💩 Shit I just heard in my office
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Sorry, I meant pornstache: :(
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That's colon-backslash-open_parenthesis in Discoworkaround Markup Language.
:(
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I just had an argument with the same guy. We told him he had to build a dynamic call to a stored procedure and he would retrieve the SP's name from the database, since it was related to the ID of the task the program has to execute.
He came to me and showed me a switch() statement where he hardcoded the sample stored procedures that we gave him, and proceeded to argue with me because he didn't understand what I meant by "dynamic". Kept insisting I "show him in code" what I meant, and the idea that I had to show him how to concatenate a string in C sounded so fucking ludicrous in my mind that I spent extra time trying to explain the concept of what we're trying to achieve here.
He finally understood, but I thought I was going to have an aneurysm, jesus christ. This is a guy who supposedly has about 15 years of experience in programming, far more than I have.
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They also described the sea as "wine-dark". So there were some serious color-vision issues happening there.
But it's not like they couldn't see it. It's just that they did not have a word for blue because distinguishing this color was not culturally important at the time (Homer's time).
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Maybe their wine was just a different color than ours:
<img src="/uploads/default/16982/7fcee693ba9d6af9.png" width="480" title='Red Green Show episode 270 the grapes of wrath">
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years "working" does not correlate with understanding what you do.
get a copy of the K&R and slap him with it until something gets into his brain.
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This is a guy who supposedly has about 15 years of experience in programming
Sounds more like he's got the same 3 months repeated 60 times…
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It's not that he can't code in C, he lacks basic logic skills, as well as communication skills (I suspect he might actually be autistic). He couldn't parse what I was telling him when I told him he had to get the SP from the database instead of hardcoding it.
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Doesn't work so well if the K&R you have isn't hardcover.
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Oh, I don't know. A perfect-bound paperback spine to the bridge of the nose can still make the eyes water.
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no~! no! i'll be good! not the book!
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a book slamming into a human face — forever.
Filed under: facepalm headdesk cluebat facebook
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he lacks basic logic skills, as well as communication skills (I suspect he might actually be autistic)
If he really lacks basic logic skills, he's not that likely to have autism. Afaik autism generally involves applying basic rule-based logic extremely rigorously. You'd expect such a person to rather excel at bean-counting and basic program logic.
Isn't that a Zelda enemy?
That would be Like-like, not Chuck-chuck.
(Why! Why do I still remember this after all those years! Damn you, Nintendo!)
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That would be Like-like, not Chuck-chuck.
(Why! Why do I still remember this after all those years! Damn you, Nintendo!)I know, it was a joke ;)
[size=9]goddamn Like-likes, hated those bastards[/size]
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"Do any of you know how to put code in Staging?"
"....You don't. That's [Coworker]'s job usually, as part of the promotion process."
"Well he's not at his desk and we're going to prod in an hour."
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"Well he's not at his desk and we're going to prod in an hour."
No, they're not… well, not unless [Coworker] reappears, anyway.Surely there should be at least one other than can do that?
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The backup has been sick a lot lately, I assume he's out as well.
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The backup has been sick a lot lately, I assume he's out as well.
That's why you always check your backup for bugs. Never assume anything about backups.
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I always back up my backups
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Since I just got a like to remind me I should find out if we went to prod.
I mean, I assume so.... :)
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from a coworker commenting about some backups taken by another cow-orker:
So I was wrong about the size of the zip files for the site backups. They’re not 7-8GB. They’re 70-80GB
... these are .zip files..... can they even GET to be 70GB in size‽ i mean the final compressed size, not the uncompressed size of the contained files...
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Depends on how compressible the data is
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Depends on how compressible the data is
and apparently if you're using zip64 extensions.....
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huh..... is that a wikipedia onebox bug or a discourse onebox bug that ate those superscripts?
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The tags have been stripped; guessing it's a onebox thing?
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The tags have been stripped; guessing it's a onebox thing?
right, but who stripped them?
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right, but who stripped them?
I would look through the Discocode, but
If I had to guess though, it'd be the oneboxer.
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+⍒អ㌙
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huh..... is that a wikipedia onebox bug or a discourse onebox bug that ate those superscripts?
Yes.
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Hatter's gonna be mad!
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8, but I didn't take more than 30 second on the nitty gritty.
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8, but I didn't take more than 30 second on the nitty gritty.
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these are .zip files..... can they even GET to be 70GB in size‽
Don't try to view or extract them using Windows Explorer!
It gets painful with the >10000 file ZIPS I deal with, that kind of size is probably going to break completely.
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ZIPs that size will be ZIP64, which Explorer doesn't support. Though since the file extension is the same, you won't find out until you try to do something with them.
Or someone tells you about it
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Hatter's gonna be mad!
Dang...read that as "Hilter's gonna be mad!"
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It's just @godwin.
Whaddayaknow. The @-mention popup thingie was just laggy then. I buttumed no @godwin account existed.
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IIRC, it's one of @accalia's. It's not backed by anything though. Not yet, anyway.
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i need to clear my plate and do osomething interesting with those accounts.... also @CaliBot
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Nice try with that URL.
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Not turn them into like bots - we have enough of those.
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Not turn them into like bots - we have enough of those.
that reminds me....
there... i turned some of them off (from autoliking)
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ZIP64, which Explorer doesn't support.
That I did not know. I just buttummed that it would, given that it's not hard and ZIP64 has been around long enough.
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Typically Late Colleague: I've got a problem tomorrow.
Me: ...
TLC: This call [we were just discussing] is at 9am tomorrow, I'm not sure what to do.
Me: Get into work on time for once?
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I have a meeting at 9:30am tomorrow. I get to sleep in as my typical meetings are at 6am (and I like to have my coffee ready for them, so I'm up at 5:30).
On the bright side, maybe in a half year from now I can try the late colleague routine.
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Also the Typically Late Colleague turned up 30 minutes early, ready for the call. And then went home 90 minutes early.