The Official Status Thread
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In the actual records, NULL isn't denoted by, well, NULL?
Nope. It's literally a tab-separated file (records separated by carriage return), and if it happens to be nullable, the field is space-padded, with an asterisk (or, optionally, a period) to represent null.
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or, optionally,
Optionally is troubling. How did they choose which to use, a coin flip?
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Oh it's a nasty, disorienting, full-on jellypotato halfway up the page
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choose
I have no idea. I believe for the most part, if it's straight numerical value, it's an asterisk. If it's a date it's a period. But of course, there are exceptions to the "rule".
And of course, it would be way too difficult to get them to give me anything resembling a spec that tells me what I should be expecting.
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It doesn't help that the jellypotato (presumably) also closes one "week" of links and opens another one. Leaving me confused as belgium as to where the hell my link went
And the link is hidden behind a collapsible. So I click the collapsible for Week 14, then click the link, then go to a totally different page to get the assignments.
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Are you drunk on fermented maple syrup again?
That sounds like it could be pretty tasty.
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Look for Maple Mead. That is what I have seen it sold as around here.
Sounds tasty, but it is very prone to off fermentations due to inadequate nutrients for the yeast. It tends to make it have a faint odor of a Port-O-Let.
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So I click the collapsible for Week 14, then click the link, then go to a totally different page to get the assignments.
They recently upgraded our course shell "software". This essentially meant re-skinning it and adding an "auto save" feature for
forumdiscussion posts. I guess it may potentially one up yours, for ours uses iFrames!
There's three main ones, and that content actually contains two more in the Main Content area.
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Heh, looks better than ours. I'll see if I can get a descriptive screenshot on mobile...
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Well that was excruciating. Remind me not to try that again.
The main screen. Pretty much each of the relevant links takes about 15 seconds to load (classes, "course mail", etc)
See that little table of contents on the side? Each "week" gives you stuff on that pane to the right. Oh, did I mention the links in the collapsible table of contents take you to the same thing?
And it behaves weirdly, probably because JavaScript hackiness.
I guess the only thing they aren't doing wrong is frames.
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Oh and assignments get their own special ui conventions. Because hug you, that's why.
And there is literally no way to determine the set due date of an assignment. If the prof is nice, he'll put a link on the calendar. Most don't.
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Sounds like fun. Does yours also rely on Java and Shockwave (and Shockwave Flash) to do things like play a little slideshow and implement real-time chat?
Status: Fixed my CPAP machine analysis program importing things wrongly. Apparently the backup folder was corrupted somehow, which prevented import of new data. Once I moved it (so the backups "disappeared"), import was successful and everything was sunshine and rainbows again.
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doing wrong is frames
Oh that's a lie too. Although that's probably the external "learning environment"'s fault not ours.
FFS discourse no "do you really want to delete your post?" dialog? Seriously?
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No, thankfully. The old one did, as do all the Cengage, MyMathLab, etc coursewares. Thankfully I never got to experience the apparent hell that is MyProgrammingLab (Flash based, only one right answer, etc). This one is just slow as balls and JavaScript wonder-y.
The old one was even more WTFy. It kept page information as a session-wide thing so tabs just didn't work. And many more things were there...
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tabs just didn't work
Yeah, you have to be very careful not to have two courses open up at the same time, or they start stomping on each others' frames.
On the plus side, if you can open frames in a new tab ( and don't navigate anywhere from that new tab), you can have multiple sections' content across tabs, which is handy during the online exam.
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Oh, more fun here. We found out at the start of the (HTML/CSS) course that while the old system (which all the data was imported from) escaped HTML tags in things like questions, the new one didn't.
So a question
The
<br>
tag is used to indicate which of the following
[Multiple Choice]Turned into
The
tag is used to indicate which of the following:
[Multiple Choice]
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Oh nice. At least we got a helpful "click here to activate this session"
Also hilarious is how hard they try to make you not copy things. Which is impossible because it's all HTML to begin with...
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Status: replacing old posts for new ones to avoid ants.
Is it bad that I had to re-read this thrice before realising you were not talking about jeffing posts around here?
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Its about Jeffing and the databases done fresh article
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(post eaten by . Will be replaced within 24 hours unless ο€)
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Status: Well isn't that a thing! I've never actually seen a box of 20 6TB disks before. They weigh a lot when installed into the NASβ¦
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Who is Ellen Sinclair?
