@aliceif said in Social Media Is Killing Discourse ...:
Not related to http://discourse.org
Aww.... You got my hopes up for nothing......
:-(
@aliceif said in Social Media Is Killing Discourse ...:
Not related to http://discourse.org
Aww.... You got my hopes up for nothing......
:-(
Quantum doesn't work like that guys.... a turbojet engine is not a quantum system so quantum effects do not dominate its behavior.
seriously, stop sprinkling the word quantum around like it's magick pixie dust.....
And the funny part is, of course, if he hadn't done that, no one would have known or cared about some random guy's post about a Tesla event starting late.
clearly, Musk comes from the Jeff Atwood school of interpersonal relations.
I drive by autopilot. last saturday i left the house at 0700 to pick up a quart of milk, and parked at the office twenty minutes later.
the store is five minutes from my house.
If you can abide by those rules, then welcome! If not, then GTFO.
what if you can abide by the rules but choose not to?
How the fuck did we not discover that one?
/me sheepishly raises a hand
i may have tried to create a sockpuppet with the entire text of a novel as its password....
hmm.... if this is the likes thread....
Oy! I think that fits under the "If not" portion.
but i can abide by the rules. I just enjoy not doing so!
Need I remind you who is generating these guids?
/me is waiting for the time when they decide they need a "GUID CDN"
@Polygeekery said in NO-Framework approach to PHP:
I real the title and immediately thought that I needed one of @accalia's gifs. Care to oblige @accalia?
Okay.... i'll play nice....
@bb36e said in Recruiting Giants:
working 70 hours a week
....
okay.
this is important.
repeat after me.
Monkey patching!
Boolean.prototype.stop = function () {
throw new Error('Hammer time!');
};
sad().stop();
first five lines of several class files in an actively maintained part of our codebase:
// Decompiled with JetBrains decompiler
// Type: FloorPlanCLR.FloorPlanManagementService.Triggers
// Assembly: FloorPlanCLR, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
// MVID: 55C2F875-6F43-4FDE-A2C6-6CD7F464A43B
// Assembly location: C:\Users\[DEVMANAGER]\Pictures\FloorPlanCLR.dll
We have aproximately eleventy billion CLR methods in our code base.... each an d every one of which breaks every time a new .net patch is made because CLR is SUPER sensitive to the patch level of the .net framework that is installed and will refuse to execute CLR methods when the version of .net that the function was registered with differs from the one it would be running under.
far to many comments where the entirety of the comment is //BUGBUG
comments from 7 different developers over the years that tag their comments with their three letter intials.... except these 7 devs share a common three letter intital so you don't know which of them left the comment.... not that it really matters because none of tem work for us anymore
When trying to produce a dependency map for our database stored procedures and views all automated tools attempted so far have failed.... probably because we have views that select from views that usea function to format data using a CLR method which in turn selects data from the same views that the original view selects data from which...... oww.... my head hurts.
For our flagship product a non technical VP that thought she was the most technically gifted person at the company had fiat level control over the lowest levels of design decisions, and more than once responded to developers saying her decision was wrong for the product by firing them on the spot. thankfully she got shitcanned, but her legacy lives on in the mutilated corpse of a flagship product she left behind.
you cannot replace an aging and failing server because it runs critical business processes that no one at the company has source code for nor can they or the HPCs that wrote the thing in the first place figure out how to move it to a different server.
this is a people problem not a tech problem but still..... : about 60% of your sales process is still done in excel to the point where the salespoeple send out contracts before entering the sale into your sales systems so more than once we've had to reject an already issued and customer signed contract because the contract literally could not be fulfilled by our sales order system, a fact our sales order system would have told the salesperson if they just freaking used the system instead of tracking their sales in excel and manually writing contracts!
we have another system that has different versions installed in dev, test, and prod because we lack the licensing to install teh same version in three environments and the vendor refuses to sell us more licenses for the version of the software we have.... we need to upgrade, but we can't because we decompiled their DLLs and made so many changes to them that literally we can't upgrade without trashing out enture workflow..... the vendor knows this, and that's why they won't licnce us for the old version anymore.....
"cute" server names. i'm sorry but i have limited head space.... is carnation
our database server or is that rose
?! just name the fucking servers sensibly! it's not professional to have "cute" names because i never can fucking remember what server is which, and that old argument about security through layers is shit. having a cutsey name isn't going to hide where your database server is from someone who has compromized the webserver.... the name's right there in the fucking connection strings! GAH!
I could go on, but even these ten make me wish for a whiskey on the rocks, hold the rocks...... and it's only 10AM
all these numbers are the number 1.
