The Official Status Thread
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
I bang my knees into an iron bar that connects the legs of the desk.
Buy a pool noodle. Cut it to the width of the bar, cut down the length, slip over the bar. (Almost) instant padding.
So you're telling him to jam a noodle into his desk? Swampy would be proud.
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So you're telling him to jam a noodle into his desk? Swampy would be proud.
If it's a dumb idea but it'll save his knees, it's not dumb.
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Discourse said I have 23 unread in the status thread. I click on it and it dumps me in here. 450+ posts back. Even though I have posted since then. Several times.
This software is rubbish.
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And it turns out that I have zero unread. Wonderful.
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Status: wishing I was as cool as @Polygeekery, getting to read the status thread an extra time through Discomagic.
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DiscoMagic? Or DiscoFuckery? I say DiscoFuckery.
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Status: completed Steam card sets on Homeworld Remastered and Sudeki on the basis that I completed both games on their original platforms.
(House rule is I only complete a Steam card set if I have beat the game.)
(Yes, I played Sudeki.)
(Yes, I played it long enough to beat the game.)
(Shut up, I was really fucking bored that month.)
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Yeah, what do you think my clip was riffing on?
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Don't know, didn't watch it.
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Any sufficiently advanced DiscoFuckery is indistinguishable from (black) magic.
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You should always watch videos I put up.
Filed under: Who wants to submit an obfuscated PR to Discourse's github that will Onebox those links on April 1st?
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Bury it in a regex. We already know they don't understand those.
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Declaring variables is so needlessly convoluted
It's only as convoluted as you want it to be.
myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo := 2 myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo := int(2) var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo = 2 var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo int = 2 var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo = int(2) var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo int = int(2)
The
var
form is useful when you want to initialize a variable with its type's zero value:var cats []Cat // is much cleaner than cats := []Cat(nil)
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myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo := 2
myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo := int(2)
var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo = 2
var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo int = 2
var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo = int(2)
var myIntVariableThatIsEqualToTheNumberTwo int = int(2)If you can look at those 3 different forms to do the same thing and think "oh, simple", you've been chatting with the hostage takers too long.
Also, lets not forget arrays vs slices and references and
const
and limits when (re)declaring multiple variables using:=
... A bunch of convoluted little rules and quirks.Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against "large" languages, with lots of syntactic sugar and support for different programming styles. It's just that go wasn't supposed to be like that. They sacrificed some very useful features in the name of simplicity. And then they went and made that shit.
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Jellypotato!
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voicemail system that does fax tone detection e.g. the voicemail thing starts answering the call but detects half-way through the welcome message or even after the beep that there is a fax on the other side
This is how I handle it on Asterisk, works well. Generally a 4 second wait seems to be fine, but unless there's a specific reason I need to lower it I keep it at 10 myself.
So yeah, consolidating voicemals and fax on one Asterisk system would probably be the simplest solution. Installing it on bare metal would be ideal, but if you can get it to use a network interface rather than a modem (e.g. use an ATA) it should be fine in a VM as well.
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Generally a 4 second wait seems to be fine
Generally, yes but since it we are talking about a low volume solution I wouldn't be bothered.
I once investigated a case where we detected fax tones almost 30 seconds in the call.
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DiscoFuckery
You are Doing It Wrong™. It's called DiscoMagic. Period.
That means, we have to extend the definition of DiscoMagic.
Filed under: Discourse. Teh inexhaustible source of surprise.
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Status: Boys asleep in bed. Takeaway from the local wing place ordered. Beer chilling in the fridge.
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Status: Yip kyon bark kyon yip kyon!*
* Give me caffeine now and no one gets hurt!
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Status: It is now impossible for me to tell what I've read and what I haven't on this site. Threads with unread bubbles take me to posts I've already read (and even liked or responded to). And threads I KNOW I need to catch up on pop up to the top of the list with no unread post bubbles.
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TIL when you get behind on reading, "Summarize this topic" option can actually be pretty useful.
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This electronic road sign has been telling me to slow down for "road word" for a week now.
Fucking Pennsylvania illiterate motherfuckers.
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"road word"
Pennsylvania illiterate
'maybe they want you to slow down for the hooked opn phonics lesson they printed on the road?
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Status: WhyTF does this stupid form have
4039 required fields? (Turns out one was optional after all. Yay.)
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9 posts were split to a new topic: Faxing
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More like this.
We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
Robert Oppenheimer, in an interview about the Trinity nuclear explosion, first broadcast as part of the television documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965), produced by Fred Freed, NBC White Paper; Oppenheimer is quoting from the 1944 Vivekananda-Isherwood translation of the Gita (ch. XI verse 32). The line is spoken to Arjuna by Krishna, who is revered in Hindu traditions as one of the major incarnations of Vishnu; some assert that the passage would be better translated "I am become Time, the destroyer of worlds."
