Un-f***ing code is always fun. It's like a dream within a dream...
Is a dream within a dream still a thing or have we moved on?
Un-f***ing code is always fun. It's like a dream within a dream...
Is a dream within a dream still a thing or have we moved on?
This made me laugh and think "what a mean thing to say" (at the same time). Something tells me you are good at evoking two or more emotions at once from others.
Programmers are so critical. I recommend smoking a fat spliff and drinking some malt liquor...
I have provided pictures just in case you need help identifying these things.
I can't afford multiple psychiatrists, so I generally have to avoid thinking too much about @algorythmics's posts, or asking too many questions.
I only have one pill dealer too. You know...To keep my mind limber and stuff. She only culls me quarterly so can get three scripts at time.
Dealing with bastards and assholes is always more constructive when I am 'heightened'....
Love it! You have teh good photoshop skills there.
They did some hurry up make changes to the cart to checkout/payment process. I personally got myself into a pickle when years ago I changed the order of totals to handle state taxes and exempting gift card from double tax and promo changes where it could take a dollar amount, or percentage amount (all in one jump). It was a nightmare. It literally hurt my brain un-fucking everything to tax and total things correctly.
There is a poor human being that is dealing with a similar problem here.
Nice short article thanks...
I am sure lots of shops that are retail dependent and 4th quarter is their bread and butter get hit with all sorts of things like this.
...and not just programmers, but systems buckling under load not considered, or end users that do something unexpected and create minor havoc.
In one of my former gigs, we had UPS manifest, where we generated UPS labels in bulk and send UPS the list at the end of the day. This was for fulfillment and in one unique accident due to substantial system load, every package was getting a copy of one individual shipping address. Packages shipped and this poor lady called us in a panic with all these packages sitting in isles in her apartment up to the ceiling. In any case, we went into damage control and shipped these packages from her apartment until all got to the right people/locations.
We sent her gifts and she was known as our 'Texas office' for a time. We would be like, "Call Texas, she probably has the package". She would pull out the packing list and we shipped her a label printer and she printed new labels from her couch!
She wasn't mad about it and we were not either. Some companies and management would go on a witch hunt, but seriously when is it 90 miles an hour day in and day out for three months, you really try work from an energy and emotion conservation perspective.
We got the problem solved after about two or three incidents and off we went back to normal operation.
I just can't hate on productive people. Its a barrier to reality.
I'm not going to win any friend points with this response, but whatever.
Jeff is looking at the bigger picture and I would venture to speculate that it doesn't stop here.
I am sure he is concerned about his legacy in technology history.
Let me show you how 'I think' Jeff's mind works:
Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates
Jeff Atwood
He wants his team to be number one.
He wants to be number one.
Jeff, the Ginger and the trout fish? Those guys operate in a god damn fucking hard to flourish production space.
You know, he is giving all of us a model for success, right? Just watching things transpire since version 0.9.9.3 have been immensely useful.
Love it or hate it Jeff and Discourse have certainly shook up the dialog on development, software adoption, usability, collaboration and how their team operates AND one or two things about running a technology company.
Or maybe I'm the only one paying attention?
Filed under: Didn't like what I had to say? Go ahead and click the heart button (lower right).
I fix something in my forked repo. I commit the change, I submit a request that the pull my code change into their repo and make it part of the source.
But then the exciting part comes. Will they take your change or deny it.
I then wait in anticipation and see how the chips fall.
Yes Jeff is absolutely right ...and its unique packaging can confound even the sharpest minds at first, second, and third attempt.
You can't just open a database and seek out things you have an additional SSH jump into the docker bubble then, well then I usually have to get help. Sam showed me a simplified way to get in and do basic queries, Riking has a method that is not something I am used to I think it is redis bash type commands to fix things in the tables and it goes right over my head. Which is sad, because I think I am a good programmer (in the dynamic languages space)
With Discourse it is really neat how fast you get up and running and you are glazed over the beauty of the app and the concept but then things get weird and atypical. Then you hit the technology boundaries in yourself very quick.
