The Official Status Thread
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just viewed the latest XKCD, which is about mishearing/misremembering words.
It is possibly the least entertaining thing I have ever seen.
I can almost feel the creativity being drained from this world....
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Status: Go home Visual Studio, you're drunk. (There are no references to this particular class member
ToString()
yet)
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@cursorkeys It's an override though. They get reported like that. You're using
ToString
for things that seem super-wrong, too.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
You're using
ToString
for things that seem super-wrong, too.You're not supposed to look at that bit ;) I had to scroll it to somewhere non-doxy. That's a horrible hacky thing that makes a debug graph, it has a
//TODO
to write it properly...
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Go home Visual Studio, you're drunk.
Yeah. I just tried using F12 to go to the class declaration of
somethingelse
.something* x = new something(x, t, new somethingelse(y));
It insisted I really wanted
something
. Fuck you.
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@dcon Sometimes F12 is what you want, sometimes ctrl+F12 is.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Go home Visual Studio, you're drunk.
Yeah. I just tried using F12 to go to the class declaration of
somethingelse
.something* x = new something(x, t, new somethingelse(y));
It insisted I really wanted
something
. Fuck you.Huh. Restarted VS and now it works. Of course. (Well, this time a build wasn't running - I have noticed lookup sometimes is totally screwed until the build is done - which I'd forgotten. I think my brain has checked out for the holidays already...)
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Status:
: Hey, so, the requirements say I need to do this...
: Why? What's the business value of that?
: Apparently our users need to be able to Y
: I don't see the business value of that
: I mean sure, neither do I, but I've described the use case, and-
: You shouldn't do that. It'll be expensive and doesn't make sense.
: Look, you can talk to the people writing the requirements about your concerns. What I need right now is to know whether or not I can X? Maybe by Z-ing?
: It's theoretically possible, but you shouldn't be doing it at all, ever.
: Right, fine, but I need to W so I can Z, can you explai-
: You shouldn't be doing this, business value.This took maybe an hour. And all I'm left with is annoyance and a vague promise that something might kind of work, but with exactly 0 examples. I want to go home.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I want to go home.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just viewed the latest XKCD [...]
It is possibly the least entertaining thing I have ever seen.
I don't know when it started happening but this isn't that infrequent.
For me, XKCD getting less entertaining was strongly correlated with Scott Adams delving into politics instead of cartoons.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just viewed the latest XKCD [...]
It is possibly the least entertaining thing I have ever seen.
I don't know when it started happening but this isn't that infrequent.
For me, XKCD getting less entertaining was strongly correlated with Scott Adams delving into politics instead of cartoons.
so..... Randall Munroe is a Scott Adams Alt?
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@accalia Randall Munroe? Wasn't he the lead singer for KISS?
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@anotherusername No you're thinking of Ace Ventura
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@hungrier hang on a minute, what's the Pink Panther got to do with this?
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Status: I hate liars. And I hate lying myself. So I get angry every single time I make a job application. And not because I lie in resume. I lie in the Q&A section, where one of the questions is "Why do you want to work at WTFCorp?". The honest answer is "I like not to starve, and you give money." But I can't write that because I like not to starve.
Why are they even asking this question? Are there any circumstances where people give answers that aren't bullshit? Or are they testing bullshitting ability?
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@gÄ…ska Maybe someone actually wants to work on a particular company's product, or likes their corporate values or whatever.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
likes their corporate values or whatever
That's funny, because corporate values are themselves bullshit.
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Why are they even asking this question?
It can potentially be a filter for whether someone has read the job posting they're applying to, and give some insight to how well (and how concisely) they express themselves.
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@gÄ…ska Tell 'em you don't; play hard to get.
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@gÄ…ska it's basically a trick question; they actually want to know why you think they should want you to work at WTFCorp. They want employees who want to be working there, yes, but actually more importantly they want employees whose desire to work there will translate into productivity for them.
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Status: Spotify has just reintroduced me to a band that a friend many years ago liked, but that I had no interest in. Apparently I like this band now.
So yeah, apparently I listen to Girugamesh sometimes now.
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
"Why do you want to work at WTFCorp?"
Because i saw that your job opening has you using technology X which i'm quite good at and also technology Y which i'm quite interested in learning much more about!
Think of it this way, as an interviewer they're not asking that question for the answer itself. they know it's a BS question just as well as you do, they're looking to see how you sell yourself to the company. Use it as an opportunity to show what you know and what you want to learn, twist it into working with the job opening. And because you phrased it that way it isn't lying, you are good with X and want to learn more about Y. okay it's not the primary reason but still a reason.
so yeah. there's that. maybe it will help you feel less skeezy about the interviewing? It helps me. and if you ever interview with me i promise i'll not ask that question. it's a BS question, why would i ask you?
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Used a natural key instead of a surrogate key, that was now definitely the wrong decision.
Universally and always the wrong decision at all times forever.
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Status: That settles it, I'll be buying some Unstable. Good show, Magic.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Think of it this way, as an interviewer they're not asking that question for the answer itself. they know it's a BS question just as well as you do, they're looking to see how you sell yourself to the company.
Which just raises more questions - why do they want to hire salesmen as programmers?
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
why do they want to hire salesmen as programmers?
