@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: don't know what specifically changed, but I can see gravatars now. @Tsaukpaetra is no longer a transparent square.
Fuck, that reminds me, I need to block gravatar on the mobile browser
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: don't know what specifically changed, but I can see gravatars now. @Tsaukpaetra is no longer a transparent square.
Fuck, that reminds me, I need to block gravatar on the mobile browser
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I can't believe it. I legit had a wet dream. Well, not physically, but the sequence of events matches the pattern.
I recently had a dream in which I fell asleep and had a wet dream. Happy to report the physical aspects only get raised one level. All the fun, none of the cleanup!
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux is so backwards you don't even have to reboot for most updates yet.
Can't wait for Microsoft to finally port Windows Update to Linux
They could call it "yuck"
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit
Everyone knows that Linux is just a hobbyist project and not stable enough for servers. If it was worthy of servers, you'd have to pay for itI have not memorized enough of the 'windows is not just office' speech to recite it here.
Windows is not just office. It's developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers!
@dcon said in interview attire 2019:
We were working with heavy equipment that sucked in vast amounts of paper and cut things into individual pages. We finally convinced (a Ross Perot company!) them that it was a serious safety issue.
You see, you give the laborers an inch, and they'll lazily steal a mile right from your very pockets. Next thing you know, they'll be asking for a bathroom or safety rails or to not breath in toxic fumes from the chemicals we dump in the river. Leeches, all of them.
@Zenith said in interview attire 2019:
There was a time in my life I had really bad sinus problems that just blowing my nose didn't solve. Much of it is due to time of year and work environment.
If I had time to photoshop a bottle of nasal spray onto the end of a glock...
@Zenith said in interview attire 2019:
Is the documentation, correctness, and efficiency of my code more important than bracket placement?
How much of my day will be consumed by meetings that distract from programming work?
Will your reaction to a suggestion be to consider it, ignore it, dismiss it, or throw a tantrum?
Are there opportunities to do new projects (however small) or are you looking to hire a janitor?
You're paraphrasing, I hope.
I'm shocked they're retiring goo.lge or whatever the fuck their shortner is. Given that the only reason those things exist is to snoop on traffic that you wouldn't otherwise be privvy to, it's right up their alley.
I wonder if this also means a butt-ton of links are going to all go dead at once.
@anonymous234 said in Stadia: New Twitch Competitor:
Plus those streaming sites are just giant unfunny circlejerks.
If I wasn't at work, I'd post the appropriate link to that section on PornHub.
@MrL said in interview attire 2019:
I'm not a sales rep or marketing drone to "project professionalism onto clients". If you send me to client's hq, I'll dress accordingly, but at the office I don't meet clients, only other devs. And they couldn't care less if I dress up as a Dracula if I know what I'm talking about regarding programming.
Mmm hmm. I see. {makes a red tick on your resume}
@HardwareGeek said in interview attire 2019:
@Weng said in interview attire 2019:
We've got a bunch of startup style operations (legacy of pre AOL MapQuest and Turtle Beach) where you can show up naked for all they care,
Any of them hiring?
AOL: Yes
MapQuest: Yes
http://mobile.mapquest.com/hello/careers/
Turtle Beach: Yes
@dcon said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@TimeBandit said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@HardwareGeek said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
A line perpendicular to a plane.
Is that plane a Boeing 737 Max 8 on takeoff?
I thought that was landing.
They do both at the same time.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@loopback0 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
You seem to be assuming that normal is good and not normal is not good.
bool normal = true; bool good = true; if (normal === good) then (!normal === !good)
QED.
if(duck === bird) then (!duck === !bird)
And you wonder why you get insulted.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
who doesn't casually insult other people for ==> no reason. <==
Ah, there's where the disconnect is, if that's what you think.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
So if anything goes then why bother hosting your own forum when you all can just troll on 8chan?
If you run a diff on WTDWTF and 8chan, you'll see a lot of "right side only" child porn.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Only if by "wife" you mean "mangy dog".
I just took my dog to PetSmart for a groom. You must be thinking of the embalmed corpse of your great-grandmother I keep around for fun (ie: humping!)