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I know where it came from. He even states it in the video that he was reminded of the Bhagavad Gita and that is where the quote comes from. But, when I think of that quote I do not think of Vishnu, I think of Dr. Oppenheimer, because he is the one that introduced it to me and I am more familiar with the Trinity tests than Hindu scripture.
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Status: WhyTF does this stupid form have 40 39 required fields? (Turns out one was optional after all. Yay.)
One of our clients once mentioned that the post-service surveys they were sending out had a dismal return rate. I asked to take a look at it and see if I could determine why. There were over 20 required fields. I tried explaining to them that they needed to reduce the number of required fields, preferably to zero, but realistically to as few as absolutely possible.
"But, we want to know all of this information"
"Well, no one is going to fill them out. Would you rather have less data than the ideal, or no data at all? Let people choose what to tell you, no one is going to fill out this survey as it is."
They finally wittled it down to 2-3 required fields and their completion rate went way up.
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I'll keep that in mind. Something tells me, I'll be posting there soon.
Status: it's friday, I don't want to work.
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I am more familiar with the Trinity tests than Hindu scripture.
Maybe in your next life...
I'm just sayin', if you're going to complain about not having nerdy enough friends...
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Status:
Kuro has comments turned off on his Steam account, so I couldn't post the comment:
What the hell is going on there? Is she drunk on champagne and being violated by a 1950s robot while a magical corgi flies overhead?
On this screenshot:
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I'm just sayin', if you're going to complain about not having nerdy enough friends...
In an ideal world I would make the reference and someone would say, "From the Bhagavad Gita, Oppenheimer said it at the first successful Trinity tests." But I would settle for just Oppenheimer. ;)
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There were over 20 required fields.
It turns out that the fields the form I'm working with are only semi-required. They're mostly set by some horrible Javascript. The only actual fields that the user thinks are required are two (the file to upload and the title to give it in the UI). But trying to automate this shit from a non-browser, because it's a Rails 1 app ported to Rails 2 and then Rails 3 and so it's internal API is Belgiumed to heck…
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Discussing future office space needs since we're probably moving to a standalone office building next year.
Item: "Arbeit macht Frei" ironwork over main entrance.
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How is your company competent enough to do a real estate transaction?
You'll probably end up working out of a 1972 VW Microbus.
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Well, given it took a fucking year to do a move from one company location to another.....
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Status: Bad shit happened at my company yesterday. And since my boss promised to assign tickets to me and hasn't (my JIRA queue is entirely empty) I think I'll just "work from home" on my Xbox today.
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Bad shit happened at my company yesterday.
Hopefully not a zombie attack. Although a Blakey-zombie might be an amusing change: instead of moaing "braiiiins", you'd be griping about how stupid the people you were eating were.
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I can't, they updated the RSA token to require eight digits for the pin and won't let me log on to reset it.
Filed under: Darn chicken s, just lay your eggs already!
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It turns out that the fields the form I'm working with are only semi-required.
Argh, I hate that. The bug tracker at a place I used to work changed whether fields were required or not based on the state of the ticket (e.g.,
Solution:
is, of course, not required for aNew
bug, but is required to move the state toFixed
), which is fine. However, they didn't change the UI to tell you the field is now required. Fields that were required for a new bug were indicated, fields that were optional were not marked, and ones that changed from optional to required still appeared to be optional; you just got an error when trying to submit if they weren't filled in.
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- Play round of World of Warships
- Fix easy bug about de-duping code
- Play round of World of Warships
- Join conference call, put it on mute
- Wonder when the World of Warships experience bonus resets, because it's not on the same schedule as World of Tanks, and it's 10:30 AM Pacific and still no reset
- During conference call, crazy new age QA guy is trying to do a guided meditation before we get down to business, this has been going on for 9 minutes now
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Status: It has been a rough couple of days. The hell with it all, I am going to go take a nap with my dogs.
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World of Warships is a free download.
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Status: Rather happy that I'll be getting off early today. But terrified of the reason.
We work on a certain piece of software, which has recently been updated to handle a certain piece of legislation regarding lending, which goes effective tomorrow. It took our company over a year to get it mostly working, and we're probably ahead of our competitors at it.
But it's a complex piece of legislation, and affects banks. Monday will likely be a busy day for support, and many of us will probably be pulled off our teams to deal with problems.
To anyone else this legislation affects, I feel your pain.
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Linkin Park - The Radiance (A Thousand Suns, 2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-bhfcuvsv8
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