The Official Status Thread
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Well-played, @Luhmann, you caused vapor-lock.
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accalia@accaliabrain:~ $ service start personality Service started. User Accalia is due for mental tuneup in -10,590 days accalia@accaliabrain:~ $
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We once had such a toy ... It survived the washing cycle but after that it would start making sound without anybody around. Spooky ..
Buzz Lightyear does that in our house. He got taken into the shower and started talking like he was drunk. He also does his laser sound when on-one's around.
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Flying from RDU to SEA
I'm a few days behind reading this topic. What brings you to this part of the country, and when were/are you going to be here? Sorry about the nice weather we're having; I'm sure it's not what you were expecting.
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It was actually pretty nice weather last year. It was only misty somewhat-not-really-rain one day.
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Status: reading Freefall at the suggestion of @FrostCat
No! 5.5 years into 15 years of Schlock Mercenary, I am not picking up YAWC.
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It was actually pretty nice weather last year.
The weather does tend to be nice in August.
misty somewhat-not-really-rain
Typical Seattle weather. We do get our fair share of real rain, but mostly it's that dull, gray, dreary, depressing drizzle most of the year.
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Status: Making real good use of those six lanes.
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as opposed to being black and white?
they're webcomics....
I wasn't even implying the web comic was racist. Your remark was ...
If you rip it out of context.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
started talking like he was drunk
To Space hik and Beyond burp?
He was slurring his speech. He would have definitely needed to send Woody to the bar if he wanted another drink.
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23:40 local. Eyes won't stay open. G'night, all.
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No! 5.5 years into 15 years of Schlock Mercenary, I am not picking up YAWC yet.
FTFY. ;-)
also glad you're enjoying it!
:-)
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Typical Seattle weather. We do get our fair share of real rain, but mostly it's that dull, gray, dreary, depressing drizzle most of the year.
I hear it's been pretty dry. Some people are bitching because of all the brown at Chambers Bay. Of course, it doesn't help that the USGA stops them from watering so the course gets really fast.
http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr346/Karla8983/CHQvSJrUMAMEo4f_zpsgho9zgsn.jpg
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Status: winter is here.
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STATUS:
Main production machine goes down. I scream in a ticket.
3 hours later:
OH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOTIFYING US IN ADVANCE AND BEING SO SWIFT WITH THIS
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Status: checked in some code on Friday including some new tables and stored procs in the database. Got in today to be told I need to change all of my NVARCHAR() definitions to VARCHAR(), because reasons.
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Got in today to be told I need to change all of my NVARCHAR() definitions to VARCHAR(), because reasons.
Tell them where to shove it.
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STATUS:
I rock at making threads and then not reading them.
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I just know there will be some legacy reason that means it's impossible to support unicode and they'll be more interested in programming new stuff rather than reducing the technical debt. Frankly, I'm surprised they haven't panicked at me using a different schema rather than impersonating one by prefixing every object name with companyName_
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I hear it's been pretty dry.
Yeah, we've been having high-summer weather this spring. I'm not sure how the rainfall amount compares to normal. Last winter seemed pretty wet, but temperatures were on the warm side; we only got real snow once (at ~500 ft (150 m) elevation), compared to the half-dozen that seems typical, at least since I've been here.
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Status: Notifications are broken. 167 replies to /t/1000 yet I'm totally caught up.
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Status: considering putting together a service like bit.ly but for NSFW links. instead of redirecting you to the link directly it drops you on a warning page that describes why the linker tagged it NSFW so you can decide whether to follow the link or not.
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Frankly, I'm surprised they haven't panicked at me using a different schema rather than impersonating one by prefixing every object name with companyName_
Spoke too soon.
NVARCHAR has apparently caused problems in the past, because it wasn't set up that way in the first place. There's so much shit here assuming no non-ASCII that this one isn't worth fighting.
