The Official Status Thread
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Status: I've gone and done a course:
Is there really something to learn there?
I keep seeing these "Agile" bulletpoints in job adds and wonder: "What do they expect me to know? How to show up at meetings?"
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There's a lot of really stupid terminology, like "spike" or "timebox".
But since every company does Agile differently, it's a waste to learn the "correct" way to do Agile. Since you'll never encounter it in the wild.
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Status: Our bi-monthly game studio meeting devolved into my partners comparing my chest hair to Chuck Norris's.
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Status: Working from home. Dropped my coffee getting out of the car. No milk in the house.
Is this the FWIP thread?
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Dropped my coffee getting out of the car. No milk in the house.
Did you have to drive to your home? Drink your coffee black, like a real man. :P
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Status: Wife finally saw my new MacBook.
In further news, I may not have a MacBook anymore.
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I live in my car
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Status: Started a Planetary Annihilation game. The AI players are named Forsaken, White Hammer, Pharaoh, and....Pepper the Princess...
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Status: Dad complained about browser "opening Yahoo instead of MSN". Resolved by uninstalling "Yahoo Search Set", uninstalling "New Tab By Yahoo", and fixing Firefox settings.
"Hey dad, did you install anything today?" "No, why?"
"It says you installed this Yahoo stuff today." "No, why would I do that?"
"I don't know, you tell me."
Status: Dad complained about not being able to run Java applets in his browser.
Well, at least we know how the Yahoo shit got installed.
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Status: I found the perfect game to do a scarecam video of, I just don't know if I should stream it live or just do a let's play
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Nah. Plenty of common sense packaged in fancy buzzwords.
If you read "guerilla warfare" by Che Guevara, you've pretty much got Agile covered.
Lean is slightly more; Poppendiecks' book is actually worth reading, but it is still just common sense.
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But since every company does Agile differently, it's a waste to learn the "correct" way to do Agile
Sounds kinda equivalent to this "syllogism":
- Agile™ is Good™
- We are Good™
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- Therefore, the way we're doing it is Agile™
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Status: completely failing to get my head around how to approach a fairly simple problem. Today is basically a bit of a write off, I'm just not in a programming mood
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Status: UEFI BIOS boot: 1, @dkf: 0. UEFI boot: 1, trivial bootable USB stick in the back: 2.
AKA if all else fails, sheer bloody minded “do it a way that actually works, fuck you BIOS” can win out.
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Status: some people just don't learn from their mistakes
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Status: Dad asked how to get to the options menu in Firefox. I explained what a hamburger menu looks like and that the options menu was labeled "options" in the hamburger menu.
Status: TIL that opening the options menu in Firefox is a task that takes a nontrivial amount of time.
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error: Commit XXXXXXXXXXX is a merge but no -m option was given.
Fuck you Git. And SourceTree. Hey SourceTree, if "cherry pick" (stupid fucking name) doesn't work, WHY THE FUCK CAN I SELECT IT YOU BROKEN PIECE OF USELESS TRASH SHIT ASS FUDASCKJSAHRAHUH@UH QUEG HYG I HGATE IYT HATE HA TEHURHEWA
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Status: I wasted all morning manually fixing problems caused by Git/Stash/SourceTree.
I want to go back to working with Lotus Notes.
I'm seriously not even kidding. Lotus Notes had a better user experience than this trash.
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Status: meeting started at 10am and ended at 6:35pm.
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Status2: Sat in the hotel bar doing work There's a wedding reception next door. They're playing shit music.
edit: Including shit music made by paedophiles.
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Good thing it was not 127.0.0.1. They would have had to arrest themselves
Only because Windows isn't multi-user.
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Dunno how I missed this comic the first time around.
Or the second. Or the third. Or...jeez, how many times has @flabdablet posted one of those?
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shit music made by paedophiles
I am disappoint. I expected Gary Glitter, or Michael Jackson. I don't know who the fuck that guy is.
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Ah, forgot he'd not be known over there.
Australian comedian, actor, song writer and sex offender.
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Someone's decision to get married on a Wednesday is really messing with my desire to sit in the bar with some beer and quietly get on with work.
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Or...jeez, how many times has @flabdablet posted one of those?
If he's posted that one, I've never seen it.