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Given your car can't even outperform a mobile home, I don't think I have any fear of you doing a drive by.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
You must be from Australia.
"I'm not insulting anyone, ever. Anyways, let me disparage an entire country..."
@anonymous234 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
This made me wonder if we could somehow turn Lotus Notes into forum software
Well, Excel...
Use that to get json data. Parse the json and put it into spreadsheet cells. Let's say on Sheet2.
Then on Sheet1, put in all the formulas into cells for presentation, and use conditionally formatted colors for UI.
Use the same method for posting request and replies back.
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
by someone who wasn't me.
Bullshit. Everyone is you.
@mikehurley said in interview attire 2019:
Who are you trying to impress with your "professional appearance"? If you're a dev or similar role I doubt you're impressing your peers. I know some people say it helps them be more professional. In that case fair enough, if a bit weird.
It isn't about impressing, it's about impressions. It shows that you are, at the absolute bare minimum, aware of what "professional" is, and can at least give the appearance of professional. It means you are (again, bare minimum) AWARE of societal expectation and social interactions.
It isn't "yo look at this balwer threads i dropped some Benji's on".
It's "It's okay, I am not a mouth-breathing food-stained smelly person who will make everyone around me uncomfortable, will cross personal barriers, and will embrace or disgrace the company should any of our clients come around"
It's no guarantee either way, but it is a signaling indicator, and helps to leave a good impression of your personality with the interviewers.
As always, Silly Valley yadda yadda startup VCs blah blah ping-pong ball waterslide in the bathrooms etc.
@Jaloopa said in interview attire 2019:
Work out what you really don't want a workplace to be like and think of some questions that will identify them.
++1
One of those questions should be "Can I see where I'll be working". Take a tour of the actual development floor. Can you see yourself sitting there 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for the rest of your career? Or even one day?
One of my last rounds of interviews, I was at a place like this. Interview went well, nice people, interesting software to work on. Then we got to the dev floor. It was this open space that also opened onto other departments. It was noisy as fuck-- phone calls, printers, chairs, the sterotypical office sounds. And all of the developer's desks were along the longest wall. As in the desks attached to the wall, the devs sat facing the wall, and their screens faced the giant open space.
Zero privacy, zero noise reduction, having your back to a giant crowd, and anyone can watch you at anytime. It was like my worst nightmare.
Then I noticed that half the devs didn't even know how to blow their fucking nose, and were constantly sniffing. Then it did become my worst nightmare.
I finished the interview, but noped out of a job offer. (I, thankfully, could do that since I was interviewing while working somewhere, and had other potential offers waiting).
Molly was gifted a stuffed animal with Bluetooth speakers. Got it set up and synched to "her" iPad. Launch YouTube Kids. There's the sound. Search for Molly's song-de-jour so the stuffy can "sing". tap the video to start and...
Sounds comes through the iPad speakers. Huh? Bluetooth is connected. Sounds plays through other apps. Launch ytk, tap a video on homepage, there's sound. Search for "my little pony rainbows", tap... Sound from ipad.
W.t.f?
Do the needfuls... Force close the app, flush caches, do app store logins, restart the iPad... Same issue
Fuck me straight, Google!
Blah blah blah finally find a thread and...
"So there's a bug in YouTube Kids (just Kids not the main app) where it will not send sound to Bluetooth audio devices if you tap a video FROM THE SEARCH RESULTS.
Yes, if you search for a YouTube video and attempt to play it, the app stops recognizing Bluetooth speakers. But only via that easy. It's a bug.
A bug that's apparently been in the app for YEARS!
How do you even? Why is Google not? What?
No need to waste bytes to reply, just honk when you pass by my Porsche in your shoddy trailer home.
Omg I've been thinking about this all day and it just struck me why.
What sort of shitty, broken down, janky-ass jalopy Porsche do you own that a trailer home can pass it?
That's just sad.
@levicki said in Content Delaying Networks:
@Lorne-Kates said in Content Delaying Networks:
Ah, I see the problem. To use a car analogy: you're a fucking idiot who can't read. Gotcha, will reply accordingly in the future.
