The Official Status Thread
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Status: Github, your nip guards are slipping:
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not the size of your int but what you do with it that counts.
That's not what she said
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@FrostCat Sorry to hear that, man.
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Statusannoying asterisk placement on the keyboard** at a conference. My company is presenting our software. I'm currently drinking free coffee, milling around demo area under excuse of "if someone comes and asks stuff I should be there instead of listening to presentations" and talking to pretty young ladies at the reception.
Can this be every day?
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Statusannoying asterisk placement on the keyboard** at a conference. My company is presenting our software. I'm currently drinking free coffee, milling around demo area under excuse of "if someone comes and asks stuff I should be there instead of listening to presentations" and talking to pretty young ladies at the reception.
Can this be every day?
Format a PC or two for shits and giggles.
In other news. Congratulates eclipse. You've managed to get two modal dialogs stuck behind each other.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Can this be every day?
Calling Enlightenment. Come in, Enlightenment.
 This is the holoship Enlightenment, en route towards earth to pick up @onyx.
Belay that. He is happy where he is.
 ... are you sure?
I am certain of it. He just said so.
 But what about the twice-a-day sex-for-health-purposes-plan that we have already prepared for him?
Cancel it.
 Oh... Ok, then. I guess we'll just pick the next guy on the list. @tsak ... @tsaukp... Oh, fuck it. Let's just pick up Job again. He was fun!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg Enlightenment? Really? :D I'm sorry I can give but a like for that reference.
In other news, I take it back, already had to talk to too many people who are NOT the pretty ladies at reception :(
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Status: Fuck you Google for disabling the Locations API on HTTP without fucking telling the user
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Status: na na na na na na na na
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Fuck you Google for disabling the Locations API on HTTP without fucking telling the user
And there's no way to work around it. Fucking brilliant.
Sometimes I fucking hate web development.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometimes I fucking hate web development.
Only sometimes?
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Q: Why do you have to shower a Newfoundland dog?
A: Because the blasted thing won't even consider jumping into a stretch of water that is narrower than Cabot Strait.Status: Dog happy, me wet.
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I kicked so much ass at work today, my leg hurts.
Also, I am on bail for assault and battery charges. Fucking crybabies.
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Status: Morning spent trying to figure out why one of our application's AJAXy web interface was crumbling on some data. Turns out… it was because some Ruby code on the server side that was massaging the data out of the database prior to spitting it out as JSON had a typo in a property name. Did the typo make things fail hard? Did it hell as like. It just decided that the property had to be null (not the sensible value in the DB) and a later stage excluded the property from the JSON (which then choked the client-side JS code that was sorting the results). Plus the data was transferred in a squirrelly way that made everything hard to debug, and it was all being done in a clunky VM. :(
Thanks,
ObamaRuby on Rails!In other news, that application is way too complicated and management only ever gives enough time to add new features and never to properly refactor the broken stuff. So three cheers for technical debt! Are sprints supposed to be 26 miles long?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
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I kicked so much ass at work today, my leg hurts.
Also, I am on bail for assault and battery charges. Fucking crybabies.
sometimes I imagine stuff like this too, but there are more gattling guns and explosions
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
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I kicked so much ass at work today, my leg hurts.
Also, I am on bail for assault and battery charges. Fucking crybabies.
You should not charge alkaline batteries.
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@fbmac don't forget the rocket launchers, they are an integral part too.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm telling you guys, these pastel gradients are the next big thing in design. I already hate it.
but it isn't flat and lifeless how will this ever work {eye bleed}
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You should not charge alkaline batteries.
Let your friendly neighbourhood bull do it.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You should not charge alkaline batteries.
Fun story. We have the "support phones" here in the office. Basically some off-the-shelf 2.4gz base + 4 handsets. If someone calls in and hits 0 or support or it rings through to a deskphone that's busy, the phone system transfer them to that line and all the handsets ring.
So one day back in the reign of a previous IT person, I'm walking through the main lobby. There's one of the phones there. I hear the support phones ring, but only off in the distance. This one isn't ringing. Weird. Well, I have the same handsets at home, and I know that sometimes they don't sit right on the cradle and thus don't charge. So I pick it up to reset it.
And it's hot. Very hot. Too hot. I put it down in a sink right away and wait. Thankfully, no boom.
When it's cool enough, I pop the back to check on the status of the (standard AAA rechargeable batteries) and sure enough-- no rechargeable. Just alkaline batteries.
The IT person had just swapped the (worn out) rechargeable with regular batteries. The boss and her had some words over that-- like fire hazard-- and "how could you not realize a rechargeable phone would take rechargeable batteries"-- and "didn't you have to take out rechargeable batteries to do the swap"-- and "common sense". :/
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@ben_lubar What, yet another HL3 rumor?
