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BizarroAzrael posted:You at Full Fat? Was easy for me to find since it was the only building that could have a 15th floor, so figure that's the only place that could have been taken. Yep. drat, sleuthed.
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Aug 24, 2012 13:41
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SGT. Squeaks posted:I remember parking on that abandoned garage. We couldn't park on the bottom because cement from the top floor would fall down. The gaps were so big you could fall through it. Also, showed up one weekend during crunch and saw the most horrifying thing happening in the stair well between two homeless people. Ugh. Yeah, the hobos still hang about around there. Mostly under the foliage cover towards the back. That parking lot is where we park now, but it's a magnet for theivery. The cops just arrested a guy Tuesday who had hit about half a dozen of our people's cars, smashing the windows and pinching after-market stereos.
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Aug 24, 2012 15:44
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Never mind.
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Aug 24, 2012 16:38
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djkillingspree posted:HEY CAN I COME IN I WANNA PLAY YOUR GAME HEY HEY LEMME IN Seriously, seagulls are the most annoying birds on the planet. Monster w21 Faces posted:Did you apply to us btw? Not yet, something else has come up that I'm prolly gonna get involved with.
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Aug 24, 2012 16:58
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waffledoodle posted:Up in good ol' Austin hill country, around the corner from Vigil actually. i lived south of town off 290/Mopac, man I loved the drive to work up 360 even if it was 20 miles and could sometimes take forever
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Aug 24, 2012 18:28
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I am seven minutes walk from my office. £350 a month rent has it's benefits :p
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Aug 24, 2012 19:48
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Aliginge posted:I am seven minutes walk from my office. £350 a month rent has it's benefits :p I can see my building from my porch. I live across the street. I filled my car twice in the past year 
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Aug 24, 2012 20:48
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Smegbot posted:Seriously, seagulls are the most annoying birds on the planet. I kind of like them but they can be annoying ya ><
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Aug 24, 2012 21:57
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treeboy posted:i lived south of town off 290/Mopac, man I loved the drive to work up 360 even if it was 20 miles and could sometimes take forever Yup, I was living in Barton Springs when I started here, and I used to tell people "I love the drive, but I hate the commute." Now I drive down FM620 every day and I tell people the opposite.
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Aug 24, 2012 21:59
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MY WINDOW. The power of the Irvine Spectrum.
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Aug 24, 2012 22:19
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rope kid posted:MY WINDOW. I know that area well enough that I now know enough to find your window.
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Aug 24, 2012 22:30
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Man I remember back in the day when I had a window office. Or an office, for that matter. Those were the good old days. Cubes/open formats are lame. Good for collaboration, but lame.
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Aug 24, 2012 22:42
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I have a corner of a building and half a tree outside my window. And rain. Lots of goddamn rain. "Great British Summer" my arse.
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Aug 24, 2012 22:56
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rope kid posted:MY WINDOW. I probably work like 5 minutes away from you, I have a very similar street view.
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Aug 24, 2012 23:04
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We're tucked way in the back of one of the Irvine Company office lots, so we don't have cool views, artificially sculpted or otherwise. We did have Coyotes in the parking lot a few weeks ago though 
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Aug 24, 2012 23:53
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Sigma-X posted:We're tucked way in the back of one of the Irvine Company office lots, so we don't have cool views, artificially sculpted or otherwise. We had Operation Bobcat: a Drama in 3 Acts a while back. First, employees discovered bobcat babies, the bobcat mother got legitimately pissed and nearly ate someone, and then Animal Control was called and they were allowed to leave. Of course, that didn't stop us from taking pictures (pictures from a more talented coworker). There's a surprising amount of animal life given how sterilized and treated everything is here. http://imgur.com/a/fiaqc
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Aug 25, 2012 01:04
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Looking at Irvine Spectrum stuff now, there's like 4 gaming companies there? Are you guys literally inside the mall or just nearby? Weird.
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Aug 25, 2012 01:09
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mutata posted:That parking lot is where we park now, but it's a magnet for theivery. The cops just arrested a guy Tuesday who had hit about half a dozen of our people's cars, smashing the windows and pinching after-market stereos. At least they're not just senselessly slashing people's tires.
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Aug 25, 2012 02:29
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cgeq posted:At least they're not just senselessly slashing people's tires. No, that was a couple years ago. They caught that guy too. Also, the Spectrum shopping center is surrounded on a couple sides by tallish office buildings. And apartments. And the Blizzard complex is down the road. Edit: It's also nestled snugly in the crotch of the 5 and 405 freeways. mutata fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Aug 25, 2012 04:20
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The view out my window as of today: It's stirringly beautiful. I still get goosebumps every time I look outside.
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Aug 25, 2012 08:06
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wasabimilkshake posted:The view out my window as of today: I'm imagining an episode of Storage Wars going on out there.
