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The first project at my current organization that I worked on was a public facing web app pronounced the same as ISIS. The acronym was different and it had been around for years before the terrorist group, but it was a little shocking to hear on the first day I'd be working on the "ISIS project." It's going through a re-branding effort now...
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Oct 12, 2016 22:11
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Not clicking, but  that?
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Oct 12, 2016 22:14
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Greatbacon posted:The first project at my current organization that I worked on was a public facing web app pronounced the same as ISIS. Avid don't seem in a hurry to rebrand their ISIS product.
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Oct 12, 2016 22:14
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baquerd posted:Not clicking, but
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Oct 12, 2016 22:16
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This is a situation where I'd be sorely tempted to talk to everyone she's affected negatively, and have every person just not show up for a day. Have everyone basically say "nope, not coming back until snitch is dealt with". Wonder how quickly the CTO would poo poo his pants realizing that everyone hates her and his rear end is over a barrel, because he can't find anyone to do the work and probably knows gently caress-all about it himself. Basically a programmer version of the Blue Flu?
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Oct 12, 2016 22:30
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bitterandtwisted posted:
That WordPerfect keyboard template... 
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Oct 12, 2016 22:36
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anthonypants posted:I didn't tag it because it's work-safe. Extreme Rectal Penetration
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Oct 12, 2016 22:47
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Polio Vax Scene posted:That reminds me that one of our components is the Application Synchronization Scheduler. When redoing our phones we have a phone in 2 departments rather than at a desk. The name Assembly Department was too long and was truncated to A Department. This confused the CEO who told me to just shorten that and downstairs breakroom (D Breakroom) to the first 3 letters of each so rear end Department and Dow Breakroom. I'll get right on that instead of just calling is ASM or what I actually did and ended up just removing the last name that the var insisted a user could not have just 1 name when they did the initial setup. Pretty fun to tactfully tell someone what they just told you to do was really stupid and they expected that was the end of the conversation.
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Oct 13, 2016 08:03
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pixaal posted:rear end Department Some intern might say something like "I'm in an entry level position in the rear end Department, I think I fit in really well."
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Oct 13, 2016 09:50
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But we all dread the exit interview
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Oct 13, 2016 12:10
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mewse posted:But we all dread the exit interview "It was poo poo" ?
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Oct 13, 2016 12:17
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mewse posted:I had an original Mac 512k from my grandfather that had the signatures of the design team on the inside of the case -- I gave it away to a dude that became my boss at my first IT job and was one of the biggest douches I've ever worked with How valuable would this be today?
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Oct 13, 2016 13:00
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Bigass Moth posted:How valuable would this be today? Maybe $400 or $500 in mint condition. There's a few on eBay going for far less than that right now, but they probably aren't in good condition.
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Oct 13, 2016 13:06
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I got 0 results for that on eBay and certainly it would be worth significantly more than that.
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Oct 13, 2016 13:09
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I got 0 results for that on eBay and certainly it would be worth significantly more than that. http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1985-MACINTOSH-512K-MODEL-M0001W-MOUSE-EXTERNAL-DRIVE-800K-/201680506112 There's a few more on there as well. The 128K, 512K and Mac Plus all had the signatures embedded as part of the interior back panel molding. It's not like it's super rare. http://www.cultofmac.com/122408/signed-by-steve-jobs-co-signatures-inside-the-original-macintosh-case/
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Oct 13, 2016 13:13
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I had a summer job at a company that did educational IT stuff who cleared out a store room when I was there in 1999. I managed to grab a couple of BBC Masters and a monitor, and I nearly got hold of an Archimedes A3000 and 4000 but a teacher that was visiting the company that day convinced me he needed it more. Still annoyed I didn't grab them.
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Oct 13, 2016 13:30
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flosofl posted:The 128K, 512K and Mac Plus all had the signatures embedded as part of the interior back panel molding. It's not like it's super rare.
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Oct 13, 2016 13:47
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Ohhh, I did not realize that. That must be what mewse meant - I mean maybe the box really did have actual signatures, but if it's just part of the design, cool. Oh, yeah I just assumed it was the standard "design team sigs as part of the production line", but if they were Sharpied signatures, I'd imagine you could probably tack a few zeros on there.
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Oct 13, 2016 13:49
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When I went to UCF, there was a display case in the Engineering II building with an Apple II in it in drat good, if not mint, condition along with a few other oldies. I sometimes fantasized about stealing the fuckers for the history alone, but I usually just stood there for a few minutes and basked in it.
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Oct 13, 2016 14:11
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Greatbacon posted:The first project at my current organization that I worked on was a public facing web app pronounced the same as ISIS. There's a river going through Oxford called the Isis. Lots of stuff named after it, for instance - http://isismagazine.org.uk - which is the second hit for 'Isis magazine' if you google it (and no doubt put yourself on a CIA watchlist)
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Oct 13, 2016 14:39
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I was watching Isis videos before it was cool.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis
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Oct 13, 2016 17:42
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poo poo pissing me off, someone actually admitting that he refuses to use python because it was invented by the people next door and they don't like their IT department (which has nothing to do with python, but hey.. academic tribalism is important!).
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Oct 13, 2016 18:28
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I'd love if I could holler over a cubicle wall and ask what the gently caress van Rossum was thinking when a thing was implemented.
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Oct 13, 2016 18:30
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xzzy posted:I'd love if I could holler over a cubicle wall and ask what the gently caress van Rossum was thinking when a thing was implemented. One guy did admit to running over to the other building trying to find him and punch him in the face.
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Oct 13, 2016 18:33
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We are moving our remote support and ticketing to a platform that is a lovely Windows app with a million tabs. Our support team use Macs exclusively. Well loving done everybody.
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Oct 13, 2016 19:43
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Just run a VM for the app 
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Oct 13, 2016 20:03
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Thanks Ants posted:We are moving our remote support and ticketing to a platform that is a lovely Windows app with a million tabs. Our support team use Macs exclusively. Well loving done everybody. I worked at a place where they decided to use HP Quality Center during the time when it only worked in certain versions of IE. At least 75% of the developers were on a mac. Their solutions? a) Add a shared windows machine in the middle of the office. b) Develop a cross platform Adobe AIR application to access the API so you could do the most important pieces. a) turned out to be insufficient (duh) b) took too long (duh) - so they bought an extra PC for everyone. Amazingly, eventually b) did work and was faster to use than the native client.
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Oct 13, 2016 20:12
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Assistant Drillers at the oil company I worked for had the best email addresses.
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Oct 14, 2016 07:28
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IndustrialApe posted:poo poo pissing me off, someone actually admitting that he refuses to use python because it was invented by the people next door and they don't like their IT department (which has nothing to do with python, but hey.. academic tribalism is important!). What does he prefer to use?
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Oct 14, 2016 11:51
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:What does he prefer to use? BASIC, just to spite the other neighbours.
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Oct 14, 2016 12:53
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:What does he prefer to use? LOGO He uses the turtle to draw webforms.
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Oct 14, 2016 12:55
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evobatman posted:Assistant Drillers at the oil company I worked for had the best email addresses. I'm picturing assdrill.foo@company.com here How the gently caress do you miss that? Christ.
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Oct 14, 2016 14:34
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:What does he prefer to use? Perl, which is fine.. the reason is just dumb.
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Oct 14, 2016 14:40
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IndustrialApe posted:Perl, which is fine.. the reason is just dumb. Can you ask him when titan's coming out?
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Oct 14, 2016 15:30
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D34THROW posted:I'm picturing assdrill.foo@company.com here ONE letter off perfection there!
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Oct 14, 2016 15:46
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Humphreys posted:ONE letter off perfection there! assdrills.ujohnson@company.com 
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Oct 14, 2016 16:02
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evobatman posted:Assistant Drillers at the oil company I worked for had the best email addresses. Wait, if their job title changed their email address had to change too?
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Oct 14, 2016 16:05
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I assume they were more than one and it was a group mailbox. You know, for collaborative rear end. drilling.
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Oct 14, 2016 16:14
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Today, my OfficeJet Pro 8600. It's taken a particular love of making me scan and rescan poo poo to send to customers, always eating one particular corner faster than another in the ADF and jacking up the scan. Stop. It. 
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Oct 14, 2016 17:02
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I was more childish and thinking: assdrill.poo@company.com
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