The Official Status Thread
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Status: viewing Iowa caucus results. Regaining some small faith in American voters.
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@blakeyrat said:
I am now officially the last person in North America to buy their first tablet computer.
No, you're not.
Change your fucking name.
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You should add an order by, you never know when SQL might decide to give those numbers to you in a different order.
That sounds like a joke, but it genuinely isn't.
For bonus points, and an index that only does the odd numbers.
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Status: I'm not invited to http://www.womenwhogo.org/ because I'm not a women who Go. Also I don't have a Mac.
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Best bonus stages EVER!!!
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Now we know when and where to deliver the pizzas. I'm sure if I can find some swedish groupie girls to deliver them @Maciejasjmj will not be too upset.
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Status: Belgium! Who in his right mind uses Citrix as a remote connection tool? What a turd. I know I connected to that server some other time.
Let's try IE instead of Chrome ... NOK.
FireFox? NOK
Install the plugin again? NOK
Or rather the plugin installer says it is already installed but the website insists it isn't.
Remove the plugin thingy, kill chrome and ie and then try installing it again? NOK.Screw them with a rusty fork!
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STATUS Looking at the kanban board and I'm feeling a certain sense of doom.
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Looking at the kanban board and I'm feeling a certain sense of doom.
Solution: get a bigger board so tasks are spaced out more ...
Luhmann's Project Management Tip of the Day.
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Now we know when and where to deliver the pizzas.
Mind the dates, though - I don't live in that city. And make sure to get enough for the musicians.
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Status: representative database table
RELATED STATUS:
This is in a templating language that has
{% for i in 1..100 %}
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Put a REST interface in front of it, slap it on a webserver and zerobased.cdn.discource.org is born!
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```
[โฆ]โ repeat:
โก create tt.
import stream my-csv delimiter "," tt-number tt-result.
end.[โฆ.]
I'm having trouble parsing this part of your program. โ What are your repeating over? More specifically, when does the loop stop looping? โก Why do you create the temp table every loop iteration instead of once right before the `repeat:` statement?
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Status: The Roomba woke up and is wandering around the house.
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Status: In IRC, how does one test that a user-user message was received or not?
IRC doesn't implement delivery reports. You must be thinking about SMS
What about messages that are sent to (probably) offline users?
Darn edge cases!This:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/s-t-a-t-u-s-of-america/1673/38145?u=offbyoneYou could use DCC CHAT extensions: that's a direct client to client chat connection initiated over the IRC network, but conducted over a direct TCP connection.
It gives you all message delivery guarantees that TCP does.
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You're just jealous because you still have crumbs on your floor.
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I am in the UK, can I not have d/M/yyyy? Why only give me one option in the right order, and make it look like balls?
, it actually restricts your option based on your location or location setting? I only get day-month-year and year-month-day options, no month-day-year options at all.
And what's with that display format anyway. As a software dev, I barely know what dd-MMM-yy means, how should my parents know how to handle that? Plenty of room on that screen, add some example dates without making people press 'back'.
And it has the same problem as linux where 'You're in the Netherlands, you must want Dutch day/month names'. I've got the OS set to English for Reasons and I'd like name fragments like that to match thank you very much. And without middle-endian dates (haven't figured that out on linux yet).
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And it has the same problem as linux where 'You're in the Netherlands, you must want Dutch day/month names'. I've got the OS set to English for Reasons and I'd like name fragments like that to match thank you very much. And without middle-endian dates (haven't figured that out on linux yet).
If you do, please Please PLEASE let me know! I haven't found a solution either, short of writing my own locale entry and setting
LC_TIME
accordingly.
I prefer my times to be 24-hour formatted and my dates to be YYYY-MM-DD.If you want to go that road http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/date-format-and-locale-347511/#post1967025 has some helpful instructions. The locale file format is a royal pain in the ass though.
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Status: the Frosted & Delicious Muffins want to put me forward for a new placement. So far so good.
I'm not sure I'm terribly keen on the area and from what I've been told I'm not convinced I'll like the company and the culture but I won't write either off without doing some research, and I reckon I could do the job. They only take contractors they hope to hire permanently after a year. I'm not keen on remaining a contractor for another year, but I'd consider it if I liked the job enough and had a reasonable assurance of a permanent position being available at the end if I didn't f*ck up, and they want a three month contract initially, to be extended if they like me.
So that's ideal, right? Something to do for three months, the possibility of a long-term contract followed probably by permanent employment if we're mutually suited and enough time to decide whether I want to stay there and look for another job if I decide I don't. I'm willing to agree to three months before an interview, and it's not as though I can't quit in the middle of a contract if I really dislike it: at worst they can give me a bad reference.
Ah, that would be too reasonable. No, they don't want to take someone on who they aren't confident will stay long-term. I presume they don't absolutely count on their contractors accepting a permanent position but apparently they're used to being able to rely on them sticking around for a year or two on contract - which is understandable if they're used to taking freshly-trained Mounties who can't quit for two years.
The three-month initial contract is to give them an option on dropping me, but not intended to give me an option on leaving them. They can't stop me, but 'it'll make [account manager] look bad' if I decide to quit the furry, devious mice after three months with this company.
In other words, based on a ten minute conversation, no research into the company, no knowledge of the city, and not even a full job description, they expect me not to agree to be put forward for this placement but commit to accepting what's intended to be a permanent job if I'm offered it and doing it for at least a year before exercising my right to walk out, only without a corresponding commitment from the company that they won't boot me out with no notice.