No, it'll never happen and if it does, it'll be a huge disappointment and you'll wish it hadn't.
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HL3 RUMOR CONFIRMED!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
"common sense". :/
Why do they call it "common sense" since it doesn't seem to be that common ???
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@blakeyrat you mean HL3 could be Valve's Duke Nukem Forever?
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
HL3 RUMOR CONFIRMED!
dude, remember the new duke nukem game? remember what a turd that was?
HL3 shouldn't happen at this point.... there's too much nostalgia now, we can't top that, we'd just get another game like duke nukem forever....
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat you mean HL3 could be Valve's Duke Nukem Forever?
"Could be"? It already is, and has been for years.
If anything it's been worse managed than Duke Nukem Forever, since they could have released an "Episode 3" with all their existing assets and maybe 18-20 months of effort people like Ben L would have been happy with in the first 4 years. They're long past an Episode 3 satisfying anything though.
I mean, they said, "we're going episodic so we can push out games quicker", then didn't fucking do that. Sure, Duke Nukem Forever broken promises, but none like that, that was total bullshit.
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
dude, remember the new duke nukem game? remember what a turd that was?
I thought it was ironically funny when Duke Nukem Forever tried to make fun of Halo. While DNF was sleeping, Halo swooped-in and completely changed the FPS genre in about a dozen ways, making virtually every FPS of the decade of DNF's release a Halo-clone in some way or another. The mockery would have been fine if DNF was a "retro" FPS like Wolfenstein: The New Order, but it wasn't! It was a Halo-style FPS!
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@blakeyrat Valve doesn't do threes
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat Valve doesn't do threes
what? you mean i'm never getting a Team Fortress 3?!
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat Valve doesn't do threes
They appear to be unable to do "competent game development". Their strategy now depends on buying an idea from someone better, then creating a sequel to it. What's the last original game Valve made? Left4Dead I think?
I'm guessing that as long as the Steam train is running, they feel no particular time pressure and don't sweat it. If they wanted to do games competently again, they should split the game makers off from the Steam maintainers into a different group. But they won't do that because Valve has that moron workplace where you can pick a different group to work in every day. ... which is probably another reason they can't get anything done.
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@loopback0
well, there's the times i sleep, and the time i spend drinking to forget web development
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
I kicked so much ass at work today, my leg hurts.
Also, I am on bail for assault and battery charges. Fucking crybabies.
You should not charge alkaline batteries.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
HL3 RUMOR CONFIRMED!
All good as long as there is no HL7 involved
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar What, yet another HL3 rumor?
No, it'll never happen and if it does, it'll be a huge disappointment and you'll wish it hadn't.
What? No! I just played through HL2 last night is all. It still holds up.
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@ben_lubar Did it take you longer than 40 minutes?
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@JazzyJosh yes, and thank you for posting that. I watched it when it came out. Crazy stuff they're doing.
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Status: Ordering replacement RJ-45 keystone jacks to rewire parts of our new office, because the contractors who originally did it did it wrong and a third of our wall jacks don't work. Most of them just need a re-punch because apparently someone didn't know how to use a punch tool, but they used cheap jacks that don't put much pressure on the wire and also didn't install the plastic cover plate that helps hold the wires in place so the physical shock of snapping the jack back into the wallplate is enough to release most of the punched-in wires, making the jack dead.
In the meantime, they work if someone punches them down and leaves it hanging instead of snapping it back into the wall.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
but it isn't flat and lifeless how will this ever work {eye bleed}
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OblongRigidGhostshrimp-size_restricted.gif
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ordering RJ-45 keystone jacks
What order are you putting them in?
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maths iz hard
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
What? No! I just played through HL2 last night is all. It still holds up.
Except the end-part where they give you that ridiculous gravity gun which turns it into a farce.
I actually liked the end of the first Half-Life where they give you that ridiculous super-long-jump which turns it into a farce. But at least it's a farce where your weapons still work as expected.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
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I kicked so much ass at work today, my leg hurts.
Also, I am on bail for assault and battery charges. Fucking crybabies.
sometimes I imagine stuff like this too, but there are more gattling guns and explosions
And the lamentations of women.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
these pastel gradients are the next big thing in design.
Would you like pastel ponies instead?
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
I guess we'll just pick the next guy on the list. @tsak ... @tsaukp... Oh, fuck it.
Ya know, most people that want to shorten my name just say "Tsauk" (which for some reason people pronounce like "Tsawk")...
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@Tsaukpaetra What about us who know what it really is? :P
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
What about us who know what it really is?
Instant cookies?
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Dumb fucking drivers in my dumb fucking town can't even see a stopped car with flashing lights on it.