The Official Status Thread
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Why does Discourse give me a separate notification for each post that gets 25 likes, but not have those notifications actually link to the post that got the likes?
Because @end's a shitty programmer. You know that.
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so i have over a thousand notifications for a good post badge more than i had an hour ago..... WTF happened?
/t/1000 got put back.
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Status: Thoroughly embarassed for my state of residence this evening. In keeping with the image we've garnered courtesy of basically everything we've ever done, HERO was voted down by the citizens of Houston today. They are now the largest city in the country without discrimination protections based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
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I just woke up and ...
Thanks, Discourse.
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status****strong text That amazing feeling when you refactor a small piece of code, and it just works on the first shot. It's like taking a huge poop on a toilet made from barbed wire, and hovering JUST enough to get it done and get out without getting hurt.
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Status: I just got two "Popular Link" badges!
Kind of surprising, though - one of the links was to a Wikipedia article about an anime, the other one to a meta.so discussion.
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Status: I just happened upon a quote which I think is really important for everyone to know, and I think it's particularly relevant here.
This may be hard to believe but... wanton violence actually makes one less popular.
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Yeah you shouldn't be throwing those dim sum's around ... just use noodles in a food fight.
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Yeah you shouldn't be throwing those dim sum's around ... just use noodles in a food fight.
Dumplings forever! Though evidence suggests they might be usable with noodles too. It's the classic one-two…
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I draw the line at sushi ... that's just fishy.
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The only lesson they will learn is the one that costs them money
I like to employ the reverse telemarketer script:
I've never made it as far as the questions about teeth
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I draw the line at sushi ... that's just fishy.
I only eat sushi when it is of the very highest standard. It's incredibly sensitive to the quality of both the fish and the rice; if either isn't perfect, it's terrible. Sashimi is a bit more forgiving.
But I'd quite willingly wish bad sushi on my worst enemy.
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Throwing sushi at my worst enemy? It'd probably bounce.
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Well I thought that'd be worse...
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Oooooooooooohh has discourse shat the bed again?
STATUS Annoyed.
Who the fuck copies and pastes an entire class just to add event handling to it.
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Oooooooooooohh has discourse shat the bed again?
Nah, T-1000 was put back into a public category so Discourse regranted all the s.
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I didn't get any =( Fuck you people!
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A week ago:
Me: Ummm... boss? This data... we can't structure it like that, it breaks
UNIQUE
constraints in this table.
Boss: Huh. Well, are you sure the constraint is right?
Me: <explains why the constraint is there and why it makes real-world sense>
Boss: Can't you work around it?
Me: Not really, apart from dropping the constraint. Which might, nay, will cause problems sooner or later.
Boss: Well, that's the way the client wants it. Drop the constraint.
Me: I rather wouldn't...
Boss: It's gonna be fiiineeeToday:
Boss: Hey, Onyx, the client complains about some duplicates in one of the views...
Status: Writing a more complicated
JOIN
that can get rid of the duplicates. Expected performance hit: huge to catastrophic.
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Status: We need to send a customer large files but they won't accept any cloud-based file sharing services or flash drives or CDs and their maximum email size is 10MB
Looking into self-hosted file sharing now. If that doesn't pass their security requirements I'm out of ideas.
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Status: We need to send a customer large files but they won't accept any cloud-based file sharing services or flash drives or CDs and their maximum email size is 10MB
Looking into self-hosted file sharing now. If that doesn't pass their security requirements I'm out of ideas.
split -b10m
?Or, you have them set up an FTP server that you can upload your stuff to. It ought to be their maintenance headache -- not yours...
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Just print it all out and send it by priority mail.
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Edit: I've been playing around with syncthing recently. That might do the trick for you. It's reasonably fast too -- I clocked it at 100MB/minute through an SSL tunnel over wifi.
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syncthing
That looks very interesting but I'm currently thinking about SeaFile as a workflow that would suit us is purely using the web interface for upload/download (to keep the files tightly controlled).
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Or, you have them set up an FTP server that you can upload your stuff to
Not a bad idea, but we can't be the only supplier that has had issues so my gut feeling is that that falls foul of one of their security rules. It won't hurt to ask though.
It ought to be their maintenance headache -- not yours...
I would kind of like us to have an in-house system anyway. People are using dropbox and sendbigfile currently so there isn't any auditing. A Big Important Client means I can buy a licence for something, assuming they agree to it of course.
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when they sent it out, they sent it to 40 people at a time with all of the email messages wide out in the open. 39 other email addresses that I can start spamming if I wanted to. And 39 other people that my email address was sent to for them to do the same.
