The Official Status Thread
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Filed under: And why is the hell is the icon for .rar a pirate skull and crossbones?
Yeah. I'd expect that for a .arr file.
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Status: trying to uninstall Illustrator. Clicked 'uninstall' in Programs/Features. Creative Cloud starts and asks me to accept new TOS. It then takes few minutes to update itself, and restarts. When it starts again it does not remember I wanted to uninstall Illustrator.
Bonus: shutting down Creative Cloud leaves behind some background crap running.
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Status: Working with HTML5 geolocation sucks. But only in IE.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTGxZZYXiFQ
The trust has gone bit by bit
'Cause they've been twisting the truth
But our skin is too thick
They say we're tired of work
That we're running awayThey're not fucking wrong!
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I walk this Earth
Until I stagger and fall
To my knees
I won't rest my bones
If I'm awake or asleep
There'll be no relief
They say we're tired of work
That we're running away
I think its one of those days I should go on a workday bender.
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Status: Working with HTML5 geolocation sucks. But only in IE.
Update: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all manage to get my position within half a mile, which is pretty good given my workstation doesn't have GPS. And my WinPhone and the company's iPad Mini get even closer; they usually get the correct road. Which, given they both have GPS enabled, is no great surprise.
IE and Edge? Eastbourne. 275 miles away.
Fuck's sake Microsoft. Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Opera can get this shit correct; why can't you?
And before anyone asks, no, there's no VPN.
Update: Using http://andygup.net/samples/html5geo/, it seems the accuracy in Chrome is within 600 metres, but for IE, it's around 153,500 metres. So even the accuracy is inaccurate
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Eastbourne
Edge always thinks I'm in Eastbourne too. Makes the local weather on the default home page pretty useless.
Of course, I'm quite a lot closer to Eastbourne than you are.
<fuck off too similar
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Status:
Getting recruiter spam to my work email. An address I haven't published anywhere and for a job I've been in for two months. I sent back a rather snarky reply
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STATUS MOTHERFUCKER!!!
I'm wound up to ninety today. I think I'm doing more hard than good so I may as well go home.
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Status: Unholy mess:
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.rar should be a small but adorable predator of some sort. A fox, perhaps.
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As much as I like foxes, the icon for a
.rar
should be a lion cub, because they gorar
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Sigh... I hate the box model, I really do...
I find it funny that the pre-CSS 1.0 description of the box model was so vague, IE and Netscape/Mozilla implemented it entirely differently from each other. The IE version made sense to the majority of people and was easy to work with. The Netscape/Mozilla version was the strange complicated beast we all have to deal with now. Both complied with the spec which was, like all W3C specs, written by complete morons.
So when it came time to "pick a winner" and clarify the spec, whose implementation got picked? Netscape/Mozilla's, natch. Despite it being stupid.
See also:
- The way DOM events report pressed mouse buttons
- "innerText" vs. "textContent"
- readyState vs. "just waiting for the OnLoad event and hope to Jesus your JS didn't get installed after it's already happened because there's no way to detect that using only W3C DOM API"
- etc.
Basically, where ever the IE way differed from the W3C way, it's because the IE way actually made some goddamned sense!
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IE and Edge? Eastbourne. 275 miles away.
How do you know Microsoft's not doing that on purpose?
This is the company that wanted to ship a browser with Do Not Track turned on by default.
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So when it came time to "pick a winner" and clarify the spec, whose implementation got picked? Netscape/Mozilla's, natch. Despite it being stupid.
Was this around the time of IE6? Because if so, it makes even less sense.How do you know Microsoft's not doing that on purpose?
I'm 31; I have about another 40 years before I have any use for Eastbourne.This is the company that wanted to ship a browser with Do Not Track turned on by default.
I fail to see how defaulting to preventing companies tracking your browsing is a bad thing. Not that it's an effective solution anyway, as the flag can simply be ignored; it's like the Evil Bit RFC, except not a joke.
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So do foxes! Sometimes. If you squint at the onomatopoeia of what they say really hard.
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yesterday i tried to install Ruby and RoR to see what the fuss is about.
two hours or so later it ended like this:~/RubymineProjects/blog $ bin/rails /home/Jarry/RubymineProjects/blog/bin/spring:11:in `<top (required)>': undefined method `path_separator' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError) from bin/rails:3:in `load' from bin/rails:3:in `<main>'
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I'm 31; I have about another 40 years before I have any use for Eastbourne.
Well instead of bitching, why don't you just use that really popular British OS and web brows-- oh wait. Your shitty little island has no IT industry. I forgot for a second.
I fail to see how defaulting to preventing companies tracking your browsing is a bad thing.
I didn't say it was a bad thing.
I'm saying that if the IE team was willing to "do not track" by default to promote privacy, they might also be willing to reduce the accuracy of their geolocation code on purpose to promote privacy.
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oh wait. Your shitty little island has no IT industry. I forgot for a second.
Ha. That's where you're wrong. We have Sillicon Roundabout
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Your shitty little island has no IT industry.
Apart from the bit that gave pretty much every smartphone for the last two decades its CPU.I'm saying that if the IE team was willing to "do not track" by default to promote privacy, they might also be willing to reduce the accuracy of their geolocation code on purpose to promote privacy.
From what I've been reading about how geolocation services work, they don't require any personally identifiable info anyway.
