The Official Status Thread
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Where you able to keep a straight face? Or did you blow that?
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It was on the phone. I'm pretty good at keeping it together in situations like that, but it doesn't help when my cow orkers are passing his business card around and cracking up.
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and cracking up.
Be glad you are not sitting next to me ... I would have been making Willy and Dick jokes the entire time to see if I could get you to crack up.
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You could do worse I suppose...
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**Status:**strong text My toys have arrived:
Between them they've got eight cores, so I'm going to call this my "Cluster 4NUC8".
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I was going to complain about the cellphone aspect ratio, but it turns out the video made good use of it.
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Why are there butterfly stickers on them?
... also what the fuck are they? External HDs? Really large 2-port USB hubs? With built-in headphone jacks?
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Status: in the shower this morning suddenly started thinking about Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Weird Science (the TV show). Loved them when they were first on. I wonder if either of those would hold up if I watched them today. Parker Lewis in particular probably feed too many jokes from pop culture of the time. (Like the famous, "synchronize Swatches!")
I still remember that gag in Weird Science where the kids lose the disk that has Lisa on it, and they go to the principal trying to get help finding it, and they go into the long heartfelt speech about how the magical disk has changed their lives, and is the best thing that ever happened to them, etc.
And the principle leans back and replies in a perfect dead-pan: "Yes, boys. I understand. I've played Tetris, too."
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Status: Had a venti (20oz) Starbucks Toasted Graham Latte, 1 cup of 8 o'clock colombian (black), 1 1/2 cups of Starbucks Sumatra (black) and it's only 10 am. The shakes have set in and I feel like I could do anything (if only I could focus long enough)
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I happened to have the stickers, so I used them to number the units from 00 to 11 (from left to right).
They are mini-PC's:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5i7ryh.html
... With 16GB RAM, and 2x500GB SSD.
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Somehow I had a sneaking suspicion you would like it. :-)
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Skype has started showing this thing EVERY TIME IT STARTS. WHY. THERE IS NO POINT. Is action required? No. I WANT IT TO DIE.
At home, the dialog reads something like "Rav32" or something. Here at work, it's "Bluetooth Headset Helper.exe". WHO CARES, SKYPE!
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There's a reason the API logo is shaped like a shotgun shell.
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I was thinking Dr. Mario pill. But hey, whatever.
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Status:* 50 new posts in Status thread since I last read?
opens thread Those are the same 50 posts I already read! DISCOURSE!!!
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Status: Got one of the (more than) daily emails from a job site aggregator, which had an "excellent" match for a job listing from a well-known network equipment company (no, not that one). Clicked the link. The site the aggregator pulled the listing from considers this a "premium" job, and requires a paid, premium membership in their site to even see the listing. Belgium that with a purple cactus! Went directly to well-known network equipment company's web site and applied there โ after finding my way through a bunch of flashy animated crap to find the job listings, registering on their site, and adding not just one, but four, random strings to my KeePass database (password and three required security questions in case I forget my password).
What is it with web sites and security questions? Brand of favorite household appliance? Who in the world is going to remember what appliance they arbitrarily picked as their "favorite" in a couple of years when they're looking for a job again and have forgotten their password for random potential employer's web site.
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Status: Just spent time arguing with a senior developer that line charts do not have an intrinsic requirement for a point to be exactly on an x axis label and that if our charting library actually requires that, it's fucking wrong and needs to be replaced.
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Parker Lewis Can't Lose
That show was almost exactly what a "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" TV show would have been.
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I always looked at it like it was an actually-funny version of Saved By The Bell. Parker Lewis had the same "magical breaking the fourth wall" powers of Zach from Saved By The Bell, at least.
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Those are the same 50 posts I already read! DISCOURSE!!!
Likely read during Cooties event.Status: Wondering why we're a month behind on our Patch Tuesdays:
Hey guys! This is how you restart your computer, in case you've never done it before!
Filed under: TIL we're still using Flash Player, somehow. Also that somewhere some poor sods have Windows 8.0
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Your IT guys have World of Warcraft and Ventrilo on their computers? Pinned in the number 1 and number 2 position on the taskbar no less.
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Pinned in the number 1 and number 2 position on the taskbar no less.
LIAR.
Taskbar applications are 1-indexed, not 0-indexed.
