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hire me to make comedy for you lowtax here is my resume: ✓ once told good joke(s) ✓ own a computer ✓ I am not your friend and never will be
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change Radiums user name to something else i want to see what parts of the forum breaks for no reason
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zen death robot posted:Yeah honestly I spent a weekend considering it, going over the code and looking at the db schema and I still kinda wonder if it's just not better to use the DB as a framework to hang a whole new thing off of but hoooly poo poo that's what drove radium off the deep end I think so I'm kind of avoiding thinking about that right now. I think scrapping it all is probably too drastic, even if there's a part of me and everyone else who has ever stared into the abyss who has been tempted to think that's the way to go. Rewriting it in chunks seems like a more workable way to go since at least you can set a realistic goal and accomplish it instead of having this seemingly impossible to reach goal of doing everything in one shot. Not that you need this, but I agree. Hell, I've seen two $10,000,000+ failed 'from scratch rewrites' in my day jobs, and I'm just a designer. In both cases they just gave up and started refactoring the existing software - you know, the stuff that actually works now and generates billions of dollars - and got a hell of a lot more done. Also, Joel. Joel agrees. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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Mar 6, 2016 12:59
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why would you waste perfectly good amphetamine on coding? such a waste
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Mar 6, 2016 13:05
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Amphetamine should be used for marathon jacking sessions
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Mar 6, 2016 13:19
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Radium on javascript libraries:quote:The biggest problem with most of these libraries is lack of documentation. I like Dojo, but its documentation is barely existant. They really need to put on the breaks and get some manual content fleshed out. Mochikit probably has the best documentation of the bunch 
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Mar 6, 2016 13:22
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So how exactly did the actual firing go? I mean, you said he wasn't answering his phone, did you get him to pick up eventually or send an email or something? Also how much did he freak out?
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Mar 6, 2016 13:58
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AnoHito posted:So how exactly did the actual firing go? I mean, you said he wasn't answering his phone, did you get him to pick up eventually or send an email or something? Also how much did he freak out?
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Mar 6, 2016 14:11
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So did you get the logins before or after firing him?
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Mar 6, 2016 14:32
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Pretty sure Lowtax had radium disappeared rumour has it he sent his thugs after him and things got out of hand
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Mar 6, 2016 14:33
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Was it too financially straining to have another coder alongside radium or it just wasn't considered? Though probably radium would never have let you bring someone else to poke around his mess.
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Mar 6, 2016 14:49
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HardDisk posted:Was it too financially straining to have another coder alongside radium or it just wasn't considered? Though probably radium would never have let you bring someone else to poke around his mess. The one thing a bad engineer fears more than anything is a good engineer.
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Mar 6, 2016 14:55
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Lowtax posted:It was my fault for hiring a friend who I thought I could trust and rely on. This has happened to me and just about every other person in that position at least once. I'm reluctant to hire any friends now and make it clear that they aren't "friends with the boss" if I do.
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Mar 6, 2016 15:18
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Zzulu posted:Pretty sure Lowtax had radium disappeared ftfy
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Mar 6, 2016 15:20
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HardDisk posted:Was it too financially straining to have another coder alongside radium or it just wasn't considered? Though probably radium would never have let you bring someone else to poke around his mess.
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Mar 6, 2016 15:30
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Lowtax posted:Yes it cost too much to pay another coder, but I was at the point, multiple times, where I wanted to just swallow the cost and hire one anyway to get poo poo done. Unfortunately, radium REFUSED to work with anybody and refused to set up any sort of version control or ability for other users to edit anything. He even locked my account out of the php files. Since I was an idiot and thought he was a friend, I just trusted him and didn't suspect perhaps the reason he was so secretive was that he was doing a very poor job accomplishing things successfully. Uh if that's true I would be worried about time bombs or backdoors in the code since that is very common in these situations.
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Mar 6, 2016 15:43
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Lowtax Did anyone ever offer to buy SomethingAwful back in the dot-com bubble days? If so, why did you refuse and do you regret your decision?
