The Official Status Thread
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Status: Unstoppably copying a 25 Gb VMDK image. So far only lost 172 KB.
I kinda wish this program reported transfer rates like Linux's load averages (i.e. MB/s for the last second, minute, five minutes), because despite currently copying at about 11 MB/s, the dial still reads < 3...
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@dkf I honestly don't believe it is. The CEO is 100% transparent about our financial situation, and I have no reason to believe he's wrong.
But recent loss of most of the middle management have put a huge insulating layer between upper leadership and the people in the trenches for about the last year. It's telling that the question was phrased, "is management aware that morale is low"?
And hiring policies have been stupid for various reasons. (We lost both our great recruiters coincidentally at the same time-- both to family emergencies that couldn't be predicted, then everything was on-hold while we hired new recruiters, then they decided to freeze developer hiring until the open SVP position was filled, etc.)
Right now there's no management layers between me and the CTO. Seriously. My manager left two weeks ago, the development Director left about 8 months ago. Nobody on our team of four has been promoted to any kind of management role (even though at least two of us are qualified-- we're very seniors for developers.)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
how come there have been no promotions or significant raises in 2 years?
Duh. That gets in the way of the CEO's new yacht.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Good news - I can now get 6 audio books on account of my past payments.
Bad news - I actually paid for like 15 fucking books, which is now money wasted due to their delightful "6 month rollover policy".
I guess I'll just swallow the $150 loss and consider it a payback for the thousands of pirated ebooks in my treasure trove.
TLDR: An adult should take control of my finances and put me on back on allowance.
Filed under: In unrelated news, I'm now taking audio book suggestionsI blew my 6 remaining credits and closed my account. Fuck audible and their sneaky DRM-loving ways.
This is what I got:
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Updating my secondary pc to win10 while I'm sleeping. Might jeff this to a different thread when I wake up.
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@aliceif Still checking for updates, not even letting me get it. Wat.
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@aliceif Aaaaand it shut down.
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@blakeyrat Why would your CTO be in retro or sprint planning? Retro and planning are for the team, not management.
Unless your CTO is your project manager, in which case
hire an actual project manager and let your CTO do CTO stuff. Some would even say the PM shouldn't be in there, but we have a kickass PM and like having him around to bounce ideas with.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Retro and planning are for the team, not management.
At the moment HE IS THE ONLY MANAGEMENT. See my followup.
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Unless your CTO is your project manager, in which case hire an actual project manager and let your CTO do CTO stuff.
We don't have a project manager.
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Status: anyone want?
I apparently have the sum total of the MSDN library as of 2001.
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@Tsaukpaetra I have the whole thing in the original binder from slightly later vintage on my shelf at work.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I have the whole thing in the original binder from slightly later vintage on my shelf at work.
I'm dismantling ours because moving.
I think I'll keep the case though...
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Stop 1 on the Magical Mystery Road trip Tour:
Leila's adult kickball league.
I have wisely chosen to wait in the car because
I think she's one of the ones in blue over yonder. There is 100 percent proof that she and I are not romantically involved in that I have no damned clue what color her shirt was.
Bromantically involved, yeah, probably.
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Purple team's left fielder is my favorite.
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@Weng Creeper.
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Go Blue and/or Gray!
I think she might actually be on Gray. I think I remember seeing that shirt once.
Second blonde from the left?
Is she even Blonde right now?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: In unrelated news, I'm now taking audio book suggestions
Green Fairy by Kyell Gold
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I need glasses. My actual eyesight is worse than digital zoom.
Definitely on Gray. Nobody else could possibly be ridiculous enough for orange shoes.
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@Tsaukpaetra a voice is telling me I should try this great new software...
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Nobody else could possibly be ridiculous enough for orange shoes.
I've been wanting to get some partially orange shoes for a while now.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
ridiculous
Of course.
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@Tsaukpaetra we still use it at WtfCorp!
.... Actually, we might not. That may finally have migrated to TFS.
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My sitting in the car is vindicated! It's raining!
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@Weng They either just called the game or its... Halftime? Does this sportsball have halftime?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I need glasses. My actual eyesight is worse than digital zoom.
Definitely on Gray. Nobody else could possibly be ridiculous enough for orange shoes.
I was recently looking for some new sneakers. Which was more difficult than I initially assumed because almost all the shapes I liked had ridiculous colour pairing (like neon green and orange). And the other shapes kind of looked like bricks.
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@Rhywden
Nike Free 5.0Comfy as frig. Breathable as frig. Comes in tasteful black.
Also pictured: Why do we both have pink charging cords?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Comes in tasteful black.
Boring
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Also pictured: Why do we both have pink charging cords?
You're comfortable with your masculinity or you support breast cancer awareness?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra a voice is telling me I should try this great new software...
Wait a minute...
Holy crap it's color coordinated to the Windows logo!!!
Edit: I'm an idiot
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'll keep the case though...
I have some of the older cases. The ones that hold the CDs in envelopes in a binder. Pretty sure the MSDN disks are around somewhere too...
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status Got a new phone on Tue. All updated. Today I decided to see if there was a device update. status: waiting for a 548MB download to finish.
Downloading software update. Please do not leave Wi-Fi coverage area.
sigh. Guess I'm not going home yet...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The ones that hold the CDs in envelopes in a binder
Was it anything like this:
???
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On the same vein, I'm attempting to update my (practically unused) Acer Iconia W510 tablet PC to Windows 10 tonight.
I must hate myself a good amount to be trying that upgrade.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess I'm not going home yet...
Well, unless you wanted to restart the download, because why would you want to pause/resume downloads?
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@Tsaukpaetra No. (Tho I did have that too). They're the plastic covered cardboard things. They re-date those. (They also had some really cool zippered cases too)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess I'm not going home yet...
Well, unless you wanted to restart the download, because why would you want to pause/resume downloads?
We are talking about AT&T here... (And Samsung S7)
status 69%
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Status: Go to look something up on Wikipedia. Get distracted by stuff on the front page. Completely forget what I wanted to look up.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Go to look something up on Wikipedia. Get distracted by stuff on the front page. Completely forget what I wanted to look up.
The FWP thread is
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
black
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
boring
Psh, you wouldn't know good style if it smacked you in the face.
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Stop 2: Truckstop fish
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Status: I have an estimated 60 hours PTO to get rid of before October 14th.
Guess I'll have a 3-day-weekend every week until I leave...
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
60 hours PTO
They won't pay out the unused time?
Only up to 80 hours. I currently have 120 and expect to accrue ~ 15 more hours or something like that by the end.
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Status: Now that my computer is (somewhat) all better now, I'm working on resuming Hololens development.
I thought my device was on the fritz until I realized my laptop was "auto adjusting" the brightness and flickering between low and medium brightness.
Apparently my dark shirt is confusing to the camera (that windows is using to detect whether it should be dark or bright) and it's just in the midpoint...
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Status: got a BSOD in the middle of Starbound and then my save poofed after reboot. I was able to recover a backup and lose only an hour of gameplay. Is it just me, or does continuously writing save data to a binary file seem like a strategy fraught with peril?
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@Tsaukpaetra Why the hell weren't you taking vacations?
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@Groaner Isn't the bigger problem here your computer bluescreening?
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Next stop: The cruel economics of slot machines
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@Weng she's almost back to even!
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@Weng I hear the machine in the back left is much easier to win.