The Official Status Thread
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I said "know" not "know of"...
Dang "v" not "ph" ...um... Ok I've heard of this guy...
http://img.timeinc.net/time/2012/poypoll/colbert.jpg
Filed under: doesn't the Nobel prize have a built in soda dispenser? It should.
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There was an issue with Forge where someone was using a method in a way that became deprecated, and would cause a crash. That cracked me up because the official response was "downgrade Java". Someone with a little more enterprising nature rewrote the class in question to use the new method.
Because it's Java, it's like hotpatching in the old days: you had top open the jar file and replace a class file inside it.
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I zapped 13 posts to a new topic: Properly Protecting Your Computer System: Surge Protector vs. UPS
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Status: Still no fucking internet.
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Status: fucking hell, will this contract ever end.
I had no idea about their systems architecture, and the documentation is nonexistent, so I raised the issue with other, more BA-ish guys on the team hoping to get an idea how to do my business logic in the application - things like "which code dictionaries do we use", "how do we need to arrange the tables", etc. I managed to get through, and scheduled a meeting today.
So I fire up the app in VS to show my progress, and start asking questions, only to immediately be told "oh, you don't have to worry about that, you're the front-end guy". What happened then was 20 minutes of having three people over my head, arguing and telling me to rearrange the buttons and fields on my WinForms one after another.
I learned nothing at all.
Edit: oh, and I'm the only person developing the actual application. Which means that if I stick to arranging the forms around, the only thing that the app is going to do will be looking pretty.
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Also, status: never before have I realized how much an application-bound database is worth.
As it is now, the DB used by the application also gets used and abused for various other things (mostly tossing data around between different systems). As such, nearly every day comes the Broken Model Time: someone in the DBA department decides "oh, we need to fix the key up here, and maybe make this column refer to codes from a different system, and let's drop this foreign key because the import doesn't pass".
Then I spend half an hour to an hour doing "Update from Database" on my Entity Framework model and fixing all the shit that broke because of the tinkering. Jesus.
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Remember back in the old days when if you didn't know something you would just have to deal with not knowing it?
No.
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I'm the only person developing the actual application. Which means that if I stick to arranging the forms around, the only thing that the app is going to do will be looking pretty.
Did you ask the BA-ish types when the back end was going to be finished so that you could integrate with it? When doing that, make sure to mention that it'll otherwise be like a film set in the desert…
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Status: Planning an Arduino project that will likely get its own topic once ready. It's an aux display for my dirt bike using a 20x4 character LCD display to display magnetic heading, altitude (barometric), air temp, engine temp, engine RPM, GPS velocity, and position in Lat-Lon decimal degrees. Some of that stuff would be interesting to see when trail riding, especially in the mountains, and I think it'll be a fun hardware project.
Something like this:
045NE 13,800FT 102 MPH 10,000 RPM Amb:102F Eng:196F 41.34382 -103.40332
The GPS velocity might go away after testing if I find that the stock speedometer is fairly accurate, but they tend to be pretty hit-or-miss on street-legal dirt bikes, usually reading 10 - 15% high from what I hear on the 'Net.
I will have a slight formatting issue with a 20-char-wide display should my bike ever end up in the Southern and Western hemispheres at the same time, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon, and if it does I'll probably be well-aware of which hemisphere I'm in anyway.
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Status: It's 2015 and I'm still getting emails at work with subjects like this:
RE: RE: RE: Re: RE: RE: Re: RE: RE: Topic that is now out of date
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FLARGLEBARGLING pre-recorded telemarketing calls. "Hi, this is blah blah in charge of business listings for Google, Yahoo and Bing. Our records show your online business listing hasn't been claimed...." Unlike email spam, I figure they already know the number they dialed is valid, because I answered it, so I probably have nothing to lose by "press[ing] 9 to be placed on our 'do not call' list."
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Status: Currently remoted in to work, deploying things for two clients.
Mostly right now just idling and surfing the internet while I wait for things to finish.
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Status: still watching Torchwood Miracle Day. I do not know why. Each episode is physically painful.
EDIT: Holy shit, John DeLancy is in this? He's the second recognizable celeb they got for this shitty series.
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Trying to use an Ember library.
But I don't use ember-cli! So what do I do now?
After wasting a bunch of time cloning the repo, npm installing, grunting, broccolying, bowering, ember installing... and failing, I ended up just copy-pasting code into my project. Yay ecosystem!
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I ended up just copy-pasting code into my project.
