The Official Status Thread
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at least you have your towel. never go outside without it
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Watching learning course on financial crime.
They actually put an epic score as part of the video. The definitely spent way too much on creating this. Gotta use up that budget I guess.
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Status: would be banging my head against a brick wall, if I had a brick wall. I don't have any kind of wall because open plan office.
Customer has nothing approaching an understanding of how his request works and wants me to jump through all kinds of unnecessary extra hoops in the name of caution. Why is he so cautious? Because in the past he got this same thing broken by asking for a change he didn't understand, but had been told he couldn't make and somehow got it made anyway.
This time he's requested a reasonable change and has been told that it doesn't affect functionality, only visuals; the request was approved; the solution was signed off; the implementation was code reviewed and QA tested; but he is unable to grasp the idea that the only reason it broke before was sheer idiocy.
Also he seems to be under the impression that unless it's specifically requested we won't test a thing on going live, or require him to test it too and sign off, or be prepared to revert if anything does't work as expected, which assumption I find myself rather taking offense to.
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Sam doesn't have to shit out broken crappy software, and yet for some reason he continually does. Hm! I'd much rather have a slightly competent developer than a "friendly" one.
He's trying to fix it. He's asked the individual who reported the bug to confirm whether the bug still exists. This is generally considered a "good" thing.
In other words, these are indications of a decent software developer trying to improve his product.
Pull the stick out of your ass and stop bitching.
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Pull the stick out of your ass and stop bitching.
To be fair, the stick's so far up he'd have more luck pulling it out his mouth
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What do I have to do? Read Vogon poetry?
I wasn't sure if the whole list being a reference (didn't play the game, but the writing writing style seemed Adams-ish) so I kept quiet
I did want to make a joke about being a frood who knows where his towel is and should probably be able to get a cup of tea on that account, but I didn't deem it funny enough to post. Now I did. Rejoice.
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I did have a headache and no tea, though.
Does this mean we can't try to guess the thing from your Aunt?
:sadyellowguy:
The towel was a clue... but I am sadly ignorant of the game... let's pretend I was playing dumb....
Also: reading Vogon poety is a Barrier to high pass rates.
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Considering my end goal is to destroy Discourse, it makes no sense for me to help them fix it.
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I look at the time. 18:00. Oh dear it's that late already?
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I look at the time again. 18:37. Fuck.
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Considering my end goal is to destroy Discourse, it makes no sense for me to help them fix it.
Maybe you're like one of those supervillains who are all tough on the outside, but is actually just lonely, and in the crucial moment, you'll remember a kind word @sam had said to you and turn around to become a good guy, only to heroically die in the end, redeeming yourself?
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Or maybe I'm like the villain in Unbreakable. Mr. Glass or whatever he called himself.
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Or maybe I'm like the villain in Unbreakable. Mr. Glass or whatever he called himself.
You'll get killed by a spectacular discourse bug, filing the bug repro with your final gasp of life.
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FTFY. Not going to bite.
So Senator Svahnberg, you deny reading Vogon poetry to your class after you noticed the students busily facetwitting instead breathlessly awaiting your Socratic questioning?
Do you?
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Futurama did it
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To be fair, the stick's so far up he'd have more luck pulling it out his mouth
To be fair, every time we start a post with "to be fair", the stick gets jammed more firmly.
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Status: My business nemesis just invited me to lunch next week. is up with that?
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Status: My business nemesis just invited me to lunch next week. is up with that?
It's a trap! He's going to eat you.
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Status: ten levels deep in callback hell
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It's a trap! He's going to eat you.
Hmmmmmm, how did he phrase that? Was it:
"I would like to invite you to lunch"
Or:
"I would like to have you for lunch"
Need to remember, the difference is important!
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Considering my end goal is to destroy Discourse, it makes no sense for me to help them fix it.
You know what would be more effective than being an utterly useless user? Making a better forum platform and driving Discourse out of business.
Filed Under: Just saying.
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Making a better forum platform and driving Discourse out of business.
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I don't have the time or inclination
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Destroying things is always more fun than creating them
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1) I don't have the time or inclination
- Destroying things is always more fun than creating them
Your chosen method of destruction will not work. Not unless you start a massive PR campaign against Discourse and release every bug you find only through that campaign. Of course, there are still (at least) two problems with this approach:
- Such a PR campaign would be time consuming. You already said time is an issue, so this is probably a non-starter.
- Such a campaign could potentially open you up to a civil suit for libel. You'd have to tread carefully and make sure everything was factual and documented.
Even if you could work around these points, there's still no guarantee that such a PR campaign would be successful. In any case, your current method will not be successful, so you might as well stop while you're behind.
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Thanks Dr. Logic, but I think I'll just keep on doing what I'm doing and also call you an idiot.
Idiot.
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Thanks Dr. Logic, but I think I'll just keep on doing what I'm doing and also call you an idiot.
Idiot.
So you're the one who has no way of accomplishing his stated goal, yet continues to pursue it, and I'm the idiot?
Oh wait, this is @blakeyrat I'm talking to. Logic need not apply.
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Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma!
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Of course, there are still (at least) two problems with this approach:
I'd say that most likely is one you didn't enumerate:
3. Your campaign will backfire and generate sympathy for your target.
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I'd say that most likely is one you didn't enumerate:
- Your campaign will backfire and generate sympathy for your target.
Also:
4. Everyone will think you are just an asshole.
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Also:
- Everyone will think you are just an asshole.
That was more or less why my outcome is most likely.
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I'd say that most likely is one you didn't enumerate:
- Your campaign will backfire and generate sympathy for your target.
Yeah, that may be more likely than #2 … Oh well. Still, #1 is the most important given his aversion to spending time destroying dicsourse.
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Status: ten levels deep in callback hell
That's Node,js for you; I'll never understand why people use it for hobby projects…
Says a willing SockBot contributor…
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Clicking 'View Raw' on your post breaks...everything.
Edit: Until someone likes your post.
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Weird…
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Current Jimmy John's delivery wait time: 43 minutes
Distance from Jimmy John's to work: 10 minutes
Update: Total delivery time from time of order 50 minutes
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tricky
How is that tricky?
To me it looks like it can easily be written with a loop that goes from 0 to shortest line's length that checks for each line, if the char at the index is the same as in the first line (with a special check for '_' and ' ', of course).
Once it doesn't match, just substring from the last tested index.
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yeah that would do it.
i've been doing SQL all day and was thinking set based....
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If my dad ordered Jimmy Johns from his office, it would be faster to walk to his office than to get into a car, immediately get out of the car, and walk up some stairs.
Fuck, that Inedo "now you know" advertisement is ungoogleable.
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How does this symbolize anger? Looks like a bad logo for some late 90's telecom company...
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Anime.
I personally prefer .
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Usually that symbol is somewhere around the eyebrow of an angry person in an anime.
Source: I watched Pokemon when I was young
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How does this symbolize anger? Looks like a bad logo for some late 90's telecom company...
Try:angry:
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I watched Monty Python's Flying Circus yesterday. The episode about a Tudor job agency.
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@todo !todo resolve 2bbf88e0