The Official Status Thread
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Based on what? Lazy journalist not saying one way or the other?
Which is obviously mutually-exclusive with a touchscreen in your crazy little world.
Both my home and work laptops have touchscreens, neither is convertible.
Why? Acer might consider it just standard equipment, not worth mentioning, at this point. All their shit has touchscreens. Or maybe the lazy journalist just forgot to mention it, because all journalists are lazy and incompetent.
I can see you subscribe to the @abarker school of reading comprehension. ;)
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Next stop: Liquor store.
Well, there's your problem. You should have made that your first stop.
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I think that was the starting point, to begin with.
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I think that was the starting point, to begin with.
Are you saying that the guys who wrote the code that @asdf was reviewing ended up on the wrong side of the Ballmer Peak?
Obligatory XKCD:
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STATUS:
My PCI TV Card seems to be busted. Off to the yellow pages, time to buy new one.
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What's this, all some stupid dongles and external VGA boxes. Where are the good old internal TV tuners?
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Well in my PCI port, where else would I put it?
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WHO ARE YOU CALLING DINOSAUR, YOU LITTLE SHIT!?
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I meant asdf's voyage through the code or whatever. Would make sense if the result was anticipated.
(BTW I think there's a Ballmer Peak for testing etc. too)
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You can do something like this:
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}"> <Button Content="{Binding ButtonText}" x:Name="button"> <Button.Flyout> <Flyout Opening="Flyout_Opening"> <GridView x:Name="flyoutGrid"> <Button Content="{Binding FlyoutText}"/> </GridView> </Flyout> </Button.Flyout> </Button> </Grid> public sealed partial class MainPage : Page { public Model MainDC = new Model("Page", "PageFlyout"); public Model ButtonDC = new Model("Button", "ButtonFlyout"); public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); DataContext = MainDC; button.DataContext = ButtonDC; } private void Flyout_Opening(object sender, object e) { flyoutGrid.DataContext = MainDC; } }
Model is just a class with the two fields.
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Status:
Just realized how much a member of this community scaled back their activity.
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Status: from happily reading TDWTF to utterly exhausted within 2 minutes. (Someone transferred to me some not really surprising information at a net rate of about 1/720 bit per second.) (Extracting the information from the (message including overhead) was not really difficult, just used up a buttload of resources.)
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Rage. Seething rage is the proper response.
Man...I felt like that all day...Until I got a vanilla shake at Roy Rodgers.
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Oh man. I should totally get a milkshake before catching my bus home.
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Yeah, as soon as I knew about that I went with a variant of your suggestion.
But seriously, I actually expected at least some kind of warning because at other times VS warned me if the target element for a binding was not to be found.
It's a bit of aON ERROR RESUME NEXT
, and with all the exception throwing that's usually done when referencing anull
value, I'd have expected more feedback than silently swallowingelement not found
errors.
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Status: Just fixed a bug in a pile of code that looked like it had been scraped from the toilet of a Crohn's patient after a week-long Taco Bell binge. I never want to see that code again.
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Man...I felt like that all day...Until I got a vanilla shake at Roy Rodgers.
There was a little drive-up restaurant where I grew up that made marshmallow shakes. I went years withough even remembering them, now I crave one constantly. I need to try making one, because I know of no other place that makes one.
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Status: Made a new weapon for my necromancer. Beat the boss in a fractal after the other 4 players in my party had been defeated. Twice. The second time, I was downed. (The first boss was Captain Ashym and the second was the Thaumanova Anomaly.)
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Status: oopsied and only got this far:
I like doing the goofy achievements.
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Oh crap. I threw away one of those just before summer. Had yours broken just a little earlier I could have posted it to you instead...
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Are you done with your 11 month vacation yet?
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On my way to work ... radio plays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njb3JTZ1ibYthen I drive past a dead fox on the side of the road ...
Coincidence?
@accalia you really should tell your extended family that roads are no safe playground.
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Status: USA! USA! USA! Canada! also Pakistan!
/cc @JazzyJosh
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I'm all USA'ed out.
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Also status: RIP anyone watching TI from the east coast.
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In a way. The vacation ended last week (after five weeks). This week I am on parental leave (since we have some 20-odd days left for our youngest daughter, and if we don't use them before her eight birthday we forfeit them).
So on monday I'll start recuperating until x-mas holidays.
:evil_laugh.mp3:
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@accalia you really should tell your extended family that roads are no safe playground.
/me sighs and goes to get her mourning veil
i've been trying.... it's apparently not working.
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For anyone who wants to see the defining moment of the TI5 main event yesterday, watch this draft: http://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti/v/9801586?t=11h23m29s
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Status: was about to nicely go home after work and catch some sleep. Accidentally ended up at a Magic: the Gathering draft tournament until 9PM.
I suck at this whole "being a responsible adult" thing.
