i don't suppose we could stop changing the topic on this one could we?
it's getting rather annoying when i don't know that this is a topic i've read until after i click into it.... ON EVERY PAGE LOAD.
i don't suppose we could stop changing the topic on this one could we?
it's getting rather annoying when i don't know that this is a topic i've read until after i click into it.... ON EVERY PAGE LOAD.
this is the Daily WTF, if he had included an option for FILE_NOT_FOUND there would have been 100 votes fo ri by now, right?
GODDESS PRESERVE US ALL! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
do.
not.
want!
EDIT: right ask a question...
do the googles do anything? because i'm not sure if they are working?
Is that a sexy dinner plate in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
I've tried a few different things, but none of them got the approval to go live. Some due to politics, others due to... i'm not sure.
i had one change to the process that got it down to 2 hours but required refiling about 15 to 20% of invoices to account for VAT (most changes were less than five euro, changes over ten euro were extremely rare, direction of the change was about even between refund vs extra charge)
that one was rejected because accounting didn't want to trigger a VAT audit because of the suddenly increased number of reissued invoices (somewhat reasonable, but by my estimate we'd make the cost of the audit back in three months, a year if we happened to trigger a fine as a result of the audit)
i have just one thing to say: WWLTD1?
1: what would Linus Torvalds* do?
*: Replace name of someone here **
**: I recommend trying Patrick Stewart for extra fun!
i'll be looking into that. anything to get this off my plate for good (or for at least long enough to get something else done!)
we went to the computer model because the manual/hybrid efforts we started with required too many VAT adjustments (about 2 per show... out of between 500 and 1500 exhibitors... that might be TRWTF).
-sigh-
i think i'm stuck with the optimal search. At least until our VP of finance retires (he's been retiring "3rd quarter of next year" for the past four years) I might have better luck with his replacement.
I'll look into that, it might help a lot.
honestly though, this whole thing could be made a million times easier if we just waited to invoice customers (or issued amended invoices when we had to recalculate VAT) until we placed them on the show floor. then we calculate taxes based on where they ended up, not what they asked for, and we can remove all that complication from the layout engine.
but the beancounters, being the beancounters, want to get paid before they add someone to the show floor... and don't want to go through the effort of filing additional invoices for VAT.
i can understand that, we're a US company after all, but we do so much business in the EU you'd think accounting would want an easier way of doing things!
libraries... do internally developed ones with absolutely no documentation written by people who's replacements, replacements, replacements have left the company count?
i swear i would not be surprised if we have some custom DLLs in there that we have no source code for anymore.
as for design practices? the part i'm working on is fairly straightforward (even if the rules engine required gives a rediculous runtime) but a lot of the rest looks to have been thrown together under the influence of the Balmer Peak...
I'm looking into replacing the rules engine with something that can get the runtime down to something like O(2^n) but i've got to prove to accounting that it will not create more than a 0.01% error in the VAT charges we apply when we sell the floor space. (that's not going to be easy to prove)
It's a shame about Macs then.
great hardware (phenomenal really), pretty solid software, TERRIBLE business practices.
now no one is perfect i'll admit but paying attention to the news it's quite apparent how little control Apple has over their external contractors (they're STILL finding that contractors in asia have workers as young as 6 working in extremely hazardous conditions, almost 10 years after first promissing to fire any supplier/contractor that was caught with underage or unpaid workers)
so yeah. sexy hardware, sexy software, but not getting one red penny from me.
yes. that's the proper way to do it.
how many programs implement that layer properly, do any programs implement that layer so that there is literally nothing that you can do in the UI that isn't exposed in the automation layer?
Can you name one? I've tried and failed to name even one,
I was going to say: Cue Blakeyrant, but i was too slow.
Not that i disagree with him in this case (rare, i know, but it does happen) the CLI sucks.
however it can't be fixed because of the billions of lines of scripts that rely on the command line acting the way it does (i'm counting all CLIs here, bash, BAT, sh, powershell, etc)
if we fix the CLI, even putting aside the retraining effort required for humans, we literally could not afford the cost of rewriting all those scripts to use the fixed CLI. So we're stuck with it.
and when you show me a perfectly automatable UI that just works, even when the UI is redesigned, changed, or customized.. well then i'll show you a Strong AI, because that's what it would take.
the CLI may be terrible to the point of being broken, but it's there, it is scriptable perfectly, and... well yeah. It sucks but it sucks less than trying to write all those scripts to automate the UI.
about 70% is C# with the remainder VB.net (legacy, i convert it to C# as i touch it, for the spead increase in the newer .net runtimes if for no other reason)
hand rolled. and i could reduce it to O(N2ln(N)) if it weren't for those damn VAT rules that are audited with a fine tooth comb (and Accounting's refusal to allow us to send out additional invoices/credits for the ~5 euro of VAT that the heuristic would be off in about 50% of the exhibitors)
Just getting into the office after baking doughnuts for the office.
