The Official Status Thread
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Developer makes a changes. It has an unintended behavior. Ticket is opened for this and assigned to me. I hunt down the responsible party. I let them know. I hand off the ticket. Twenty people hunt me down and ask me when I'll have my fix in. I tell them who I have handed it off to. They come back with more questions about the issue, not understanding that I stopped caring about it. Projects definitely have too much of a "who touched it last" issue here.
Something similar just happened. Project manager communicates with the dev team that a user is having issues. Ask me to help. I forward it to the DBA and dev that worked on the project. They send emails back and forth for a couple of hours that I'm CC'd on, but don't read. At the end, they ask me if what they have is an acceptable solution for me. I responded that I have no opinion on that system since I don't know its design, technical architecture, or pretty much anything about it. You might as well consult me for brain surgery.
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Just came up with a great analogy for our technical debt:
"If our applications were a car, we'd give it a new paint job every 3 months or 3k miles, but we'd never change the oil."
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I used trains recently.
"If our platforms were trains, passengers would get on and basically never get off. We don't even clean out the rotting corpses. Sometimes they'll change trains and leave their luggage. Sometimes they'll give up and live without that luggage. Sometimes they'll wait until the trains pass each other and toss clean underwear across the gap between moving trains. Every once in awhile, we'll hitch a freight car to the back and pray it doesn't tear the fragile passenger cars in front of it in half.
And we absolutely, never, EVER, EVER upgrade or maintain the locomotives.
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Status: i do believe i am coming down with a cold..... "joyous"....
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Because the ADA applies to private property
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Status: I have somehow got my installation of the software for which I'm paid to write plugins for into a state where trying to restore, minimise or close it causes an uncaught exception inserting a duplicate key into a hashtable. I have no idea how I managed this...
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Also, DLL hell. I seem to have one project referencing multiple versions of a DLL, neither of which are correct
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I also seem to have a shit wireless keyboard that just loves to insert extra keystrokes all over the place
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i recommend the Logitech K800 if you're looking to replace it.
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Provided by work, so I don't have much say. I have asked for a proper wired keyboard and mouse, since there's no reason to keep putting up with this crap. Maybe once they've installed the extra 8GB of RAM they promised
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My first job was for a semi-governmental power company helper thing. They didn't allow wireless keyboards and briefed us on how to handle a terrorist attack. It was strange, and I get why in both cases, but I'm only particularly glad for the first.
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Provided by work, so I don't have much say.
If it means that much, you could buy your own.
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Status: WTF bug is fixed even though I didn't change anything (other than the config I already tested that didn't completely fix the problem), pull down new code, nor rebuild.
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I have considered bringing in a spare from home, but commuting on a motorbike means making sure it would fit in my bag and hoping it doesn't get rained on
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I have considered bringing in a spare from home, but commuting on a motorbike means making sure it would fit in my bag and hoping it doesn't get rained on
I have a set of waterproof duffel bags specifically for motorcycle cargo.
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hoping it doesn't get rained on
Even if you don't have rainproof bags like @mott555, you could wrap it in a regular plastic bag (or two if they're small) or just wait for a day it's not raining.
Or you could mail it to yourself, if you can receive packages and don't mind spending a little.
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Yeah, I need to get some better winter gear. First on the list is some new gloves. Mine are about 6 years old and neither warm or waterproof any more. On the plus side, the two-fingers-together layout makes me feel like @Zoidberg
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Fine, then I'll have one of your young on a roll.
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Or you could mail it to yourself, if you can receive packages and don't mind spending a little.
Or drive a car for one day, if he has one.
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or waterproof any more
I haven't tried it yet but someone told me to check out http://www.amazon.com/Nikwax-TX-Direct-Spray-On-Waterproofing/dp/B0000E67AH/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/184-2786008-8501416 since none of my waterproof gear is waterproof anymore.
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Or drive a car for one day, if he has one
Fiancée drives the car to her job since she's been too lazy to get herself a bike license
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Current status: My big guts are eating my little guts while I wait for my wife to finish getting ready to go to lunch.
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Current status: eating a lunch made of snack-sized portions from local businesses courtesy of the company in the next building over, who's having some kind of open house.
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Current status: regretting that I didn't call out sick and play Lego Batman 3 all day.
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Status; now the customer who wants handholding running an installer he's watched me run three[1] times wants a pre-meeting phone call to discuss the meeting where he'll watch me run the installer again.
[1] it's actually probably 5.
