The Official Status Thread
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Some people simply need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the century of the fruitbat.
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Some people simply need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the century of the fruitbat.
but aren't we nearly at the end of the century of the fruitbat?
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but aren't we nearly at the end of the century of the fruitbat?
See, and this is what those people think: "Oh, we managed not to enter this century just fine! It'll keep until the next!"
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See, and this is what those people think: "Oh, we managed not to enter this century just fine! It'll keep until the next!"
....quote fail....
unless i very much misremember the response should be something along the lines of:
"... we'll drag them kicking and screaming out of the century of the fruitbat"
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kicking and screaming into the century of the fruitbat
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Century_of_the_Fruitbat
In later books, the phrase refers to the current period of time, usually with the suggestion that a particular person should "enter" it or, more often, a promise from one of the various rulers of the Disc to 'drag [insert country/state here] kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat'.
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Snoring cats and dogs are a plus?
Dogs and cats are. That they happen to snore is pretty much neutral, although it is occasionally humorous.
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aren't we nearly at the end of the century of the fruitbat?
No. According to http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Discworld_calendar, it's already done and gone:
We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy (Carpe Jugulum). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat (Moving Pictures)
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I was going to say something like "oxytocin FTW", but I'll be damned if I open up for another one of those Queequeg emojis.
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Status: I understand it hasn't been a great year for the markets, but my 401k appears to be managed by fifth graders. The interest on my checking account has outperformed it as an investment vehicle for the past 3 years running.
I don't have employer matching so I may as well take my money and put it all on the market directly. It's vastly unlikely I'll do worse.
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Doing some legwork and it appears to either be an SSL/TLS issue (not as likely) or SNI (which we are using for the client's clients), which appears to be fixed with Java 7.
There were some SSL/TLS changes from Java 6 to 7. Don't remember what they were; just remember that they forced us to delay upgrading one of our products for several years. Being able to finally switch things to the
try
-with-resources approach was niceβ¦
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Status: I hate parsing computer-output meant for "printing"! I just discovered that previously-thought-as-integer values are indeed integers, but will most certainly have thousands separated accordingly. Also, there are money values with a dollar sign as well, just in case it wasn't obvious.
Sad part is that the end user is most likely going to just dump the table I'm making back into Excel (which the whole goal of this project is to allow the data to not be in an Excel document)....
Filed under: FML...
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Status: Brain-farting on the syntax to make a C# worker thread that passes status messages back to its caller. I've done this a billion times. WTF.
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func foo() { status := make(chan string) go func() { defer close(status) status <- "not doing anything at all" }() for _, s := range status { fmt.Println(s) } }
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I've always done it with events.
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Why is everyone dumping topic-worthy stuff here, so it gets lost in the never ending feed?
start fucking threads.
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Status: Trying to come up with a status-y thing that @cartman82 will deem worthy of its own thread.
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Are you talking about my staging thing or my GW2 videos?
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Are you talking about my staging thing or my GW2 videos?
N- I mean yes! Definitely yes. We need all the ben lubar goodness in easily mut- I mean findable areas.
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Status: Trying to figure out what I posted here that @cartman82 thinks was worthy of being in its own topic.
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Status: Trying to figure out what I posted here that @cartman82 thinks was worthy of being in its own topic.
How about the whole job seeking Iliad you've been writing over the past months?
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job seeking Iliad
Wait, when have they had a chance to here?
Also, that's a good accalia, I think....
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I usually subclass
BackgroundWorker
class, which does most of the plumbing for you. I got my head screwed on right now, moved on to another thing I'm brain-farting about which I won't share because it's more proprietary.
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Status:
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Jellypotato offset: -99
Ah, well, I never intended any of those to be part of an Iliad. Collectively, perhaps they do, but each was posted individually as current status, just like, e.g.,
Status: discovered some new locally brewed beer
orStatus: Was wrapping up an emergency support call...
Believe me, I'd rather do without the epic saga aspect of the posts.
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Status: Writing a stored procedure that checks the SQL Server Missing Indexes management views, consolidates the suggestions into a number of duplicates, makes some decisions about whether to index or not, whether to include covering columns, what covering columns to include, etc. (It bases this on column sizes, row counts, read/write ratio on the tables, excludes certain types of data, etc.), generates change scripts and executes them.
I call it ITDBAROBOT
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Believe me, I'd rather do without the epic saga aspect of the posts.
See now you're focusing on your petty selfish concerns, instead of our entertainment, which is what truly matters.
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Writing a stored procedure
Going to put that into CodeSOD?Status: Discovered a race condition in IE9 due to how it handles forms submitted as an Ajax request.
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STATUS: Learning symfony 2 PHP framework. It's pretty much the same shit as asp mvc, rails and a thousand other late 2000-s era MVC frameworks.
After sucking on the hipster cool aid on my last mini project, two things strike me:
-- This whole concept feels so ancient and creaky. As I'm setting up ORM form bindings and server side views, I can almost feel the scent of urine and old people's medicine in the air.
-- And yet, it's so stable and feature-full and well tooled and documented. A well-throdded bateries-included framework that does 90% of setting up a CRUD app for you. As long as you stick to server side rendering and none of your users ever finds out things like sockets exist.
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well-throdded
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Nah, its not terribly wtfy and makes sense for these schemas and the ways we use it. It's just a software implementation of the manual process and decision trees I go through routinely.
Once I get it down, I'll probably convert it to C# and integrate it into our mainline maintenance app, and hook it up to source control.
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Believe me, I'd rather do without the epic saga aspect of the posts.
I think that every great hero in any of the epic sagas will agree with you post facto on that sentiment.
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That's probably the closest I've ever come, or ever will come, to being compared to a great hero.
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As long as you stick to server side rendering and none of your users ever finds out things like sockets exist.
And this is why I went out to roll a lot of it on my own, NIH be damned, it's better than trying to cheat those things into doing my bidding by using even worse hacks than I am now.
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Status: 12 minutes in queue for a support call now. Long live Bluetooth headphones!
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Status: 12 minutes in queue for a support call now. Long live Bluetooth headphones!
I have Logitech H800.
I recently took a leak while on a conference call.
It was magical.
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**Status:**strong text Trying to run a release planning assignment in a requirements engineering course using the issue tracker on github
I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for them meddling students!
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Stttattusss: Facilities have the AC on full cooling. It's winter (or near as damn it).
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Time to start your laptop on some bitcoin mining to warm up the keys...
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STATUS:
My boss, regarding the golden goose project: "I'm so excited, I can't sleep! This is a chance of a lifetime!"
Sigh... The project isn't in the greatest shape. Also, things are never so great as you make them to be in your head.
The crash will be hard.
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Status: Trying to find train times...
Helpful.
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I have Logitech H800.
I recently took a leak while on a conference call.
wait. were you on a conference call last thursday when you did that? and was there a rather flatulent guy in the restroom with you at the time?
If so you forgot to put yourself on mute.
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I probably shouldn't post, and maybe not even read, before caffeine. My reading comprehension this morning is ... imperfect. I read
other tools that excel at that job
as
otter tools that excel at that job
and
Zecc's disk space woes
as
Zecc's dick space woes
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Stttattusss: Facilities have the AC on full cooling. It's winter (or near as damn it).
The AC is still on here as well, it's supposed to be the kind that heats as well though. I've solved the problem with two chunky IBM x3950s under my desk warming my feet with their exhaust.
That counts as IT recycling right?
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