I don't know anyone who knows this stuff very well. I believe it is partly the way they code things. Very terse code in some of the files I have cracked open. Very objectified, great for the machine, not so good for human readability (mind you I have only looked at a small sample of things to trace only a few things that concerned my discourse site and the problems I created (by myself)).
During the height of my exploration misery. I found myself overtaken by a bought of ADHD and decided to quell my pain by reading the top Stack Overflow answers EVAR convo and one of the answers started to do this....
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That is how I felt. It seems to be that code obfuscation is alive and well in this world and that Discourse is open source software, that really doesn't feel open sourced. Sure you can fork it and do something cool but know that your are dealing with something much more complex:
Loved that game. You should play "The Cave" If you haven't already. Will take you right back!
And yes, I'm new to this site! Been here only a few days before this date >>> June 5, 2014 to see what all the bitching was about.
Whar?!? Whar community replacement warm body sock puppets? Whar?
Point me in the direction of those evil mother-fuckers. I have a blow torch and a pair of pliers needing a purpose.
Filed under: There is no me and you
All three are very protective of changes (at least to the main branch). I submitted a git pull request for some verbiage change. I beleive it was denied. I see @ben_lubar in the pull queue making regular submissions.
They are not beyond reason but some things they are very particular about.
I've done it so many times my install time is about 10 minutes for vanilla install on a droplet. With my S3 image buckets, automated backups (through discourse), twitter, facebook, google, and yahoo logins....and my stock ticker bar add...40 minutes.
Filed under: I don't mean to brag.
But seriously though, I have grown faster because I break a lot of things (I'm not awesome).
So you need an icon but you are not sure what would work best?
Look over at:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
See if any of those jump out at you.
Could be useful to others too.
Yes it is trival. Trivial stuff tends to fall off so I expect it to be 'as-is' for a while.
Of course we can fix these things too. I have yet to submit a fix for anything so I shouldn't complain too loudly.
Plus @riking bails me out of sticky situations when I break my discourse instance OR when I need a plugin installed OR change my username to match all my discourse sites.
Good find by the way.
I had a gripe about the PM embedded in the Private Flagging options. Verbiage was/is confusing. I think I am going to have to change it myself if I want it to be clear. But there is also PM option under the placard when you click on avatar's in convos (did you know that? because I didn't).
I was trying to send @Nagesh a PM and was trying to find a 'reply privately' button out in the open to tell him 'why' my post reply to him on meta.d got flagged. Nope it is tucked away (or on our profile page). Would be nice to have a PM option next the Heart Icon and the other ones gone. I am sure that won't happen though.
I got a bug request open. But I think things are all quiet on the western front in Discourse land...Jeff mentioned he is on a family trip. He jumped in for a few responses about an hour ago, but has probably checked out by now. Sam is probably in bed and I don't think the trout fish comes over here much or if he does he doesn't post near the frequency as the others.
Anyways. We'll see what comes of it.
Ok that is verified.
Totally goofy and don't know the point: Why can you create a new post but not reply as new post.
So you second point is a throttling post after post suppression. I think this is a bot catch but its being used wrong.
I will post it. I am over there answering questions anyways..
So basically trust level zero can create a new post but cannot reply as new post? Hold on I need a sock puppet. Two shakes.
go over to meta.d and post this so they can figure out what the deal is.
Edit: because if it was me. I would not allow any new posts until three responses to other posts so to keep it consistent.
Ok...I see what you are saying. Yep, confusion. I am not sure if that would be a bug or wacky UI to user oversight.
I think the idea is to get them reading and responding so they can get the feel for the environment and the people/tone/temperment.
After a few replies then they can post.
Its not like that (of course I get your meaning). Here are the conditions that usually affect my world.
Very manageable:
Our a vanilla install that has the top billing components that clients like and those components are groomed and re-groomed constantly by me and my coding partner. All clients start here.
