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Tell us when they ask that you "negotiate lower rates" with Microsoft.
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Nov 6, 2015 01:37
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poo poo pissing me off: A dev decides that the best way to get my attention is not to ping me on Slack, or ping our ops room on Slack wondering if he can get some certs (since I had helped him late at night one night with this) Instead, the best way is to sneak up on me, go around to my blind side (since i normally sit shifted to one side or another when I'm coding), and whack the back of my chair to get my attention since I hadn't noticed him due to having headphones on. "Hey, can you get me the certs" "Sure, no worries, I'll just drop everything I was doing and help you" with all the sarcasm I could muster. My boss later chided me for not doing my normal thing I do when people surprise me and yell at them.
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Nov 6, 2015 06:51
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Head of our IT group sends out an email: "Hey everyone, we are now going to be using <New Amazing Program> for things, this is mandatory. Make sure to go to the website on this link and sign up for something, and then blah blah internal site and whatever" This guy is enamored with the idea that somewhere out there is a piece of software that will fix all our problems. Its never a personal issue, or a training issue, its we just haven't found the right program yet. He doesn't talk to our group much, but I guess he just ping-pongs between ideas and stops as soon as it looks like running the software hasn't instantly fixed everything. Don't get me wrong, there are better tools we could be using, but having something that improves a small bit of my job doesn't really fix the big issues. What we really need is a Sharepoint setup for IT, but no one will volunteer to run it, and no one will be hired to run it, so it will forever sit on the top of a whiteboard.
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Nov 6, 2015 07:04
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Dick Trauma posted:They want to protect the company in case of a disaster in L.A. that takes out the server room Stripe, what's our disaster plan if our California datacenter is offline for an extended period of time? Um, care for our loved ones?
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Nov 6, 2015 07:50
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:An aside - why don't bosses ever take "if there is a disaster large enough to take out Los Angeles/our datacenter, our company does not matter" for an answer? Because they expect you to have set up the data center to take care of itself, of course.  In other news we had a visit yesterday from the city CFO. She explained how we're cutting back, and that the IT department is looking at a broad 2% reduction. If we have any suggestions we're more than welcome to come to her with them, and naturally I told her I have plenty. That gave me a hefty dose of stinkeye from my boss. He got over it quickly when I started rattling off the amounts we'd be able to save by scrapping all the projects I know the CFO likes, and asking her to pick one. Somehow it's a lot easier for people to cut across the board than it is to decide which project to scrap, and be ready to take the responsibility. 15 minutes ago we got a department-wide mail from the finance dept. Our budget stays unchanged for 2016. Why yes, I'm feeling pretty  right now.
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Nov 6, 2015 08:36
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What leads people to decide that their phone service is so business-critical that they select a SIP provider based purely on price, and then are surprised when the call quality and support are complete poo poo?
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Nov 6, 2015 09:18
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Thanks Ants posted:What leads people to decide that their phone service is so business-critical that they select a SIP provider based purely on price, and then are surprised when the call quality and support are complete poo poo? We have a good internet connection, don't we?
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Nov 6, 2015 09:19
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Thanks Ants posted:What leads people to decide that their phone service is so business-critical that they select a SIP provider based purely on price, and then are surprised when the call quality and support are complete poo poo? The same thing that leads people to get residential-class internet subscriptions without any form of SLA contract, and then complain about the thousands they're losing for every hour their line is down, especially when they then learn that calling in on friday afternoon after 5 PM means the earliest a tech can come fix it might just be tuesday morning, and then refusing to pay the (relatively) small fee for an on-call technician.
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Nov 6, 2015 10:31
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Dick Trauma posted:EDIT: Ha! My boss just sent me an email that she'd like to see another cost/benefits analysis. I'm going to make something without any costs. It's going to be a list of what they wanted matched up against where my proposal satisfies those requirements. I'll use lots of green shading to indicate how they'll get all these things plus trimmings like centralized instant messaging, screensharing, etc. Curious to see what happens. Cost of not doing. Benefit of doing.
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Nov 6, 2015 10:54
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Posting on behalf of my coworker. We work for a small-ish digital agency that recently re-launched the website of one of our largest clients. My coworker is a front-end developer who has spent weeks on the project and is kinda solely responsible for how good it now looks. The client recently got in touch to announce they are having a celebration of the launch and have invited... the designer who mocked up the visuals, the project manager who picked up the phone and relayed client requests and our MD who was not involved in the project. Feeling that Christmas spirit already. 
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Nov 6, 2015 11:28
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nexus6 posted:Posting on behalf of my coworker. Shouldn't your PM / MD take the initiative in this case to give their place to the dev? Or is that not how your company rolls?
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Nov 6, 2015 11:38
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Thanks Ants posted:Shouldn't your PM / MD take the initiative in this case to give their place to the dev? Or is that not how your company rolls? If only. "A meal and night out at the client's expense? Sure, you can go in my place"
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Nov 6, 2015 12:09
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Thanks Ants posted:What leads people to decide that their phone service is so business-critical that they select a SIP provider based purely on price, and then are surprised when the call quality and support are complete poo poo? What do you mean VoIP doesn't work well over my 128kbps Satellite connection? YOU SAID YOU PROVIDED A QUALITY SERVICE.
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Nov 6, 2015 12:59
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AlternateAccount posted:SOX pisses me off. What a giant goddamn waste of time. I watch these contractor auditors and the contractor auditors that are helping us get ready for the real auditors and our own internal audit staff and it's just such a massive example of bullshit moneywasting busywork that produces nothing of any value, and yet manages to constantly get in the way of actually getting poo poo done. The Worst. Haha so true. For the last 3 years or so the auditors have outnumbered the workers
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Nov 6, 2015 17:57
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The coffee machine at my client this morning is broken. Not how I like to start my Friday. Somehow I've made it through the last two hours, but I'm not sure I'll make it until lunch.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:13
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Go to the "bathroom". Come back with one of those big boxes of coffee. Be a hero.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:15
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nielsm posted:Cost of not doing. One of the problems I have here is that the CEO and my boss do not want to hear technical details of anything, ever. I also get essentially no opportunity to even describe these things I want us to buy. There's an I.T. consultant they both love that always creates PowerPoint presentations using SWOT analysis and the like, little bullet point matrices that make things as easy to digest as possible. I'm building one right now that starts with dumbed-down descriptions of Azure and O365, will have a SWOT table with the most basic explanations possible of how we get things we want from these services, and finish with a summary that says BUY THESE THINGS TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:20
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Dick Trauma posted:One of the problems I have here is that the CEO and my boss do not want to hear technical details of anything, ever. I also get essentially no opportunity to even describe these things I want us to buy. 
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Nov 6, 2015 21:30
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tomapot posted:I'm at s MS event called "Cloud Roadshow" with the tag "Skill-up for the cloud." Killer app for hololens, I think.
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Nov 6, 2015 21:59
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CitizenKain posted:Head of our IT group sends out an email: tbh, I am not a fan of Sharepoint at all. The wiki is garbage. I've been trying to get support for setting up something for informal developer docs, but the only reasonable alternative to sharepoint is Confluenece, but honestly that's not much better in some respects, and I know there will be opinionated people (like me) who will hate it for one reason or another. Sometimes, it just doesn't feel like there are any good tools out there.
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Nov 6, 2015 22:12
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I just sent an email that's going to go over like a Molotov cocktail tossed at a gas station. 
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Nov 6, 2015 23:33
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Not a work thing but a phone thing - that's twice now that my Samsung Galaxy S5 has lost all signal. No wifi, no phone, nothing. A reboot fixes it, but what the fuuuuck? Always great when work is trying to get in touch with you and your only indication is the emails in Outlook saying "hey stripe are you around?" well yeah of course I am arooooohhhh my god I've missed 30 emails and a bunch of people were trying to call me apparently. Lovely.
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Nov 6, 2015 23:38
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Not a work thing but a phone thing - that's twice now that my Samsung Galaxy S5 has lost all signal. No wifi, no phone, nothing. A reboot fixes it, but what the fuuuuck? Always great when work is trying to get in touch with you and your only indication is the emails in Outlook saying "hey stripe are you around?" well yeah of course I am arooooohhhh my god I've missed 30 emails and a bunch of people were trying to call me apparently. Lovely. Get an iPhone
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Nov 6, 2015 23:43
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Crowley posted:In other news we had a visit yesterday from the city CFO. She explained how we're cutting back, and that the IT department is looking at a broad 2% reduction. If we have any suggestions we're more than welcome to come to her with them, and naturally I told her I have plenty. That gave me a hefty dose of stinkeye from my boss. He got over it quickly when I started rattling off the amounts we'd be able to save by scrapping all the projects I know the CFO likes, and asking her to pick one. Somehow it's a lot easier for people to cut across the board than it is to decide which project to scrap, and be ready to take the responsibility. This is a good post and people should read this post.
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Nov 6, 2015 23:49
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Super pissing me off. We have a financial planning program hosted by a financial tech company. This program is build on the top of Microsoft Dynamics. Since inception the guys building on Dynamics have been hilariously bad at very basic dev. We have lost data, had unexpected upgrades (without testing) that changed all processes and other remarkably poo poo things happen. Today one of the staff tells me that all tasks now have a random alpha char at the end of the task titles. First person to guess why gets a cookie.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:00
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Baxta posted:This program is build on the top of Microsoft Dynamics. I've found your reason. My experiences with Dynamics have been like SharePoint - there may well be competent developers out there, but I've not found one yet. Some devs are customising Dynamics CRM for us at the moment and they had to be specifically told that cost prices shouldn't go on quotations sent to customers alongside the sell prices 
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Nov 9, 2015 01:04
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Baxta posted:Super pissing me off. Easier to start appending dumb poo poo instead of adding a new field?
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Nov 9, 2015 01:04
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Skandranon posted:Easier to start appending dumb poo poo instead of adding a new field? Think many more dumber. Hint: There are lots of unscheduled db migrations. Things need to be moved to the new db.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:10
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Baxta posted:Super pissing me off. Some kind of buffer overflow? Bonus points if it's an overflow from an authentication string somewhere.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:10
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Someone's done something hilarious with transaction logs from a DB with a different schema?
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Nov 9, 2015 01:14
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Agrikk posted:Some kind of buffer overflow? Nah I wish. That would just be some bad programming somewhere. The real reason? They don't know how to move tasks by unique id so instead of learning or not migrating until they can prove they aren't loving morons, they are appending a random char to the ends of loving task titles when some task titles have the same string. Thats right, they are using the title string as the unique identifier. Its gotten so bad that I now have to design our own CRM.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:15
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Baxta posted:Nah I wish. That would just be some bad programming somewhere. Wait, so they don't even have a counter, it's just random? Don't you eventually start to get collisions? Does it just keep trying until the random char doesn't cause a conflict?
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Nov 9, 2015 01:30
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Skandranon posted:Wait, so they don't even have a counter, it's just random? Don't you eventually start to get collisions? Does it just keep trying until the random char doesn't cause a conflict? I know for a fact the Task entity has a unique identifier (Its a dynamics entity). They simply don't know what they are doing. I cant tell exactly how they are adding the char to the end of the string. It would not surprise me if they have gotten a list of duplicate titles are are manually typing the following Title: Meeting with Clientaa Title: Meeting with Clientbb Title: Meeting with Clientcc Title: Schedule Investment Implementationaa Title: Schedule Investment Implementationbb Title: Schedule Investment Implementationcc Furious.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:39
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Baxta posted:Nah I wish. That would just be some bad programming somewhere. May I please recommend Salesforce.com. There are bad SFDC devs, but there are also very good ones.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:43
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Oh my god. How are they getting paid money for this thing.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:48
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Ynglaur posted:May I please recommend Salesforce.com. There are bad SFDC devs, but there are also very good ones. For our org, Dynamics is overkill, so is Salesforce. I am building a simple .net app here to do everything since its a windows hosted environment. I am just pissed off that we pay these jokers so much to give us a slightly modified CRM solution and they are honestly the worst "professional" dev team I have ever heard of. One of the modifications I asked them to do was the addition of a form with 6 fields in it. These fields were to be linked to the client . Their release windows are every month. It took them 6 months to present the first iteration and not only did it not match the spec, they had lost the spec and linked the fields to some other entity. How do these people get past interviews? Its an entire team of loving idiots.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:50
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Have you looked at SugarCRM?
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Nov 9, 2015 02:01
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Thanks Ants posted:Have you looked at SugarCRM? I think with this particular project, im better off just designing it from scratch. I don't like half built frameworks (although ill be using asp.net mvc5) because experience has shown me its a lot harder to build that one piece of functionality that is always for some reason a business critical function
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Nov 9, 2015 02:04
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There are a number of smaller CRMs you should look at first, rolling your own these days is a poor decision. Also as a developer, you don't want to get trapped adding features to a custom CRM. Once the owners hear that it's custom, they'll start asking for everything under the sun and you'll be buried by requests for dumb features they don't need. You'll also have to defend to all prospective employers why you wrote a custom CRM. It's also super boring dev work.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:05
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Baxta posted:They don't know how to move tasks by unique id so instead of learning or not migrating until they can prove they aren't loving morons, they are appending a random char to the ends of loving task titles when some task titles have the same string. Tell me the system doesn't have a maximum character length limitation for task titles. Skandranon posted:There are a number of smaller CRMs you should look at first, rolling your own these days is a poor decision. Also as a developer, you don't want to get trapped adding features to a custom CRM. Once the owners hear that it's custom, they'll start asking for everything under the sun and you'll be buried by requests for dumb features they don't need. You'll also have to defend to all prospective employers why you wrote a custom CRM. It's also super boring dev work. As an IT person who has inherited an in-house CRM from Development…. don't roll your own. Someone may end up hunting you and your family.
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