's. These days, if I'm not playing Space Engineers, I'm either on Colonization or Alpha Centauri.
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No Civ2. That is the one I'm considering revisiting.
Civ1 was fun too but some of the crazy stuff was removed in 2. No more losing your tanks to a stupid phalanx.
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I never got into Civ. I played Civ3 a bit, but I greatly preferred the economic micromanagement of Colonization and the sci-fi theme of Alpha Centauri. I already pre-ordered Civilization: Beyond Earth.
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You can absolutely still lose tanks to phalanx in Civ 2. Possibly a bit rarer tho! (ie Phalanx in mountain fortress)
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You can absolutely still lose tanks to phalanx in Civ 2. Possibly a bit rarer tho!
Yeah but throw several at it and the phalanx will fall. In civ1 it was a gamble every time and you really could have a lose streak.
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They really fixed it in 3 when they introduced the firepower parameter for units.
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Status: Starving! I'm fasting for some lab tests at around lunch time, and I can't have anything but water until then.
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They really fixed it in 3 when they introduced the firepower parameter for units.
Don't tell me I mixing up versions ...
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TRWTF in 1 (and maybe 2?) was killing everyone in a stack in a single battle.
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So much for wanting to get work done for the next 3-4 hours. Yay for shit queries from other groups!
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status:
(headache, and the acetylsalicylic acid is not helping!)
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Wondering why Dicsores keeps showing a muted topic in my "Latest" list. @discoursebot
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Wondering why @discoursebot isn't answering me.
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because discourse only mutes unread notifications from muted topics not removed them from the latest list, you need to mute the category to do that.
also @sockbot
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@accalia has summoned me, and so I appear. <t1673d1412268437606>
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So I would have to mute all of Meta the get that one topic off my list? TDEMSJAR
Oh well, at least there's no blue circle of unread posts associated with it, so I'm not likely to click it by mistake, but if I don't want to read a topic, I don't care that it has recent activity.
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we do not disag...
-blink- no this is serious topic, sorry.
i'm not disagreeing with you on that one, but that's the way discurse works.
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I'm not as familiar with VB.Net as I could be, so I have to nominate myself for a Whoooosh.
With obj .property1 = "frist" .FILE_NOT_FOUND = True End WithSo basically, the With statement in my snippet isn't even really used.
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Ah, ok, what I was guessing was TRWTF was something entirely different, then.
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This is your own fault for using Firefox.
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Yeah, that's the problem that have a lot of people have if they've only used C-pound. There are a lot of minor, but very important, differences between the two. Such as ternary operators vs. IIf().
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Current status: pondering if I should go get some birthday X-rays to see if my foot is broken.
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Status: Trying to install prerequisites for Wireshark plugin development at work, except the required Windows 7 SDK fails to install and gives me a relative path to the error log so I can't actually find it.
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Current status: pondering if I should go get some birthday X-rays to see if my foot is broken.
Ouch, that's not a good birthday present. Is there at least an amusing story associated with the condition that is prompting this line of thought?