Never mind that I've been through this twice already: been placed twice, been told I can expect the offer of a permanent position if I meet expectations twice, met and exceeded expectations twice, and been booted out amidst profuse but ultimately valueless expressions of regret due to lack of budget twice. Never mind that I've taken care to manage expectations and admit that now my indentures are up I'm looking at leaving because I don't like working on contract. I am no longer compelled to accept this sh*t.
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I prefer my times to be 24-hour formatted and my dates to be YYYY-MM-DD.
Is there a developer in the world who doesn't prefer that?
Look ma! These string dates are sorting by themselves!
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Status****strong text Staring at a SQL table....
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[APIErrors] ( [SID] IDENTITY(1,1), [LogName] NVARCHAR(20), [LogSource] NVARCHAR(20), [LogType] NVARCHAR(20), [ErrorMessage] NVARCHAR(200), [ErrorTrace] NTEXT, [InnerErrorMessage] NVARCHAR(200), [InnerErrorTrace] NTEXT, [Notes] NTEXT )
i know what the table is for, and i know that it's an unbreakable business rule (Boss^2 demands that these errors be logged to the database instead of the event log or a log file or something more sensible) but it can't help feeling icky knowing that's in my DB.
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Make some nice long โreadableโ error messages where the useful part is just past the 200 character mark.
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Make some nice long โreadableโ error messages where the useful part is just past the 200 character mark.
don't have to -sigh- some of our systems already do that.
also we have one system that the only exception message i've managed to get out of it is
"poop"
... At least the stack trace on that one is helpful, even if the message is always the same.
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I have paid for a database and it will store data dammit!
What if the database is down and we need to know the error?
Well then you can find it in the database. Problem solved.
But the data...
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!STATUS Ack! We've fixed all the low hanging fruit and now we have no easy wins to get us over slumps. =(
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Addendum Status****strong text
hanging this sign in my cube, where it will stay until at least november
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Status:
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
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In the world of politics, aren't we all survivors?
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hanging this sign in my cube, where it will stay until at least november
Why isn't "NO POLITICS" centred?
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@accalia said:
And a different font and font size.hanging this sign in my cube, where it will stay until at least november
Why isn't "NO POLITICS" centred?
Behold the mockery of your sign. We will now ignore it!
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STATUS:
Boss: Hey Cartman, we finally specified the new business plan regarding VIP plans and payment options for all sides. It's been a difficult journey, but now we finally know what we need to code.
Me: Hmm... wait a second. What about (the most obvious thing in the world)?
Boss: Well, you see.... Hmm..... Let me get back to you.
New meeting of all the bighead business people scheduled for tonight.
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Status: Ringing out a cable with a 12V power supply and a case fan because the lab's Fluke is missing while attempting to turn one of these into a DVI extender by soldering pins together on the male end.
EDIT: Okay, this is annoying enough that I'm going to brave the snowstorm and grab my meter from home.
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And a different font and font size.
Also the line spacing is different. This sign is shoddy.
Behold the mockery of your sign. We will now ignore it!
QFT.
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Why isn't "NO POLITICS" centred?
because my leet
photoshopMSPaint skillz are just that awesomealso i made the edit in about 3 minutes. be glad i spent the time to get the font for
Politics
andViolators
to be reasonably close to the rest of the sign
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4/10.
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Nerdsnipe: @ben_lubar imagine a world containing Strongbad text to speech and a Strongbad vocaloid.
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Status: The Roomba woke up and is wandering around the house.
The vacuum is COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
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STATUS Sunshine! At this time of the day. I just don't know what's going on...
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I'm having trouble parsing this part of your program.
โ What are your repeating over? More specifically, when does the loop stop looping?โก Why do you create the temp table every loop iteration instead of once right before the repeat: statement?
Remember that Progress isn't SQL.
- "import stream" imports one line. That's what the loop is for--to read the whole file. The default behavior of Progress code is such that when the import statement finds an eof, it will raise an error condition. The default handling of a repeat block is such that certain kinds of errors cause an early exit from the block. Effectively, there's an unwritten try/catch block.
- "create tt" creates a record, not a table. the definition of the temp table above defines and and creates an empty table. "create tt" is equivalent to an insert statement.
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Status: The Roomba woke up and is wandering around the house.
How does that work around things like chairs? I mean the kind with legs, like a wooden chair, not, say, a recliner.
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for another job if I decide I don't. I'm willing to agree to three months
Have you actually tried pushing back? "I'm willing to commit for three months as long as they commit in writing to not dropping me without cause"?
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Have you actually tried pushing back? "I'm willing to commit for three months as long as they commit in writing to not dropping me without cause"?
Couple of things:-
It's not them deciding to drop me that I'm worried about. I'm doubtful that I'll want to stick with them beyond the three months whether they still want me or not.
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It's not the three months that's the sticking point, it's the other nine. I pushed back in that I took pains to confirm that I was only going to be committed for three months and was told - not in so many words but amounting to it - that the freshly delivered mothballs would be exceedingly unhappy with me if I quit at that point as the client company would expect to have an option on my services for the rest of the year: the initial three month period is only so that they aren't tied in.
Of course they can't compel me not to quit, and once I've got another job it doesn't matter if they dislike me: I don't owe them anything (as of last week). But while I'm looking for another job I'd rather not start my realio trulio grown-up career explaining why I don't have a satisfactory reference from my previous employer. And in spite of all rational reasons not to, I would feel like crap about it because I'm
a person with self-esteem issues who struggles not to consider everyone else's needs above my own and can't bear to let anyone downa f*cking doormat.
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Look ma! These string dates are sorting by themselves!
I leave my dates in DateTime classes. The way they sort is entirely independent of the way they display.
However, I can see the appeal if you use a really shitty Linux-y OS designed by dumbshits who think all data is text and always text and there's nothing other than text. Text.