The Official Status Thread
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Status: Ordered a gizmo from Amazon.co.uk because the German site didn't stock it. They shipped it yesterday.
Their tracker states that it arrived today at a distribution facility in Germany about 300 km from my home. The expected delivery date, according to Hermes:
Wednesday, 25th of November.
I'm not sure what failed here: Their tracker's estimation algorithm or their logistics. Either way, it's a
I mean, when I ordered something from Canada, it was at my doorstep 3 days later. And it had to pass customs first!
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Be careful of buy back clauses!
Pffft. What's the option date? Will you still be at the company when it vests, and will it still be worth anything?
You are saying words, but I have no idea what they mean.
Anyway, I don't expect to see much of this. Like I said, I heard it all before.
My main concern ATM is to learn Symfony2 framework, so I have some idea of what's going on with the project.
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Oh, Amazon + Hermes?
I recently had them get the delivery estimation completely wrong, too.
By almost a week.
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Well, that's one way to ensure that you don't have to pay any late-delivery fees...
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Status: Was tabbing through Chrome with narrator and I heard it pronounce this window's title as "Does anyone still bellgium thedailywtf.com?". Was disappointed when I discovered that the censorship plugin doesn't censor Window titles too.
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Hermes
They are just god awful. I had a three way arguement with a seller and them once. Hermes swore blind they delievered and the seller was trying to pin it on me. I escalted to amazon and the seller had to send me a replacement and they started tryiing to retreive the losses from Hermes which for some reason I'm was still been cc'ed on. Fast forward to Monday this week. My neighbour found a package at the bottom of his garden addressed to me containing said items(clothing). I'm half tempted to keep them but I finally sent them an email this morning about it but I have yet to hear back from them.
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Let's hope for the best. The DHL delivery guy responsible for my district is really competent and the UPS guy once even did a 2nd delivery try on the same day, even though he didn't have to.
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You are saying words, but I have no idea what they mean.
Sometimes stock is offered in the form of options. Usually it means you can't do anything with it until a certain date, particularly sell it off for $$$.
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Status: On saturday, I bought one of my favorite games of all time, Megaman Battle Network 3 on Amazon. I already have Blue, so I got White, and I know I paid $30 for the original, but I wasn't going to buy a $60 new copy or a $6 dog-eaten one, so I settled on a $15 collectible one. It may have arrived at a relative's house by now. I don't really know if I want to play through the whole game again, BUT~ this one is likely to be harder, and has stuff I haven't ever played. Really, I need to lend it to someone. Then eventually, I can play the rest of the game's unmatched postgame content.
tl;dr: csb
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Sometimes stock is offered in the form of options. Usually it means you can't do anything with it until a certain date, particularly sell it off for $$$.
Strictly speaking, an option means that you have an agreement that allows you to buy (or sell, but that's not what we're talking about here) a certain amount of something, in this case stock, on a certain date at a certain price, regardless of the market price on that date. As a buyer, you hope the market value is higher than your option price; you can buy it for less than it's worth, sell it, and pocket the difference (or hold it and hope it goes up even more). If it is worth less than the fixed price, you choose not to buy it, and you neither gain nor lose anything. (In the case of buying and selling options on "futures exchanges," you paid for the right to buy it at the fixed price, so you would be out that money, but that's not applicable to the case of employee stock options.)
At least in the US, employee stock options usually vest over a period of time. That is, every so often you're allowed to buy another X shares. In my experience, the vesting period is typically 5 years. Let's say you were given an option to buy 100 shares. You could buy 20 shares on or after 1 year, and then either annually or monthly thereafter you could buy another 20 or 1.67 (but you can't actually do anything with the fractional part) shares. The options have an expiration date (10 years, IME, for employee options); you have to exercise them (buy the stock) before the expiration date (and before you leave the company), or the option is no longer available.
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Status: Just discovered the page that lists all the badges. For some reason, I thought on my personal badges page, the colored ones were ones I'd earned, and the grey ones were ones I hadn't earned yet. Great UI.
Also: if only I'd discovered a certain Wordpress developer's folly just a few Discomonths later, I would have earned a Siren
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@toon said:
@Your About Page said:
Amy is our resident code monkey and technical expert. HTML, CSS, CMS, PHP and more, she is fluent in many Internet languages.
xu do se jbobau
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Siren
Also, we should get @blakeyrat one for that time he brought @MatNewman over to teach us about Lotus Notes and yellow boxing gloves.
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@toon said:
@Your About Page said:
Amy is our resident code monkey and technical expert. HTML, CSS, CMS, PHP and more, she is fluent in many Internet languages.
xu do se jbobau
Languages, not gibberish.