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**Status strong text: No in the code review I did not take point from your highly paid contractors. And there was no need to include 2 levels of hierarchy while doing code review on fucking email, perhaps not anyone who does not understand software development methods. Also ask them to not send me word documents with the review responses.
Yay, I have another interview today. Micromanagement is stupid, more so when your manager does not even know software development at all.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Justin_Faulk_2013.jpg/230px-Justin_Faulk_2013.jpg
Faulk Yeah
MOTHERFAUL
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The IE version made sense to the majority of people and was easy to work with. The Netscape/Mozilla version was the strange complicated beast we all have to deal with now. Both complied with the spec which was, like all W3C specs, written by complete morons.
So when it came time to "pick a winner" and clarify the spec, whose implementation got picked? Netscape/Mozilla's, natch. Despite it being stupid.
QFT IE model was vastly superior.
however when standarization did came dealing with IE special ness was a big PITA.
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If I didn't possess the strength of a pre-pubescent girl I would slap you into the middle of next week.
Don't worry, you'll get the last laugh when @JazzyJosh's team gets relocated to Las Vegas this summer.
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Apart from the bit that gave pretty much every smartphone for the last two decades its CPU.
Well then use their OS and web browser.
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however when standarization did came dealing with IE special ness was a big PITA.
Just don't forget that IE's original implementation was exactly as correct as Netscape's.
The reason they stuck with it so long is because of backwards compatibility concerns, per usual. If the W3C had made a competent spec, then none of this would have been an issue ever.
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Status: Apparently this site shares a global Users table: Our company deactivated their account and signed up again, requiring all users (us) to create "new" accounts. Well, Sh*t, I guess I have to use something other than the nearly 100% unique username I use for everything...
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How do you know Microsoft's not doing that on purpose?
Gimping their product on purpose? Don't worry we're not incompetent we're maliciously breaking a useful aspect of our program.Well instead of bitching, why don't you just use that really popular British OS and web brows-- oh wait. Your shitty little island has no IT industry. I forgot for a second.
Every time you mention murica I have a mental image of you waving a 40 x 60 metre flag screaming AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! at the top of your voice.This is also running in the background.
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Status: Wow. MS really stretches that peen. The file in question is currently opened via MS
JetAce database engine.
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Status: Now we have to support TLS 1.2 in a .NET application. My coworker is very unhappy that the enum has explicit values rather than a minimum. I have given up arguing that being explicit and not making bets on a new protocol magically working just because it's in the OS is how you have to deal with security, but he disagrees. Repeatedly.
I don't care anymore. Just make it stop...
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Gimping their product on purpose?
If your goal is to increase privacy, reducing the accuracy of geolocation wouldn't be "gimping" it.
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I hit my profile page once or twice this morning too.
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@DogsB said:
They're still gimping it. If they were that concerned with privacy they would do what other browsers do and ask you if you want to share your locational information or block by default. In this case @RaceProUk actually needs it to work as intended and its not thus its broken.Gimping their product on purpose?
If your goal is to increase privacy, reducing the accuracy of geolocation wouldn't be "gimping" it.
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And of course, as with all browsers, IE and Edge do ask for permission to use your location already
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Status: Watching Home Alone and just realized a 'hydabed' is a 'hide-a-bed'. I have been TR for 20+ years.
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@blakeyrat said:
@DogsB said:
They're still gimping it. If they were that concerned with privacy they would do what other browsers do and ask you if you want to share your locational information or block by default. In this case @RaceProUk actually needs it to work as intended and its not thus its broken.Gimping their product on purpose?
If your goal is to increase privacy, reducing the accuracy of geolocation wouldn't be "gimping" it.
I'm not sure. Something like: http://mylocation.org/ will happily put me over 200 km away from my actual position when using the IP adress. If I'm using the geolocation feature of Edge, it puts me down only about 1 km from my real position.
Considering that my desktop PC neither has a GPS receiver nor a WLAN card, this is pretty impressive to me.
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Status: look at the epic bitch-fight in the comments of the question, awesome
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Status: for the first time in a while I have the time and some energy to actually work on something creative... and I hit a 'guuuuuuuuuuuuh what do I do first' creative block. Fucknuggets.
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My favorite:
This site needs fewer mods.
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saw it yesterday. pure gold
@DCShannon I understand what you're saying, but this pretty clearly falls into the category of "developer intent" as it's asking why the original Gameboy was designed to have four colors. It's possible we may need to revisit this meta ruling, but as things stands I think the close votes are warranted. – two bugs
fucking rule lawyers.
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In the discussion thread, there's this gem:
"Frank" in top-voted answer:
I've been accused of running off new users for blindly enforcing rules; you know what drives off new users even faster? Inconsistent policing.
HOLY SHIT how delusional IS this guy. It amazes me.
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Disclaimer: the following is a made up, satire quote
You know what, back in the old days, when they removed discussions for being off topic, they were being strong. So what we're going to do, is we're going to have these off topic discussions removed. And then if they keep coming back, we're going to rough them up a bit, and then they won't keep coming back. And I want you to cheer and drown them out with chants of "on topic" the whole time they're being removed. - trump bugs
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Status: Craving sushi.
Damn you @Maciejasjmj
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Status: Had sushi about an hour ago