The Official Status Thread
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@DogsB I agree. Fucking Java. Nothing found? Exception! Stuff found? Exception!
Filed under: more more exceptions!
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Stuff found? Exception!
The Java version of the classic "Error: Success!".
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@asdf
SuccessException
?
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@RaceProUK Is that a variant of
@Roulette(probability = 0.05, exception = PayYourContractorException, message = "Fuck you, give me money!")
?
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@asdf I'm guessing that's a Java annotation? I've not used it since version
1.5, so I'm well behind on new features.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
conspiracy FTW!
We can't even get this conspiracy stuff right ... the heart of is still
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@RaceProUK whenever I reboot australium, Google Chrome Secure Shell says "Write error: Success".
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Status:
On days like this I'm reminded of this blog post from Raymond Chen:
Two hours until home time. At which point I'll be looming after an ill wife and a baby who doesn't feel like sleeping at the moment; apparently screaming is much more fun
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm guessing that's a Java annotation?
Yep, from the Google Annotations Gallery.
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OK, I checked a bit more on that Amazon pricing thing.
It's still cheaper to buy a physical CD from the USA (5.46€), have it shipped to Europe (5.90€), AND get the MP3s instantly with AutoRip than to buy the MP3 version from the local Amazon store (11.99€).
Still better than being Australian, I guess.
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@RaceProUK But... but... lambdas and streaming!
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
lambdas
Yay for a feature C#'s had for years :P
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
streaming
Oh, what's that?
*googles*
Oh, it's basically LINQ :P
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@asdf said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK Is that a variant of
@Roulette(probability = 0.05, exception = PayYourContractorException, message = "Fuck you, give me money!")
?That looks like a @Lorne-Kates TimeException
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
lambdas
Yay for a feature C#'s had for years :P
Congratulations! You've had 100 line lambdas that should of being extracted to their own class for years!
STATUS It's five o clock somewhere!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
You've had 100 line lambdas that should of being extracted to their own class for years!
I don't think I've ever written a method that long, let alone a lambda :P
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
You've had 100 line lambdas that should of being extracted to their own class for years!
I don't think I've ever written a method that long, let alone a lambda :P
And never fell over one? What a charmed life you live. job swapsies? :D
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@DogsB Oh, I've certainly maintained methods over 100 lines; never seen a lambda anywhere near that long though
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I don't know what the fuss about lambdas is. I mean, even us C++ peasants have those, I don't think having anything is a claim to glory once it comes to that point.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
:twitch:
POI documentation is... special. It sounds like it was written by a very bored techie who was forced to document every function without really knowing what they do, so it's full of things like "getSheetAt(int index) - gets sheet at index".
I mean, I'm not kidding:
And it's a very thin wrapper around the Excel format, which means a lot of gotchas that go unexplained.
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Status: Dammit, Skype, y u no work.
Apparently something with Application Sharing is "special" with NAT traversal. But only when you try to do desktop/application sharing while in a pre-arranged or multi-person conference (meeting). If you have just 2 people on a peer-to-peer IM, they can share desktops with each other all day long. But if multiple people are involved, or if the meeting is a formal Skype Meeting, then woe be to the person who tries to desktop share when there is a mix of "behind the firewall" and "outside the firewall" users.
And no, the new firewall is not dropping packets, nor is Windows firewall on any of the servers logging the packet drops. ICE is just failing and the STUN packets go nowhere (though sometimes they work for less than 30 seconds before failing).
Augh!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Google Chrome Secure Shell says "Write error: Success".
That's probably Google not calling GetLastError soon enough.
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Status: My 10 kV generator is doing silly stuff - namely sometimes just calling it quits and discharge anything attached to it to 0 kV. Sometimes after a mere 10 seconds, sometimes it works for a whole 4 minutes.
Of course this is something which happens just when I begin to teach a topic called "Electric Fields" which work best with voltages in the quadruple digits.
Haven't been able to figure out what causes this - the circuit boards (at least the ones not covered in resin) don't show any damage and are dust-free.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
status: So far, NodeBB cannot seem to put the "highlight" post one screen.
It seemed to work before Ben L turned that stupid broken onebox plugin back on.
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Status: Customer reports our application won't run on one "power user's" machine: error indicates a missing path. He insists the path in the ini file is correct. We do a GoTomeeting, and the application startup directory is c:\ourapp~1. I squint at that, run cmd, type "dir /x ", and notice that "c:\ourapplication" does NOT have a short name "ourapp~1"; in fact, nothing has a short name. I fix his shortcut to start in c:\ourapplication, double-click the shortcut, it starts instantly. He goes "well, thanks for dialing in and typing two letters".
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Just as Boss is stepping into the office, we realize he forgot to bring back gitlab after his latest printing escapade.
... huh?
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@blakeyrat His boss had the gitlab server at home for raisins.
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@FrostCat ... huh?
Jesus, we're a HIPAA shop. If someone did that here, they'd literally get arrested.
Well, ok, probably not. But still.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat ... huh?
He said why, I think, but I can't remember and CBA to go look. Power issues in the office or something? So he took a bunch of machines home.
Jesus, we're a HIPAA shop.
Well, yeah, but he's in central Europe somewhere, right? Apparently they're not as concerned with that kind of nicety.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Haven't been able to figure out what causes this
Maaagic!