I forgot how hard those are to make.
oooh... but they are worth it!@
about 48 hours. for n<=2k. (usually N is very close to 2k. our sales people are good.)
it's pretty business rule specific.
basically it's trying to place exhibitors on an exhibition hall floor such that each exhibitor is:
O(n(n ln(n)!))(And that “!” is rather worrying. Most algorithms manage to avoid that…)
that is a scary bit of code.
i refuse to work on it without a newly blessed rosary and a spray bottle of holy water. just in case.
where do you think i found the plugin i want?
https://meta.discourse.org/t/mathjax-plugin-supports-math-notation-using-latex/12826
i would give you a like for that, but apparently the like limit has been ratcheted down again and my bot has used up all my likes for the day trying to catch up on the likes thread.
so have a thanks instead.
THANKS!
so if you ever see O(2^n) code, kill it with fire.
i have a bit of code that is $O(n^{(n ln(n))!})$
I've tried to simplify it many times, but it keeps comming up with answers that are wrong by far more than the allowable margin of error if i use any heuristics to reduce the complexity.
lucky for me this process only needs to run once a month and N is constrained to be no greater than 2k due to business rules.
it still takes a full 48 hours to run...
EDIT: Darn! we don't have mathjax enabled! @PJH, feature request?
hmmm this bot is going to either be:
AAAAAAH! IT MUST BURN!
AAAAAAAAAAAA!
/me grabs aflint and steel and makes that wool BUUUUURN
yes, i would. but then i'd have to pay my back charges to my usenet provider.
or find another one, but that's woooork.... and i am le lazy.
i'm celebrating the fact that i am still breathing today.
I cna think of no better reason to celebrate.
SSSSH! You'll ruin the joke!
err... i mean.... don't give jeff any ideas!
no. and if anyone reading this has just seen their password it's ok. all we see is ******* (see, that's my password, but you can't see it!)
i believe the implication was that the CLI was standardized because it's gong to be there not because a certain set of tools will be installed. At least that's how I read it.
I can log onto just about any linux machine out there and be guaranteed1 of only two things:
1: no, not guaranteed, but extremely, extremely, extremely likely to be the case
... when did discourse get autocorrect?
cause i think someone added that and it's messing me up more than usual.
... Typical.
@Microsoft relying on @Linux to save the day.
nonononono! that is not the emojii i typed! stop doing that!
status: I was doing something before that telemarketer called me.... what was that?
well played, but that is not the correct password as you can verify for yourself.
edit: wait.....what? i posted the big grin emojii... you know: : - D but without the spaces...
SockAdept is private.
mine!
but i'll give a real, not digital, cookie to someone who can guess the password correctly using only this hint: The password is 47 characters long
this is going to be a feature of SockBot now. That's too funny to ignore.
either that or have it follow @CardinalFangBot and quote Don Qixote at him
indeed the new seems rather too happy for being a pile of
Recreating a newspaper layout could be an interesting project with HTML and CSS, and lead into an interesting project to teach PHP.
status: flabbergasted that i can now summon the context menu with the keyboard in chrome and get spell check for the word i'm typoing
seriously, that's been a bug in chrome since like version 3.
hmm... i typo'd the word typing.... i like it better this way i'm gonna leave it like that
EDIT: typo has a y in it and only one o....
/me takes a sip of tea generously provided by @aliceif
mmmm! earl grey! my favorite!
hmm.. my apologies then. i misread the tone of voice.
edit: there's an a in misread.... -sigh-
ok. so apparently speling is not my forte.
and i'm a native English speaker too! :-(
i'm aware of that meme... but i have had insufficient caffeine today it appears.
or my brain decided to take a vacation day without telling my body. those happen on occasion too.
EDIT: .... HOLY GODDESS [syn. excrement, vulgar]! CHROME FINALLY FIXED THAT BUG WITH SPELLCHECK! Summoning the menu thingie that right click also summons via keyboard finally offers spell check of the word your cursor is in!
oooooh. i forgot about that one.
well there's a limit to how many sockpuppets i can keep track of.
@SockAdept and @kibo for personal use will have to do... for now.
(@sockbot is shared afterall)
EDIT: you were talking about the password weren't you?
/me facepalm
Filed under: I think I'm winning...
it's now impossible to lose.... Unless the board unexpectedly grows in size.
i've always bveen partial to kisses and hugs
either interpretation is a fun game!
i've added @kibo
if the real kibo wants the account I'll gladly hand it over. Until then...
MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
theres also @sockbot.
@sockbot password is: sockbotsockbot