The Official Status Thread
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The tanker or the Hornets?
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What did you think of me prior?
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TBH, no. I do not recognize that at all, it appears to be an irradiated horse with a brand.
Nothing at all similar! :p
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Really? Awe darn, this means I'll need to delete her reference and create a new one, traversing the database for all instances of her name is too hard!
(aside: is that y enough? My memory doesn't work exactly like that, but it is similarly difficult to retrain a reference that already has so many references)
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And honestly, argument-less .ToString() for dates needs to be
bannedpunished with extreme prejudice.FTFY
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It depends. I like it on structs, where it's called automatically.
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Wardog[*], an spanish BOFH says his work title is: "IT Whore"
wich is accurate in a lot of places for the IT guy
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explain yourself
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C# is weird like that. All structs have
.ToString()
called on them automatically if you put them anywhere a string is expected. Resharper even complains when you call it on them.
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for dates
on structs
There's quite a difference here. Namely, format strings.
I don't really agree that those should be required (for things like logging, you're probably just fine with whatever consistent d/t format), but for displaying the dates to the user...
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Status: Making ice-cream.
...and I really just posted that to make you hungry. :evil_laugh.fm5:
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I got you covered with a cookie!
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I counter attack with Lays Gyro-flavored potato chips. Those are awful. Even the reuben flavored ones aren't very good.
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Status: Earlier today a client called:
Client: "I know it is really short notice, but do you think you could be here around noon to go over a few things?"
Me: "Today is pretty hectic, it would be difficult on this short of notice."
Client: "We are having lunch brought in from $LOCAL_BBQ_PLACE."
Me: "See you at noon."
Client: "I thought that might sweeten the deal."
To the rest of my clients, that is how you make things happen with contractors.
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Status: Making ice-cream.
Isn't it a bit chilly for ice cream?
"Archangel reindeer3" by Detroit Publishing Co. - Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: LOT 13419, no. 146 [item] [P&P]. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.Also, this:
"Reindeer milking". Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.
Filed under: Wait, all of Sweden isn't a barren tundra? Since when?
EDIT: sigh, ISNT not IS... ISNT
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To the rest of my clients, that is how you make things happen with contractors.
How about offering reindeer-milk based ice cream?
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Do not want.
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Why not? Can't be worse than goat milk, can it?
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Goat milk is not that bad, especially when made in to cheese. I have no desire to try every mammals milk though. When it comes to drinking milk, my tastes are pretty pedestrian. I keep it to, as Lewis Black would say, "Moo cow fuck milk".
Filed under: There is not such thing as almond, soy or any other type of milk. That is just juice, and disgusting juice at that...
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Just found out what was really wrong with Dragonball Evolution. Stephen Chow wouldn't direct it. So it ended up being dumb, without being ridiculous enough.
It's funny, because he did quite a good job of a different Journey to the West derivative.
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"Moo cow fuck milk"
That sounds like something that is not actually milk. I'd but really calls for
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Welcome to my image collection you cute mathematical symbol, you!
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Status: Driving back home, saw some genius who had tinted/smoked the lenses on the headlights of his car.
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Now, we'll have to chase him down and see if he did it with LCD film or not. If not, then :facepunch: .
If so, then , since you could hook it up to the line for the lights and have it go transparent.
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I sincerely doubt it.
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Status: Wife broke her phone, so she is getting mine and I am getting a new one. Does anyone see any reason to not get the Galaxy S6 Edge+?
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Que?
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Status: At 1:1 meeting with my boss, I point out that it'd be nice to add some global caching in our application so it doesn't (for example) yank the entire ZIP code table out of the database three or four times a minute and just uses an in-memory copy.
He suggested to instead switch to memcached and add this huge blob of undoubtedly-buggy third-party crap to our solution when all we need is some common-sense caching.
I hate this industry. Seriously hate it.
Thanks to a friend, he pointed out that the .net 4 versions of the
Runtime.Caching
can take a "cache provider", so what I can propose to my boss is doing the quick and easy wins I want with the .net 4 ObjectCache and then we're free to swap-it-out for whatever shitty black box blob he wants to in the future. Which will never happen.
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in-memory copy
memcached
I can see how your boss would confuse "local memory" with "local memory of a server that might not even be in the same datacenter".
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That's the POINT, Ben.
He wants to do this massive complex solution that requires buying new hardware and relying on some other party's black box code.
I'm saying we can get 95% of the same benefit by simply making our code smarter and possible increasing the memory of our existing servers, if needed.
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Status: I just peeled the screen protector off a new Galaxy S6 Edge+. Tomorrow I am going to call Samsung corporate and tell them how wrong they are, because blakey said so.
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Status: Enjoying all the red lights just because a little rain appeared for half an hour.
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I'm saying we can get 95% of the same benefit
You might get 195% of the same benefit if you end up caching the right stuff in the right place.
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Status: At 1:1 meeting with my boss, I point out that it'd be nice to add some global caching in our application so it doesn't (for example) yank the entire ZIP code table out of the database three or four times a minute and just uses an in-memory copy.
He suggested to instead switch to memcached and add this huge blob of undoubtedly-buggy third-party crap to our solution when all we need is some common-sense caching.
I hate this industry. Seriously hate it.
Thanks to a friend, he pointed out that the .net 4 versions of the Runtime.Caching can take a "cache provider", so what I can propose to my boss is doing the quick and easy wins I want with the .net 4 ObjectCache and then we're free to swap-it-out for whatever shitty black box blob he wants to in the future. Which will never happen.
The only advantage of an external caching server that I see is if you have multiple backends. Since I doubt you're operating on a high-traffic public facing site, I'd be interested to hear his reasons for advocating for memcached.
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I went with the regular S6 at work, since I could not really see the edge-thingy as anything more than a gimmick.
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STATUS: Reading a job add:
Multiple positions, hmm.. C#, .NET, fine fine...
- Drivers licence
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TIL Visual Studio's search functionality is a fucking joke. If they want me to seriously consider working on dynamic language projects using their tooling, they need to do a LOT better.
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Status: I just peeled the screen protector off a new Galaxy S6 Edge+.
Status: duly impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit - 15h ago asking if there's a reason not to - 12h ago, already a fait accompli.
I haven't pulled the trigger on my father's day gift yet...
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I tend to decide and act quickly. Patton once said, "A good plan swiftly executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
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Does anyone see any reason to not get the Galaxy S6 Edge+?
Well, there's the five fold price difference with the Moto G...
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Does anyone in a first-world country that actually uses their phone regularly and heavily have a Moto G?
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Well, there's the five fold price difference with the Moto G...
Meh. I am OK with paying more and getting what I want.
I was more looking for things like, "Don't get that one, it has been exploding and blowing guy's testicles off." Nothing like that, so I got it.
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it has been exploding and blowing guy's testicles off
Honestly, if there was a phone that had that feature I would probably be more inclined to buy it.
As long as I could control it.
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Has the S6 Edge+ been out long enough for testicular detonation?
It's pretty new (I didn't think it was even out) so you're taking your balls into your own hands, so to speak.
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you're taking your balls into your own hands
They're mine. I will wash them as much as I want to.