The Official Status Thread
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
minor villages like [...] Calgary
I've been to Calgary. It's not a minor village, it's a blasted wasteland.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Why?
If I knew that I wouldn't have went through the trouble of using the advanced loader, no?
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
I suck at interviews because I do not study for them like 95% of other candidates.
Feh. Here is Lorne's Guide to Doing An Interview:
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Show up in suit and tie. Even if the job posting mentions BizCaz or whatever hippie hipster bullshit is popular these days. It shows you know how to dress professionally, and it can become a conversation. "Oh, I prefer bizcas too, but interviews are the only time I get to wear my one suit lol".
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Read the company's website. At least the "about us". Have an absolute rudimentary knowledge of the field they operate in. Not anything in detail. Just what it is. Because during the interview they'll ask you "do you know what we do" and you can say "I browsed the site and I understand it's to do with pharmaceutical distribution." They don't expect you to know their company inside out. In fact, this is the perfect hook to give them, because interviewers LOVE to talk about their own company. This opens the door to them telling you about the company in depth.
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Know a "fun fact" about each of your past jobs. They don't really care what tech you used or what language you programmed in-- especially the further back in time you go. They want to know your work ethic, thought process, problem solving skills. They don't want to hear how you implemented a linked list in Javascript. They do want to hear about the time the customer requested an Ajax back/forward button on a tabbed interface-- or how one client once required a site that had to handle bandwidth that was two orders of magnitude more that the base product could handle, and how you approached solving that problem.
They don't care what you've done, but how you did it
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Know at least one thing you are PROUD of doing. A highlight of your career. Something to brag about.
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Know at least one thing you "failed" at. The best answers are ones that "didn't go according to the original plan", and you can talk them through how you approached trying to "fix it", and the lessons learned from the experience. "It turned out the site couldn't handle TLS 1.2, so we implemented a server-side proxy. I learned that server encyrption capabilities should be part of the original requirements scope" is good. "This one time I responded to an emergency call while high, and accidentally rm -rf / and had to scramble to recover data from a month old backup. It was a shitshow" is bad.
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They will ask "Why did you leave your last job" or "what are you looking to leave your current job". Have a good spin on that answer. "My boss is a dick", "I like to move around a lot", or "I got fired for incompetence" generally aren't good answers. The standard suit of "the company downsized" or "I'm reached my maximum potiential and looking to advance my career" are good. Most companies like to know the person they are hiring will be there for a long time, especially if there's an investment in training.
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Have at least one or two questions loaded for them. Like "Has the product gained any interesting features in the past year" or "Any technologies specific to the field being used" or "What's a standard workday like-- and what's an exception to that. How often does that happen"?
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Never be afraid to ask for clarification to a question. Also, don't be afraid to say "I don't know" to a question, rather than bullshitting an expert with a pre-loaded answer. If you do say "I don't know", try to follow up with how you would learn that answer. "I don't know how I would synchronize data between two Oracle servers, but do we have a resident DBA who I could discuss the issue with?"
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Ask when you think they'll make a decision. It is a signal that you are interested and not just jerking them around.
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Smile. Be polite. Don't bad-mouth any of your old employers, co-workers, systems or anything. Thank them for the interview.
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Send a follow up close to when they said they'd make a decision just to inquire about the status of the job.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two more months of student loans.
And then I can start murdering the car loan.
And then the mortgage.Killing the student loan was an amazing feeling. It's up there with getting married, graduating, having first kid.
You have a mortgage, but the same advice still applies: All the money you were putting towards that student loan? Don't adjust your budget at all. That isn't "free money". Continue living your current lifestyle. Take that money-- and use it to kill other debt (car loan, etc)-- or put into savings.
It's fun when you can do stuff like buy a car outright with cash. =)
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status I've called my daughter by my dog's name twice today, and once referred to her as "puppyface"
I need more coffee.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I've called my daughter by my dog's name twice today, and once referred to her as "puppyface"
This is why I don't call people by name very often. Name confusion is real issue for me!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Show up in suit and tie.
That's a negative in Seattle. Unless you're interviewing to be a stock broker or something.
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@Lorne-Kates I bought my (race hauler) truck with a wad of $20 bills.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I've called my daughter by my dog's name twice today,
Eh. They're interchangeable.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Here is Lorne's Guide to Doing An Interview:
Some really good advice there. Everything is subject to alteration if you know the people you're applying to better (e.g., if they really care about what you programmed in — weirdos! — then be prepared to tell them) but it's exactly on the money for what to default to.
And that suit? Also useful for funerals.
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God dammit. My WtfCorp issue used chair just broke.
It'll take 9 months to get a replacement. I guess I'll just have to wait a few days and rob the cube of the guy who is moving out of state.
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@Weng this fills me with laughter and joy!
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@Weng Maybe you need to go on the WtfCorp issued weight loss program.
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Lorne Kates, human: You look like a mighty warrior indeed.
Molly Rose-Claire Houghton-Kates, human baby: Gaba!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I somehow need the SD card (or some joker decides they need it more than I do) my GPS isn't totally crippled.
Hey. Waze on my phone. (haven't used my Garmin for a while now - generally only for long distance trips - it knows local speed limits)
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
It's fun when you can do stuff like buy a car outright with cash.