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No, not that one. I presumed you meant not that particular comic, but the Wondermark series. Mea culpa.
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Australian comedian, actor, song writer and sex offender.
They are all fucking criminals anyway, so that last part was redundant with the first.
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get married on a Wednesday
Someone is too cheap to pay weekend rental rates for venues.
FWIW, I got married on a Thursday for the same reason. But, I did it as a destination wedding and everyone made a vacation of it so they loved it.
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Someone is too cheap to pay weekend rental rates for venues.
Not surprised, it's an expensive hotel.FWIW, I got married on a Thursday for the same reason.
I wasn't trying to have a quiet beer while getting on with some work that day though
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I wasn't trying to have a quiet beer while getting on with some work that day though
Drink more, it dulls all your senses and makes any situation more palatable. Maybe order a scotch to go with that beer. Go hit on some bridesmaids, that could lead to something that would make you forget about having a quiet beer.
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if "cherry pick" (stupid fucking name)
Uh, that's a widely-used term in the real world, and not just in programming: "selectively choose (the most beneficial items) from what is available." M-W says first known usage was in the 1960s.
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If I was in a more sociable mood I'd not be sat here doing work
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Wedding guest wandered over for a chat. Gets to:
Them: What do you do for work?
Me: Work in ITThen they pulled a face, made the over-my-head/whoosh hand gesture and walked off
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it's always the same
- "I'm a developer"
- "oh" (silence)
with a slightly new variation:
- "I'm a developer"
- "oh, you make apps1 don't you?"
It's better to say that you are a computer magician, or a code ninja
1 - where apps refers to android/iphone apps
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Mine is always this:
- "I'm an engineer"
- "OH, YOU DRIVE TRAINS! GUFFAW!"
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All he needs to do is peel it off and he could see more clearly...
... now the raiiiiin has gone!
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It's funnier when they're interested (or pretend to me, anyway) about what it actually involves. Then part way through talking about it they look like they definitely regret asking
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It's better to say that you are a computer magician, or a code ninja
For our wedding anniversary yesterday, my wife got me a shirt that equates a software developer to a wizard. I'm wearing it to work on Friday. Casual day is awesome.
Oh, right. I forgot something yesterday …
Edit: Done
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Why would you pick that inferior cover when you could use the original?
(Checks the notes: Oh, because you're in Germany. NVM.)
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Indeed.
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my wife got me a shirt that equates a software developer to a wizard.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
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Status: Being away with work is usually pretty boring. Until you accidentally crash a wedding reception
Filed under: We're half way there...
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Status: after 2 nasty weeks, I'm down to less than 5 open issues in Jira again. 2 are pri-3, 2 have fixes in pull requests, and one is probably a can't fix, but waiting on business to make a call.
Phew.
After the release at the end of this week we don't have nothing for almost a solid month. The 6.0 feature work won't pick up until late September, so. All cleanup and pri-3 bug fixes for awhile. Yay.
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Meanwhile, we are tracking over 100 open PROJECTS. Not issues or tickets. Entire. Fucking. Projects. Whole applications. Most in the specification stages, all due by November 1. We have 5 developers for that. We can probably even pull it off.
And people wonder why we spend all this money building a RAD (Rapid Application Development) application platform and metaplatform.
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Status: I'm now entirely convinced that in my whole chain of command, or perhaps the whole ccompany, there isn'ta single person that knows anything about application development. Just layers upon layers of client representatives with decreasing business knowledge.
And I swear, one more "progress meeting/code review" that's going to boil down to showing me a demo of XtraGrid, how cool XtraGrid is and how I should use all its features, and I'm going to snap. YES, I KNOW IT HAS GROUPING. I READ THE DOCS. I JUST NEED YOU TO TELL ME YOU WANT FUCKING GROUPING, NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN HOW IT WORKS.
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Mine is always this:
- "I'm an engineer"
- "OH, YOU DRIVE TRAINS! GUFFAW!"
Around here, it's "Oh, you work for Boeing?" No, I make chips, not airplanes. While some of the chips could, maybe, be used in planes, AFAIK none ever have.
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Boeing doesn't make "airplanes".
Boeing makes airliners. The best in the world.
Also lots of missiles.