Almost serious. You've probably got an unusually high concentration of Dark Matter lodged in your plates. ;)@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
~1
Seriously? Oh, he's that kind of "power user"...
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@Tsaukpaetra This customer fancies themselves power users, and rather than installing our app, they do this unsupported thing where they copy files and shortcuts and manually register OCXs. We don't support that, so if they have problems normally I tell them they have to install it the right way. Because it works, when you install it the right way. At any rate, they copied the shortcut from another machine, and "c:\ourapp~1" would probably have worked in the normal course of things, except this user must have disabled short filename generation, so there is no c:\ourapp~1.
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@RaceProUK Oh, but I've read them.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
they copy files and shortcuts and manually register OCXs
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Status: Thanks, NodeBB, for somehow knowing exactly how big this IMGUR picture was, despite being unable to actually load it...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat ... huh?
Jesus, we're a HIPAA shop. If someone did that here, they'd literally get arrested.
Well, ok, probably not. But still.He said why, I think, but I can't remember and CBA to go look. Power issues in the office or something? So he took a bunch of machines home.
OP has a huge link to the thread.
Basically, after changing offices and working from home for a few months, "temporary" situation drags on because there's always something more important to do.
Also, why didn't I get notifications for this? I guess it's more important I got a hundred useless alerts for each individual like. It's either feast or famine with this shit.
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Status: I was watching a video on YouTube, I clicked the like button, and then this happened. So I opened the video in a new tab and I don't even know wtf is happening. I opened it in incognito and now I am even more confused.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I was watching a video on YouTube, I clicked the like button, and then this happened. So I opened the video in a new tab and I don't even know wtf is happening. I opened it in incognito and now I am even more confused.
Get a stronger connection? I think by default if any request fails it assumes the video feature you were accessing (viewing, commenting, whatever) is intentionally disabled.
This happened to me with comments for the longest time until I realized that (for some reason) some of the Google+ servers weren't resolving on my phone, making videos "uncommentable" despite the uploader not having set that.
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@LB_ Someone actually "like"ing a Minecraft let's play?
That is odd!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra Nope, on another device it shows as completely private. Also as seen the title and description reverted to the defaults and it shows the real upload date of the video.
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Status: confused why category thread lists have a small fixed amount of threads instead of infiniscroll.
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Status: I'm not allowed to say WandWandityWandWand is the worst MMO character name ever in the relevant thread, so I'll post it here:
WandWandityWandWand is the worst MMO character name ever. What the fuck were you thinking? Immersion, we hardly knew ye!
Next time I see a guy in Elder Scrolls Online named something like "WeedGoku420xxx" I'm going to hug him and say, "at least your character name isn't WandWandityWandWand."
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
it shows as
Mayhaps their distributed database was in the middle of syncing things?
Status: Color me surprised. This old WinXP box I was sure was dead managed to dredge itself from the pits of Tartarus and lives again!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
WandWandityWandWand is the worst MMO character name ever. What the fuck were you thinking? Immersion, we hardly knew ye!
Why are you looking for immersion in a non-roleplaying-enforced MMO?
</me is talking as if roleplaying-enforced MMOs are things that exist nowadays>
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@CreatedToDislikeThis Immersion is only one of the many reasons it's a fucking stupid name.
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Status: WTF, and WTH, who would sent me an Excel 5.0 formatted workbook?! Is there any reason you couldn't have at least selected Excel 97 (Or hell, kept with the default for the last several years of Excel Workbook)
Or are they actually using Excel 5.0/95?!?!?!?!?!?!
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
they copy files and shortcuts and manually register OCXs
I've said that many times. "Power User" clients don't listen until it breaks. And then I remorselessly say "we don't support that kind of installation, so you'll need to run the installer."
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@LB_ Someone actually "like"ing a Minecraft let's play?
That is odd!!!
Somewhere Mumbo Jumbo and Xisumavoid are crying...
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@FrostCat "I'll save a few minutes by installing manually", the power user says. And sometimes it works. But sometimes it doesn't. And then they ask me to help them fix it and I say "get out your install media and do it that way. It'll be faster than trying to fix things. We tell you what you did is unsupported exactly because the installer will get it right about 99.99%[1] of the time, and you will only do it right about 75% of the time, and invariable fixing your fuckup takes far longer than just installing from CD."
[1] Seriously. For the last 6 years I'm the person who gets called on to help clients install, because apparently nobody else wants to. The only time it doesn't work is on an overly-locked down machine, or if there's something fucked up with Windows.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
[1]
You must be under the benefit of having a well-designed installer. I'm usually not so lucky.
For instance, one application suite I get to install on these computers appears to be a custom hand-written program that calls other installers (apparently they ran into the "can't call sub-MSI packages in the same run" bug), and still considers our machines "Windows Vista".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You must be under the benefit of having a well-designed installer.
Yes, it's very nice. You specify whether you want a client, server, or database installation (you can pick any or all), and enter in your key, and where you want the software to go and where Progress is installed, and it will extract only the components you're licensed for and compile everything and make a desktop shortcut. The guy who wrote it spent a lot of time on it. It's nearly bulletproof--as I've said, the only times I've ever seen it not work was with someone whose PC was fucked up.