The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
fix glaring grammatical errors
Status: Wearing my GRAMMAR POLICE t-shirt today.
Our team's QA person is Ukrainian (and a relatively recent immigrant). She's a great person and a good QA analyst, but sometimes her written English is, well, very accented. Understandable, but verb tenses and articles don't deserve to be abused that way.
The kicker? The ticket I was specifically referring to wasn't written by the QA analyst. It was written by the native English speaking
designerCEO.Edit: fixed who it was written by. Kinda makes it even worse.
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@Benjamin-Hall ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction (sometimes, if what they wrote isn't too funny to avoid making a joke). Native speakers don't have that excuse; they get laughed at (by a snarky riff on what they actually wrote, instead of what the clearly meant to write, if at all possible). Native speakers who write things like irregardless intentionally to annoy me just get .
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction (sometimes, if what they wrote isn't too funny to avoid making a joke). Native speakers don't have that excuse; they get laughed at (by a snarky riff on what they actually wrote, instead of what the clearly meant to write, if at all possible). Native speakers who write things like irregardless intentionally to annoy me just get .
Yeah. I have no problem with the QA's stuff, although I do correct it in the ticket (silently, usually). It's clear what's meant (99% of the time, which is as much as for anyone else).
The native speakers mainly get eye-rolls on my side of the screen.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's clear what's meant (99% of the time, which is as much as for anyone else).
And a lot more than some people.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Abusing my temporary status as Product Owner to edit tickets to fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves). Such as changing "Less requirements ..." to "Fewer requirements ..."
Are the requirements actually now to be fewer, or did you carelessly doom us to greater requirements?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's clear what's meant (99% of the time, which is as much as for anyone else).
And a lot more than some people.
There are none so blind as those who will not see - Lord, prepone thy updations.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
my phone is shit at taking pictures
It's apparently a potato with five eyes...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
my phone is shit at taking pictures
It's apparently a potato with five eyes...
THERE ARE FOUR EYES. And 3 creases!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've discovered I have a lack of fans...
There's a site for that.
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Status: plates to spin, pans to bang, knives to twist, this keeps going I'm going to need a temporal sense.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've discovered I have a lack of fans...
There's a site for that.
Nobody has requested me to do anything yet...
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Status: I have managed to use my phone sparingly enough that despite being off power for over 14 hours (except a brief 10 minute stint) I am still at 21 percent.
Screen on time is just over 5 hours. I'm quite satisfied.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have managed to use my phone sparingly enough that despite being off power for over 14 hours (except a brief 10 minute stint) I am still at 21 percent.
laughs in only using the phone for calls and Simon Tatham's puzzles while in the loo
I charge my phone about twice a month.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've discovered I have a lack of fans...
There's a site for that.
Nobody has requested me to do anything yet...
You requested fans?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Abusing my temporary status as Product Owner to edit tickets to fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves). Such as changing "Less requirements ..." to "Fewer requirements ..."
Are the requirements actually now to be fewer, or did you carelessly doom us to greater requirements?
There are few requirements, but they are huge.
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Not sure where to post this, so will post it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8xEgcVxZ0
English subtitle at the middle of screen. Watch garbage slowly accumulate as it progress...
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I charge my phone about twice a
monthday.FTF my complete wrecked battery.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves)
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Abusing my temporary status as Product Owner to edit tickets to fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves). Such as changing "Less requirements ..." to "Fewer requirements ..."
Are the requirements actually now to be fewer, or did you carelessly doom us to greater requirements?
Speaking of pet peeves (and trying to oracle what your usual speaking-in-riddles post meant) one of mine is that Indians1 always say "lesser" when they mean "less" or "fewer". That is not the same thing.
On the other hand, something annoying I've heard a lot of fellow Germans do is doubling past tense forms, i.e. "did you drove?" instead of "did you drive?".
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I had too much work on my plate, so my boss reassigned one of my tasks to another developer. Who delegated it to another developer. Who is now bugging me for help.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves)
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Abusing my temporary status as Product Owner to edit tickets to fix glaring grammatical errors (and pet peves). Such as changing "Less requirements ..." to "Fewer requirements ..."
Are the requirements actually now to be fewer, or did you carelessly doom us to greater requirements?
Speaking of pet peeves (and trying to oracle what your usual speaking-in-riddles post meant) one of mine is that Indians1 always say "lesser" when they mean "less" or "fewer". That is not the same thing.
On the other hand, something annoying I've heard a lot of fellow Germans do is doubling past tense forms, i.e. "did you drove?" instead of "did you drive?".The English mistakes I hear native Spanish speakers make, make more sense as I start to learn their native language. I, myself, tend to elide pronouns when it's obvious, knowing it's wrong, but it's perfectly cromulent in Spanish to let the pronoun be inferred by the verb conjugation. In Spanish, double negatives are also considered correct - "don't never" instead of "don't ever."
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
In Spanish, double negatives are also considered correct - "don't never" instead of "don't ever."
You can get away with double negatives in English sometimes but it should be used sparingly.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
In Spanish, double negatives are also considered correct - "don't never" instead of "don't ever."
You can get away with double negatives in English sometimes but it should be used sparingly.
I don't need no education.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction
Some Russians/Ukrainians I worked with at a previous company wanted those corrections. They were pretty cool people.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status I need a full reset on today.
*reboots @dcon*
Must have worked - old dog finally stopped tossing cookies around 3p yesterday. And kept dinner down. Today is progressing well.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I had too much work on my plate, so my boss reassigned one of my tasks to another developer. Who delegated it to another developer. Who is now bugging me for help.
