The Official Status Thread
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That does suck.
You can say that again!
It is in production, with thousands of users! I am no good at business side; that makes me almost an employee other than I take financial hits in addition to emotional. What I can understand is we made a premium product but without 10x profit margin and that could not have worked in the first place!Not something you can kickstart?
Maybe if morale was higher. Also why should it work second time? that requires a clear plan for execution and someone who knows his shit the way I know mine, who can make hard decisions and not over-promise under-deliver the core team.
I will know by end of this month, we may be acquired (I have zero confidence) or I may be working for a brand. I developed everything and can do it better and faster this time but hopefully for an entity that can make money from it.
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Status: Being astounded by the general competency of our favourite Korean hardware and software giant.
Before I was enlightened about the actual going-ons in this company, I had acquired a Smart TV from them. This Smart TV from 2013 has several pages when I switch it on, the first one being "My TV programs", another one offering PPV, and another does TV apps.
They recently switched off the PPV service and now they're going for the "My TV programs" page - that one is supposed to learn from my viewing habits and such (not that I found much evidence of it) and I'm wondering what will happen to that page after they switch it off.
Because, you see, other than "We'll deactivate this service!" you get fuck-all for information. They're displaying a banner stating this fact every single time you switch on the TV.
And when you press "Details" then the integrated web browser opens which promptly tells you that you shouldn't browse to this page because it has an expired certificate. Not that the page you're browsing to has more information besides a vague promise that there may be a replacement coming up.
Yeah, right.
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Friday November 17, 1995
In exactly 38 days this strip will be 20 years old, and still completely relevant.
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Status: Back from a 5-day vacation to London.
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Because, you see, other than "We'll deactivate this service!" you get fuck-all for information. They're displaying a banner stating this fact every single time you switch on the TV.
Ah, I remember that banner when my 2013 Smart TV from the same Koreans had some features I didn't use removed recently. Even the TV programs one vanished for a couple of days after that.
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There's something to be said for settop boxes, ChromeCast and the like - due to the compartmentalization, upgrading or changing one is easy. If you have an all-in-one solution you'll have a problem when your manufacturer decides that he'll simply deactivate something.
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Status: Adjusting build to work around a fucking race condition in fucking Nuget.
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Status: Frontier Developments fixed their exploration bug in Elite: Dangerous, and I am now in the middle of a vast sea of undiscovered neutron stars.
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Status: That is not the right spelling!
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Status: Next time I play Mafia, I won't go down so easily:
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Status: FUCKING HELL WHY WON'T TEAMCITY TELL MSBUILD TO KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE PARALLELISM
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Should have gotten the bow
http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-ca6a/k2-_4796afcb-5f9c-47ad-8828-ea7384137d2a.v1.jpg
Status: Guess I
've got Brain Problems'm going to the race tomorrow
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Status: Being harassed by a gold-selling robot. Red is the city-wide chat, pink is private messages. Not shown: "thank you for your report" directly above the first line.
The items it's trying to get me to
buybe scammed into thinking I'm buying:
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I love you.
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That is not the right spelling!
Are you sure? I would think the Wet Estonian Cunts thinks differently.
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It's amazing that almost all Dilbert's jokes still make sense today after so long. Something I hope the creator copy lefts to the Internet Archive on his testament.
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You love him because he plays a video game and gets messages from scammers?
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I still don't get it.
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I still don't get it.
@aliceif has been known to enjoy seizure-inducing pieces of rainbow like the ones used on the screenshot to do censorship.
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Ah. I knew about the rainbow thing, but I didn't make the connection with the screenshot.
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FUCKING HELL I'M HAVING A SEIZURE!!!!
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Discourse: not letting you call for help since 2012.
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Discourse is a for Morse code
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What.
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Status: just got to work for consecutive day #29.
LAN is good. MAN is good. WAN back to the big corporate mega datacenter is good. Escaping to the Internet? NOPE. I'm so glad we use Gmail and Google docs and a hosted ITIL solution. This means I need to fucking call India. On a fucking Sunday. So I can get to the fucking things I needed to work on today.
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Ben I think you need an agony infusion.
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I still don't get it.
I have this chain of logic in my brain:
- Ben L is reporting a spammer
- The spammer uses blocks of color at the start of his messages to get attention
- Aliceif has a profile background which consists of blocks of color that somewhat resemble the ones in the Guild Wars 2 chat system
- Aliceif sees Ben L's post
- Aliceif falls in love with Ben L
The problem is that Ben L wasn't typing the color blocks, the spammer was. So logically, Aliceif should be in love with the spammer.
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2) The spammer uses blocks of color at the start of his messages to get attention
No, the blocks of color are from where I erased the spammer's website.
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Oh. I guess that's a good move, so many idiots on this forum he might have made a couple sales.
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Status: wondering if the sun'll stay out long enough to mow the grass in the afternoon when it's drier, or if I should just wade through the wet and mow is now while I have a chance...
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Status: the grass is still wet as hell, but I'm going to mow anyway to be done with it.
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STATUS:
Pressure to update intensifies.
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Oops, wanted to install these other updates, but forgot to uncheck update to Windows 10. Tricky, MS, tricky.
What's next? Pop up nags? Countdown before you can cancel? Update button that follows your mouse cursor?
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If I press the volume down button on this tablet a few times it minimises the app I'm in. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a feature.
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Status: wondering if anyone will ever send me a pull request with
basic_windows.s
https://github.com/BenLubar/coolc/blob/master/libcool/basic_linux.s
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TELL MSBUILD TO KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE PARALLELISM
Why should it need to be told? Surely one of the points of using a build system is so that it builds things correctly when there's dependencies about?
Status: Almost 1am; I ought to get some sleep instead of reading stupid things on the internet…
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When you earn TL3 by shit-posting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xoICJChu8
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WTF is TL3 and why don't I have it yet I WANT IT whatever it is
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I could tell you but then I'd have to drown you in maple syrup.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
WTF is TL3 and why don't I have it yet I WANT IT whatever it is
Edit: You're already TL3.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
WTF is TL3 and why don't I have it yet I WANT IT whatever it is
Edit: You're already TL3.
Did I earn it by shit-posting?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@Choonster said:
@Lorne_Kates said:
WTF is TL3 and why don't I have it yet I WANT IT whatever it is
Edit: You're already TL3.
Did I earn it by shit-posting?
It's highly likely.
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All of your posts are shit, so yes.
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Status: happy americas day (AKA lets kill everyone and claim their lands and riches)
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Status: happy 9-days-until-Ben-gets-a-gun-that-fires-cakes day (AKA 11 days until hang gliders get invented in Tyria)
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Status: at home poundering on the idea of going to a military parade.
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Status: Just talked to a guy called Willy Dick.