The Official Status Thread
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I know that. I was commenting on the fact that @cartman82 said that he had to build from source to get it to work, but there is an easy installer for Windows.
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Status: Wondering where today's article is...
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Status: Wondering where today's ■■■■■■■ is...
What's this? Is this some feature we have I wasn't aware of? I'm pretty sure this is just a forum.
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just a forum.
I think the forum is being microaggressed here. Discourse takes offense!
Also something something appropriation.
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@Magus said:
just a forum.
I think the forum is being microaggressed here. Discourse takes offense!
Also something something appropriation.Appropriating bug-tracker culture?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Appropriating bug-tracker culture?
CDCK's bug tracker misappropriated our forum culture and drove away some of our more cultured members.
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Status: Disappointed that GIS for "culture" does not return any images appropriate for the previous post. I had to explicitly specify what kind of culture I wanted an image of.
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Status: Did not get the job I was really, really hoping for — impressed with your background blah blah not a match blah blah. Instead of the usual "will keep your resume on file," got "will definitely be in touch if an opening becomes available," so that's a positive sign, maybe.
A position that I had a phone interview for back in July reopened, and I just had a second phone interview for it. Good pay, low cost of living, but the location is not so desirable. It would be entirely too close to @ben_lubar, but even worse weather.
I think I'd rather get a contract job in the Bay Area. There's one that the contract agency suggested a rate $10/hour higher than my best-case asking rate (yes!), but it's been over two weeks now; if that were going happen, it probably would have happened by now. There's another that the recruiter told me the client has basically run out of top-notch candidates, and they're willing to lower the bar regarding experience with a particular framework, and he thinks I have a good chance with the lowered requirements. He stated a rate that is more-or-less in line with my asking rate, and more than a lot of other consulting agencies are willing to pay. I think I could afford to actually maintain my WA residence (i.e., keep paying rent on my house here) and legitimately claim per diem, and still come out ahead. "Recruiter thinks I have a good chance" is a looooong way from "client approves me," though.
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Status: I hate my job. This application uses VB6 and on top of that, some genuis used 2 folders to place files: "Behaviors" and "Behaviours" (yes, the american and english spellings). What's the difference you ask? No clue.
Be very afraid if "Comportements" shows up... (google translate to french, actual results may vary)
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Bummer! Hoping you find something soon.
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Status: Episode 21.
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Did not get the job I was really, really hoping for
Fucking boo.
got "will definitely be in touch if an opening becomes available," so that's a positive sign, maybe.
Let's hope. As always, we wish you luck.
Good pay, low cost of living, but the location is not so desirable. It would be entirely too close to @ben_lubar, but even worse weather.
A job is a job, but that sounds like torture. Not the proximity to @ben_lubar, but the prospect of worse winters than Milwaukee. It must be a job in Minne snow ta.
There's one that the contract agency suggested a rate $10/hour higher than my best-case asking rate (yes!)
Woohoo!
but it's been over two weeks now
Fucking boo.
There's another that the recruiter told me the client has basically run out of top-notch candidates, and they're willing to lower the bar regarding experience with a particular framework, and he thinks I have a good chance with the lowered requirements.
"You don't suck as much as the rest of the applicants" is not usually a sign of a job you will enjoy. But pay is pay.
Your job hunt is a roller coaster. Let's hope for a speedy return to the platform.
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Well, aren't you just Debbie Downer and shitting all over a good joke?
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It would be entirely too close to @ben_lubar, but even worse weather.
I think I'd rather get a contract job in the Bay Area.
Sounds like that other job is in the Bay Area. The Green Bay Area, that is…
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"You don't suck as much as the rest of the applicants" is not usually a sign of a job you will enjoy.
I wouldn't put it like that. AIUI, it's more that they have a number of positions to fill, and they've filled most of them, but they still have a couple of openings. They have figured out that everybody with as much experience as they really want, either they've already hired or isn't on the market. Therefore, they're willing to consider less experienced candidates for the last couple of positions.
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I wouldn't put it like that.
I phrased it poorly. Perhaps: "You aren't as sucky of a fit for the job as the rest of the applicants"?
And, admittedly the sucky fit is because they have narrowed their focus too much for such a specialized position. Now they are getting around to realizing that they might need to allow for people to learn a little bit in order to fit the position.
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The Green Bay Area
The CEO at a previous employer grew up in Green Bay and is a HUGE Packers fan. He has a serious rivalry with the WA office. (AFAIK, though, he never seemed to get into it with the Bay Area HQ, probably because he was vastly outnumbered and didn't want to meet any disgruntled Raiders
hooligansfans in the parking lot after work.)
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Status: We've hired the final Experimental Officer post in our synthetic biochemistry centre. Modulo paperwork (though that's not expected to be a problem). We should be getting our specialized developer joining us from the start of next month. Been a hard post to fill; most of the qualified people instead go and work for large banks doing quant work…
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they might need to allow for people to learn a little bit in order to fit the position.
Yeah, but from their point of view, these are consultants for whom they're paying an agency probably $150/hour*, or more, so there's an expectation that they will be productive pretty quickly.
* Guestimate based on what the agency is willing to pay me (<50% of what the client is paying). The top candidates are probably even more expensive.