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Mar 6, 2016 16:10
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PromethiumX posted:Lowtax Joke's on you! Something awful, along with the "Lowtax" persona, has been sold multiple times. The present "Lowtax" is actually 2 Korean grandmas in a wig.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:12
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I feel really bad for lowtax reading these but it seems like a lot of people with companies they start with friends go through something like this at some point or another
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Mar 6, 2016 16:13
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EVIR Gibson posted:Uh if that's true I would be worried about time bombs or backdoors in the code since that is very common in these situations. What do you think happens when there's no more trees to steal? Absolute mayhem, is what.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:14
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PromethiumX posted:Lowtax SA is actually owned by ebaumsworld.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:14
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spankmeister posted:SA is actually owned by ebaumsworld. radium is a time traveler and actually lowtax's son from the future
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Mar 6, 2016 16:18
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Lowtax posted:
Boy, he sure was sensitive. Was that the idea behind those two "anonymized" accounts he later took on? He couldn't work because people were so negative towards him, so it was a way to get him to work by pretending he was a new person so he wouldn't have to read mean things directed at him anymore? judge reinhold fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Mar 6, 2016 16:29
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He does seem like the ideal gs1 employee
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Mar 6, 2016 16:32
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ethanol posted:He does seem like the ideal gs1 employee And that's where he will stay forever. A terrible gs1 that everybody hates.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:33
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judge reinhold posted:
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Mar 6, 2016 16:40
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EVIR Gibson posted:Uh if that's true I would be worried about time bombs or backdoors in the code since that is very common in these situations.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:45
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Lowtax posted:Yes. You are a good person at heart for accommodating that level of idiotic sensitivity.
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Mar 6, 2016 16:48
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Volte posted:His entire codebase is a time bomb by accident. His lovely cron jobs that keep the forum database pruned after archival did not even check to see if a thread exists in the archives before pruning it (it could even just check the last-post date of the most recently archived thread) which resulted in the least surprising database disaster of all time. He explicitly used SSL 2.0 for connecting to the credit card processor instead of just letting it automatically select the protocol, which meant that as soon as SSL 2.0 was declared unsafe and disallowed by credit card processors, the entire store stopped working. I'm pretty sure radium just was a big ol dope that didn't really understand the concept of coding defensively or even really thinking ahead whatsoever. its more common than you would think (coding "in the moment instead of seeing the big picture") most autistic drug addicts have a hard time with this. its more of an aquired skill (being a drug addict) dad gay. so what fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Mar 6, 2016 17:03
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Lowtax, do you still have any friends or have they all been removed from your life by now What was the latest news on Schmorky anyway? I heard he got into some hijinks with his psycho girlfriend
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Mar 6, 2016 17:28
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Zzulu posted:Lowtax, do you still have any friends or have they all been removed from your life by now
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Mar 6, 2016 17:48
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ur such a goon
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Mar 6, 2016 17:55
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Lowtax posted:I've never in my life been really interested in having friends. I'm antisocial and honestly don't think it's worth it to put much effort into maintaining a friendship with people. I mean like I still talk to Frags and people I grew up with, but I never go hang out with anybody or do social poo poo because I'm maladjusted and generally undesirable to others. Pff take it to E/N 
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Mar 6, 2016 17:56
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Lowtax posted:I've never in my life been really interested in having friends. I'm antisocial and honestly don't think it's worth it to put much effort into maintaining a friendship with people. I mean like I still talk to Frags and people I grew up with, but I never go hang out with anybody or do social poo poo because I'm maladjusted and generally undesirable to others. we have a lot in common. we should be best friends
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Mar 6, 2016 17:58
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Any day he'll snap and we'll log in to find the domain repurposed as a Chinese bulk grain export site.
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Mar 6, 2016 17:59
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Zzulu posted:ur such a goon
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Mar 6, 2016 18:07
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Are things so tied to Radium's Franken-VB that there's no way you can just go "gently caress it, we'll move everything to XenForo" or whatever? "vanilla" VB was always a nightmare, I can't imagine how bad it got turned into if Radium re-wrote huge parts of it.
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Mar 6, 2016 18:08
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Lowtax posted:Eh, I just do what I find enjoyable and don't worry about what other people think of it. I just don't have much interest in doing social stuff like going to bars or out to watch a sports game or that crud. Yeah I'm a goon and a recluse and an antisocial loser but hey, that's how it is. I'd like to sit in a separate room from you and play video games(bad or good) and maybe yell poo poo.
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Lowtax posted:Eh, I just do what I find enjoyable and don't worry about what other people think of it. I just don't have much interest in doing social stuff like going to bars or out to watch a sports game or that crud. Yeah I'm a goon and a recluse and an antisocial loser but hey, that's how it is. ur my role model
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