Also:
http://i.imgur.com/PShXugd.png
I have teh feelz that these circled items are related.
fake edit I apologize for using the color red in my post. I understand it causes stress, and shouldn't be used around students.
fake edit 2 I apologize for spelling "colour" in it's dialect-exclusive form. I understand I have offended those whose cultures observe alternate spellings of the word.
fake edit 3 I apologize for inferring that other cultures use "alternate" spellings, which implied their way was DIFFERENT, and thus "othered" them. All cultures are good and equal, especially beautiful and inspiring cultures from all over the world.
fake edit 4 I apologize fro using the hate-word "culture", to imply that a person's faith, beliefs, and self-identifications are a product of outside influence (the "culture" imposed on them by their selfish biological creators), and are anything other than BEAUTIFUL and ACCEPTABLE choices made to define their personhood.
fake edit 5 I apologize to those to whom their faith, beliefs and self-identifications are inherit aspects of their personhood, and not "choices". It was wrong of me to imply they were not born this way, and they would "chose" to be the way they are as if influenced or co-erced by an oppressive Euro-Judaic worldview.
fake edit 6 I apologize to those who identify was Judaic, but not Euro-centric. I ignorantly did not consider the wide and varied forms of Judaic beliefs, and it was only my own narrow-minded thought patterns that blinded me to the beautify and wonderful tapestry that is Judaic culture.
fake edit 7 I-- I-- OKAY LOOK YOU LITTLE CODDLED SNOWFLAKES! If you self-entitled little shits! Shut the fuck up. No qualifiers, no alternate points of view-- you just shut the fuck up. You decided to waste you lives by going for a "Liberal Arts" degree. Stop taking your bad decisions out on the rest of us. The only reason we even tolerate you on campus is because your over-inflated tuition helps subsidize ACTUAL educational programs! You really thing you're going to do ANYTHING with the shitty little piece of paper we're wringing $40k out of you for? "Liberal Arts Career"-- ha, you'll be lucky if you can even get hired blowing tourists behind a Tijuana cinema for a few pesos. You're a waste of space, a waste of life, and a waste of whatever few braincells you have left. I don't care what you "opened your mind with" from Chapter 1 of your Culture 101 textbook. In fact-- did you know those text books were written by soulless corporations pumping out hard-bound bullshit that's a step above copypasta from Wikipedia for-- get this-- a profit off you morons? Shut the fuck up, or else I will personally snap the neck of one of your comfort puppies, and shove it's still-warm corpse into your open, idiot mouth.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I apologize for using the color red in my post.
Who are you and where is the real @Lorne_Kates?
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Cram it. This is a work laptop, and they put spinning rust in it for some fucking reason.
Is there anything beyond (possibly) "I don't want to spend the money" (and, I guess, the time it would take to get everything reinstalled) to stop you from upgrading it? The last 4 places I've worked I've upgraded computers on my own dime if it would improve them (for example, dropping a cheap discrete graphics card into an XP-era desktop with Intel graphics so bad that you would regularly watch the desktop freeze for 3-5 seconds as you waited for it to painfully redraw itself.)
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Then how am I supposed to murder people?
Presumably with a hockey stick, if you were Canadian.
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Status: Windows 10 build 1511 added a nifty new dialog for editing your PATH environment variable.
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I remember reading about that but forgot to go looking.
Very nice.
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Presumably with a hockey stick, if you were Canadian.
That doesn't seem very efficient.
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What about a sharpened prong from a moose antler?
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Is there anything beyond (possibly) "I don't want to spend the money" (and, I guess, the time it would take to get everything reinstalled) to stop you from upgrading it?
Yes. It's not my laptop. I don't own it.
I did put in a ticket to get an SSD. They offered one of those spinning rust drives with a like 4 GB SSD cache. I said no thanks, that's not worth reinstalling all my shit.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I apologize for using the color red in my post.
Who are you and where is the real @Lorne_Kates?
Right here:
@Lorne_Kates said:Shut the fuck up, or else I will personally snap the neck of one of your comfort puppies, and shove it's still-warm corpse into your open, idiot mouth.
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What about a sharpened prong from a moose antler?
Maybe. You would have to cut it in to small pieces and propel it down a metal tube with a propellant, but it might work.
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Status: at a conference about ad blockers and a bunch of marketing directors talking about why they are bad.
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Status: at a conference about ad blockers and a bunch of marketing directors talking about why they are bad.
Remove people's desire to use them by not bombarding them with ads from every available pixel of screen space.
Conference over.
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A guy just compared people who use blockers with people who pirated satellite TV.
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A guy just compared people who use blockers with people who pirated satellite TV.
Wait until you and he are alone and give him a rabbit punch.
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Oh wait, there's a guy from AdBlock plus... In a table of 6... Poor guy.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I apologize for using the color red in my post.
Who are you and where is the real @Lorne_Kates?
Give him money and he will be right back,
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Oh wait, there's a guy from AdBlock plus... In a table of 6... Poor guy.
I would buy the guy a drink.
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I have the solution to that.
Yep. Food grade pee and fertilizer.
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What must one teaspoon per gallon do?
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I have the solution to that.
Yeast nutrient is tricky stuff. Too little, and your mead smells like a portable toilet. Too much, and it tastes like yeast nutrient.
What must one teaspoon per gallon do?
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Even more strange and archaic:
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Yeast nutrient is tricky stuff. Too little, and your mead smells like a portable toilet. Too much, and it tastes like yeast nutrient.
Wouldn't know. I'm on the logistics, finance and consumption ends of our maximum-allowed-by-law collective homebrewery/meadery. On the ragged edge of needing to legally become a brewery...
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I thought "gallon must" may have been some strange unit of measurement, I didn't think to look up "must" as a separate term. I haven't read much about fermentation/brewing before.
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Status: Episode 19
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