Web Developer angst
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things would be much simpler here if we just measured time in multiples of 186282.397... miles
I f*cking love relativity.
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I f*cking love relativity.
that's the neat thing about using distance to define time (so long as what you're doing is measuring how far light travels in a vacuum in a given (arbitrary) interval), no matter what relativity does to you that will be a constant from your point of view.
relativity is fun!
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I assumed you'd just picked some arbitrarily impractical number of arbitrarily 'nonsensical' units, so I went to convert it just to pretend to take it seriously, and then I saw what you did there.
Usefulness aside, I will never get fed up, either of pretending to take it seriously when someone ignorantly uses parsecs or lightyears as time units, or with the charming redundancy of a lightyear of time.
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I assumed you'd just picked some arbitrarily impractical number of arbitrarily 'nonsensical' units
nope. took one light-second and converted to Imperial Miles from the standard metres
:-D
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parsecs
ah yes. that little retcon.
yes Harrison ford misspoke and it got missed or overlooked in editing....
but i love the retcon that made it actually make sense (while turning it into a gramatically incorrect statement)
see the retcon says that the kessel run is a smugglers run that involves skirting a black hole (or holes i forget which) to avoid a blockade. apparently han solo managed to get to within 12 parsecs of the singularity, meaning he was faster than anyone else because rasins..... or something
that's even more rediculous than the original speako
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Who gives a shit, it's implementation detail.
I'm surprised to see you say this. You're frequently railing against having GUI apps call CLI apps as a "library"? At least you have historically.
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Harrison ford misspoke and it got missed or overlooked in editing....
My friend who got me into Star Wars reckons Solo's intentionally talking bullsh*t to Kenobi, thinking here's someone he can say anything to. I'm not convinced I buy that, I think it would take more imagination than just making up an improbable figure (though I guess the audience couldn't really know it was improbable), but it makes a better retcon than the official one.
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reckons Solo's intentionally talking bullsh*t to Kenobi, thinking here's someone he can say anything to
huh..... well it would fit the character.....
i do like it....
and it appears to be consistent with my headcanon
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The script seems to agree with this fan interpretation:
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What is that? Imgur is blocked at the Five Dancing Marmosets' office.
You two fans then?
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rehosted to discourse:
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Is it just me, or does that little stick figure top right look an awful lot like a penis?
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What I'm doing now is challenging and complex in a different way
I would like to know more about this. I am curious as to the kind of problems an ex-webdev finds challenging and complexing but not as frustrating. What you say would help me know better how much of my current skills can be transferred to a non webdev role, what kind of choices do I have if i choose to quit webdev and finding something better and so on.
I am at the "I have to read up on 68 different frameworks and techniques and on my 8th glass of wine already" stage of being a web developer so any ideas at this point might be hugely helpful.
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What you say would help me know better how much of my current skills can be transferred to a non webdev role, what kind of choices do I have if i choose to quit webdev and finding something better and so on.
In that case, I probably won't be much help, sorry. When I quit web development, I wanted to do something entirely different, so I'm working on a framework for processing large amounts of data now, written (mostly) in C++ and Java.
How did I get that job? I could lie and say that it was my pre-existing C++ and Java knowledge (which did exist, but had gotten a bit rusty), but the truth is that one of the team members was an old friend of mine and he is the boss's favorite. He recommended me and I got hired within a few weeks.
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@mikehurley said:
I'm surprised to see you say this. You're frequently railing against having GUI apps call CLI apps as a "library"? At least you have historically.
If you are looking for consistency from blakey....you're going to have a bad time.
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He is consistent. In the same way is consistent.
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Even on my 720p phone the disco version is obviously worse ๐ฐ
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Even on my 720p phone the disco version is obviously worse ๐ฐ
/shrug. thats what discourse did to it when i uploaded the file that was on imgur....
blame @end for that one, not me.
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thats what discourse did to it when i uploaded the file
Mine appeared to stall out, so I killed it and hotlinked.
I suspect it's reaching the absolute limit of its "optimization" algorithm.
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@end you mean?
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optimisation
Need a macro for Dr Evil air quotes.
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@end you mean?
i mean. he changed his username when he self banned for rasins.
which is absurd, but then the whole situation was, and still is.
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ahem someone should possibly see if "bellend" has an Urban Dictionary definition. (It's even relevant.)
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-shrug-
i avoid UD. too easy to accidentally stumble on something NSFL there
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British slang for the glans penis, or penis head.
is a @end.
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> British slang for the glans penis, or penis head.
is a @end.
huh.... TIL that i would have been happier not knowing that
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Sorry, should have spoilered that and indicated it was the definition from UD but yes, generally NSFL there.
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I think there's a joke in comparing "web developer angst" with an actual disease like "tennis elbow" or "miner's lung".
But I'm too lazy to compose one.
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It's like teenage emo angst but the grown up version.
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I is all growed up, and I is a web dev. I can tie my own shoes and everything!!
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I know, it's like I'm the exception that proves the rule or something.
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At least I can find the docs easily for most PHP stuff. Microsoft have decided to have 3 versions of almost the same thing and have the docs scattered across the web , with no indication of when it was written, what version they are talking about.
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What? Msdn is the best damn source of documentation I've encountered.
Paging @blakeyratAt least I can find the docs easily for most PHP stuff. Microsoft have decided to have 3 versions of almost the same thing and have the docs scattered across the web
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I wear stomping boots, UK size 12. No Velcro on them. Sadly.
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Try finding the right docs for WebAPI, WebAPI 2 and the various versions of MVC. Or anything on ASP.NET Identity 2 that either isn't out of date or just isn't doc'd right.
Yes the core .NET framework docs are amazing and so is SQL SERVER docs. But anything open source Microsoft doesn't know wtf they are doing.
Case in point
ASP.Net 5ASP.Net CoreThis guy has been a great source of information since the .NET 1.1 days and he thinks it is a cluster fuck:
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WebAPI, WebAPI 2 and the various versions of MVC
In all honesty I've not used any of that,except mvc and I've not found that to be a problem.
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The new open source .NET has been a total clusterfuck.
Database connections don't work unless you are using EF, we use ADO.NET / Dapper and apparently it is
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I always thought EF was built on top of ADO.NET, so both should work
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I honestly don't know. I think it is using maybe ODBC connection instead ... In anycase conn.open wouldn't work in the new ASP.NET Core but the same code in ASP.NET 4.6 would work fine.
We just gave up on it.
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If you use Bing to search MSDN, no wonder you can't find it
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Both of those are .NET 3.5 additions.
My biggest beef with MS's handling of the DateTime was when they broke serialization between 1.1 and 2.0 by adding the DateTimeKind "member". Given how hard they made it to get the patch to fix it, obviously nobody was using Remoting back then.
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ahem someone should possibly see if "bellend" has an Urban Dictionary definition. (It's even relevant.)
[quote="Urban dicktionary"]
British slang for the glans penis, or penis head.
[/quote]You're welcome.
EDIT: 'd by you. Heh
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What? Msdn is the best damn source of documentation I've encountered.
Sometimes it feels like the occasionally less than helpful MSDN documentation is better than most others' documentation.