The Official Status Thread
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You got the first joke and whooshed on the second one.
Examine the spelling of brillant more closely.
And then go back and reference the article.
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Tell me if Halo 5's story is as awful as Halo 4's.
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Yup. I'm extremely disappointed in myself as a grammar Nazi for having missed this. I think it has something to do with...
Status: Have spent the past six hours debugging a program that's homework for my programming class that by all rights should have taken a couple hours at most, since all it's doing is taking a previous assignment and altering it to use a linked list and linear search instead of a sorted array and binary search. Meanwhile, I've been contending with a headache that has only gotten worse as the program continues to return new and exciting error messages.
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Microsoft needs to figure out a way to make Visual Studio yell at you when you do something particularly above and beyond stupid.
I just realized I spent much of today cleverly refactoring some code to be threaded.
Each thread runs a multi-megabyte SqlBulkCopy and share a SqlConnection. And a SqlTransaction.That shit ain't gon' work.
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Status: I've come to the conclusion that programming, on a weekend, with a headache, after a night of restless sleep, is a bad idea. Having finished the aforementioned homework assignment, I present to you the last problem I was dealing with:
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I had this in a command processing function to process one subcommand:
sscanfCount = sscanf(remainingInput, "%10s",thingOne); if(sscanfCount!=1)exitError(ERR_FIRST_SUB_COMMAND,subCommand);
And I needed to add functionality to support a similar subcommand, so I copypasta'd that and modified it into:
sscanfCount = sscanf(remainingInput, "%10s %3s %3s %5s %4d %10lf" , struct.thingOne , struct.thingTwo , struct.thingThree , struct.thingFour , struct.thingFive , struct.thingSix); if(sscanfCount!=1)exitError(ERR_FIRST_SUB_COMMAND,subCommand);
And it took me about fifteen minutes to figure out why I was getting an error.
Edit: I suppose this should've been a response to your comment, @Weng, since I could've also used functionality for yelling at me when I did something particularly above and beyond stupid.
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Status: Submitted my Calculator app to the dropbox. Completely ignored 100% of the tutorial-like instructions, just went with the (minimal) spec as specified. Then I decided to get creative... and now I have a history display!
Source code: iLab1_Calculator_1.0.zip (169.2 KB)
Next assignment: Create a To-Do list App?
Filed under: I don't think I should be trying this hard...
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You know what can be confusing if you're ESL?
In my native language, "brilliant" is spelled "brillant". Really.
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Wait, @PaulaBean is German?
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I love it when people click my "Filed under" links, as if they actually go anywhere!
Filed under: Actually, it's a kind of game, about 0.014% of them have a real, actual link somewhere, you just have to find them!
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They really just prefer cardboard boxes.
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Status: I just discovered that the ninth and final novel in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series is coming out in May. I am both excited and sad now. It's one of my favorite series, but I don't want it to be over.
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Can't be ... the way she forgets to list/unlist or performs actions double ... that's inefficient. Certainly not German.
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1st person games make me motion sick
Some people have that problem if FoV is too low. Anything below 90 is usually the problem.
If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to try a game that allows you to change FoV (read: any decent PC game / port, may all others burn in hell!), crank it up to at least 90-100ish and see if it helps.
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If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to try a game that allows you to change FoV (read: any decent PC game / port, may all others burn in hell!), crank it up to at least 90-100ish and see if it helps.
Even ZDoom lets you freely adjust FoV!
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Even ZDoom lets you freely adjust FoV!
Because it's a proper PC FPS. But many of today's FPS are actually console ports (wrap your head around that one ) and lack any kind of advanced settings. Worse yet, since they are intended to be played on a TV far away from you they tend to use FoV in 60-75 range.
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Status: Debugging my Asterisk monitoring service on a new system I just installed. It keeps claiming that channels never connect and doesn't save the logs (this is usually to skip saving in situations when the user types in an invalid number, think something like typing only 4 digits).
