The Official Status Thread
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Wait. Is your problem not solved by impersonation? Or do you need to do shit that isn't impersonation aware?
I really don't know.
It's a workflow service, and some users want to configure the system so that different users run their code (since workflows are parallel programs by another name) with pretty strong separation from each other. We've got a whole bunch of ways of locking down various parts of the service (in particular, anonymous users don't run anything of course) but running as separate OS users per workflow user — a requirement from a pharma customer — isn't something we've got working on Windows. Right now, running on that platform requires effectively doing everything as a single user (the service user) on the back end. That bothers me, on the principle that Windows is only a bit different to the Unixes, but not so much that there are important things that are necessarily outright impossible. (Not quite enough to stop working on everything else to sort it out though.)The code in question is also currently entirely Java (and a carefully-configured
sudo; I provide documentation on doing the minimal change required) but putting in some C++ for this part on Win would be acceptable. (Doubly acceptable if I can cross-compile it on the CI server.
)If anyone wants to actually contribute code, I can provide more information.
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And I beat that game. The ending was a letdown.
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Status: Went to download subtitles for Dr. Who (shut up, "legit" means of watching it mean waiting for 2 years, if I'm lucky, for it to get aired here). Spent 2 minutes looking for the download button because I instinctively avoided the huge obvious one being trained to avoid those by now.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
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Fuck knows. I've not looked into it since that discovery.
Not sure why Apple even have their own fucking Java package. It's explicitly asking for that.
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Status: Annoyed with Word 2016 because the keyboard shortcut for the formula editor does not work. Shortcuts in general do, I already checked the keyboard layout, no dice.
Anyone know where I might look next? Because I'm currently typing a text which needs a ton of formulas and clicking is annoying. And, no, I won't switch to Latex.
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Sounds like a bug, don't you have the frowny face button? Send them a frowny face and they'll be sure to fix it!
Filed under: :) :( ?
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No frowny face button for some reason. VS 2015 has that one
edit: Googled a way to customize keyboard shortcuts and found that the shortcut simple wasn't set, for some reason. The tooltip displayed the default value but the actual config was empty. Weird.
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Status: arguing with management about their desire to hire more mediocrely productive developers instead of getting nicer workstations and higher sku tools for the existing developers to increase their productivity.
On a Sunday.
Seriously guys, for like 10 percent of the cost of one developer we can fix all sorts of productivity hangups and make 6 people more than 10 percent more productive.
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Isn't that what they call "penny-wise and pound-foolish"?
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I'm pretty sure they grok the economic argument but as managers live and die by headcount.
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Status: Went to download subtitles for Dr. Who (shut up, "legit" means of watching it mean waiting for 2 years, if I'm lucky, for it to get aired here). Spent 2 minutes looking for the download button because I instinctively avoided the huge obvious one being trained to avoid those by now.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Standard thing when my parents try to pirate stuff.
-- "It downloaded some rar archive, not a .torrent file. I'll unpack it-"
-- "DON'T"Re: subtitles. I paid like 2-3 dollars for sublight and the frustration is gone. They handle all the searching, categorizing, validating and renaming for me. I just drag & drop video and then play it.
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Re: subtitles. I paid like 2-3 dollars for sublight and the frustration is gone. They handle all the searching, categorizing, validating and renaming for me. I just drag & drop video and then play it.
I usually just pull them from opensubtitles using a feature of SMPlayer that searches for it automatically. But it sometimes takes a day or two for subs to pop up there so...
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Status: Pretty sure one of our BAs (the last quasi competent one) has had a psychotic break from stress and overwork.
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I noticed that in the crappy horrible company I contracted at for 4 months. The more people a manager had under them, the "better". Productivity? Employee satisfaction? Complete non-issue.
They actually hired me on a contract when they had no real work to do.
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We brought on two contractors for a particular project. Project got cancelled. Contractors did not because project funding had already been allocated. Projects the rest of the team was booked up for and therefore didn't have time to do got cancelled.
I've been struggling to come up with sufficient productive things for the whole team to do. At this point we're doing stuff that we were explicitly forbidden by management to do because it would distract from the "important" projects (which were cancelled). On any given day at least one of them is idle while I invent a spec for SOMETHING.
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Not sure why Apple even have their own fucking Java package.
It's for integration with the OSX desktop GUI style, and isn't actually a lot of code. Handles some of the things like making the menu appear at the top of the screen and the standard high-level events (e.g., open-file-dropped-in). Current best practice is to use a wrapper library that soft-codes things so that you can build on non-OSX and deploy wherever you want.
