💩 Shit I just heard in my office
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It's getting worse as it slowly becomes this jack of all trades bullshit app for whatever purpose Mr. Manager wants the app to behave in order to fill up some stupid presentation for Mr. Chief Manager prior to budgeting meetings starting.
One of the things you're going to have to learn is that what Mr. Manager wants is not always right, shouldn't always be done, and that you should push back in asserting that it shouldn't be done. You've learned part of it — that what the boss wants is often a bad idea — but learning to push back against those who have nominal authority over you is hard. You owe it to yourself as a professional software developer to discover how to exercise this skill and when to do so; it's a major part of what will mark you out as being more than just a code monkey in a position that can be outsourced to Bangalore.
Hopefully the learning process won't cost you your job.
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What? It's not his responsibility to say what should and shouldn't be done, specially if he's getting paid to do it. If this was everyone's mentality, we wouldn't have fart apps!
Now, seriously, that's not a good advice. He won't be deemed as a team player but as an obstacle. Better than saying no, is providing solutions which your manager will of course appropriate as his own. Better be proactive on this situations.
This is something I find very annoying on some God-mode developers. Yes, you're intelligent, but you don't always see the politics or the big picture, so build the stupid app as best as you can, because that's your responsibility.
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Serial number 1 is mine!
Surely the numbering should start at 0? You'll be indexing arrays from 1 next...
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Also, this is ?
http://www.gringoes.com/images/OfficerCrabtree250.jpg
Good moaning. I have a massage for you
Filed under: Youtube refused to cooperate, so no clip :(
Additional: Fuck you Discourse
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Oh, I know there are languages that index arrays from 1;I've used VB, which has an option for that. What doesn't compute is why, when 0-based indexing makes more sense ;)
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@Onyx - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: -1
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No "massage" in that one though :P
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Not Crabtree, but still a 'massage':
http://youtu.be/YHFE6WZK71s?t=8s
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I hate it when toilets are not properly sound proof ...
...esp. during a conference call where you can't mute the participants...
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a conference call where you can't mute the participants
That's cruel and unusual punishment, even without the other circumstances, as there'll always be someone with an insane level of echo on the line…
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Oh, I know there are languages that index arrays from 1;I've used VB, which has an option for that. What doesn't compute is why, when 0-based indexing makes more sense ;)
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Visit Pascal-land some time, where you get to(1) choose the starting index of an array.(1) "get to" ===> "have to".
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...but also, since the white noise doesn't carry and bounce like the beeps do...
If you hear the white noise - it's coming for you
Yes - this exactly.
I hear beeps all afternoon every day outside my office window. I know they're not for me, so I tune them out. Whenever I hear them, I know they're most likely not for me, because they're loud, and carry distance and bounce around corners.I've noticed that I only hear the trucks further down the street (with white noise instead), when they're reversing at/near me. If the white noise isn't relevant to me I either don't hear it, or it blends into the background anyway. I don't have an automatic dismissal of strong white noise as a warning.
[I work in a government office building in an industrial area immediately next to an earthmoving truck depot which has a single lane driveway 100m long. Trucks reverse (slowly) past my window to get into their depot because there's not enough room in there to turn around. If my team didn't actively refuse to use Lync, and didn't have a constant need to ask questions, I'd be so much more productive by wearing my Bose QC15s all day, and I would be safer if a truck ever did try to reverse over me.]
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"Can you make, like, just the [unintelligible]* red? Like, not the whole word red? They don't it to be like, super red, and make you feel bad, just red enough to jump out at you."
* Turns out to have been "word", I think.
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"Originally he had the whole box red, then he just outlined it in red, and we're trying to figure out if it's red enough... and then I realized we have a design guy so let's ask him."
"He went home."
"Okay, so... maybe bold? Should the word be bold? An arrow maybe? OK, box is good. I think you guys are right, if it's just the word, my eyes won't see it."
"Did you know they found out that people only started seeing the color blue in the past few hundred years?"
"Blue? Like the sky?"
"Yeah."
I am going home now >.> The context of this conversation is my boss^2, one of the contract devs, and a business user all standing around staring at boss^2's screen.
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"Did you know they found out that people only started seeing the color blue in the past few hundred years?"
To be fair, I can only verify that people started seeing blue just a few decades ago.
