The Official Status Thread
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England. Any reason for asking?
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Thank you, compiler, for this ever-so-helpful error message:
error: syntax error: '<Unknown>'
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Well it sounded sort of like the UK system but different.
UK bank holidays are not statutory (they don't have to be given as paid leave) but they can be counted as part of the statutory allowance.
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Ah right gotcha. It is the UK system, and the set up my place has is that they are counted as part of the statutory allowance. I'm fighting with HR that my annual allowance isn't 23 days, it is actually 31 because otherwise they are seriously breaking the law. HR are being Belgium annoying and are refusing to accept that they are wrong. Seriously starting to get concerned that this is going to end up at an employment tribunal/small claims court before they back down though...
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Surely 23 + bank holidays is still 31 days off, regardless of how the HR drones count it?
We get 25 + bank holidays, which technically meets statutory as the bank holidays can be counted as part of it. But they're automatic days off, so the result is still 33 paid days off. Or, like I've managed this year, 34 days + 8 bank holidays.
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Status: Just have been thrown off by an error being not specific enough.
For my XAML, I'm using DesignViewModels during design time so I can see what it actually looks like populated without having to run the program. This means that I can largely do this
public bool WarnNameIsEmpty { get; set; }
without having to do more fancy stuff like in the actual ViewModel.I just added a new View and the corresponding ViewModel and created all the needed properties in the Design variant first, so I could bind the properly in the XAML and worry about the rest of the logic later.
However, the XAML part where I referenced the DesignViewModel was underlined in blue with the error "Property not set to an instance of an object."
Since the damn thing underlined the reference to the ViewModel class my first thought was that it didn't find the VM. But it did find the other two previously and if I referenced those instead, it did work. Rebuilding and restarting didn't fix anything either.
So I took a closer look at what I was doing differently in this VM than the other two.Well, as it turns out,
public ObservableCollection<Item> ItemsCollection { get; set; }
, while it is not marked as an error, does not work. It needs to be:private ObservableCollection<Item> _itemsCollection = new ObservableCollection<Item>(); public ObservableCollection<Item> ItemsCollection { get { return _itemsCollection; } set { _itemsCollection = value; } }
Why the bloody thing couldn't point to the proper place is beyond me.
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Wait, wait, wait. You're saying that the editor has a bug, so you changed your code? Also, why would you make a property you can bind to with get and set, but no PropertyChanged? Are you trying to break things?
Sure, adding and removing things to an ObservableCollection will notify. But assigning the property won't.
Please write sane code, or someone'll put you on the front page.
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Status: Tickled pink that someone is surprised I read my emails.
My initial reply (edited/censored)
Edit: Derp on censoring ()
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Wait, do you work at my company?
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Probably not?
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that YES they are annual leave that you accrue
In the US, companies are learning to deal with that by accruing more or less continuously rather than a lump sum at the beginning of the year.
I'm sure all kinds of people are going to get all knee-jerky about that, and I'm not going to go to great lengths to defend it, but it seems like if you leave after half a year, you can't just assume you're entitled to a full year's worth of leave. It's not as if your paycheck works that way.
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Getting rewarded for my heroic efforts and accomplishments on a project with a $50 gift card. To the company store.
I knew a guy who wrote a report that saved the company about a million dollars a year in both increased efficiency due to improving inventory control, and also due to letting them eliminate about half a dozen positions (but not jobs--he told me that everyone who's job was evaporated managed transfers to different departments), and got nothing but an attaboy. After being promised a huge bonus.
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England. Any reason for asking?
It works that way in the US, barring what I said in my previous post. My last job gave me a check for accrued PTO when they laid me off along with the entire department after moving the programming department to Mexico.
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Congratulations, Abbadon's Mouth, on winning at a sport after everyone else went home.
This is like saying you're the world's best football player because you waited until the end of the world cup and then kicked the ball into the goal repeatedly after everyone else had gone home. It's 2:30 AM in Germany. They took almost every single objective less than half an hour ago.
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Status: Logged an extra 5 hours today when an urgent bug was discovered at about 1PM the day before I go on vacation.
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It's DesignTime. You don't need PropertyChanged events in Design Time.
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Status: It's Teledildonics time!
Come on how can you resist an article with 'teledildonics' in the title ...
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You laugh, but with VR goggles that will become a billion-dollar industry.
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Our university recently fitted a few rooms with iMacs, free for the students to use (I think they were paid by a third party company). They can boot Windows, OpenSUSE or OSX.
I've seen about 50 people use them, and still no one has picked OS X .
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Someone thought murmur3 64bit hashes were a perfect way to represent strings to save memory and now non unique fields have blown up in the db.
Have you tested for collisions?
What are collisions?Fuck me this is going to be a wonderful shit show.
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Status: This workshop's caterers provided lemon macaroons. :)
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Status: I feel like shit, but I need to go into work so I can attend a kick-off meeting. Maybe then I'll jet early, say I'm sick or. Just that I feel like shit.
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I propose we change the thread title to "Twin-wang"
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wait, so you use fake viewmodels to make the designer work? No wonder you're seeing insane things...
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Yes, pretty much exactly unlike that!
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Status: Finally learned how to do SSH tunneling with Putty. Pretty cool stuff! That little Ubuntu VM I set up at home with SSH open to the Internet is now extremely useful for more than I ever expected.
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I have
-L 8060:127.0.0.1:6060
in my Chrome Secure Shell connection arguments because who needs SFTP when you can have HTTP over SSH? As long as port 6060 isn't forwarded on the router, I can start up a quick HTTP file server in a folder and transfer the files that way.
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I've been migrating away from VPN, Hamachi, and the like. Shared file servers among friends and family are now simply Linux systems and they connect via WinSCP and a private key. It works so much better than everything else I've tried.
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You laugh, but with VR goggles that will become a billion-dollar industry.
I wonder what sort of new mocap tech they'll have to come up with. I mean, if I'm experiencing a VR POV porn, and the actress is going down on the actor-- I'm going to want my sex aide to lip synch. If the sex aid is going down while she's going up, that's just going to throw off the whole experience. This can happen if they just send an "activate" signal to the sex to, rather than specific positional data gathered from the actress' movement.
Speed, pressure, surface-area-contact. These will need to be captured.
But how? Will it be attachments on the male actor to capture the data? Or will she have to wear dental implants to capture the data? They'll obviously have to be safe and FDA approved, since they're internal devices. Electrically shielded. Soft and padded as to not cause metal lesions.
Will the capturing of the data interfere with the act itself?
Or if data capture is impossible that way, will you have to have move-match artists creating the sensations from a bank of "building blocks"?
And if so, will there now be a class war? People who enjoy "motion captured accurate" porn, vs. people who enjoy "recreated sensation" porn? Is this going to be like 3D and the "purity" of film? Will there be arguments if certain porn movies are true "motion capture accurate", or if they are "motion capture conversions" in post production?
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Lucky. We don't get to keep vacation earned. Use it or lose it.
Granted, I do have a pretty cushy vacation package compared to most of the US, especially considering how long I've been in The Industry™.
Getting rewarded for my heroic efforts and accomplishments
My Status: Good news :)
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it seems like if you leave after half a year, you can't just assume you're entitled to a full year's worth of leave
How would you use left over leave when you don't work there anymore? Oh wait, you are in one of those places that pays for unused leave aren't you?
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You worry way too much
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How would you use left over leave when you don't work there anymore? Oh wait, you are in one of those places that pays for unused leave aren't you?
I'm not now, but my last job was. When you accrue leave as a lump sum on January 1 (say), you could have someone start working on Jan 1, quit on the 2nd (or after his first paycheck, more likely) and get a free check for 10 or 20 or whatever days. Like I said, companies are moving to a model where you accrue PTO on a per-pay-period basis, so you never really have "extra". Although that does cause problems when you want to request PTO in advance, because you're basically taking a loan out.
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Like I said, companies are moving to a model where you accrue PTO on a per-pay-period basis, so you never really have "extra"
Plus at least some don't allow you to carry over so either you have to give up at the end of the year or be in debt till then.
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**Status:**strong text eating pasta salad with chickpeas so I don't eat my entire box of Count Chocula in one sitting.
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Plus at least some don't allow you to carry over so either you have to give up at the end of the year or be in debt till then.
Well, or "use exactly all your PTO". My company lets us roll 5 days.
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We can roll 5 and sell 5.
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Shared file servers among friends and family are now simply Linux systems and they connect via WinSCP and a private key. It works so much better than everything else I've tried.
You should try DropBox.
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@mott555 said:
Shared file servers among friends and family are now simply Linux systems and they connect via WinSCP and a private key. It works so much better than everything else I've tried.
You should try DropBox.
I'm a Luddite who prefers the files remain under my direct control.
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I'm a Luddite who prefers the files remain under my direct control.
Your friends and family must love you.
"Sure you could just drag the files into a folder, but NO! TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME YOU MUST INSTALL BROKEN OPEN SOURCE CRAP!"
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Actually, surprisingly, this method Just Works™. It shocked me because normally when I do weird things with Linux I find myself spending 18 weeks trawling through incorrect documentation from 2001 and then giving up. This works even better than the Windows Home Server I used to run.
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Status: Another crash from running out of memory in Guild Wars 2. I sent support a request for a 64-bit client, and instead of having a human respond with boilerplate vaguely related to my query, I received an automated message asking for two files: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/92943007
That's pretty damn efficient. No troubleshooting steps, just "give us information about things that might cause the problem". And not even that complex - they don't give you a list of information to gather, they just gather it themselves.
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FWIW, I was getting similar crashes on my old computer (or my computer would force Chrome to commit sepukku whenever I played GW2 for very long -- even if Chrome was only on twitch, and not on a DC instance somewhere)... The new computer and its Way More Memory Than @Blakeyrat Approves Of hasn't had that issue since.
Of course, I went full shotgun and replaced everything hardware and a clean Windows 10 installation, so who knows what really fixed the problem.
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Status: Okay, scratch that. They're just as inept as every other tech support thing.
That last step reads like this:
https://youtu.be/Vf3vn6c38M0?t=251
What do I even reply with? Running the game in compatibility mode or as administrator isn't going to do anything to make OOM errors caused by memory leaks or there just being too many nearby players spamming abilities go away. And the next karka queen event my guild has is next week. (The next one for anyone is in 4 hours).
Also, here's my desktop:
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What do I even reply with?
Well, if it was me, I'd be tempted to start with “You ignorant bunch of clueless fuckweasels…” and things would go downhill from there. I'm guessing you'll wish to be more diplomatic than I think I could manage.
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Status: Between my Macbook Pro with a (more or less) US keyboard layout, and my work Windows 7 desktop which has switched itself to the US layout, I'm getting a bit confused with my home laptop which uses a proper UK layout. :/
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I replied with this:
I no longer need help