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@mott555 said:
Those are the same 50 posts I already read! DISCOURSE!!!
Likely read during Cooties event.Or he went "back" to /latest. Sometimes the browser (Chrome, at least) just uses its cached version, sometimes it gets a new version, and sometimes it displays a partially updated version. I have no idea why, except that discodevs don't support using "back," because using your browser's built-in functionality is Doing It Wrongโข; you're only supposed to go back where you came from by going forward using the logo link at the top of the page.
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I was wonderwondering at where they got the screenshot. We aren't (supposed to) have Chrome, we don't play games, and were (mostly) not using Office XP or whatever those other programs are (or paint shop).
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That's like Word 2003's icon, too. So it's ancient Word. Maybe even Word 2000's.
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discodevs don't support using "back,"
What is this "back" you speak of? Is it related to this "earl bar" I hear about every so often?
Filed under: Most people I know don't even know what that bar is
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Hmm, probably not 2000, I think they were using Solid colors again back then, and 97 was a bit more cyan.
(Only relevant image I could pull behind the firewall)
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Yes well I was too fucking lazy to look it up, I just knew 2003 and 2000 had fundamentally the same icon.
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Is it weird that I think the OS has come full circle?
We started with hard edges and high-contrasting lines (due to hardware limitations), moved on to artsy-fartsy curves, and then slammed back into high-contrasting lines as if it's a new thing.
Filed under: Soon we'll be back to dumb terminals accessing data from a remote server.... Wait a minute!
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Parker Lewis had the same "magical breaking the fourth wall" powers of Zach from Saved By The Bell, at least.
Same for Ferris Bueller.
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What is it with web sites and security questions? Brand of favorite household appliance? Who in the world is going to remember what appliance they arbitrarily picked as their "favorite" in a couple of years when they're looking for a job again and have forgotten their password for random potential employer's web site.
Maybe it's part of the pre-hiring personality test?
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Brand of favorite household appliance?
Faced with this indomitable question, Tsaukpaetra hesitantly types in "Computer".
Filed under: It was better than "my favorite household appliance"
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING, @lorne_kates!
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Status****strong text: I hear this at work several times a week:
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results
No, that is not the definition of insanity. Shut the fuck up.
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Do your cow-orkers play World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? Because there's a boss that says that quote, so you might be hearing that instead of an actual person.
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It's just the definition of XCode, though "expecting different results" should be changed to "receiving different results."
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Do your cow-orkers play World of Warcraft: Cataclysm?
No, they are bad engineers with no debugging skills, and I hate them.
Filed Under: Wow, it felt good typing that.
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No, that is not the definition of insanity. Shut the fuck up.
Goddamn it, I just made a resolution to myself to not let the flamewar bleed any further.
@boomzilla, I want it made known that I passed up a perfect setup. ;)
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Filed Under: Wow, it felt good typing that.
It would feel better if you drank two glasses of scotch, came back, and told us how you really feel.
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Two glasses of scotch? Definitely. Come back and tell you how I really feel? Depends on whether I can still type after the two glasses of scotch.
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Depends on whether I can still type after the two glasses of scotch.
The best rants are typed through one eye, because you have to close one eye to focus on the screen.
You may have to come back and edit later after a sober proofreading.
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Two glasses of scotch sounds like the perfect time to try speech-to-text.
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BTW, you are making me feel like an alcoholic. Two glasses of scotch is what I call a digestif.
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I think it depends on what people are meaning by "glass". If you put it in a Glencairn glass, that's basically just two shots. I'm imagining someone filling up a huge beer stein and going, "yup! Two glasses!"
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For scotch, a rocks glass. ~2/3 full, including a few ice cubes to cool it down a touch and dilute it with a little water.
For Jack and Coke, I usually mix it in a pint glass.
<fuck you Discourse
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For scotch, a rocks glass. ~2/3 full, including a few ice cubes to cool it down a touch and dilute it with a little water.
I'm of the opinion that if the scotch is good enough, it needs no water at all. Just a gentle warming with the hand so that the peaty fumes fill the glass slowly and you can just inhale them in your own time.
A high-backed chair, log fire, ticking clock and dozing dog are all optional extras.
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I drink single malt neat when I want to treat myself after dinner. I drink tall glasses of blended scotch on the rocks when I want to be an angry drunk. like tonight.