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I have it on good authority that the color blue didn't even exist until about 15 billion years ago.
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The Ancient Greeks called the sky 'bronze', so I'd say 'blue' came a bit more recently than 2,500 years ago.
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[citation needed]
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Alls I know for sure is that dawn had rosy fingers.
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The Ancient Greeks called the sky 'bronze',
To be fair, the Ancient Greeks were clearly idiots.
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To be fair, the Ancient Greeks were clearly idiots.
True. I mean they gave the world democracy, geometry, and philosophy, but other than that, they were idiots
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I mean they gave the world democracy, geometry, and philosophy, but other than that, they were idiots
Maybe also wine. I'll forgive them for democracy…
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The Ancient Greeks called the sky 'bronze',
To be fair, the Ancient Greeks were clearly idiots.
They also described the sea as "wine-dark". So there were some serious color-vision issues happening there.
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Or they were describing the luminance instead of chrominance.
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Or they were idiots?
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"Did you know they found out that people only started seeing the color blue in the past few hundred years?"
I believe I've read somewhere a long time ago that the ancient Greeks described the sky only as bronze. (I wrote this before seeing @RaceProUK's post)Cursory web search tells me people started not as much seeing new colors, as getting better names to describe existing colors. And with that, a better perception.
[citation needed]
I read it in a book a while ago, but I can't remember which.
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Maybe also wine. I'll forgive them for democracy…
To be fair, it wasn't the same as our democracy. When they were voting to go to war, they were voting to send themselves or their sons into battle.
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"Did you know they found out that people only started seeing the color blue in the past few hundred years?"
I believe I've read somewhere a long time ago that the ancient Greeks described the sky only as bronze. (I wrote this before seeing @RaceProUK's post)
Cursory web search tells me people started not as much seeing new colors, as getting better names to describe existing colors. And with that, a better perception.
[citation needed]
I read it in a book a while ago, but I can't remember which.
You had only to ask.
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..to get a wrong answer, because that wasn't it.
It's not important what particular book it was, anyway. It seems like we have independent sources for this piece of information, so...
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It seems like we have independent sources for this piece of information
Unless they both got it from the same source. Spooky!
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At best, the Ancient Greeks are a common source.
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When they were voting to go to war, they were voting to send themselves or their sons into battle.
Or to get a good paying job rowing a trireme. From what I recall reading (mainly regarding the Peloponnesian War) , the richer folks viewed war as a point of honor and so forth, the poor often looked at it as an opportunity for employment. And they definitely had free time to show up to vote.
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East Asian languages traditionally did not make a distinction between blue and green until very recently. Maybe that's what he was confused about? It happens in other languages as well.
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No, there's some bullshit going around the internet. When I get to the office I'll paste links
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Wait, is it about that stupid dress?
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It misses the truth by a time period that varies varies depending on which language you're talking about, and by the difference between not having a name or definition for a colour and not being able to perceive hues of that colour to be different from hues of another colour, but it is based on truth, and nothing to do with the infamous dress.
In all or most languages, blue is one of or the last colour to be defined and named. In some languages they still don't have a word for blue, and (to the best of my understanding) consider blue hues to be shades/variants of green.
(At the other end of the scale, in some languages such as Russian, 'light blue' and 'dark blue' are considered separate colours, much like pink and red. Perhaps all languages will eventually tend to defining more and more colours.)
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It's this stupid thing: http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2?r=U
Which is taken apart here: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/26918/could-people-perceive-the-color-blue-in-ancient-times
Notable, Homer wrote that Poseidon's eyebrows were blue :) This is just the old Sapir-Whorf bullshit brought up again: not having a word for 'blue' doesn't mean you don't SEE the color blue, just like not having a word for 'pink' doesn't mean you can't distinguish light red from dark red.
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Interesting links, thanks. I'd not seen those particular articles.
(I picked out the differently green square quite easily in the stupid link. This is a stupid and petty thing to be proud of but I am anyway.)
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The picture with the squares is screenshotted off a video and blurry.
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there's some bullshit going around the internet
No, how could such a thing happen!?
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[quote=business insider article]If you think about it, blue doesn't appear much in nature[...]
[picture that is 75% blue sky][/quote]
The only way this could have been better is if they had used a picture like this: