The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Trying to figure out the Google AdSense API be like
Update: OK, I think I've got the hang of this now.
Well, I'm sending requests and getting replies, at least. Now it's a question of if I'm sending the right requests and getting the right replies...
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Status: Ugh. WTF. Somehow I got two different sites at the same address. Like. What even?
Must be a cookie or something...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What even are "his constituents' concerns"?
Mainly the fact that Senator Flake has for some time been true to his name and never fucking turns up to answer questions.
Which, to be fair, I would also not be game to do as a Republican Senator in 2017.
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@flabdablet Not showing up is more of a Democrat thing in 2017.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Azure's Kudu portal has server cooties
I'm not sure the marketing wank who thought of that name was terribly bright, because the first thing I thought of when I saw that was Azure Kudzu, and kudzu is not something I'd want associated with my product.
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Status: Converting text file to ASCII, because otherwise it gets turned into Chinese and doesn't work.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What even?
You're being randomly A/B tested?
Product managers may love A/B tests. I HATE them. Sure, I want to code something up 2x (or more) and then throw it away later. This is C++ not HTML! We don't deploy as quickly!
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Status: Hey, @RaceProUK
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Status: 25
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Status: DON'T DO THIS! FUCKERS!
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Status: my location:
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@Tsaukpaetra underneath a blanket?
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra underneath a blanket?
On top of one, actually, Damn, you're good!
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Status: Holy crap, I should really pay attention to my spending!
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I don't even care if its only an okay game, or if I'm not doing well. I'm a programmer and I scored 256 at something!
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't even care if its only an okay game, or if I'm not doing well. I'm a programmer and I scored 256 at something!
No, you scored 266!
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@ben_lubar Neither rank nor kills are labeled 'score', so it means what I want it to mean!
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Neither rank nor kills are labeled 'score', so it means what I want it to mean!
It's quite clearly labeled "m_nScore"
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STATUS:
Boss has chastised me for not replying to a group email with all 20 or so partners / investors / managers / business people welcoming in the partner no. 21.
Since the other 2 developers he had had quit, Boss is now all like "hey Cartman, you are an A class shareholder, you should be included in business group emails, after all, this is part your company (please don't leave please don't leave)"
In other words, more mettle threads coming up. The next one is already scheduled for tomorrow 15:00 CET.
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Status: boss + 2 is leaving. I wonder if this means a chain of promotions to replace him?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
hey Cartman, you are an A class shareholder, you should be included in business group emails, after all, this is part your company
I once worked for a company where the 2 most senior developers had like 2% shares of the company each.
Then one of them decided to leave, and found out that his shares never made it into paper and he was just cheated into working without the standard worker rights from our locality. (These represent like 50% the cost of a worker on these parts)
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I see untold horrors in your future.
It's not too bad. I actually know how to use REs properly (benefits of a formal education, doncherkno, wot?) and I was using them to delete code. That file has (after a bit more work) now had over half its lines outright deleted despite me adding more tests. That really pleases me.
Also the tests no longer hide WTF went wrong. I'm slaying the untold horrors, replacing them with told horrors. :p
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
This is C++ not HTML!
Seriously, this is why it's not a good idea to write lots in C++ (or other slow-to-develop-in languages) when it's not performance critical. Or you get a bit more evil and A/B test with A being the old slower version and B being the newer faster version, effectively just comparing before you started the branch and the branch tip. ;)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I would change my bank for shitting all over English grammar.
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Status: Wondering why Google needs to state the bleeding obvious:
Edit: And the winner of the No Shit Sherlock Award is:
With honourable mentions for
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@RaceProUK I'd rather have that than the recent "spec" document that used a word for
permissions
I never heard used in my language, and the description was just "user has revoked all permissions". Valid values were0
,1
, and2
.Yeah,
2
. It's likeFILE_NOT_FOUND
, only without any explanations. In the end, boss managed to deduce it from some legalese stuff concerning the service, it was nowhere to be found in the spec.
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@Tsaukpaetra
And now you know why Dave Ramsey preaches that Credit Cards are The Devil
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Status: I accidentally told a company to bill me from my savings account instead of my checking account. But savings accounts can't do this. Thankfully the bank allowed me to "redirect" the charge to the other account. Problem solved.
And this led me to wonder: what the fuck is even the point of having two types of accounts? Literally the only other difference is that the savings account gives me a 0.05% annual interest on the money, which is nothing, so why even bother in the first place?
(yes, I know the answer: because the law says so)
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@anonymous234
Oh, it gets better.You really have three types of accounts. You have your savings account, which you get a token amount of interest on. You have your checking account, which you get nothing for, other than the ability to write checks and have a debit card. And then you have your savings sweep account that's associated with the checking account, which the bank "sweeps" your balance to once a month, and pulls back money to cover transactions from your checking account if necessary. Except, of course, paying you no interest for what's in the sweep account.
