The Official Status Thread
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Status: Colleague sent me an email with details to join a call at 3:30. Not a calendar invite, just an email.
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Status: Colleague sent me an email with details to join a call at 3:30. Not a calendar invite, just an email.
I'm so used to that. What's much more annoying is when a someone sends the details out after the event starts and gets cross at people for being late or not attending at all.
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Real helpful, thanks! Broken pipe... Oh I'll break something piece of crap mutter
Heh. I get the "broken pipe" crash at completely unpredictable times (eg. once a week per process) and without any further debug information, not even stack trace.
My solution: auto-restart.
Half-assed solution for a half-assed error.
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Oh, no, this is consistent, reproducible failure. Without any rhyme or reason. I copied some example code from an official Asterisk book (which matched my test case almost exactly). Same thing.
Fortunately, it doesn't crash, and the data it's trying to write is completely useless to me, so I'll just ignore it for now.
Also, the only reason I'm even using this mechanism is because the asshole that is Asterisk gives me 3 ways to accomplish my goal, but if I try using the other two I'm missing one variable. That gets set right after the function I call exits. And I can't do shit about that.
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No worries. Just Google "free registry cleaner". The first results will fix you right up, no problem.
Hmm... I had been meaning to clean my free registry...
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Status: Fixed an issue. Unfortunately it turns out the issue I fixed wasn't really the cause of the actual problem ... back to the drawing board. Hey ... at least I can claim I fixed something ...
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Status:
At least until Saturday...
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I'm so used to that. What's much more annoying is when a someone sends the details out after the event starts and gets cross at people for being late or not attending at all.
Last week at 10:50AM I get an email asking if I could be on a conference call at 11AM. I ask what day...it was that day.
Uhmmmm, no. I can't. I actually do shit...on some days. And that was one of them.
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"For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations."
Moral: don't thump people. It's not cool, and it never improves any situation. Frankly I'm amazed Clarkson would pick a fight with anyone—dude looks like he's about 100...
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I'm amazed Clarkson would pick a fight with anyone—dude looks like he's about 100...
Yes but he acts like he's about five.
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Immaturity ratio:
100 ÷ 5 ≡ 20.0
That's remarkably high. Most people would probably score between 2.0 and 3.0...
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Well his actual age is 54, I think, so 12.8.
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Status: working on something that will be used by multiple users at once, that needs to insert a new database record. Looking at the existing code to do similar things, it looks like the standard way of getting a new value for a unique, non auto-incrementing column is to... use something higher than the current max and hope nobody else picks the same value before you've committed the change.
Now trying to work out if I can avoid using these tables, and realising that this is the cause for the semi regular support calls about primary key violation
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Looking at the existing code to do similar things, it looks like the standard way of getting a new value for a unique, non auto-incrementing column is to... use something higher than the current max and hope nobody else picks the same value before you've committed the change.
Is there a DBMS that doesn't have something like MSSQL'sIDENTITY(1,1)
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At least until Saturday...
Are you sure you went through all the new stuff? I can't get any of that to show until I've been in there. Actually, I think stuff where I have a post imported shows up, and you've had more of those so far than I have...still, Yowza.
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in a meeting about one of our servers that got hacked because it was once my responsibility.
you removed me from that project in January and i deleted my SSH keys and all my records about passwords...
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Is there a DBMS that doesn't have something like MSSQL's IDENTITY(1,1)?
This is MSSQL, but the schema design is awful.
It's beyond the scope of this (very rushed) project to fix it, so I think I'm going to have to add another nasty hack on top of the other layers of nasty hack
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// This is nasty, but should reduce the chance of a collision if this code gets called multiple times concurently // Get the maximum sequence number and add a randum number between 1 and 10 // There is no auto increment, aand I don't have time to fix it. I'm sorry, future maintainer long nextSequence = (from s in context.SeqNums orderby s.SeqNumID descending select s.SeqNumID).First() + new Random().Next(1, 10);
I hate myself a little bit
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I hate myself a little bit
at least you included an apology (though I note you didn't include your name).
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The VCS does so already.
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though I note you didn't include your name
This is a greenfield piece of work that I'm writing. The blame will be clear.Also, it will eventually be put into source control under my name
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The VCS does so already.
Ours uses an ID number which not everyone has access to look up. I'm aware that this is not a normal case but this shit does happen.
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Status: wishing this database had some referential integrity. It would make it a lot easier to work out which table EntryID is coming from
I presume you are no longer working on your wedding vows...
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Work called and apparently I need to do stuff if I wan to be paid, and getting paid is quite important when you're paying for a wedding.
Seriously, £500 to make some table centrepieces and decorate a room?
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//I don't have time to fix it.**Predicition:** You will _never_ have time to fix it.
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We were scheduled 3 months. The client fucked us around for 2 1/2 months and refused to move the deliverable date. We ended up with 3 weeks to spec, build, test and deliver. We never have time to fix anything here
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I would suggest that you need better clients, but I'm not convinced that that's even a thing...
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We were also fed up with the ridiculous prices so we ended up having our wedding as a picnic on the beach for only the closest friends and family with dinner at a nearby restaurant. IIRC we got away with ~1000€. Everyone were just as happy.
...congrats, btw.
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Status: Wrote an interpreter that turns this:
Into this:
Hello world!
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This is a greenfield piece of work that I'm writing.
Then DOUBLE SUPER SECRET why don't you fix it? WTF man.
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We were scheduled 3 months. The client fucked us around for 2 1/2 months and refused to move the deliverable date.
What kind of spineless twerps are in charge over there?
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So you pretty much use binary representations of the character (presumably ASCII), but instead of just, well, using binary, you invented an overly verbose way to write in binary?
Genius.
Filed under: And it has GOTO!
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I didn't invent it, but I did contact the original author for clarification on the spec last night.
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presumably ASCII
It's actually UTF-8, so my implementation of the BIT language is able to print
Hello world!
in other languages! The source code of those programs is left as an exercise for the reader.
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There's more than one person working on this?
Excuse me while I apologize to all other apes, excluding humans. Truly, we're the creepy drunk uncle of the family...
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Status: would like to go outside, but it's raining...
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He wrote other languages too!
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This post is deleted!
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Aww...
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I didn't see! :(
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They were asking what you were working on, but by the time I had returned from my image quest the message was deleted. So I posted anyway...
Filed under: sunk cost
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Status: that concludes 6 hours of debugging VHDL code.
Look at all this cool shit. If you see a value that doesn't match you can right click and see exactly what line it came from and what were the inputs. Isn't that great?
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That does look cool...
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I also design hardware for a living and have to use Modelsim daily. I see those lines whenever I close my eyes some days....
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I had a Tetris dream once, after playing Tetris for several hours before going to bed...
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I had a soccer dream once, after playing soccer for several hours before going to bed. While I was asleep, I kicked the crap out of my girlfriend. She woke me up and made me sleep on the couch.
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I once had Minecraft dreams every night for a week.
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I've had dreams where I'm playing one of my Steam games and I do something incredibly stupid like queueing for a Dota 2 match right before I go to bed and then immediately shutting the game when I get in.
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Status Monte Carlo simulations in progress...