Last year I got an email from a recruiter which was an "I'm leaving {recruiting company}, it's been nice working with you etc." type thing. It was sent to everybody on said recruiter's contact list, no BCC. There were a few amusing reply alls, like people suggesting they now had a decent mailing list to set up their own recruitment company
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Status :fa_strong_text_joke:
"tester" (actually just a consultant who gets roped in to fiddling with the software a bit before it goes to the customers) sent me an email with an error message.
I repy
Have you run the setup script? I should have sent you the most recent one
She comes back with
not if there's a new one
What exactly is hard about "most recent"?
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Just print it all out and send it by priority mail.
The hell with that.
Read the binary to them over the phone.
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Nonono, I got it! Encode it into a series of QR codes and send it over FAX!
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Status: We need to send a customer large files but they won't accept any cloud-based file sharing services or flash drives or CDs and their maximum email size is 10MB
Looking into self-hosted file sharing now. If that doesn't pass their security requirements I'm out of ideas.
Do you have remote support software or screen sharing services? Most of those facilitate file transfers.
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their maximum email size is 10MB
Send multi part zips. If they insist on being awkward why not do the same back at them
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We need to send a customer large files but they won't accept any cloud-based file sharing services or flash drives or CDs and their maximum email size is 10MB
Lob that ball back into their court. Their policies, their problem. If you want to be evil, say that you'll delete the data after a fixed time as they've not paid you to retain it indefinitely.
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No no no no no. No. The only lesson they will learn is the one that costs them money, i.e., you stringing them along as long as you can.
-_- 'm not a heartless monster~!
that poor person in the call center has a craptastic job, I'm not going to torture them in a misguided attempt to punish the company they work for.
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split -b10m ?
And send each piece as a separate email. Fuck 'em--let them put 'em back together.
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I'm not going to torture them in a misguided attempt to punish the company they work for.
I wouldn't give them the time of day. Saving my time is more important than whatever some bunch of telemarketers thinks of me.
“Hello?”
“Hi, I'm calling to ask if you've ever thought about…”
*click*
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torture them
No, the goal is to convince them to find a better job. If they can't keep butts in seats they can't stay in business.
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Saving my time is more important than whatever some bunch of telemarketers thinks of me.
that's more or less my reaction.
i'll be polite, but if you don't get the hint after your three warnings i will disconnect the call.
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i'll be polite, but if you don't get the hint after your three warnings i will disconnect the call.
I'm not polite any more. As soon as I figure they're trying to sell me anything, I'm terminating that call and adding the number to the block list. My time is more valuable to me than theirs could ever possibly be.
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i'll be polite, but if you don't get the hint after your three warnings i will disconnect the call.
One of the nice things about being in a satellite office is I tell all telemarketers they have to call the main office.
If a telemarketer calls me on my cell phone I tell them I'm not interested and hang up.
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I got like 47 of those, out of nowhere. DISCOURSE R QUALITY PRODUCTT!
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“Hello?”“Hi, I'm calling to ask if you've ever thought about…”click
I just put my phone on speaker and mute, then put it on the desk and see how long they stay on the line for.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
It's like taking a huge poop on a toilet made from barbed wire, and hovering JUST enough to get it done and get out without getting hurt.
You know toilet seats are like $7 at Home Depot. You just kind of screw them in, takes like 5 minutes. Just sayin'.
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Looking into self-hosted file sharing now. If that doesn't pass their security requirements I'm out of ideas.
Why don't you just stop being a basement-dwelling aspie, and ask them what to use? You know, communication? Use a telephone, even. It's amazing.
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No, the goal is to convince them to find a better job. If they can't keep butts in seats they can't stay in business.
Seriously? You think that brilliant plan has even a slight chance of working?
You are literally crazy.
No, Accccccccccla is right, you're just being a dick to people with shitty jobs.
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i'll be polite, but if you don't get the hint after your three warnings i will disconnect the call.
Ok I take it back, you're not right.
If you're not interested in the call, hang up. They're on the job. You're not insulting anybody or "being mean" by freeing up their time to make another call. It's your phone, you pay for it for your convenience, you can do what you want with it.
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STATUS annoyed. Just spent two minutes trying to log into a linux box because the case in the user name didn't match.
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Lob that ball back into their court. Their policies, their problem. If you want to be evil, say that you'll delete the data after a fixed time as they've not paid you to retain it indefinitely.
Unfortunately the data is quotes for jobs. Think of something similar to architectural CAD drawings.
@blakeyrat said:Why don't you just stop being a basement-dwelling aspie, and ask them what to use? You know, communication? Use a telephone, even. It's amazing.
I'm not that bad, it's already in progress through the designated contact (which is not me). The first suggestion from them was email which isn't practical so I've gone back with a suggestion of what I'd like to use this time. I'll just have to see what the response is. Hopefully not either of:
Send multi part zips.
@Onyx said:Nonono, I got it! Encode it into a series of QR codes and send it over FAX!