Ah yes, javascript library “integration”.
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Your people pronounce Craig as Creg.
Your people don't apppear to know how my people pronounces things.
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Take your neeeesan car and get out of here
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Never heard THAT one. In nz, they all say it as if it rhymes with kissin', for some reason.
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John DeLancy
Yeah, quite a step down from voicing Discord, right?
Oh, I can't wait until you get to the cliffhanger/twist at the last minute.
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Status: moved offices. The new desk has drawers on both sides. I have banged my knees approximately 8 times so far, and it's only the beginning of my 3rd day using it. I will probably bring in pillows to strap onto the corners by Friday.
The first one was one of those horrible ones where you bang your kneecap straight into the edge.
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Aside: 504 OK error posting previous post? Whatevs, Discurse.
Status: forgot the password to my flex spending account's website. You ask for my name and SSN. You probably ALSO don't need to ask me for the answers to 3 security questions as well, particularly not if I have to pick them. I will NEVER remember all that.
So I sent them an email. Yesterday morning, first thing. Today I just got an email saying "call us at [800 number]".
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Is it worse than the vagina-cliff? Because I saw that last night.
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it involves the vagina cliff, but I wouldn't call that a plot twist.
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I mainly just wanted to type "vagina cliff".
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Status: Trying to figure out if I should continue to be a slumlord.
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You own rental properties?
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One. Place we used to live in. When we moved last time the market sucked so we rented the place out instead of selling.
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Take your neeeesan car and get out of here
I think it's OK for you guys to pronounce car company names incorrectly given that you drive on the wrong side of the road to begin with.
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Do a sunk-cost analysis on it. If you could sell it today and profit $X, and today you had $X but no rental...would you go out and buy a rental property?
For most people the answer is usually no and they should sell.
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If I could sell it today and not lose money I would. I'm not certain the current market will support that.
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Damn. Did you buy at the top of the market?
Call up a rockstar residential realtor and see what they say for pricing. It will only take a few hours of your time.
Do you currently have renters?
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Status: this job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers
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I'm in exactly the same situation. Luckily I have a good tenant. I almost scared her off though:
When I was taking her details I discovered her email address is $HERFIRSTNAME@hotmail.com (and it's not even an unusual first name). I was so impressed it creeped her out a bit, but she still signed up.
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Damn. Did you buy at the top of the market?
No, but we did take a bit of equity out of it at one point, so the basis for capital gains is less than I currently owe.
Call up a rockstar residential realtor and see what they say for pricing. It will only take a few hours of your time.
Yeah, we're in the process of doing that right now. It's not a great neighborhood and there are quite a few places on the market currently, which is why I'm unsure about the prospects of selling.
Do you currently have renters?
Nope. We recently had to evict some tenants and the place got mildly trashed. Plus normal wear and tear that needs to be addressed.
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Status: caught up on the articles again...
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Nope. We recently had to evict some tenants and the place got mildly trashed. Plus normal wear and tear that needs to be addressed.
That changes the sunk cost equation then. You would need to account for holding costs and potential legal fees and damages should you decide to rent again. It would make it worth it to sell even if you lose money. It is just a matter of how much.
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Status: We finally have internet again, and I am extremely behind on work. Time to buckle down I suppose.
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The military exercise will train Special Operations troops in what Army planners call “unconventional warfare.” The exercise is being conducted in rural Texas because the military needed “large areas of undeveloped land with low population densities with access to towns,” and wanted soldiers to adapt to unfamiliar terrain as well as social and economic conditions, according to Army documents.
AKA rural Texas is exactly like a dirt-poor third-world shithole.
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AKA rural Texas is exactly like a dirt-poor third-world shithole.
Kentucky would have made a better analog, IMHO.
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AKA rural Texas is exactly like a dirt-poor third-world shithole.
Yes, they usually do this sort of thing in Germany.
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I don't either. But KeePassX does.
A site I log onto twice a year because stupid regulations require me to upload a receipt is not what's going to drive me into the arms of a password manager.
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AKA rural Texas is exactly like a dirt-poor third-world shithole.
Just like where you live is a steamy rain forest of human sacrifice, just like the Mayan empire.
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I have my initials and my last name (@hotmail.com) as my email address, no numbers or anything, so I understand why you were impressed. I've had the same email address for 22 years.
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Just like where you live is a steamy rain forest of human sacrifice, just like the Mayan empire.
I wish!
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I wish!
Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be a sacrifice than a priest. Just pointing it out.