The Official Status Thread
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Status: On a conference call for a inter-company project. Not normally an issue, except our COO has killed the project on our side since the other half of the team is over a year past their deadlines. My boss - the CIO - is still sneaking the cooperation through, but I have nothing to contribute to the meeting.
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but I have nothing to contribute to the meeting.
and this is why i keep a knitting project at work.
I don't bring it to meetings often, but there really is nowthing that says "This meeting has negative value to me, and i'm only attending because you made me a required attendee" quite like knitting
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Status: new dhromebook wallpaper:
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oooh..... pretty.....
DOTA2 or League? I know there is a difference but as i play neither nor really follow the scene i'm not familiar with either game (other than knowing that a lot of people criticize DOTA2 for copying League and visa versa)
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I haven't played DOTA2 in quite a while. That needs to change.
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that one
ah. thanks.
/me "steals" the background to annoy one of my friends who plays League of Legends
hmm... now where can i find a good copy of the league logo on transparent to overlay?
<inb4 the evil ideas thread is that way>
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I don't bring it to meetings often, but there really is nowthing that says "This meeting has negative value to me, and i'm only attending because you made me a required attendee" quite like knitting
/ahem/
On a conference call
Said passive-aggressive solution only works if other attendees can actually see you.
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Said passive-aggressive solution only works if other attendees can actually see you.
use metal needles so they can hear you knitting. :-P
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Email them a webcam picture?
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PATCH NOTES:
Our curse filter is now being applied to our own content, because we don't trust our employees.
Thanks a lot Dave! We hope that you enjoy meeting the buttbuttin we hired.
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Ironically,
Breastan and Buttbuttin are more offensive than the words the filter tried to replace.
Breastan : An amazon warrior that chose not to remove her breasts to give an advantage in firing her bow.
Buttbuttin : A massive old god in WoW lore. First there was the old god made only of eyes, then mouths, now butts.
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It's a clbutty thing to do.
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so buttinine
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See also: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Illidan
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use metal needles so they can hear you knitting.
Not sure that would work. They're in India, with a crap connection. They probably wouldn't hear over the static.
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They're in India
ah.... even wothout the crap connection they'd be missing the cultural cues to know what you are doing... ;-)
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Start snoring with mute off?
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The only reason I'm happy is because we lost to the Seahawks, so they better win.
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Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
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Where do you think he got his name?
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other than knowing that a lot of people criticize DOTA2 for copying League and visa versa
No one criticizes Dota 2 for copying League because it was League that copied DotA, though really it's a different game in terms of playstyle now. Really most people's beef with League can be summed up with Pendragon closing the old Dota forums when he moved to Riot.
Belgium I didn't get the ninja off.
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No one criticizes Dota 2 for copying League because it was League that copied DotA
-shrug- just reporting what I've heard man. i've played exactly one game of League because i lost a bet and after that i just paid in cash because that game style is not fun for me at all.
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most people's beef with League can be summed up with Pendragon closing the old Dota forums
I thought most people's problem with League was that it's a wretched hive of scum and villainy with a toxic community?
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s/people/DotA/Dota 2 player/g
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Status: trying to figure out why a service that was maintained by my recently departed cow-orker suddenly started silently crashing yesterday afternoon. I started digging in to add more error logging, and I just discovered this:
A function with 2k+ LOC. It's going to be a long day.
Bonus: It's a poorly commented pile of shit.
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Said passive-aggressive solution only works if other attendees can actually see you.
I buttumed, and I guess @accalia did too, that the person who required you to be there was on your end of the call.
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Status: Confused. I'm sure I had a notification about a reply in this topic. That's why I read it just now. But now the only notification is for @accalia's reply to the post I just made. WTF happened to the notification that made me decide to read this topic in the first place?
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WTF happened to the notification that made me decide to read this topic in the first place?
either:
- it was @accalia's reply all along
- @HardwareGeek has too much blood in his caffeine system
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The latter is undoubtedly true, but I don't think that's the cause of the missing notification. Your notification definitely didn't happen until after I started reading the topic, so why did I start? I think there was a notification about a reply, but I'm not sure any more.
Status: Off to dilute the blood with caffeine.
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I buttumed, and I guess @accalia did too, that the person who required you to be there was on your end of the call.
Accurate buttumption. But he's also in a different office, using a speaker phone.
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the person who required you to be there was on your end of the call.
...otherwise, why would you even be there?
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That's never called? That's easy, and it feels so good.
It's called from another project, so the reference doesn't get picked up here.
On a related note, i found this mess in that function:
TimeSpan transactionTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 30, 0); // 30 minutes. They better not take longer than this. using(TransactionScope transScope = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, transactionTimeout)) { using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) { connection.Open(); /* SNIP ~1500 LOC */ using (SqlConnection asyncConn = new SqlConnection(connectionString + "Async")) { asyncConn.Open(); /* Update a record */ } /* SNIP ~400 LOC */ using (SqlConnection asyncConn = new SqlConnection(connectionString + "Async")) { asyncConn.Open(); /* Update more records */ } /* Do stuff in the synchronous connection which requires access to the changes from the async connection. */ } } transScope.Complete();
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Status: just found out I'm deploying a project this week so have to cancel my weekly game as it as at time of deploy.
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Status: Worked two hours on a reopened defect just to find out that the change wasn't deployed.
TRWTF is not having a way to check our services version number in SIT.
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TRWTF is not having a way to check our services version number in SIT.
I always squirrel that info away somewhere in my services. It saves a lot of time when I can ask a customer to scroll to the bottom of some info screen and read off (what I know to be) the source and build IDs.
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See, we have it for the UI, but not the services :/
Someone is in the process of writing one for our services, or I would do it myself.
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See, we have it for the UI, but not the services :/
REST is good for that sort of thing. You can hide all sorts of things away.
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Status: Placing WebGL vertices by hand to create a wireframe-like box.
A bit tedious, but so far, so good.
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Status: I suspect but cannot prove that Discust just crashed my phone and made it reboot...
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Is TDWTF being even slower than usual for anyone else, or is it just me?
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i thought it was just my ISP being a dick again (though not as bad as @ben_lubar's ISP)
so it's not just me. that's something.
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Status: Pondering what the PSB lyrics "Just when you least expect it, just what you least expect" might actually be. So I can anticipate it.
Filed under: Pet Shop Boys, Possible paradox detected, Possibly not a paradox
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Status: Wondering who at Microsoft thought it was a good idea to get all chatty and informal in Outlook:
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On today's edition of representative line:
If Not u.DefaultSpecialDate.ToShortDateString = String.Empty Then
wat