Well, what did you expect?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
In Spanish, double negatives are also considered correct - "don't never" instead of "don't ever."
You can get away with double negatives in English sometimes but it should be used sparingly.
I don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control
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Status: "You've very proficient but we're passing because we don't like your style."
Good to know you have your priorities straight. Hope Google pulls Go right out from under your asses.
Seriously, what is with the control freaking? I mean, I have a moderately-sized of my own and I don't remember it being this way 15 years ago. What about before that? Were places turning away qualified candidates because their personal style in code tests wasn't some variant of Hungarian?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
In Spanish, double negatives are also considered correct - "don't never" instead of "don't ever."
You can get away with double negatives in English sometimes but it should be used sparingly.
I don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control
Fine, you win. I have to listen to The Wall now.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Were places turning away qualified candidates because their personal style in code tests wasn't some variant of Hungarian?
Odd. Every place I've worked is "you will conform. you will be assimilated." Current place has a
.clang-format
to help with that. Plus code reviews.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Were places turning away qualified candidates because their personal style in code tests wasn't some variant of Hungarian?
Odd. Every place I've worked is "you will conform. you will be assimilated." Current place has a
.clang-format
to help with that. Plus code reviews.But did they deny people over their code style in a code test? "You're good and you're willing to learn the fad language we want this week...but you capitalized a constant in this recursive algorithm 95% of our candidates fail so we're passing."
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error is eavesdropping on his neighbors:
I have to listen to The Wall now.
Should that have gone into QooC?
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Yes. Yes it should have.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
But did they deny people over their code style in a code test? "You're good and you're willing to learn the fad language we want this week...but you capitalized a constant in this recursive algorithm 95% of our candidates fail so we're passing."
It could be worse. If your style had matched what they were looking for, you could have been hired.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
But did they deny people over their code style in a code test?
Zenith's code style:
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@error Not that bad but it must be hell keeping all of those brackets aligned.
Edit: I never did post my code style for @MrL...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction
Some Russians/Ukrainians I worked with at a previous company wanted those corrections. They were pretty cool people.
For the record so do I, any time I'm not obviously talking funny for the lulz.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control
No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've discovered I have a lack of fans...
There's a site for that.
Nobody has requested me to do anything yet...
You requested fans?
I have enough ventilation at the moment.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
using the phone for calls
Calls? What's that?
It's like an audio text message, but in real time and with optional video.
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@nerd4sale said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I had too much work on my plate, so my boss reassigned one of my tasks to another developer. Who delegated it to another developer. Who is now bugging me for help.
Well, what did you expect?
A bigger plate?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: I never did post my code style for @MrL...
Never too late...
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: I never did post my code style for @MrL...
Never too late...
Pretty sure it'd dox me very quickly. They may not post but I expect the soulless minions of orthodoxy read from time to time.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction
Some Russians/Ukrainians I worked with at a previous company wanted those corrections. They were pretty cool people.
I think you found people vs Russians / Ukrainians then. The last Russians / Ukrainians I worked with were complete assholes.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: I never did post my code style for @MrL...
Never too late...
Pretty sure it'd dox me very quickly. They may not post but I expect the soulless minions of orthodoxy read from time to time.
It can't be that bad.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The delivery distortion field continues in full effect. The FEP film (I don't need it urgently and don't particularly care when it arrives, but after closing another tab I happened to find myself on the tab with the USPS tracking info for it, so I refreshed the page to see what's up) has so far traveled (via a "shipping partner"; it's not yet even in possession of USPS) from City of Commerce (East LA), CA, north to Spanish Springs (north of Reno), NV, to Bloomington (near San Bernardino), CA. This is, according to Google, a total travel distance of 964 miles (1551 km) in an elapsed time of 5 days. Edit: Not counting the 3 days between creating a shipping label and a physical package showing up in the tracking system.
The net result of this journey so far: 52 miles (84 km).
A week later, and no updates. USPS still doesn't have possession of the package and doesn't know its location.
Meanwhile, I got 3 other packages today (Friday). I got another ~5-months supply of tea. Hurrah for caffeine! I got something from eBay. And I got a package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It had live plants. Well, one of them is still alive. The other one is still alive, but seems unlikely to remain that way; nearly all the leaves are shriveled, dry, and brown. I think the extra day in transit in the southern summer heat did it in. The shipper had put a cold-pack in the box with the plants, but it was not even slightly cool any more. I immediately contacted customer service, and they've already arranged for a replacement plant to be sent when they resume normal business hours next week.
It (the FEP film that took the detour) is finally here. It was somewhere in TX two days ago, but it still took two days to get here. And it only got a little crumpled in transit. (It'll probably be ok; the pieces of film are slightly oversized and need to be trimmed, and they're stretched under tension in use, so even if one edge of the film inside the package is slightly damaged, which it probably isn't, it should still be usable without a problem. I hope.)
No word of the replacement plant, yet. I haven't gotten a tracking number, so I have no idea where it is. I did get a request to rate their customer service, but since I haven't gotten the replacement item, I'll wait until I get it to rate them.
Meanwhile, there are still plenty of opportunities for the delivery distortion field (DDF) to work its magic. I have several packages in transit from Walmart and various eBay sellers. I got one today. I thought I'd bought 2 of the item, but only received 1. I looked at my purchase history and found I did, in fact, only buy 1. Oh, well. That's my bad; can't blame it on the DDF.
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@HardwareGeek 3 delivery drivers are now completely unaccounted for. How many must be lost before you stop getting estimates?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
using the phone for calls
Calls? What's that?
Hawaiian noises.
Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.
Did I just catch whatever Gribnit's got?