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they don't really
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actually they do. a salesprogrammer can sell their plans to the business. Remember that many people don't understand computers, they hired you for that, and you need to make sure they do the right thing even though they don't understand. so being able to sell yourself means you can sell them on the things that are important and they don't understand
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Status: I'm still thinking how to answer that question. It's hard because I ain't even that good fit for this position.
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If you have a Motorola phone, you may want to check for updates...
Not sure if this is an old update that I'm only just now getting or not, though.
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Status: I am 4:30 in to "Batman vs Superman" and I honestly just don't give a shit if I see the rest of the movie.
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm still thinking how to answer that question. It's hard because I ain't even that good fit for this position.
That question being there may help you as much as them, then...
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am 4:30 in to "Batman vs Superman" and I honestly just don't give a shit if I see the rest of the movie.
15 minutes in and Amy Adams is naked in a bathtub.
Good...but not enough to save this.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm still thinking how to answer that question. It's hard because I ain't even that good fit for this position.
That question being there may help you as much as them, then...
No, you got me wrong. I want that job. I just never wrote any Python program.
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Status: Fucking Unreal. Howbeit that items that are attached at construction visible in the Editor, but attached at any point (by code, mind you, the Editor itself seems to do this fine) don't?
Is there no "Refresh your Scene hierarchy" function?!?!?
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@tsaukpaetra are you sure the editor is running your code? I don't know UE, but WPF editor in Visual Studio only uses real viewmodel if you provide it with directives.
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra are you sure the editor is running your code? I don't know UE, but WPF editor in Visual Studio only uses real viewmodel if you provide it with directives.
Oh, it's running the code. Multiple times, actually (once when the level loads because it's referenced, once if you start playing in the editor, once every time you actually call up the menu it's representing, once if you open the blueprint, once if you compile the blueprint or refresh all nodes, and again if you adjust which ActorComponent the blueprint is supposed to be using (my code, actually)).
I consider this an Editor bug, because I've found a few other posts on the Unreal forums mentioning this behaviour too, though their fixes don't apply since I'm adding the ActorComponent at runtime and not through the Blueprint's definition.
I'm 31 percent sure the so-called fixes would work if I added a static reference to the desired object in the Editor. Maybe.
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@lb_ For what it's worth, I just checked mine and it says "up to date". I don't recall seeing that screen either.
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Status: My main NodeBB tab is no longer capable of navigation. I'm stuck on the topic list. I don't want to refresh because of course that gets it orkng agan. Console doesn't seem to have anything noteorthy.
Also, the canvas is tainted.
Edit: Oh, it's working again, all on its own...
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Status: I must have done something all the sudden BoA is telling me about my credit card that's on autopay...
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status wondering who I did good too ... just got my office chair replaced with a new one
Filled under: what does this button do?
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STATUS:
A manager has asked us developers to "mansplain" a few technical things to her when we have the time.
Not sure if joking...
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@cartman82
Start by spreading you legs apart
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Working from home today and feeling distinctly unmotivated.
This might end up being my least productive WFH day ever, not that it would have been that much better if I'd hauled my arse into work
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, the canvas is tainted.
Better than the taint being canvassed.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
A manager has asked us developers to "mansplain" a few technical things to her when we have the time.
Not sure if joking...
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Working from home today and feeling distinctly unmotivated.
This might end up being my least productive WFH day ever, not that it would have been that much better if I'd hauled my arse into work
I resemble that remark. (I'm at home too)
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@gÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
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Pop quiz (answers within next hour and a half):
You have interview processes in progress for two different jobs, A and B. You think you'd take Job A given the choice (and aren't sure if you'd take Job B even if that was the only one you were offered).
You get through the preliminary screening for both jobs, and have a final interview lined up for each: Interview A is on a Tuesday, Interview B is on the subsequent Thursday morning.
Following Interview A, you're certain that would accept the job if offered only that one, and 99.9% certain that you'd take it if also offered job B.
You're expecting to hear an offer or rejection from Company A on the Wednesday afternoon. In the event that you get offered the job, do you:
- accept Job A and cancel Interview B at the last minute, or
- tell Company A you'll let them know your decision by the next (Thursday) afternoon, and go to Interview B, even though you're 99.9% sure that nothing you'll hear will change your mind about accepting Job A.
I'm expecting a call with a decision very soon, and getting conflicting advice...
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@carrievs said in The Official Status Thread:
tell Company A you'll let them know your decision by the next (Thursday) afternoon, and go to Interview B, even though you're 99.9% sure that nothing you'll hear will change your mind about accepting Job A.
i would go with this one, for two reasons,
- you might be wrong about job B not being the better job
and - if job A is not willing to wait four business days for a decision then you probably don't want to work for A after all.
- you might be wrong about job B not being the better job
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@carrievs Are you talking directly to the employers or via a recruiter? I once, on the advice of the recruiter who'd set up both interviews, cancelled an interview on the way to the train station because the other job had made me an offer. Turned out OK, but if I'd had to tell them myself I would probably have gone to it and in hindsight I still would have gone if only to have more leverage.
I'd be tempted to tell company A that although you're keen to work for them you have already booked the other interview and would rather not cancel at short notice. Not a threat, not definitely saying you'll take the job but also hinting that you'd show them the same courtesy if they were in the company B position.
If they tell you it's a matter of accepting now or losing it, that's honestly a bit of a red flag and should give you second thoughts