Posts made by ThaMe90
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RE: Documentation is a miracle
@raceprouk I never said I found it logical, I just don't have a problem with it.
They are at least consistent with the naming across different list types. -
RE: Documentation is a miracle
@raceprouk I meant the contents of the vector used to demonstrate the functionality :P
And to be honest, the counterpart to back() is defined as front(), so I don't necessarily see the problem with it. -
Documentation is a miracle
I found this shining example of excelent documentation. C++'s vector class has a back() function. Apprarently someone over at cppreference is not fond of writing documentation.
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RE: Fun responses to spam phone calls
@accalia Only a week? I somehow remember seeing it a bit longer ago :o
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@raceprouk HG?
Uh.. wait, that said UG.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@deadfast Not in my building, but apparently there is a hidden key-combo on the elevator which makes C for Cheese (well that would be K for Kaas).
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@accalia Most of the buildings around my place are 10 floors, max. Excluding an optional parking level below. I guess the flatness of Holland reflects upon us in more ways than only the landscape.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@gurth I've always known them to be synonyms of eachother. Not meaning something different. With verdieping being around from the 1500's meaning any space located between a floor & a ceiling.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@gurth Though in Dutch they mean the exact same thing.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
A quote from that page:
Dutch refers to a bastardisation of the word "Deutsch", the German word for "German". It is not related to the Dutch people or language.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@hungrier I also said in later comments that part was translated wrong on my part. I used the term in the wrong context.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@gurth I honestly didn't know there was a difference. Dutch 2nd floor in my case though.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@blakeyrat I wouldn't mind living there. It'd probably be more interesting than the world we have today.
As for my living situation: my appartment complex has a common entrance/exit on the ground floor, and we get to our appartments from an open-air walkway on our respective floors. Mine happens to be on the 2nd floor.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@boomzilla Elon Musk is apparently a big fan of those...
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@thecpuwizard Bear with me, English is not my native language. :(
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@wharrgarbl We are doing better, although he still has fits that get under my nerve.
That almost makes it sound like we are doing some kind of counceling together.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@wharrgarbl We are doing better, although he still has fits that get under my nerve.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@accalia Oh, I've posted before, and I've been following the community once in a while. So I know what I'm getting myself into :D
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@deadfast It would make for an awesome story though:
"Vacuum robot completely levels appartment block." -
RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@dkf I should have known, I've seen that article.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@arantor I'd have to have a pool in order to make that work :o
Or is that some kind of reference that I'm not getting? Much more likely -
RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@raceprouk Apparently google translate failed me there, I meant to say the appartment is completely leveled, with no door frames to block the robot from going into a different room.
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
@raceprouk Please note that this is an appartment complex with a single entrance, so you don´t actually easily get to access mah windows. Also, I live on the 2nd floor. ;)
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RE: How I got locked out of my appartment
Thankfully it´s not connected to WiFi.
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How I got locked out of my appartment
So just a little over a week ago, I bought one of them robotic vacuum cleaners to do most of the vacuuming while I am away at work. I live in a ground floor appartment, except for the bathroom & toilet, which have a slightly raised floor. So the robot is able to get anywhere in the appartment to do its job.
Yesterday though, the thing decided that it needed to get stuck exactly at a point where it got lodged between a radiator pipe & my front door. Completely blocking me out of my appartment.
The only immediate alternative entrance I had would be my balcony door, which I could access because it is connected to my neighbour's balcony. The thing is, when I am out of the house, that door is locked tight, so that was a no-go.
The first thing I tried was, with the help of my brother, remove a window from it's frame (the hinges were on the outside) so I could climb inside and dislodge the robot. Sadly this didn't work.
Thankfully, the screwdriver that we used to try to unhinge the window was able to dislodge the robot itself through the small crease that we got from partially opening the door, so I had that going for me.I'm telling you all, Skynet is coming.
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RE: Dealing with a special kind of co-worker
@Yamikuronue said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
Some people are more social than others. He sounds like he's very outgoing and extroverted,
Yeah, apparently I don't mix well with extroverts. :(
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RE: Dealing with a special kind of co-worker
@japonicus said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
He's new and probably struggling to fit in.
I wouldn't say he's struggling to fit in. Other co-workers don't seem to have any problems with the guy (as far as I'm aware of).