It works in test. It works in dev. It works on my company's prod system. The only system it doesn't work on is the newly installed one.
Then I took a look at the install script:
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-11-current.tar.gz
Wait...
asterisk-11-current.tar.gz
... current version I'm building against is 13...
Methinks someone forgot to push the new version of the install script to the repo...
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status****strong text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SneCkM0bJq0
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Methinks someone forgot to push the new version of the install script to the repo...
INNNNNNTTTTTEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
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BoresWars
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Status: I've paid for my breakfast with exact change for the last 6 days now, and this has gone completely unacknowledged by the cashier.
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Status: Wondering why it DBAs cannot accomplish "just duplicate that database and all its permissions to another server so we can do some experimental testing" in any way besides manually recreating the DB, permissions, etc. With all sorts of errors cropping in, of course.
I'm pretty sure they could just restore a backup....
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Status: Dumb git things: To selectively stash changes as well as newly added files, first stash the changes you want to keep, then stash the changes you actually want to stash, then stash pop the changes you wanted to keep
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I was quite surprised with Vermintide, which defaults to less than 90, because it goes up to 120. Which gives people watching me play games motion sickness all the time. I used to play Warsow at 140, which was fun, but it technically goes up to 160, which I cannot do.
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What kind of acknowledgement do you expect?
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A fair question. A cookie would be nice, maybe one a week for being an awesome customer.
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... for paying the amount you owe, you think you deserve a cookie?
Jesus.
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Only one a week, I'm not crazy. I'm paying the amount I owe in the most efficient way possible, I'm making the cashier's life easier.
Give the exact change for a cookie and you'll get one.
That's crazy enough to work.
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Status: Just debugged 20 lines of code for literally two hours and couldn't find the bug until I realized I misused some API. Reading the names of the function parameters is not a replacement for actually reading the API documentation. Fuck APIs that set error flags instead of throwing exceptions!
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I'm paying the amount I owe in the most efficient way possible, I'm making the cashier's life easier.
Plastic is just a single swipe, assuming they have the new signature optional system. Change means they have to put all the coins in the right part of the register.
Ask the cashier if it makes their life easier, see what the response is.
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Fuck APIs that set error flags instead of throwing exceptions!
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throw new Exception()
!Filed Under: But exceptions are slow, it's much better to send an int as the response instead
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Status: I've paid for my breakfast with exact change for the last 6 days now, and this has gone completely unacknowledged by the cashier.
The cashier just thinks you are poor, and go through your change jar every morning to find enough money to have that exact meal, and they don't want to acknowledge that for fear of making you feel ashamed.
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Status: My cousin (who I'm worried may end up on here eventually) asked me how to access the webcam from a website so he can make a p2p chat application off of a website. :
I told him "You probably can't do it right, and the ways you can do it (flash, java web applets) are horrible abominations"
Then he asks if he could use PHP or Perl to do it.
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I told him "You probably can't do it right, and the ways you can do it (flash, java web applets) are horrible abominations"
Then he asks if he could use PHP or Perl to do it.
Yeah, he:
may end up on here eventually
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give him this:
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Plastic
That technology is far too advanced for my place of work.
they don't want to acknowledge that for fear of making you feel ashamed.
That must be it.
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Huh, TIL.
I may have to do that.
I told him a chat app is a little complex, why don't we start with just a plain static-ish website first.... We'll see where that goes.
I also had to explain what DNS was... He has much to learn, and is far too eager to play with stuff and not learn...
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my place of work.
Wait...why are you paying for your meal at your place of work? Is that a thing? I don't know if I have ever been to a place that has a cafeteria, but then makes their workers pay for the food there. Only people external to the organization have to purchase their meals.
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I tried to get this to happen. He mentioned it produced some kind of error, but wouldn't tell me what the error was, so I just said, "screw it, just make the DB and give me full rights, I'll DDL-in the schema and bulk-load the data!".
Of course, now we need to song-and-dance to get it into production....
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I told him a chat app is a little complex, why don't we start with just a plain static-ish website first.... We'll see where that goes.