Why the sweep account, you might ask? Well, government regulations require the bank to keep a percentage of the balance of your checking account on hand as liquid reserves, and a much smaller percentage of the balance of your savings account. The rest winds up
getting loaned out to businesses, homebuyers, etcdeposited in a US Treasury account getting paid interest with your tax money, making the bank money. And the rules for checking accounts allow the sweep account, which lets them treat the balance of the sweep account like it's in a savings account, thus letting the bank keep even less of it on hand and begrowing the economyearning more money with the amount they don't keep as reserves.Strictly for your own good, of course.
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Status:
powershell..... why the hell do you insist on launching off screen so that i have to use keyboard shortcuts to maximize you so i can grab your title bar and drag you where i need you?
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@accalia Because Windows 10 managed to break... windows?
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia Because Windows 10 managed to break... windows?
like i'd understand it if i had mroe monitors hooked up and then removed them and it remembered position that is now off screen, but i've not added nor removed screens to this rig siche i installed, havent even changed the screen geometry or nothing.
powershell is the only app that does this, which is weird.
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@accalia I regularly get window titlebars stuck under my... start bar... taskbar... whatever the fuck Windows calls it single panel!, because I had the audacity to put it on the top of my screen. And there's pretty much no rules on which applications will do it.
Never got the offscreen thing though.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia I regularly get window titlebars stuck under my... start bar... taskbar... whatever the fuck Windows calls it single panel!, because I had the audacity to put it on the top of my screen. And there's pretty much no rules on which applications will do it.
Never got the offscreen thing though.
THE TASKBAR BELONGS AT THE TOP!
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia I regularly get window titlebars stuck under my... start bar... taskbar... whatever the fuck Windows calls it single panel!, because I had the audacity to put it on the top of my screen. And there's pretty much no rules on which applications will do it.
Never got the offscreen thing though.
THE TASKBAR BELONGS
AT THE TOP!ON THE SIDE!
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia I regularly get window titlebars stuck under my... start bar... taskbar... whatever the fuck Windows calls it single panel!, because I had the audacity to put it on the top of my screen. And there's pretty much no rules on which applications will do it.
Never got the offscreen thing though.
THE TASKBAR BELONGS
AT THE TOP!ON THE SIDE!HEATHEN!
/me draws her WACOM tablet pen and brandishes it as a sword!
have at thee!
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@accalia
I never realized you were from Australia.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia
I never realized you were from Australia.i do not self identify with any nationality. I am a citizen of the internetIs for porn!!
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Status: Happy with her taskbar being on the bottom.
Where it belongs.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering why Google needs to state the bleeding obvious:
Edit: And the winner of the No Shit Sherlock Award is:
With honourable mentions for
I18N?
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Status: Happy with his menubar at the top.
Or, more seriously, happy that so much of his colleagues' code is completely untested. It means that it's much easier to make the CI configuration work!
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
powershell..... why the hell do you insist on launching off screen so that i have to use keyboard shortcuts to maximize you so i can grab your title bar and drag you where i need you?
Saved default window attributes and
monitor configurationgraphics card driver changed since then?Edit; :➖
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy with his menubar at the top.
Or, more seriously, happy that so much of his colleagues' code is completely untested. It means that it's much easier to make the CI configuration work!
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy with his menubar at the top.
Or, more seriously, happy that so much of his colleagues' code is completely untested. It means that it's much easier to make the CI configuration work!
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
“Happy.”
Catchy tune!
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Status: As one of the unfortunate few who really does like Windows Phone (For a number of reasons. It's a seriously nice OS), I may have to switch carriers now.
I like my phone. I don't really want to change phones, since the Icon is really great. The problem is that I'm on Verizon.
Verizon has always hated Windows Phone, requiring specific rebranded hardware for themselves, and only 1/10 the selection of any other carrier, but with the Icon, they went a step further: After around four months, they silently stopped selling the things. And since then haven't picked up anything new.
They of course claim that this is not their fault, but when almost no hardware vendors can stomach your system, and even the big ones get rejected (Some Nexus phones even!), there's something very, very wrong with you.
I'd rather wait for a new phone, but who knows when that will be, or if my phone will ever receive a full charge again? Maybe I should just by a Qi pad and wait it out for the next gen. I don't know. Verizon is the worst company I've ever seen, though.
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STATUS SOMEONE IS COPYING AND PASTING FROM WORD INTO OUR TOOL ITS CAUSING WONKY CHARACTERS TO SHOW UP ELSEWHERE!
In other news. I now know most of \u codes for the various dashes and quotation marks.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
They of course claim that this is not their fault, but when almost no hardware vendors can stomach your system, and even the big ones get rejected (Some Nexus phones even!), there's something very, very wrong with you.
What the hell are you doing with standards over there in USLandia anyway? I can take my phone anywhere in Europe (and large parts of Asia, and Australia AFAIK), and it just works with whatever network is there.