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Status: Just saw this on SO:
#define TRUE '/'/'/' #define FALSE '-'-'-'
Some more from the comments:
#define TRUE 0??!??! "wtf" #define FALSE ("1"??(1??))
Some people have too much time on their hands...
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The CEO at a previous employer grew up in Green Bay and is a HUGE Packers fan.
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Status: We've hired the final Experimental Officer post in our synthetic biochemistry centre. Modulo paperwork (though that's not expected to be a problem). We should be getting our specialized developer joining us from the start of next month. Been a hard post to fill; most of the qualified people instead go and work for large banks doing quant work…
Shouldn't that guy also need some physics / chemistry knowledge? From what I remember about interpreting mass spec data (we had to do that with a very old DOS program), knowledge about distribution of isotopes and the fragments a molecule can be shattered into play quite a big role. Molecules don't shatter into completely random bits, after all. There's also rearrangement of the ionized molecules, quasi-molecule-ions and metastable ions :)
And those are probably the easy cases, we only shot simple stuff like hexane through our GC-MS.
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Shouldn't that guy also need some physics / chemistry knowledge?
Probably, though we've got several people who know that already.
we only shot simple stuff like hexane through our GC-MS.
We're more interested in being able to analyse, create and optimise alternative pathways to compounds like taxol and berberine. They're a bit more complicated.
Fortunately, so are our mass spectrometers. I can't remember if we've got exactly one of these but one of them sure looks a bit like it. That's got a combination of liquid chromatography, traditional mass spectrometry and ion mobility (i.e., measuring the average cross-sectional area of the ions). Pure black magic.
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Status: Just saw this on SO:
#define TRUE '/'/'/' #define FALSE '-'-'-'
Some more from the comments:
#define TRUE 0??!??! "wtf" #define FALSE ("1"??(1??))
Some people have too much time on their hands...
Yes, but that last one is brilliant and/or brillant.
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Why does any independent game that I want to run a server for use fucking Wine and X on Linux.
It's a server, why the fuck does it need to draw to the god damn screen!?
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**Status:**strong text Getting 500 OK and 502 OK messages while trying to update the Discopædia index.
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use fucking Wine and X on Linux.
Maybe because all they really did to make it a "server" is take the client's "local server" (which includes the rendering etc) and rename it "server"?
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I DON'T GIVE A FUCK THIS IS BLAKEYRANT LEVEL
<sdfsadf
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Status: got another Steam comment on one of my mods. I always love these.
does it work with Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim (thats the name of the addon version on steam)
test it and see if it does becuse thats the only reason i downlaoded well am gonna download it after you find out and sure you maybe saying ''why dont you test it your self'' see because there might be a chance to break my game atleast untill i de install it so just for safe you do it first ok?
Uh. Ok crazy-person, I'll get right on that.
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Status: The Alehouse tavern was attacked by a were-elk. Good thing there are six mercenaries having a party inside. We wouldn't want this to turn out like that last time where a human maceman got so drunk he died. That was too much paperwork.
Status: What's that? Too busy having a beer to do your job? No problem, I'll just let the tavern keeper, three performers, two scholars from the library across the street, and half the kitchen staff deal with it.
Status: Apparently, there's a bug with temples where the people worshipping inside never decide what kind of worship they want to do and then they just kind of stand there until they get really hungry or thirsty and give up.
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How do you read ANY text that game puts up?
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It's crashing in my fortress, so I decided to start an adventure mode character.
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Thanks for replying to me and sending me a notification about it.
Status: Finally putting in some Black Ops 3 time. I like Advanced Warfare better, all-told, but at least it's not the shitfest Ghosts was.
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Thanks for replying to me and sending me a notification about it.
This elf is terrible at arguing.
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Status: That's the last time I pay for a drink with meat.
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Status: continually amazed that the new mobo I ordered on Amazon to go with the rest of my new build I bought during the PRE BLACK FRIDAY EARLY DEAL BLOWOUT DOORBUSTER EXTRAVAGANZA CLEARANCE SALE OF THE CENTURY with Expedited shipping took six days to ship and then got sent via USPS. Literally all of the parts besides the mobo arrived yesterday (a day late, even) and half of them are still in the packaging because I can't do anything with them without a motherboard to attach them to.
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**Status:**Bold Text It's toy-time. My new 34" screen has arrived. I am now stress-testing it:
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So wide o_o
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You embarked without a river? You mad person.
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Status: New project that needs a serious database. Looks like I'll be able to get the fancy new SAN I wanted approved. Online replication and 10G iSCSI
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Dude, clean or burn that keyboard.
Also, why don't you and @ben_lubar use the 3D mod for that thing?
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Dude, clean or burn that keyboard.
They are my germs. I've been painstakingly collecting and breeding them for nigh on five years on this keyboard. Any minute now they will become self-sentient and then I can just lean back and watch them
play DFwrite papers on their own.
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Status: Yes, the "prose" about "anatomies" is great.
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Status: Customer priority whiplash. Anyone got a spare neck brace?
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Hard to look at! One gigantic monitor instead of 2 (smaller would be Ok), two keyboards (the dirty mac abomination, and the non-ergonomic black thingy) and three mice, you need Synergy, or SSH.