Where the rubber meets the road:
But as we know one size doesn't fit all. Customizing to taste or creating new modules for our toolset is a frequent occurrence. Encouraged and enjoyed.
Totally WTF:
The one-off-flip-the-script-development-masturbation-sessions e.g. not my native language and out of my element conceptual things like dealing with proprietary feeds that change often change when hardware gets auto-patched sending me into the trenches to patch bunk-o shit (e.g. keeping the patient on life support).
Bonus points and sheer bloody mindedness:
Non-essential functionality changes that don't affect the customer nor us. Just want something to change for fuck sake. Subjective? Possibly what I think is important may be different than others. But still it is a barrier to enjoying my work.
The first part I can handle the second part I can handle too. Its the third part that destroys me because it compounds expectation with what the client will pay for with a deadline. The fourth part attached to anything will send me over a balcony faster than anything else. Oh! One more.
Cached mindfuck:
The bane of all-on-the-fly changes we need to make in house. I have personally been victimized by this more times than I care to admit. Most of our tools are caching things on certain pages or entire modules or the tables and table data is cached or particular feeds are cached or text or XML files (not really cached but same effect) that can change don't change for whatever reason.
This old bird is 90+
She has basic cable and a land line.
I don't think I can speak in pentameter <<< but this was my best attempt.
Agreed. We have only two developers. If we can get things to work and not break then it is usually satisfies requirements. We try to do better and better, but yes, you are only two people and with give or take 150 websites in production things can get overwhelming with only a small uptick in tasks. Sometimes we code so fast and furious that when I open that code I am amazed and what we produce under pressure (both good and bad).
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Gad....I totally missed that tiny-ass text.
I would completely fail at being a systems administrator. Responsible for too much crap for too little money and I lack the temperament to deal with really amazingly stupid users.
Cloud computing, slices and VPS will save us.
But then again, I guess someone has to set that crap up too.
First the link (so you can get a visual):
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N306FE so it's in route right now (as of typing this).
About this plane (from wikipedia):
DC-10-30AF Also known as the DC-10-30F. This was the all freight version of the -30. Production was to start in 1979, but Alitalia did not confirm its order then. Production began in May 1984 after the first aircraft order from FedEx. A total of 10 were built. N306FE is designated as a retrofit.
On April 7, 1994 this plane made the following maneuvers (possibly more that were unknown)
Flight 705 had traveled faster than any DC-10 had ever gone, and underwent velocity stresses on the airframe equating to about $800,000 in damages.
And it still flies in the Federal Express fleet with tail number N306FE.
The event:
And the survivors as they were being admitted to the ICU:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local-news/31pilots
Lol was at grandma's house in Wisconsin.
No Internet until last night. :)
It's amazing how these moments stick to your mind like glue. You want to trust people and do good things but moment like these just teach you to hard lessons that pretty much change you for the worse and why would you ever want stick your neck out when things like this happen
Good cationary tale.
Actually I had that option but removed it because the other name was anthrax island ad that would have been a dead give away. The first four are real. Then I devloved and the reset are either real and not anywhere inland or they are totally fake.
Hey you figured that out! Yea all the other islands have some meaning. But there is also a plum island in wisconsin (or lake michigan I should say).
Oh yeah...two of our lambs have thier tails banded right now. At first I was like "Hey! they have tails! Cute." then my wife informed that they were banded and about to fall off...I was like "Why!?". She said they can't show them with tails and that things can get real messy back there. And too much cleaning to maint. I was like 'oh...well that makes sense'. :(
:)
You have to watch your obsessions. Sometimes this find ways into your mind subconsciously.
this game didn't have stay power for me. Played it for 3 days a few times a day went back to bejeweled.
(which is my old standard)
GREAT STORY!!! I have had moments like this.
Ok realistically I cannot read all of these books. This is enough reading material to potentially last me a year or more (if I was a diligent reader).
Something tells me this list is just getting started.
Sounds interesting. I want to add this one too.