I got told that
INSERT INTO companyName_someTable (column1, column2, column3) SELECT column1 = @variable1 , column2 = NULL , column3 = @variable2
is confusing and bad and will scare people. instead I need to use the
VALUES(...)
syntax. This is irritating but is probably slightly clearer (I only usedSELECT
because I started off referencing some tables before moving it out into variables)Schemas are also bad and scary and I'll need to make a convincing argument to keep this new stuff in a new schema. Just "it makes it ten times faster to make the query with intellisense" isn't good enough because everyone else uses the workflow of "open the tables list in SSMS, scroll down the hundreds of tables to find the right one, right click and select
edit top 200 rows
". Time to do some reading on actual improvements that schemas provideAnother rant on foreign keys and how they apparently cause more trouble than they're worth. When pressed, the only reason he could come up with was that if we want do do stuff horribly wrong and broken, we should be able to without the built in tools to prevent horribly wrong and broken stuff getting in the way. Lots of condescending "textbooks say to do this but in the real world you'll find it's no good" bullshit
On the plus side, this has confirmed that people do actually read my checkins. It's almost like a code review except that it happens too late and I had to find the guy to talk to him about complaints I heard about through the grapevine.
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This was a real issue for me before they added the "mark all posts as read" button.
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Status: considering putting together a service like bit.ly but for NSFW links. instead of redirecting you to the link directly it drops you on a warning page that describes why the linker tagged it NSFW so you can decide whether to follow the link or not.
Except, 1 in 10 times, it just shows you the page without a warning.
Its name should be "
brave.ly
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"brave.ly".
already registered....
Except, 1 in 10 times, it just shows you the page without a warning.
...... umm.... no.
i like the idea but that's too evil, even for me.
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i like that, but would require local presence because rasins... (2 and 3 letter domains apparently need local representative in libya.)
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Status: assignment is to add an image to a splash page used in times of fear and DDOS to protect the website. Critical importance is that this page be lightweight. But it doesn't have enough branding on it.
So my assignment is to make it as lightweight as possible but with the company logo on the top. Image (after optimisation as far as I can make it go) is nearly twice the weight of the rest of the page before it's gzipped.
Also I have to work out where to put the damned image and how to get it there. Did I mention I'm not just making a page with an image on but a template so non-technical people can put make a page with an image on, so a one-off 'get this image onto that server' doesn't work.
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Also I have to work out where to put the damned image and how to get it there.
Base64 it and slap it in there as a data URL. ;)
Also -- why is your company logo some gigundo-arse bitmap to begin with? Vector formats exist for a reason...
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Status: Forgot my headphones. Today is going to be more miserable than a normal Monday.
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Vector formats exist for a reason
And browser SVG support is still a minefield; at least PNG et al work
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Also -- why is your company logo some gigundo-arse bitmap to begin with? Vector formats exist for a reason..
I don't know. That's the least of our s. Also, you're talking like we have a standardised image for the logo instead of about seventeen million inconsistently located in our CMS system and the whole mess is way, way outside of my purview.Base64 it and slap it in there as a data URL.
That might do it if I can get the template script to do that.
*Googles 'Base64 Perl'*
The problem is it's not exactly a Perl script. It's a proprietary blend of XML and Perl and I don't think I can just include CPAN modules willy-nilly.Edit: I can get images onto the splash page server. And a Base64 encoding of the image I'm using made the page about twice the weight of the combined page and image.
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i like that, but would require local presence because rasins... (2 and 3 letter domains apparently need local representative in libya.)
A SockDrawer remote office?Seriously though, I have a couple of other ideas:
sock.ly
safe.ly
nsfw.ly
(@mott555)
fox.us
(@PleegWat)
fox.me
(@Polygeekery)
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nsfw.ly?
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fox.us
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fox.me
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fox.co.ck
?
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sock.ly
this i like... is it available?
no..... poo...
none of the others arte either.
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sock.guru
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poop.bike?
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for now.
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