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Current best practice is to use a wrapper library that soft-codes things so that you can build on non-OSX and deploy wherever you want.
... uh wouldn't best practice be "never under ANY circumstances write a desktop application in fucking Java, you fat idiot!"
Because I think it should be.
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It's for integration with the OSX desktop GUI style, and isn't actually a lot of code. Handles some of the things like making the menu appear at the top of the screen and the standard high-level events (e.g., open-file-dropped-in).
But it's a legacy version.
All this shit seems to just work with the Oracle Java 1.8 package with other things I've used.I've yet to discover a reason why a 3 month old app is tied to a legacy version of Java that isn't even a version supplied by Oracle. The Windows version of the same app works with Java 1.8.
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We brought on two contractors for a particular project. Project got cancelled.
We have an advantage in that our projects don't start until we've got the contract with the funding body sorted out. Very little is done speculatively (except applying for project funding, of course, which is hellishly speculative). Cancellation is usually a mark of someone really fucking up massively, such as not bothering to do the work at all.
I know of one time (back in 2010) when projects in progress got cancelled outright by the funding agency simply refusing to pay any further money. I guess that generated political backlash and maybe legal challenges too; academics are pretty good at stirring things when that sort of money is on the line. That was really uncommon though.
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But it's a legacy version.
If a shitty developer writes a shitty app that has shitty dependencies, do we act surprised?
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Shittier vendors have written shittier apps which don't demand Apple's Java 1.6 package when they run ;)
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The cancellations were due to:
- Business lizards being unable to agree what the feature was supposed to do.
- Another team having a staffing crisis (I.e. Every single one of them quit) and being unable to add the corresponding integration points to their product.
- Business lizards retroactively deciding that something wasn't important after screaming about it for a full year and paying to have it fixed.
- Another team saying "that is not possible" after being given their share of funding (commensurate with their earlier estimate of what it would cost to do it).
- Business lizards insisting that we build a new feature into some completely unrelated Web app that is thematically similar and that team completely refusing to discuss integration... After being given funding.
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Shittier vendors have written shittier apps which don't demand Apple's Java 1.6 package when they run ;)
There's a standard workaround. Which the shitty developer hasn't used, proving that he's shitty.
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shut up, "legit" means of watching it mean waiting for 2 years, if I'm lucky, for it to get aired here
UK proxy? It's very much bordering on "legit", but still.
And you're still lucky - here no TV station airs Doctor Who, so it's either Netflix via OpenVPN (a setup recommended to anyone in a backwater country like Poland), or shady torrent sites. Then again, we have NapiProjekt, which automatically downloads perfectly synced subtitles (and can do English too, though the database is not nearly as big), so at least subs are not an issue.
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I wasn't doubting they were shitty. I assumed this when the app demanded what it did.
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[a tale of woe and stupidity]
Oh, that sort of thing gets people in deep shit. That's why stuff should only be paid for once it is delivered, or at least once there's clear evidence that there's evidence things are moving right.
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Oh, this is all internal. Internal stuff is prepaid. Customers postpay.
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Status: Found out that I dodged a bullet. Just to show you that you're not the only ones suffering from clueless management (but you already knew that, didn't you?), here an excerpt from the written minutes of another school.
Said school wanted to hire me two years ago - but something in their style left me uneasy, so I declined and joined another school nearby where I'm quite happy (save for the IT-related
but you can't have everything).The goal of the conference last week was a change for the better regarding the communication between teachers and the school's administration. A chance for everyone to finally work on the critical problems, removal of weak points and colaboration on solutions. It was clearly visible that all teachers were quite interested in an open and bilateral discussion.
The summary of this conference: Missed the target by a mile because talking about the problems was avoided. The unclear feedback of the administration led to a complete breakdown of the proceedings. The referenced examples were not mentioned again and problems were downplayed. The constructive approach of our external moderator to at least try to work on some solutions was impossible because talking about specific cases was unwanted and actively blocked.In case you're wondering how I got this: I'm working there for 3 hours a week due to a specific cooperation my school was forced to undergo.
You know something is fishy at a school when other teachers circumspectly approach and ask you if your own school is currently searching for someone with their subjects...
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UK proxy? It's very much bordering on "legit", but still.
Did try that, worked well enough on the "I can actually access the stream" front. But my connection is crap so streaming anything is pretty questionable. I prefer watching stuff on demand, or having it in some sort of player that's decent at preloading.
Ironically, YouTube is fine even at 1080p, but most other streaming services are near unwatchable at 720p for me for whatever reason.