@ben_lubar said in Arbitrary code execution: Package Manager edition:
go get
does not have this vulnerability.
yes, but then you have go on you.....
@Magus said in Apple's newest iPhone, 2016:
@accalia They've been saying they were planning this for some time... It's nice, because now you can't listen to music while your phone charges!
well fuck. that's about the most user hostile thing they could do apart from make the phone fatally electrocute people at random. and their fantards will STILL eat that shit up and praise them for their innovation.
COLONIZE MARS FASTER! I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANY MORE AND THERE AREN'T ANY ALTERNATIVES!
oh, you're still online?
damn that's good uptime
Friends! Help! A @accalia pig tricked me!!
OUCH! that hurt!
i am not a pig! i am a fox! get it right!
@cartman82 said in Power user:
God save me from power users.
there's a reason i'm not in infrastructure.
"My PC isn't working!"
"okay. i'll restore to base image"
"MY FILES! THEY'RE GONE"
"We have the network drives for a reason."
"I accidentally deleted my files!"
"I see no recent deletions in your network drive."
"From my PC i mean"
"Well, sucks to be you then. we don't back up your PC. we have backups of your network drive."
@accalia said:You are why we can't have nice things!Bullshit. You'll still get the nice things in this topic. Just no mediocre ones. Sheesh.
semantics!
This thread has only three rules:
- There is no topic.
- Like every post.
- Don't delete or jeff any posts.
If you can abide by those rules, then welcome! If not, then GTFO.
wait.... that means bots are welcome here!
@zoidberg! come and play!
@accalia said:can't win them allI thought the point was to catch them all?
catch yes, win not necessarily.
You have to trade to get them all as not all spawn naturally in every game.
@NedFodder said:I'm betting s get disabled for this thread before this post gets 10 likes.Sorry, was eating lunch...
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You!
You are why we can't have nice things!
: We'll be needing final signoff testing for this server upgrade starting Wednesday, I'll let you know when we're ready to start.
QA : Sure. we can do that.
1000 hours:
: hello, we're ready for final QA signoff testing to begin for deployment this weekend.
1650 hours
QA: what are our login credentials to this environment?
0700 hours
: your login credentials have not changed, if you need them reset please let me know as soon as possible.
0900 hours
QA: that won't be necessary. is there anything that is not ready to test?
: (thinking: wtf? it's final signoff testing) The entire system is ready for testing, if anything goes sproing when it should go beep i need to know about that before deployment this weekend
1300 hours:
: Are we on track for completing final signoff testing by EOD so we can make our go/no-go decision in our morning meeting tomorrow
QA: Unknown, there are two other projects in the QA queue ahead of you.
: (thinking: you couldn't have told me that when i told you we were ready for test? or when we told you monday this was coming?!)
Magic GUID?
also known as the GUID that suppresses likes from counting in topics for badges and things
@Yamikuronue said in Yami fails to learn Git:
@boomzilla My changes are pretty extensive.
I gave @accalia write access to my repo and she somehow fixed it by doing exactly what I already did, but from her machine. I guess that works?
i swear Git smells fear, and misbehaves when it does. :-)
https://github.com/redox-os/redox
Point of order!
The electron arrangement there has only 11 electrons. Assuming a neutral atom as there is also no charge annotation, that is not a rust Ironatom, rather it is a Sodium atom.
If this were to be a proper rust ironatom it would need to be notated with a + 15 charge, a ludicrous charge that for all practical purposes does not occur in any natural circumstances, and indeed is all but impossible to achieve under laboratory settings as that massive a positive charge would very quickly strip electrons of neighboring atoms in order to return to a neutral electrostatic charge. And that's not even to mention the amount of effort it would take to push the atom past +8 electric charge, as at that point it would be isoelectrically analogous to Argon, a noble gas.
Really, calling that an atom of Iron is ludicrous. And if you're trying to call it rust instead where are the oxygen atoms? hmm? is this FeO2? or possibly FeO3? because that's what rust is!
according to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Belgium (n) expletive
Belgium is the rudest word in the Universe, yet by a strange coincidence, also the name of a country on Earth. In the Secondary Phase, it is stated as "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means, and in serious screenplays."
we're a civilized discussion board so obviously that word is banned.
-shrug- can't win them all.
@candlejack1 said in Need tips for trolling:
@accalia you're trolling me now, right?
nope.
if you have to ask how to troll the best advice i can give is Don't troll.
Trolls are born, they are not made. If you don't have the right stuff to be a good troll today you never will.