I guess I'll have to give the situation some more time. See where it leads.
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RE: Dealing with a special kind of co-worker
@Kuro Well I get to work with him every day, so it's not as if we don't talk.
I did try to talk to him about some of the things, but he dismissed it right thereafter. -
Dealing with a special kind of co-worker
I'd like to get some advice from you guys.
Since a few weeks we have a new tester in my office, and despite this being a rather small company, the whole recruitment phase of it has passed me by completely (not that I particularly care about the process in the first place).
However, I have to work with him every day. Now I'm glad we got an extra tester to lighten the workload a bit, but the guy has some "interesting" habits.- First of all, he likes to butt into conversations that he's not part of, trying to become part of it by giving suggestions about things he doesn't know about. It's one thing to give suggestions, but apparently the guy can't take the hint because he's tried to do it 3 or 4 times in the same conversation.
- Lately during our daily stand-up meetings he tends to get in between me and the person I'm trying to talk to (I still fill the role of Scrum master for my team, so this annoys me quite a bit).
- When we're doing our daily work, I find him talking (distracting) my other team members. Not that we never have discussions before he came to the company, but he is apparently quite fond of talking politics and how his view of it changed, causing him to disagree with his friends (which none of us know). Oh, and his humour (humor? whatever, take your pick) is quite dark. It easily tops all the crazy stuff we talk about during lunch breaks to take our minds off of work for a bit.
Then there are a few habits he has that tick me off on a personal level, which I won't disclose on here because I don't see the added value on a professional level.
I've discussed this with my boss (which is also the product owner, so he's present at all our stand-up meetings et all), but he seems to be pleased with how he's performed his job and doesn't seem to care about the rest.
So here I am, curious on how you deal with your (annoying) co-worker(s) on a daily basis. Any advice?
P.S. I know this might be more of a problem with myself, not adjusting to this new co-worker, but I don't get this ticked off by someone so easily like I get ticked off by this person.
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RE: Representative functionality
@Medinoc said in Representative functionality:
Should have replaced the logo with a very small one instead of outright deleting it. That is of course, if only you were made aware of the dependency on it.
We did, we replaced it with a 1x1 transparent pixel. The obvious "solution". That does not take away that the chosen solution was less than ideal to begin with.
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RE: Helpful MSDN comments
@Gurth said in Helpful MSDN comments:
@coldandtired said in Helpful MSDN comments:
My Dutch is a bit rusty, but I'm wondering what 'world robot universe' is supposed to mean.
Never mind colabrateren. My best guess is it has something to do with cola, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what activity the verb brateren would indicate you do with that beverage.
I would assume it would be some dyslexic form of to collaborate.
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RE: Representative functionality
@Tsaukpaetra Though that is the truth, I just don't want to admit it... I think this forum needs a TDWTF anonymous group
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Representative functionality
So, yeah, I finally decided to write a post of my own. A post about one of our products that is just what you'd call a delight.
Now the history of the application is maybe quite typical:
Our business is in the market of critical communications and we've used 3rd party location mapping applications to track where users of mobile communications devices are located based on GPS data. Now this 3rd party application no longer fulfilled our needs so we decided to make our own. So far so good.Due to certain circumstances, management decides to out-source development of the application. My CTO takes it upon himself to draft up an API for our other products to make use (and limitedly manipulate) the data that is to be stored in the new application.
The only documented location for this API (at the time)? An Excel sheet that had numerous revisions (hmmmm)...
The application itself is a Java beast running on a Tomcat server.Anyway, development of the new product is well on it's way by now, and the request came for a feature that the product should be able to detect when it is not running, and in case this is true, restart it self.
From what I know, the external developers created a very creative way to detect that the application process isn't responsive (hence not active). They attempt to retrieve a specific logo image from the webserver itself, and if that fails, they restart tomcat as a whole (because when the logo image can't be retrieved surely the whole server needs to restart, right?).Now here's the catch: when we deploy the application we actually remove said logo image from the webserver because it is quite obnoxious and takes up quite a bit of space on the webclient (wait, I forgot to mention this thing has a webclient that runs on nodeJS and stuffz, because it's hip/cool/new/whatever, oh well).
So yeah, what happened the first time when we deployed the new feature was that the Tomcat server kept restarting because it couldn't retrieve the logo image