Seconded!
And I refi'd my 30yr into a 15yr - it's about 1/2 paid off now. Will go quicker now as I make occasional extra payments since I have no car loan :)
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@blakeyrat When we moved, they bought the cheapest used office furniture they could find. This included 1 chair per cubicle, including the spare cubes (which accounted for more than half the total cube count).
Of those, we ALMOST had enough unbroken chairs for everybody. My fatassitude has less to do with this than the fact that these are awful 20 year old mesh office chairs.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I've called my daughter by my dog's name twice today, and once referred to her as "puppyface"
Growing up, any of us 4 kids were likely to be called "George". There was no George. (It also meant someone was likely in deep shit)
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two more months of student loans.
And then I can start murdering the car loan.
And then the mortgage.That's a terrible haiku!
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Status: Lovely.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Student loans end soon.
Start the car loans in two months.
And then the mortgage.That's a terrible haiku!
FTFY
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Status: Stayed up too late playing KSP. Trying really hard to make progress without doing dumb shit.
I think I've succeeded but we won't know until tomorrow.
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@Tsaukpaetra I do not understand this post.
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@Magus Now go for hard-mode. Incorporate the classic references to nature and the twist in the third line. Here's my first crack at it.
Student loan paid soon;
Car loan hangs like plum in tree.
Mortgage still to do!I've not got the twist right. A good twist will encourage reevaluation of the other two lines to mean something subtly different. (Thank
GodAmaterasu that we don't need to add rhyming as well. That would be a whole 'nother level of challenge with the lines being so short…)
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I can count to ten
twenty thirty forty fif
ty dead hookers
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but you aren't Lorne_Kates!
an imposter! a plant-man!
catch him, gentlemen!
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pedantic, now, aye?
we'll see how you fare against...
the doomsday device!
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they tell me haikus
must contain some nature stuff
and be twisty too
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I do not understand this post.
Someone IM'd me about how we were defining
NULL
values. And that somehowNULL
s can have two different values (i.e.NULL
can mean two things).
Not shown in the clip is the values, which read in order:Something like this:
Value Description NULL Unknown NULL Unknown 0 Unknown 1 Person Occupied 2 OtherPerson Occupied 3 Fake Occupied 4 Vacant Person 5 Vacant OtherPerson 6 Fake Occupant 7 Occupied by Unknown 8 Somewhat Occupied 9 Somewhat Vacant Filed under: Markdown tables kinda suck a bit...
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, it sucks that null doesn't care about unique indexes. Although none of those Values are equal, so.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
1
Person Occupied2
OtherPerson OccupiedWhoever this is sure gets around.
FOX DISCLAIMER: The above statements only apply given consent, and without any condemnation of such behavior.
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10 FILE_NOT_FOUND
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Whoever this is
It was the anonymization of a company. that!
@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
10 FILE_NOT_FOUND
I submit that as a suggestion. I suppose it is indeed different to
Unknown". Actually, one of those Unknowns is probably actually supposed to be Not Found indeed. I'll submit that tidbit too.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It was the anonymization of a company. that!
Hey, it's not like you didn't choose the word 'person'. And a person does not have many places one might occupy. Most of them
Anyway, something about reality and s...
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Status: Okay, I understand why would would name all of the fields in a table with the name of the table as a prefix, but... No, wait, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Hey, it's not like you didn't choose the word 'person'
I thought it would make more sense out of context.
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
places one might occupy. Most of them
I'm occupying a chair right now...
Hmm, I think I see what you mean. Maybe I'm overthinking this a bit...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Okay, I understand why would would name all of the fields in a table with the name of the table as a prefix, but... No, wait, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!
How about when all fields are automatically mapped to global variables, and so have to be unique. Sometimes where I work is just too to even comprehend.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm occupying a chair right now...
A person may occupy a place. But occupying a human can't mean many things. It's pretty much or
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
How about when all fields are automatically mapped to global variables, and so have to be unique. Sometimes where I work is just too to even comprehend.
Unless they were expecting the users to just natural-join all the tables...
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
or [IMG]
One part of me has the strangest boner right now....
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
But occupying a human can't mean many things. It's pretty much or
You forgot:
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Status: Wondering the best way to transactionalize (Yes, we're making up words now) data that's essentially only available as "This was the data as of 1am today"....
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@Fox that's just more tame flayed ones.
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Status: Going through official documents, wondering why people think "This space intentionally left blank" is anything other than a self-fulfilling lie.
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Status: Uh oh...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
9:23:14 - Receive fifteen hundred "Ma Kates liked..." notifications.
9:23:37 - Still receiving more...I have a PR for that, though I ignored the guy who said I should go exponential.
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So, on this same vein, after being forcibly logged out (again), I tried logging back in and got this:
The only point I can bring up is that this computer was hibernating for a few days (and I was logged in when I put it into hibernate). Hard refresh had to be done to fix failing to log in.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Why? Do you really need a map for The One Road? It's one road.
I like how you try to pretend that's not actually a thing.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Eh. They're interchangeable.
That sounds like something the kind of person who'd try to sneak a teacup poodle into a restaurant in a murse would say.
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