The Official Status Thread
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Status: learned the hard way WebAPI2 doesn't support polymorphism when deserializing. Ugh.
I have to rethink this whole damned thing.
Good thing we're using this "labor saving" library for our product!
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slowclap.rdp
I honestly cannot believe that I don't have an RDP file with that name yet.
Yet...
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Life sucks and I hate everything.
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Well duh.
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I just got kicked out of a private (nobody can join unless I invite them) Magicka 2 game that only had me in it because it lost connection to Steam.
Every other game I've ever had has just said "fuck it, you can't earn achievements until the servers come back up", but Magicka 2 takes the extra step of immediately switching to the title screen minus all the buttons. You have to alt-tab and then kill the process.
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Steam came back up, I went back into the game, started a boss fight, and three seconds later I lost connection again. Well, it said I lost connection, but Steam says it's still connected.
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Went back into the game, started the exact same boss fight, got "lost connection" in three seconds. Fuck this, I'll wait for a patch.
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Oh, according to https://steamstat.us/ , this is normal for Tuesdays. Note to self: don't play Magicka 2 on Tuesdays.
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So I see it's about the same quality level we all expect from Magicka 1.
And yes, Steam goes down all the fucking time. Surely you've noticed this before.
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Except it's made by a different company and is on a different engine.
And yes, Steam goes down all the fucking time. Surely you've noticed this before.
Usually, Steam going down doesn't kick me out of a singleplayer game.
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Oh well in that case, it MUST be good. I can't argue with brilliant logic like that.
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I'm not saying it's not shitty, I'm just saying it needs to be treated as a separate entity when measuring its shittiness.
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Is Spring worth it for small applications? Asking for a friend.
I took a quick look at it and it seems monstrously complicated. Is it just for Enterprisey cronies? I'm getting a cool job interview soon but apparently they use Spring exclusively for their development. I wanted to build a small MVC application to test it out but I think I might as well kill myself with the amount of XML config files thrown at me in every tutorial I've dug up. Biggest red flag I've seen in a framework yet.
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Too busy judging books via. cover.
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Status: Trying to identify app slowness from the SQL side
Also keeping an eye on the Blue Jays game. We seem to have the most Jose/Josh based lineups in the big leagues...
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we hate you too
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What a great start for week ...
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Is Spring worth it for small applications?
Depends on how small. The core of Spring is all about managing object construction and lifecycles, and that's something that becomes a bigger and bigger bugbear as the application gets larger and more complicated. If you've essentially got a single lifecycle (excluding the POJOs) and that's just the simplest one, there's little need for Spring. But as soon as you need to couple to things like sessions and service calls and plug lots of configurations all over the place, Spring starts to look much nicer.
One difference though: with Spring, you need to start thinking much more in terms of service objects (“beans”) and avoiding creating explicit singletons: you let Spring manage whether things are singletons or not. This can help with testing, but de-singleton-ing the code can be awkward; singletons are a problem precisely because the assumptions involved migrate all over the place. (You'll need to do the same thing if you migrate to the OSGi platform.)
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Status: Being trained on iPython Notebook today. I'll keep my eyes open for WTFs…
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Status: Sooo tired...
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iPython Notebook
Some of the main features of the IPython Notebook app include:
Compose rich text using Markdown and HTML.You're screwed
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Status: Stupid Oracle is doing a full table scan on a massive table despite there being valid indexes, and me not adding any conditions which should cause it to ignore them.
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Status: Running a repair on VS2013 because apparently that will stop it creating a log file in
C:\Windows\Temp
every ten seconds that it never deletes.Seriously; CCleaner told me deleting those temporary files would save 20GB
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Storage is cheap, VS clearly knows that
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After finding 80 GB of .NET installers in a temp directory once, I am not surprised by anything any more.
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Status: I've been sent a box of lollipops by a (potential) supplier.
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> Some of the main features of the IPython Notebook app include:
Compose rich text using Markdown and HTML.
You're screwed
At least it's not Discodown; it doesn't try to guess what format some text is in by magical regexps.
No, the real problems are much closer to how painful it is to get a collection of recommended libraries working together. Python really hasn't managed to get a grip on the old library versioning problem at all. Plus their build code makes far too many assumptions about what compiler you're going to use. I shouldn't have to type a line something like this:
sudo -E CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future easy_install --upgrade numpy
“
easy_install
” my ass.