You need to breathe before you can crawl, walk or run.
I also had to explain what DNS was... He has much to learn, and is far too eager to play with stuff and not learn...
He doesn't even know how to breathe yet. Unsarcastically speaking, you may want to get him a few of the "For Dummies" books. They made few assumptions about what people know and you don't know what you don't know until you know it.
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@sloosecannon said:
I told him a chat app is a little complex, why don't we start with just a plain static-ish website first.... We'll see where that goes.
You need to breathe before you can crawl, walk or run.
I also had to explain what DNS was... He has much to learn, and is far too eager to play with stuff and not learn...
He doesn't even know how to breathe yet. Unsarcastically speaking, you may want to get him a few of the "For Dummies" books. They made few assumptions about what people know and you don't know what you don't know until you know it.
Yeah. It would be much easier if we were colocated, as it is, he's in Virginia and I'm in Ohio so I can't quite go over and explain everything in person. I'll look into those though, they might be a good solution. Assuming he doesn't go all ADD on me and read only 1 chapter or something.
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why are you paying for your meal at your place of work?
Because work doesn't pay for food?
Is that a thing
Sure! Just because there's a Starbux in the first floor of our building, doesn't mean we necessarily own it and that all stuff there is free.
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Sure! Just because there's a Starbux in the first floor of our building, doesn't mean we necessarily own it and that all stuff there is free.
True, but as I read it he was saying that the cash register was part of his place of employment and was therefore not advanced enough to take plastic. Which...any place that sells stuff and doesn't take plastic is a bigger bit of ery than anything else.
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Wait...why are you paying for your meal at your place of work?
As opposed to stealing it?
Is that a thing?
... cafeterias? You are asking if cafeterias exist?
Wow.
I don't know if I have ever been to a place that has a cafeteria, but then makes their workers pay for the food there.
Well, they're pretty rare. There's only about a million of them.
Only people external to the organization have to purchase their meals.
I'm guessing you've only worked at companies like Facebook, Apple, Google. In an area where you pretty much HAVE to provide a free cafeteria to compete.
Here in the Seattle area, most cafeterias aren't free. (One exception: AllRecipes.com.) Even Microsoft charges.
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"You probably can't do it right, and the ways you can do it (flash, java web applets) are horrible abominations"
Pros:
- it's an open standard
- it's lightweight
- it's simple to use
- it's fucking awesome all around
Cons:
- it has to work in a browser
- browsers are assholes
- browser makers are assholes
- W3C are assholes
- FUCKING BROWSERS!
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any place that sells stuff and doesn't take plastic is a bigger bit of ery than anything else
Not sure what to say about this, to be honest. I'm sure that there are quite a few places like this outside your version of the world...
Status: Got a wakeup call that the network drives aren't working. After digging a little it was discovered that the server wasn't shut down properly, and that because of this the Active Directory Join failed (because it was happening too early in the boot sequence). This meant that all of the core services were working, but general documents and other file-stuff wasn't.
Filed under: Why doesn't the UPS send notifications that it's on battery anymore? Does the UPS even work at all?!?!
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Status: I've paid for my breakfast with exact change for the last 6 days now, and this has gone completely unacknowledged by the cashier.
This seems like it belongs on the FWP topic.
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I'm pretty sure they could just restore a backup
That's how a Progress backup/restore works.
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Which...any place that sells stuff and doesn't take plastic is a bigger bit of ery than anything else.
Pretty sure he's in the UK. Probably lucky to have indoor plumbing.
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@sloosecannon said:
"You probably can't do it right, and the ways you can do it (flash, java web applets) are horrible abominations"
Pros:
- it's an open standard
- it's lightweight
- it's simple to use
- it's fucking awesome all around
Cons:
- it has to work in a browser
- browsers are assholes
- browser makers are assholes
- W3C are assholes
- FUCKING BROWSERS!
My name is @sloosecannon, and I agree with the contents of this post