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Filed under: Why should I expect oneboxing to work
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How can there be a nice blast if nancient napparition isn't playing?
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Status: due to requiring a separate VM for each of 8 systems I support, and needing physical access to all of them for a USB connected device to register on them, I now have 10TB of hard drives: 8 in an external caddy and 2 in my machine. I'm starting to run a little low on drive letters
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@HardwareGeek said:
Languages, not gibberish.
Internet languages, not crazy moon languages
Since the only place I've ever heard of it is on the Internet, I think it counts for both.
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it actually is.
No. If Windows isn't booting then how fast Windows boots is definitely not relevant.
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went to pick up a network adapter for my MacBook Air and the one I picked up was 10/100.
Didn't know they even made a 10/100 adapter for the current Macbooks!
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I now have 10GB of hard drives: 8 in an external caddy and 2 in my machine
Where did you find 1GB drives in 2015?
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Didn't know they even made a 10/100 adapter for the current Macbooks!
Aren't they the ones that plug into the Thunderbolt port? And which occasionally make the machine just hang when you plug them in?
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Aren't they the ones that plug into the Thunderbolt port?
Presumably. It's 10/100/1000 so I don't see why a 10/100 would even exist.
And which occasionally make the machine just hang when you plug them in?
That's not happened to me yet. I've got two of the things and they seem to work perfectly.
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Status: One of our BAs just asked what the D stands for in DBR.
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Obviously it stands for Dowel. What other kind of Bars would you Retrofit a highway with?
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What does DBR stand for?
Detailed Business Requirements.
The sort of thing that BAs should know about.
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We have an entire team of technical business analysts who, to a man, don't know technical, don't know business and cannot analyze. Half of them can't even write.
The last reasonably competent one resigned Monday.
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Today's shitty VB.NET code:
Private Sub AddStuffToLists(ByVal someStuff As IEnumerable(Of Stuff)) If someStuff.Count > 0 Then txtHeading.Text = someStuff(0).SomeProperty End If lstStatusA.Items.Clear() lstStatusB.Items.Clear() If someStuff Is Nothing Then Return End If
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Status****strong text: That feeling when you make a crappy choice, and you know that it's the right choice but it still sucks... and then you realize that even though you made that choice you gotta tell people, people who are going to flip their metaphorical (if not their actual) shit when they hear it.....
/me hides under her desk
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If someStuff.Count > 0 Then
If someStuff Is Nothing Then
...then again, it's VB, so I wouldn't be surprised if this actually made sense.
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...then again, it's VB, so I wouldn't be surprised if this actually made sense.
i suppose someStuff could be an accessor that returns a dynamically generated list of stuff.....
or is that giving VB.NET develoeprs too much credit?
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Does that pattern warn for unreachable code yet?
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Nope.
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Does that pattern warn for unreachable code yet?
Actually, it's not really unreachable... that
Count
is an extension method call withsomeStuff
as an argument. If it's standardSystem.Linq.Count<T>(this IEnumerable<T> list)
, then it should throw an exception, but if it's not, then it can technically run without aNullReferenceException
.That's VB for you.
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It did it again. Discourse just doesn't want to upload full-size gifs anymore. Fuuuuck.
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hey! i was going to answer that!
RS is beautiful. but until this time next year i'm not moving from here. after that, i'll probably be looking actively to work abroad.
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Status: Turns out my EmissionsWagen has the engine that needs the hardware fix rather than just a software fix
Volkswagen will need to issue a physical hardware fix for 3 million vehicles affected in the emissions cheating scandal the German automaker found itself in after admitting to installing cheat devices in 11 million vehicles worldwide.
The company's U.K. CEO Paul Willis says the affected diesel vehicles are those equipped with a 1.6-liter engine, which require mechanical tweaks in order to eliminate the cheat device. Specifically, the vehicles will need to be fitted with new fuel injectors to make them comply with the European Union's emissions standards. Bigger 2.0-liter engines and smaller 1.2-liter engines will only require a software fix.
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Status: Episode 8
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Why is that charr pink?
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Status: Short Notice Butthole Detonation is the name of my Green Day cover band.
And also the result of my lunch.
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Look at the bright side: Free engine tuning and free new fuel injectors!
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Status: The Bank decided I needed a credit line increase for some reason. Hooray! I can now go into debt an additional $500 more than I was able to previously!
It appears they want me to use this card more, but considering there's rarely more than a $200 balance on it I don't see how that would work...
Filed under: Just in time for the holidays!