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Status: Finished a book about king Leopold's Belgium Congo and the (in all things but name) genocide that took place there for a period of decades. Disgusting.
Wondering if the Belgium people who post here know anything about that bit of their own history, the book makes the claim that it's not taught in Belgium schools?
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Status: Trying to clear the music library off my phone. Somewhere, sometime, a sync failed, and now my phone thinks it has 10 copies of every single song. Playing an album is quite annoying because I have to click "Next Track" 10 times after each song. However, on the SD card each song is only there once.
So I wiped the SD card, and now the phone still thinks it has all those songs but none of them play. I have to go through the Xbox (?) Music app and manually delete each song even though they're already deleted. Once I'm done I hope a sync will Just Work.
Also, 2K+ new posts on /t/1000.
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Status: Finished a book about king Leopold's Belgium Congo and the (in all things but name) genocide that took place there for a period of decades. Disgusting.
Wondering if the Belgium people who post here know anything about that bit of their own history, the book makes the claim that it's not taught in Belgium schools?
This forum has ruined my reading comprehension. I had to read this several times before I realized you were actually using the name of the country.
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wat? not using
pip
instead?That just didn't work. Said it did, but did nothing measurable.
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The
iPythonJupyter%history
magic function is deeply broken (err, “utterly inexplicable from a user's perspective”) since it doesn't manage session isolation correctly.
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Status: Finished a book about king Leopold's ■■■■■■■ Congo and the (in all things but name) genocide that took place there for a period of decades. Disgusting.
Wondering if the ■■■■■■■ people who post here know anything about that bit of their own history, the book makes the claim that it's not taught in ■■■■■■■ schools?
Why do you self-censor yourself? You can say "fucking Congo", "fucking people". No one will flag you for that.
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STATUS: Making an ember widget.
Code it in an html playground fiddle. Works great.
Plug it into the app. Suddenly, it starts crashing.
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'insertBefore' of null
(from like 20 calls deep into some obscure Ember internals)
Try it back in the fiddle. Works.
Massage the fiddle to resemble my app code. Works.
Remove all the superfluous crap from the app code. Crashes.
Copy app code into the fiddle. Works.
Extract the generate vendor.js from my grunt output and use it in the fiddle. Works.
Virtually the same code in app, everything laid bare, just the widget on screen. Crashes.I want to die.
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Status: It'd be nice if I didn't have to edit the registry to add back in basic browser functionality.
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STATUS:
Contracted designer just sent over his creative vision for the "cancel" button on the search box.
I'm glad we are paying such talented artists, so us coders don't have to go with our half-baked hackish solutions.
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I'm glad we are paying such talented artists, so us coders don't have to go with our half-baked hackish solutions.
I'm sure you can foil him by turning it into FizzBuzz.
Ask him if you can get that in different colors. Then ask for a new font. How about rotating that X?
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Status: hating myself right now.
if(count($table['surrogate_keys'])) { foreach ($table['surrogate_keys'] as $surrogate) { if(array_key_exists($rkey, $surrogate)) { $uvalue[$surrogate[$rkey]] = $uvalue[$rkey]; unset($uvalue[$rkey]); break; } } }
Brillant variable names there....
At least it's commented (outside this block, will do this as well as soon as it works)?
Also, I don't like this
unset
bullshit one bit but I know of no better way to rename a key name in a PHP array.
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You people are hilarious.
You fucking people are hilarious.
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That's not how you spell ■■■■■■■!
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Status: Been given a 256GB SSD which I'm not expected to pay the £50 for until after payday.
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sync
That's your problem right there. Syncs always fail in millions of possible ways.
Just drag and drop stuff to a folder on your music device if you can, and change your music device if you can't.
I had a broken iPod once - it worked almost right, but kept randomly losing connection on sync. And apparently on iPods, a failed sync means not only a rollback of the whole import in the DB, but also classifying already copied files as garbage instead of deleting them.
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Status: Boomzilla moved a post I had in "Perl on Windows" but due to broken forum software I can't figure out which post it was (I didn't even know I posted in that thread?) or where it got moved to. So... uh... magical phantom post somewhere in the forum guyz!
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Oh. Maybe? That was in the Perl thread? Huh.