NapiProjekt, which automatically downloads perfectly synced subtitles (and can do English too, though the database is not nearly as big), so at least subs are not an issue.
Yeah, the ones from OpenSubtitles are always nicely synched for me, too. And I only ever download English subs (I may download Croatian occasionally if the thing I'm watching is not in English already).
I mostly download them just for occasions where characters are hard to hear or use an accent I'm having a trouble with. Otherwise I'm perfectly fine with watching stuff in English without any translation.
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Did try that, worked well enough on the "I can actually access the stream" front. But my connection is crap so streaming anything is pretty questionable.
Are you sure it's your connection, or just a crap public proxy? My ISP is spotty and slow, but I can usually stream without much preloading just fine, with occasional drops in quality when the gremlins play with the wires.
I mostly download them just for occasions where characters are hard to hear or use an accent I'm having a trouble with. Otherwise I'm perfectly fine with watching stuff in English without any translation.
As far as written English goes, I'm good, as far as speaking English goes, I'm good, but listening to English makes me feel like an 80 year old grandma without her hearing aid. So it's mostly subs for me.
I usually try to find English ones for myself, but once in a while my not-quite-English-speaking family wants to watch a movie too, so it's good to know where those can be found.
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Internal stuff is prepaid. Customers postpay.
Different payment models for different customers? Sounds like a recipe for needless trouble with some accountant who doesn't understand the difference. Do you at least have a way to claw money back when a business unit doesn't do what they've been paid to do?
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Status: Firmware updating my wristwatch.
I am now from the future.Fitbit Charge HR. They finally got around to releasing the XL version on Thursday, and I am fairly annoyed by it already. I didn't buy an L because when I tried one on it was uncomfortably tight at the largest band setting.
The XL is ever so slightly uncomfortably LOOSE at the smallest band setting. OVERLAP YOUR FRIGGIN' SIZES, ASSHOLES. Now I'm probably going to have to buy another one in the space of a few months.
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Not quite. So here's how it works. When one or more team needs to cooperate to accomplish some internal goal, the whole thing is paid for out of a big "Project fund" they put together annually. First come first served when it comes to submitting a project and getting money for it.
After months of inane management bullshit, approval is given and money disbursed to the participating departments. That money is now considered spent. The project will be tracked for success/failure and the statistic recorded, but funds are never reclaimed and topups are not available if you go over budget.
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Status: I have to walk between our two building to explain how email works to someone. Its dark, cold and extremely raining. 'Green and pleasant land' my foot.
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Its dark, cold and extremely raining.
It's not raining here yet, but I'm working from home and it's dark enough I need to have the lights on.
Complete contrast to yesterday.
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First come first served when it comes to submitting a project and getting money for it.
@Weng said:That money is now considered spent. The project will be tracked for success/failure and the statistic recorded, but funds are never reclaimed
Which is not much of an incentive to being efficient. There needs to be a reclamation mechanism available in case someone really screws up. It might also be better if the sub-budgets were considered to be limited rights to draw on the projects budget, not actual separate funds. (Let me guess: if the projects budget isn't entirely spent, it's considered to be a management disaster?)
Oh well, at least you're running with fixed caps. Limits the amount of damage done.
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Its dark, cold and extremely raining.
Not raining too much here at the moment. Didn't need the umbrella when coming over from the station.
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Quote of the day: "Lean and Agile is about maximising the work not done."
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"Lean and Agile is about maximising the work not done."
Frist read that as "Lean and Agile is about marxism."
I considered it rather appropriate until I parsed the sentence correct.
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maximising the work not done
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STATUS: Buying shit online
Guys, I think you missed one!
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Status: Just had a meeting where we discussed raising the domain level from 2000 to 2003. Exciting times ahead.
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Status: Thanks to our HQ-mandated Symantec, my workstation became literally unusable because of disk I/O. So I convinced management to get me an SSD, and everything was fine for a while. But now Symantec has actually figured out how to thrash an SSD until my system doesn't respond! Back to square 1.
Next time I re-install Windows, I'm going to "forget" to install antivirus.
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Symantec has been shit for years now.
With sensible browsing/email habits Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials is more than sufficient.
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I don't run antivirus at home, and haven't had any difficulties.
Filed Under: inb4 everyone says my PC has every STD ever created and I just don't know it
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The stupid Salesforce Dataloader works perfectly fine without the silly Apple Java 1.6 package if you build it from source, so I'm still going with
does the downloaded package demand it.
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if you run windows 8+ and didn't explicitly disable it you are running Windows Defender.
