*What did the Zen master say to the hot-dog vendor?
Make me one with everything.*
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
*What did the Zen master say to the hot-dog vendor?
Make me one with everything.*
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
@cartman82 said in He who laughs last...:
My Boss has so completely mishandled this project, I am astonished. He has no idea what's done, what remains to be done, what works, what doesn't.
He asks me to make an importer, I work overtime on Friday to make it happen, turns out it already exists.
He asks me to make sure a crucial 3rd party integration, on which the entire product depends, is up to snuff. I look around, can't find the code anywhere. Boss: "Ah right, we actually never finished that because we never got the account working."
Did I mention he handed over the project to the client over the weekend?
This has got to be the biggest clusterfuck I was ever involved with. And I've seen quite a few.
How long before you get blamed for this one?
My experience with them is that they seem to provide their (employer) customers with algorithmic keyword screening. If your resume has ALL the keywords in the job description, you might get called for at least a screening interview. Like Hired or ZipRecruiter, Indeed is just another tool for employers to claim that there are no qualified candidates out there and justify hiring an overseas codemill on the cheap.
Thank you for ruining my Friday. This morning I woke up all bright and cheery, filled with hope for humankind. After reading about this Endarkening monstrosity I have lost all faith in my fellow H. sapiens.
Maybe I should take up drinking or something harder to take the edge off my existential despair.
@gleemonk said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
The watch is happy now. Looks like I'm dying too because my pulse dropped to 58 according to the watch.
So the M200 needs to be connected to a device that has this shit Polar sync-app installed where you have registered with Polar online so it can sync it's settings online through the browser to function. All this shit just to see my heart-rate. Fuck you Polar.
Well, how can they monetize you without a connection? You didn't really think the device is intended for your benefit, did you?
I am TRTWTF (JavaScript that should never have been written?)
FTFY.
There are several of these articles, and you may not be a fan of the site they are coming from, but this really cannot be missed.
Isn't this just another way for Facebook to keep track of what you are doing and where you are going on the web even when you aren't logged in?
that just works.
These words are poisoned for me. Every time I've been told that something "just works," it breaks immediately, and offers no way to fix it (because it's not supposed to be possible to break).
Then shouldn't it be, "Just breaks"?
@cartman82 said in Bore:
CryptoBoss just dropped in for a little chat. Of course, Bore had to whine a bit to him about his "unfair" treatment.
CryptoBoss: I apologize, I saw you were diligently studying, I didn't want to bother you.
Bore: (his English is not top notch) Err... I don't understand... "diligently"?
Me: He means you were learning react very hard over the past two weeks.
Bore: (goes pale) Ah... yes.... of course.
Poor CryptoBoss. It seems he hired this guy because he offhand mentioned he's into crypto currencies. He should have hired for talent instead.
So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it? Because that seems to be where the vulture venture capital is now.
@pie_flavor Thanks. It's been a pretty hellish few months, work-wise, but in a good way, I guess.
@djls45 said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
@dkf said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
@M_Adams said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
retroactively adjust their tax laws
Is that constitutional?
No, but technically speaking, neither is the entire progressive income tax structure.
Well, there is this bit in the Constitution, too:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.
@dangeruss said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
@bb36e said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
@dangeruss +1, I got a fitbit flex and only needed it for setup. That said, the HR monitor can be slightly unreliable if you're doing any sort of jogging/running.
I'm sure none of them are particular reliable ( including the apple watch IIRC). My coworker said her apple watch would not measure the heart rate properly unless you told it you were running or something.
My wife has a Fitbit. She taught herself to juggle some years ago and often uses it as a way to exercise. The Fitbit thinks she's riding an elliptical when she does.
@gleemonk said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
The watch is happy now. Looks like I'm dying too because my pulse dropped to 58 according to the watch.
So the M200 needs to be connected to a device that has this shit Polar sync-app installed where you have registered with Polar online so it can sync it's settings online through the browser to function. All this shit just to see my heart-rate. Fuck you Polar.
Well, how can they monetize you without a connection? You didn't really think the device is intended for your benefit, did you?
@cartman82 said in Bore:
CryptoBoss just dropped in for a little chat. Of course, Bore had to whine a bit to him about his "unfair" treatment.
CryptoBoss: I apologize, I saw you were diligently studying, I didn't want to bother you.
Bore: (his English is not top notch) Err... I don't understand... "diligently"?
Me: He means you were learning react very hard over the past two weeks.
Bore: (goes pale) Ah... yes.... of course.
Poor CryptoBoss. It seems he hired this guy because he offhand mentioned he's into crypto currencies. He should have hired for talent instead.
So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it? Because that seems to be where the vulture venture capital is now.
@laoc said in What the fuck can't marketing people write a proper email?:
@e4tmyl33t said in What the fuck can't marketing people write a proper email?:
No, only the black text should be the subject. The grey stuff is a preview of text in the body, and most "email marketing" places put the "View this in your browser if your email client is crap" and other useless things first before doing any of the styling so that's all you end up seeing in the preview.
Those are the worst, and I'll go to great lengths to annoy them back if they do that. If you absolutely have to include your HTML vomit in email, fucking include a plaintext part. If you're too stupid to do that, leave it out completely and my mutt will take care of extracting something resembling text from the HTML. Plaintext that effectively says "read the vomit so I can include my fucking web bugs to create PowerPoints for marketing and sell the database with your preferences sexual and otherwise to other spammers" is not acceptable.
And, now that Google wants to start including executables in email, I'm sure this will get even better.
@slavdude The third link is probably the most interesting, as it contains screenshots of the problem.
There are several of these articles, and you may not be a fan of the site they are coming from, but this really cannot be missed.
@boomzilla I think a lot of accidents on highways also occur when you have, say, people driving the speed limit in the passing lane rather than in the travel lane.