The Official Status Thread
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Status: 70% sure Blakeyrat is EternalEnvy
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You could have went with ijji and been a terrible game service.
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Prefer to have my own planet - although it's probably haunted with floating Tom Baker heads.
ffloating - the Welsh spelling...
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haunted with floating Tom Baker heads.
That's fine, I did not need to sleep anytime soon.
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That's fine, I did not need to sleep anytime soon.
< Rockne >
Get out there and win some new business!!
< /Rockne >That'll make you feel better.
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....... no.
just no....
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This is not the song of the day thread.
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Status: testing the SO/Programmers moderators. A guy posted two really closely related questions, and I accidentally answered one with information from the other, so I flagged it and asked them to migrate my answer.
Hopefully I stop answering this question soon.
I just couldn't let a C# question answered with bad JS recursion stand. None of the answers in either location considered not using recursion in C#.
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@accalia said:
i usually hide the extra ones for going out.
STFY
“I did cut a lot of my penis off,” he said, before clarifying that he hadn’t cut off all of it. “Due to the fact that it’s not a myth, the black man do — I’m not really going to go into it too much — we hangin’, so I’m still able to work with what I’m able to work with, and get it down.”
I was going to put that in BAD IDEAS, but now I didn't.
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It's had two Jonathan Coulton song lyrics containing the words "I feel fantastic" as titles in a row, so I assumed it was ok.
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Status: One of my coworkers is insistent that the interns change from using Linq-To-Xml to deserialization, and do the deserialization in a static method on a base class of the types they need to create. Despite there being a high chance of needing to add calls to external data sources. Hopefully they will be able to escape. I'm doing my best to bring up the problems in his suggestions in the code review comments.
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Hopefully they will be able to escape.
But then they will escape the lesson taught by doing something the wrong way. Those lessons stick damn well, so maybe that is the intent behind coworker's insistence.
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What? He's suggesting things that just plain won't work when they get tasked with implementing the next step, because he feels like it.
It's like this: They need to make Xml that produces textboxes and comboboxes. They have it working for textboxes, and if they were to make it use deserialization, that would be fine. Same with only constructing them from a static method on the base class.
But within the next day or two, they have to add the ability for comboboxes to either have their elements explicitly written in the Xml, or use an attribute to say to go get the elements from a server. That doesn't belong in the subclasses or the base class, and it makes no sense to use serialization for that. We all hope he just doesn't understand the situation.
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What? He's suggesting things that just plain won't work when they get tasked with implementing the next step, because he feels like it.
That is exactly what I was saying. If they try to do it a way that doesn't work they learn more due to having to fix things.
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That is exactly what I was saying. If they try to do it a way that doesn't work they learn more due to having to fix things.
He's now insisting that they use reflection to create their objects. Despite being obsessed with performance, and hating things like
foreach(var thing in place) others.Add(thing);
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Please stop, I prefer to assume slightly malicious competence to incompetence. It's a less depressing view of the world.
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He's Gollum-level on the project they're working on.
To be fair, he's definitely a smart guy. But I was honestly lost for words when I saw that.
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Status: Why did the status thread grow so much at a time posting is normally slower? Oh, it's blakey yelling at Ben for trying to help with something.
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Status: If I had a dollar for every orphan row I've identified in our VSphere database I'd have over $950 million
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I'd have over $950 million
yeah, too bad you didn't specify, so they're Zimbabwean.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
I'd have over $950 million
yeah, too bad you didn't specify, so they're Zimbabwean.
I'd take that at today's exchange rate: 950,000,000.00 ZWD = 3,410,911.25 AUD
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950,000,000.00 ZWD = 3,410,911.25 AUD
Not bloody likely since that currency has been extinct since 2006: "The first dollar devalued from 0.6788 R$ to 1 US$ in 1978 to roughly half a million per US$ in 2006, when the currency is revalued."
The ZWD was the first Zimbabwean dollar; since 2006 something like 22 zeroes were chopped off before they declared the final form dead in 2009 or so.
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Well I'll take the money in Zimbabwean $10 bills and wallpaper the house.
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Well I'll take the money in Zimbabwean $10 bills and wallpaper the house.
That kind of thing is probably the best type of use you could find for it. Assuming you could find any $10 bills.
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Well I'll take the money in Zimbabwean $10 bills and wallpaper the house.
Probably cheaper than buying wallpaper.
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Two days in a row I've been really annoyed at C++. I wish we used a language that was less of an jerk.
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Unfortunately for me, they revalued the currency one final time.... the "official" rate stands at about 392 Z$ to 1 US$. A few months later they threw in the towel and have allowed several stable currencies (inc. US$, , and rand) as legal tender. Apparently (as posted elsewhere) the Z$ currency is still legal tender through the end of 2015.
I say unfortunately because I owe my oldest child Z$52 million from playing cards. I had buttumed the third Z$ so I would've owed less than a buck... now, I might owe her a car.
Filed under: I'm not dead yet!
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Just stall payment until 2016 ...
Ask the Greeks for advise.
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I securely moved 37 posts to a new public key: blakey don't ssh
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Ask the Greeks for advise.
No good. Looks like they're paying up.
Filed under: those are some nice statues there... shame if anything happened to them
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Apparently they didn't think the EU was serious...
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The ZWD was the first Zimbabwean dollar; since 2006 something like 22 zeroes were chopped off before they declared the final form dead in 2009 or so.
A wild ZWD appears!
The ZWD uses revaluation! It's super-effective!
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Status: Attempting to diagnose a unit test failure which appears to essentially be
ASSERT_EQUALS(value1, value1);
Even worse (or better, depending on your point of view), "value1" is declared as a macro, in only one place.
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STATUS:
356% Attendance badge but no Anniversary.Who'd've thought that?
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356% Attendance badge
Not in cupcakes? Also you should not show for a day so to dodge the Anniversary, wait... n/m that doesn't work.
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Does the macro include any function calls, possibly hidden behind more macros?
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Nope.
#define PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION 4400
string getVersion() { return PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION; }
ASSERT_EQUALS(getVersion(), PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION);
Assertion failed: Error: Expected (getVersion() == PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION), found ("4376" != "4400")
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So is the header file out of date?
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I don't know what happened, I can't replicate it now. I guess the laws of logic were temporarily suspended but are now back to normal.
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Assertion failed: Error: Expected (getVersion() == PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION), found ("4376" != "4400")
well that's better than the one i foucnt last week:
Assertion failed: Error: Expected (getVersion() == PRODUCT_NAME_CENSORED_REVISION), found ("17" != "17")
(censored of course, but that was the error (just formatted C# style with incriminating class names in the stack trace))
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Status: Thought I'd check my account balance. Log in no problem. Press accounts. Error, logging you out.
PERFECT, EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!
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Status: no meeting today. First time in ages…
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Status: creeped the f*ck out for no particular reason.
Contributing factors probably include the fact that there's a thunderstorm, the (open-plan) office is about 2/3 empty and large swathes of it are unlit even though there's no longer sunlight streaming through the windows, combined with general apprehension about certain upcoming events. But the upshot is that I would not be unduly surprised if a velociraptor jumped on my back.
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But the upshot is that I would not be unduly surprised if a velociraptor jumped on my back.
At least you have your armor. Has it been tested against a determined velociraptor?
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