No need to waste bytes to reply, just honk when you pass by my Porsche in your shoddy trailer home.
Oh no you implied that you're an Alpha Male (tm) who has Token Items of Success (tm) who actually puts value in trying to elevate themselves about other with their own Token Items of Success (tm) and who the chance that they're lying anyways is as sure as CDNs aren't needed.
My very MANLY soul is wounded!
@Benjamin-Hall said in interview attire 2019:
@MrL I've always heard that you should dress 1 step above what you expect to be working in.
Expect t shirt? Wear polo + khaki.
Expect polo? Wear button down, possible tie.
Expect button down? Wear sport coat.
Expect sport coat? Wear suit.
Expect suit? Don't go.
What do I wear if I want to be a stripper?
@Zerosquare said in interview attire 2019:
@Lorne-Kates said in interview attire 2019:
*NO PERFUMES, AFTERSHAVE OR COLOGNE".
I'm perplexed by that. Yes, bathing in perfume is not a good idea, but I've never heard that "normal" usage of perfume/aftershave/cologne is a problem. Is this cultural?
For all the reasons above, why risk it? You're trying to sell yourself in an interview, why offer them reasons to reject you?
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@DCoder That's an amazing bug. It's horrible and weird and unexpected and trivial and they just can't seem to fix it!
I long ago came to the conclusion that Turkish casing bugs would be best solved with nuclear weapons.
Nah, just let them make their own Turkish version of php. It worked out well enough for them and Star Wars.
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
If it was worthy of servers, you'd have to pay for it
You are CHOOSING to pay for it, not HAVE to. There's plenty of other Linuxeses that are free.
I always do a suit, dress shirt + tie. It's almost impossible to overdress. You can really hurt yourself if you underdress.
If the attire gets brought up in the interview (ie: we're way more casual here), I always have a response ready along the lines of "That's great. Yeah, the suit-- this is just my interview suit. This is my only time I get to wear it. =) I'm totally looking forward to [office dress culture here]".
It's better than "Fuck man, you need me to wear jeans that aren't ripped? Do I have to wash them? Come on. Well, what about my 'FUCK YOUR FACE" t-shirt?"
@Zenith said in interview attire 2019:
Turns out somebody in the Office of Assholes has tissue paper for skin. They ignored every bug report I sent for going on two years and then when I said "I can see this is never going to be fixed because you don't have the skills or inclination to do so" they closed the ticket and forwarded it to the CIO. I started a new job with a different department in January but so far it's been shit because I still have to work with useless crippleware provided by the Office of Assholes.
I'm hoping this doesn't need to be said but... do not say this at your interview. Do not say anything even REMOTELY like this in your interview. Do not slag off your previous employers. Do not slag off your previous coworkers. Do not slag off your previous bosses, or owners, or customers.
@Zenith said in interview attire 2019:
I've been wondering if it's acceptable to dress casually at an interview now. Back when I was looking last time, I was doing the coat and tie deal. It took something like 8 interviews over 5 months to wind up here. So I don't really feel like putting up with that again, especially for what will likely amount to another shit job with different scenery. Will I get sent home if I show up in jeans or is that the secret handshake to get a plum six figure job creating WTFs for others to clean up?
When you're going to an interview, you are 100% all the time putting your best self forward. You are selling yourself as much as you are evaluating them. How you present yourself is the first (and possibly most critical) impression. If you think how you are dressing has a chance of "sending you home", then that's clue enough not to wear that. You absolutely need to "clean up" by any definition of that. Look presentable. For Vishnu's sake, brush your teeth, mouth wash, deodorant and *NO PERFUMES, AFTERSHAVE OR COLOGNE".
As for the "don't really feel like putting up with that again", well, do be blunt-- suck it up. You may be job hunting as a full-time job, but you aren't going to interviews 8 hours a day 5 days a week. You can deal with putting on the pretties for those few hours you are interviewing. It's your job, your career, your future, your rent & food.
@Cursorkeys said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I couldn't believe the Matt Newman thing was seven years ago, where the heck does the time go?!