A good troll needs to be able to read people at a glance and intuit exactly how they will respond, they need to be able to instantly and genuinely adopt the manners and mannerisms necessary to push the buttons inside someone elses head. they need the empathy to know, without a shadow of a doubt where that line is that they should not cross, and toe though they might that very line they would never dream of crossing it.
and that's not even talking about the complications caused by the lack of face to face presence online. to troll effectively online you need to do all that, with only the words a person chooses to share with you. you don't have the body language, the tones and inflections, the little tells that you have in face to face. in short, online you need to be nothing less than borderline telepathic.
if you do not have these skills today, you never will have these skills, because the best you can possibly in that case is annoying, and the worst you can be is a psychopathic bully. and the worst part is, you will never know which it is you are.
BUT IT'S GETTING IN THE WAY OF ME LIKING ALL THE THINGS!
A NECESSARY SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD! <a
THE RESOURCE IS BEING HELD FOR "ENHANCED INTEROGATION" FOR IT HAS SECRETS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO EXTRACT TO PROTECT MY QUEEN!
<why am i capslocked?
@accalia said:@loopback0 said:BUT IT'S GETTING IN THE WAY OF ME LIKING ALL THE THINGS!
A NECESSARY SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD! <a
YOU'RE IN THE WRONG TOPIC FOR SUCH SACRIFICES.
there's a topic just for protecting my queen?
/me eyes @abarker suspiciously
<mutter> I will protect my queen....
/me slinks off in an overly suspicious manner
Plus the hipster factor of using pure JavaScript RUby Docker Bullshit is far more important to those communities than the fact that it's .............. a little buggy...........
honestly what's more important to me is the behavior of the founders. @sam has been consistently professional, @riking as well.
Jeff? not so much.
I've not gone through all of his interactions on meta.d but most of the ones that i have observed i would categorize as unprofessional.
Banning most of us in this latest round, including @faoileag who had not logged into meta.d for over a year prior to bangate I would categorize as highly unprofessional.
Responding to a legitimate bug report with an image meme, i would categorize as unprofessional.
Removing bug reports that are CLOSED-WONTFIX from their "bug tracker" i would categorize as borderline unprofessional as it removes the ability for bug reporters to search for past bugs and see that their bug has already been reported and resolved.
removing posts in bug reports that raise dissenting opinions, even when the dissent is polite and in the spirit of continuing discussion, i would categorize as unprofessional.
All of this and more i have seen from Jeff in the past year or so I've been an active user of discourse.
We here on WTDWTF are no angels and our actions contributed in large part to the current schism, I'll admit and own up to that, while at the same time I'll say that I believe that Jeff needs to at this point in time stop participating in a professional capacity in meta.d. his actions are not professional and are causing him a lot of reputation damage amongst the group of people who will be installing, and supporting the end users on his forum software.
I think that most of us that are here on WTDWTF would be willing to accept the bugginess on discourse more if our interactions with meta.d had been handled in a more professional manner. As it is I know my advise to anyone asking me about using discourse would be simple: "Run"
That's not a recipe for long term growth of his company....
:-(
@RaceProUK said in Hedgy wants to play with a document store!:
So, I have this little personal project for which I think a document store is suitable,
@Captain said in In Which @Captain asks C# Beginner Questions:
(I prefer the latter notation)
-twitch-
but....
-twitch-
that's.....
-twitch-
i shall protect my queen and my country!
@accalia said:i shall protect my queen and my country!From what?
from all who threaten her life and sovereignty.
obviously.
@accalia said:THE RESOURCE IS BEING HELD FOR "ENHANCED INTEROGATION" FOR IT HAS SECRETS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO EXTRACT TO PROTECT MY QUEEN!BUT IT'S GETTING IN THE WAY OF ME LIKING ALL THE THINGS!A NECESSARY SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD!YOU'RE IN THE WRONG TOPIC FOR SUCH SACRIFICES.WHAT'S WITH ALL THE YELLING?
CAPSLOCK!
@vault_dweller said in Bravery Constrained:
@xaade said in Bravery Constrained:
They're charging the price of a low end gaming system.
From what I can gather you can get an Xbox One S/PlayStation 4 Pro (the top of their respective ranges) for about half the price of an iPhone 7
console <> gaming system.
wait..... there's TWO of these threads?
waaaaaaaaaaaat?
can we have ?
Discourse.Dialect.registerEmoji('wtf', 'http://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/10965/74d0026558f1e788.png');
@masonwheeler said in Break a site for me, earn real cash. Details within.:
Found a big bug: this whole site is written in node.js!