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Aug 25, 2012 08:31
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So if anyone hasn't seen it yet, there's a new goon game project that's come out of the amazing E/N comics thread Goon game thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3503354 E/N comics thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3499406 They're making a Mugen fighting game featuring people who post in E/N. It looks way better than you would think of a project spawned from a thread about drawing comics making fun of crazy people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUBwrKNiVg
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Aug 25, 2012 17:34
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icking fudiot posted:Looking at Irvine Spectrum stuff now, there's like 4 gaming companies there? Are you guys literally inside the mall or just nearby? Weird.
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Aug 25, 2012 18:38
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rope kid posted:Obsidian is right across from the Cheesecake Factory, not in the mall itself. We're in the Smile Brands building. Blizzard is only a few miles away. I pass it on the way to work when I commute by bike. Red 5 and Turtle Rock are pretty close, too, and Carbine is a couple exits down on the freeway. Lots of bunnies around Irvine, too. Blizzard campus has quite a few of them late at night.
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Aug 25, 2012 18:55
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My window has naught but a fantastic view of a grill.
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Aug 25, 2012 18:59
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Shalinor posted:My window has naught but a fantastic view of a grill. That looks like a great way to make lunch though.
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Aug 25, 2012 19:58
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Monster w21 Faces posted:PROTIP: don't edit UTPawn when creating a game in UDK, create your own class extension or you'll NEVER loving REMEMBER what you've changed. This is why it's a good idea to use source-control. Also, if you're going to change the files that come with an engine, it's generally a good idea to bracket every change with comments, so you know exactly what changed and why. Of course, as you say, if you can avoid it, it's best to avoid changing the base files that come with the engine. Sometime's it's unavoidable though, due to the way the Unreal codebase is structured. Obviously all this stuff is more up-front effort, but it pays off down the road because you save more time in the long run. Now that you're in this predicament though, assuming you have enough hard-drive space to install a pristine copy of UDK, I'd just use a diff/merge program to see what you've changed. Perforce comes with a free one that will do the job. Smegbot posted:I think I've posted this before, but this was the view from my desk (until a fortnight ago): For some reason I was under the impression that 4J had moved into the Vision building that was built down below. I feel your pain, that office was hell in the summer. (I used to work there when it was VIS Dundee) That said, it might be less hellish with less bodies and computers in there, and TVs of the non-CRT variety. The Oid fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Aug 27, 2012 |
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Aug 27, 2012 00:44
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I shouldn't be ranting about this on a forum full of Internet strangers, but I have to vent somewhere or I'm going to explode. I have a programmer If it wasn't enough, this guy is the worst programmer I've had the displeasure of working with during my short career (not counting engineering school). He has little to no initiative, constantly bouncing back to our lead asking "What do I do next?". Keeps coming up with choice little snippets like, "Oh, this should be working... But it doesn't! What should I do!?" or "I'm going to recompile, that should fix it." The guy seems to have a mental capacity of exactly 1 system, and I'm not even sure about that much. For our port project, we assigned him to a part of the UI that's self-contained but should require regular development and maintenance during the project. Incidentally, it's something that no one else wanted to work on, so I guess there's a slight upside to having him to work on that. Except that dealing with a AAA project's UI framework is obviously overtaxing his limited mental capacity, because he frequently manages to break completely unrelated components. Hell, even that one UI component he's working on is clearly too much for him. I went in for work today, synced up code and data to the changes I'd missed over the last few days, and noticed he'd introduced two new functionalities to his UI component. Very minor things -- the ability to unequip an item, and highlighting an item in the inventory after interacting with it. Except that when you unequip an item, the character's body part where that item was equipped turns invisible. And after interacting with an item, the UI highlights the wrong item. How do you submit trivial stuff like that, without even realising that your initial submit doesn't even loving work? I had other things to work on, so I just facepalmed and moved on, but I just know this is going to get caught by QA, bounced right back on our bug tracker, and inevitably will fall on other programmers to fix it. I haven't been through the exercise because it'd likely be utterly depressing, but I'm certain that if I were to count the outstanding bugs in our tracker, more than half of them would be related to his "work". And to top it all off, he's decided to take a vacation week right now, just as everyone is getting into crunch time. Except that with everything mentioned above, the reaction from the rest of us programmers is just one of utter relief -- one week without having to constantly breathe through the mouth, without having to plow through cans of Febreze, and maybe even seeing our bug count stay stable instead of increasing with every new build! After weeks of constantly fuming and grumbling, and now ranting on here, I've been feeling like a right prima donna. Except that now that I stop and think about it, pretty much every single grievance I've had about our current project is directly related to this guy. I thought I was rational enough to spot when I'm experiencing cognitive bias and avoid staying overly negative in those cases, but this guy managed to shatter my own expectations. Godspeed, Mr. Febreze. You've set a bar of mediocrity that will probably never be surpassed for the rest of my career. Which, in a way, is something that will come in very handy whenever I have to deal with bad coworkers in the future. Jan fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Aug 27, 2012 |
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Aug 27, 2012 01:36
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If he stinks, why not just tell him he stinks and to shower? If he doesn't do it, cover his desk in so many pine tree airfresheners that he can barely move.
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Aug 27, 2012 02:29
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E: I think I'm crossing a line, sorry folks!
Wozbo fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Aug 27, 2012 |
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Aug 27, 2012 02:31
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 This was the view from my office before I moved to Asia. I think it's some kind of American or Peregrine falcon. Note the mouse in its claws. A warning to us all.
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Aug 27, 2012 03:41
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Jan posted:I have a programmer In cases where these processes are followed, no one is surprised if/when the bad employee is let go -- typically including the employee, unless he/she is detached from reality. It shouldn't be the responsibility of co-workers to constantly harangue another co-worker for making it hard to do work. In past years, when I had to approach a peer or someone with whom I had no established hierarchical relationship, I would go to that person, cleanly express my issue, and then inform my manager about it in e-mail (and usually in person as a follow-up) immediately afterward. If the problem continued after that point, I would just go straight to my manager. If direct, no-bullshit communication doesn't get the job done, it's time for others to apply downward pressure.
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Aug 27, 2012 03:43
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Senso posted:
That looks to be a Kestrel. That's the first falcon that you are generally allowed to own (no bald eagle right off the bat folks).
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Aug 27, 2012 04:06
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Senso posted:
That looks exactly like an American Kestrel (or sparrow hawk depending on where you live) It's the coolest looking, and most common, falcon in North America I think. edit: damnit, beat to the punch
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Aug 27, 2012 04:09
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Yes, that's the one, a kestrel. You have to realize that it was freezing cold outside, easily below 0C (this is Montreal) and the mouse in its claw was actually all covered in ice. Made it even more surrealist.
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Aug 27, 2012 04:28
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I've never had the "never showers" coworker, although many years ago, working my first job at a CopyMax, there was a regular customer like that. He lived in a trailer park across the street from the strip mall in which the store was located. He was literally insane, and would come in to make photocopies of hand-written letters to the government. The letters literally began with, "To the Govermint," followed by 2-3 page rants about how they need to stop spying on him through the televisions and the "monofilament cameras" hidden in the eye of the pyramid on the back of dollar bills. He never showered, and he only wore one outfit (never washed). I can still smell that smell to this day. This man emitted a pungent mix of year-old ball sweat and that sulfuric rotten-egg smell. He somehow had money though, because one time he came in and had us make 20,000 copies of a 30 page hand-written letter to his father. We checked with the supervisor, and he said "if his check doesn't bounce, just do it." The copies plus shipping (addressed to his father) cost something like $12,000. He wrote a check and it did not bounce. This dude was a regular, and one of the best days of my life was my last day at that job, because it meant I would not have to smell that odor again. He happened to come in that day, and he overheard that it was my last day as I was moving back to Texas. He hung around for twenty minutes to try and convince me that the Texas Rangers were a rogue force that had clandestine powers beyond the FBI and the CIA, and then he started apologizing profusely because he shouldn't have told me that, for my protection, they've had their eye on him for years, if they find out that HE REVEALED THEIR SECRETS TO ME they'll swoop in with their black choppers as soon as I'm over the border and take me to the secret brainwashing facilities where I'll be drafted into their ranks and made to be part of the global new world order coverup. I guess the point is, when it comes to people who smell bad, there are worse things than a lovely programmer!
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Aug 27, 2012 05:13
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Being a UI programmer is hard. You basically have to understand the entire codebase to do it effectively. UI is where the rubber meets the road, and no feature is real until the UI for it is implemented. Most features aren't even really fully thought out until somebody gets around to designing and implementing the UI for them. And every single bug entered into the system that is even remotely ambiguous gets sent to you. Because hey, you have to use UI to reproduce the bug, or the bug was "introduced" when the UI exposed the feature. (I'm sure the guy you are complaining about is indeed totally incompetent. Just gotta stick up for all the UI devs.  )
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Aug 27, 2012 05:37
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Sigma-X posted:I think it is an exaggeration of job postings. yes - ultimately it's a game of matching skillsets with needs. Every interviewer is inwardly hoping "Oh god I hope this guy is the one so I don't have do to any more of these loving interviews."
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Juc66 posted:If he stinks, why not just tell him he stinks and to shower? While he's gone a great prank would be to cover his poo poo with air fresheners (tape them to behind his monitor, under his keyboard, under the desk, etc, etc) and fill his drawers with extra deodorant and soap.
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