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Status: If the damage you do is covered by a manufacturers warranty, you didn't do enough damage.
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That sounds about right. Rest is for dead people.
Besides, Origins is pretty good. Certainly better than Dragons. I managed to get a bunch more blue, red, and artifact cards last time I drafted, and the things you can do with elves seem like a lot of fun. That stupid Thornbow one especially. Most OP common.
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Status: posting this from Firefox on Windows XP on a Pentium 4. Discourse still works well. Only 10~15 seconds to
loadrender each page!
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Rather; the damage you did was novel enough that the warranty authors could not conceive of anyone ever doing it.
What did you/your robots do this time?
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Status: Recommending we ditch McAfee at work (INB4 McAfee is TR ). We upgraded a spare dev box to Windows 10 to do some compatibility testing with various systems. The McAfee Agent for our enterprise network passed. The McAfee Virus Scanner did not. Contacted customer support:
"We expect to have a WIndows 10 compatible version out in Q3."
"It's halfway through Q3 now. Do you mean by the end of Q3, or in Q3 of next year?"
"I don't know, the information I have access to doesn't say."
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It's like this new version of Windows came at them completely out of the blue.
Sort of like most men are surprised by Christmas every year all over again.
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Well, presumably, they'll have it out before Windows 10 stops getting huge amounts of new users.
And since there are apparently a lot of companies still using Windows XP, that's probably not going to be the free upgrade promotion ending.
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Status: Wondering how hard it would be to implement PNaCl in asm.js.
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Status: Late yesterday, graphics design company contacts our head of sales "helpfully" alerting him that our site has been subjected to an XSS hotspot that is generating ad revenue and traffic for someone else. Of course, they can build us a new website that isn't vulnerable to such exploits, and they will even host it for us! Of course, being susceptible to such alarmist tactics, the head of sales forwards this on to the CIO (my boss) and the COO. Since the COO is included, my boss wants me to look into these claims immediately. I dig through our site (from an external connection), looking at everything and find no evidence of said hotspot, which my boss reports to the COO, the head of sales, and this PITA design company.
Today, the design company comes back with a six minute video detailing how to find the hotspot:
- Navigate to the web site.
- You didn't go direct to the website did you? Oh, you were supposed to search for it. On google. Using the domain name. No, don't include the TLD or subdomain. Yeah, there you go.
- Did you remember to clear your cache before you started? No? Oh, let's start over.
- Oh, are you using Chrome or Firefox? We haven't been able to reproduce it in any other browser.
- Ok, now you've made it this far, are the javascript interactions working? They are? Well, the hotspot isn't there this time. Better try again.
- Alright, finally there. Now hurry and do a view source before it goes away! See it there in that iframe? (contents edited for brevity and anonymity)
<iframe id="google_ads_frame1" name="google_ads_frame1"> <html> <body style="background:transparent"> <div id="google_image_div">
Seriously? You fucking morons are claiming an XSS issue over a Google ad that gets added to the page (temporarily) because our site is linked to Google analytics? And the ad isn't even visible?
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Out of all the problems you could solve with a gajillion of R&D money in a company ran by pretty much a mad scientist, they chose the horrendous hardship of plugging a cable in.
Yikes. Guess we've got it good...
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Had the same experience with Sophos, end of Q3 we've been told.
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And of course, creating a freaky robotic tentacle is the simplest way to solve it!
Eh, it's a luxury car for rich geeks. I guess this is all part of the brand.
I'm more concerned about their cars being self-driving AND internet connected.
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Status: it's 4am, I've been in bed for an hour and I'm not sleepy at all. Fucking hell.
I had a coffee 15 hours ago. You'd think that would be enough time.
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McAfee at work
I will just leave this here...
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Status: hoping MS SQL indexes are really that good.
"Okay, so here, we need a dropdown with a list of possible values for this field."
"Fair enough. Do you have a dictionary table somewhere?"
"Not quite... how about you just grab the values from this one?"
"You mean you want distinct values from the table that's pretty much literally all of our data and gets fed 2,5 million records each day? All that just to show a dropdown?
...Well, technically we can do that."
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I'm more concerned about their cars being self-driving AND internet connected.
I'd be more concerned if one of their investors was Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius…
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So for being totally fail-proof they'd best be constructed by Profesor Bacterio for built-in Discosafety®.
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my CodeSOD:
Boolean.Parse(GetGlobalParameter("GLOBAL_SYNCHRONIZATION") = 0)
This is VB.NET, btw.
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translated it to C# to
avoidintroduce confusionIf only because this will not work in C#.
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@aliceif said:
translated it to C# to
avoidintroduce confusionIf only because this will not work in C#.
whoops.
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Just tried it: Boolean.Parse() expects a String as argument, but VB.NET silently applies ToString() to the argument.
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Status:
strugglingdiscamusing myself with a discoursistent online service of a ren-owned European bank.
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