Dumped into the endless gaping hell-maw that is "installing Discourse"
@Cursorkeys said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
(which got WTDWTF blocked on the entire Samsung intranet)
!!!!!!
Was that verified? Holy wow, badges for everyone!
@aitap said in Stadia: New Twitch Competitor:
@Lorne-Kates I must be ing, what are you referring to? As a local expert on all things Russian, I don't recognise the name.
They're just that secret.
@CarrieVS said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth I guess we need to engineer garbage-eating goldfish.
But we already have trust fund kids.
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@DCoder said in WTF Bites:
"Source: StackOverflow"And cue many responses in how to do it in
other languagesjquery.
how do i implement jquery in node.js?
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
If you ever feel stressed out, remember that china has a highway 50 lanes wide that merges into 4
And have traffic jams that go up to 100km and last up to 12 days.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
You mean like the previous "joke" mentioning my dead grandmother, his own pleasure and cock in the same sentence which I also flagged for moderation?
You're right, that was my mistake. I meant grandmotherS. I don't want to be exclusionary.
Also: what's the place on the forum you go to see which of your own posts have been flagged? I know it was buried in there somewhere.
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Not every culture in the world appreciates such jokes -- for example in Montenegro mentioning someone's mother like that is the worst possible insult for which you can get badly beaten today and, in the not so distant past, you would have been killed.
Oh, so you're resorting to death threats now?
@Tsaukpaetra said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@TimeBandit said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
same person, twice so far in short time span
Don't mind him, he's just frustrated because he's stuck in the cold and snow in Canada
But he has a wife...
She's stuck in the snowbank on the other side of the yard.
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
my new mouse doesn't emit any sort of light under it, what kind of witchcraft is that?
It's an IoT mouse, so all the light is actually offsite in the cloud.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Give Me Money is creating Fugs | Patreon
Every month?! Fuck you, no money.
Perfectly cromulent.
@loopback0 said in No matter how inept you think MySpace is, they are worse.:
@pie_flavor said in No matter how inept you think MySpace is, they are worse.:
@Lorne-Kates The content went the same place as all the reply tags went when WTDWTF migrated to Discourse. Possibly the two sets of data have settled down together and had packets.
They're all hanging out with the s we lost when migrating from
Every now and then they get together for an orgy with all the titles that were edited.
@levicki said in Content Delaying Networks:
That's basically what @Lorne-Kates' opinion on naming a host cdn.example.com is equivalent to in this particular case.
Ah, I see the problem. To use a car analogy: you're a fucking idiot who can't read. Gotcha, will reply accordingly in the future.
He seems to have been promoted to AG in Nebraska for some strange reason.
Nebraska?
Yeah, "promotion", sure.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates you're talking about a community that faps to 800 year old elves.
Yes, those elves look very preteen, but canonically they're still hundreds of years old.
That just means my expectations of their level of experience is so much greater...
"It's okay, she's been having child sex for 786 years!"
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
n April 2017, a hacker exploited a "radio issue" to set off 156 tornado sirens for hours across the city of Dallas in the middle of the night.
I bet by "radio issue" they mean that their radios were working exactly as fucking expected, but they didn't encrypt the communication protocols.
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Dallas city officials answered that hacking event by adding encryption to the radio signal that controlled the city's sirens, preventing any amateur radio enthusiasts to hijack their control signal.
Yup, there we go.
Hacked tornado sirens taken offline in two Texas cities ahead of major storm
OMG the tornadoes are doing the hacking so they don't get caught!
@Unperverted-Vixen said in No matter how inept you think MySpace is, they are worse.:
@Lorne-Kates said in No matter how inept you think MySpace is, they are worse.:
Spending any amount of time in an online social community is the worst thing you can do to your health. It's a stupid idea to do so.
Which makes us, what, an online antisocial community?
See above.
@El_Heffe said in No matter how inept you think MySpace is, they are worse.:
Oh well, things worked out for the best. Ever since then I've ignored all that crap and my life has been better for it.
Good plan. Spending any amount of time in an online social community is the worst thing you can do to your health. It's a stupid idea to do so.