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Status; now the customer who wants handholding running an installer he's watched me run three[1] times wants a pre-meeting phone call to discuss the meeting where he'll watch me run the installer again.
i think you need to pick up a habit like knitting to spend your time on these calls doing.
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Status: Disabling my smaller monitor so that Windows RDC will use my bigger monitor for its display size, then turning the smaller monitor back on.
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Wiki server can no longer connect to SMTP server, because anything that worked on the past isn't allowed to work anymore!
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i think you need to pick up a habit like knitting to spend your time on these calls doing.
Can't. I'll be doing at least half of the clicking. That's the frustrating thing--it takes up just enough of my mental and physical capacity I can't really do anything else.
What you have to understand is these are people who, and I'm not in the least little bit exaggerating, I want to make that perfectly clear, are willing to pay $200 an hour for me to watch them downloading updates because they couldn't be bothered to do it before the call, even though I told them to.
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What you have to understand is these are people who, and I'm not in the least little bit exaggerating, I want to make that perfectly clear, are willing to pay $200 an hour for me to watch them downloading updates because they couldn't be bothered to do it before the call, even though I told them to.
wel;l that does take the edge off the annoyance a bit i guess. ;-)
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Status: Disabling my smaller monitor so that Windows RDC will use my bigger monitor for its display size, then turning the smaller monitor back on.
Dude. Run mstsc.exe without any parameters, then drag the dialog to the right monitor, and connect from there. Next time it'll remember which monitor you wanted. If it doesn't, you're doing something wrong because I literally do this every day.
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wel;l that does take the edge off the annoyance a bit i guess.
Not at all. First off I don't get any of that. Second, I just remembered that the guy that happened with, this was literally the only time he called in that year, so we gave it to them so they felt they were getting their maintenance worth.
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lolno can't connect that way. That would be way too not WTFy for us. I'm working from home, so I don't manually open a connection to the server. Instead I click a little "Wake up" button and the website starts the tunnel for me.
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okay.
do i need to get out my heads will roll robes, or the dissapointed but not angry suit?
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lolno can't connect that way. That would be way too not WTFy for us.
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do i need to get out my heads will roll robes, or the dissapointed but not angry suit?
If you're volunteering to take this call for me, you'll want both.
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If you're volunteering to take this call for me, you'll want both.
... and a fifth of jack.
and another fifth of the good whiskey to drink while making my molotov.
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The best part is it doesn't even matter which monitor is primary, it will always use the smaller dimensions.
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Status: Doing bulk find/replace of some function calls because somehow the Windows-only safe string handling functions made it into our code which needs to work on Linux as well.
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... and a fifth of jack.
and another fifth of the good whiskey to drink while making my molotov.
I would absolutely do that, because you're smart enough that in ten minutes I could explain exactly how to do it, and you'd only have problems if there were any failures. (No matter how many times we tell people DON'T APPLY UPGRADES WHILE PEOPLE ARE IN THE APPLICATION, every once in a while someone does, and it's an update with a schema change. Fortunately it's been a year or two since I had to fix one of those)
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The best part is it doesn't even matter which monitor is primary, it will always use the smaller dimensions.
My condolences--that's fucked up.
You should try to convince them to buy you a second monitor the same size as the first one.
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Doing bulk find/replace of some function calls because somehow the Windows-only safe string handling functions made it into our code which needs to work on Linux as well.
Nice!
Are you replacing them or adding OS-specific #ifdefs?
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I'm simply changing them to the "non-safe" versions, i.e. strcmp_s becomes strcmp and sprintf_s becomes sprintf, and hoping it doesn't come back to bite me.
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Sorry, I think you read my implication as I always work from home. I don't. I just am this afternoon.
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I'm simply changing them to the "non-safe" versions [...] and hoping it doesn't come back to bite me.
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I think you read my implication as I always work from home.
More like semi-regularly, because since you knew it was going to happen, it must have happened before.
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I sat with that tab open for 15 minutes, so I could cue up the line I was looking for, because I spent 41 minutes on the phone with the pre-meeting meeting.
The upside is that probably no more than 10 minutes were actually wasted as such--he wanted to pre-do some work--and as it turns out he's going to at least try to do the install without me on the phone, only calling if he has problem.s
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It's actually pretty rarely. The only reason one monitor is bigger than the other is I bought it from a coworker for $50. Planning on getting new ones in the future.
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Current status: realizing that I do most of my job not through experience in my field, but mainly through having used computers and played around with them on my own.