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Collateral Damage posted:Depends on how standard you consider USB-C to be by now, but no. They have four USB-C ports and an audio jack. (insert iPhone 7 joke here)
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anthonypants posted:They're not USB-C ports, they're Thunderbolt with C-type connectors. But aren't they compatible both ways? Man do I hate everything.
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Polio Vax Scene posted:If you put a fancy é or è in your resume filename I hate you What about ë?
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Polio Vax Scene posted:If you put a fancy é or è in your resume filename I hate you What if it's 'curriculum vitae.doc' 
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Jerk McJerkface posted:But aren't they compatible both ways? Man do I hate everything.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:But aren't they compatible both ways? Man do I hate everything. Sort of. I think. Explanation of where the line is are not well documented.  I believe thunderbolt 3 functions like a superset of usb-c 3.1 in that it allows for "next gen" features like external video cards and 4k displays and the like. You can plug any usb-c device into it and it works fine (assuming the drivers exist). Going the other way is not a guarantee. You won't be plugging a razer core into a usb-c port for example.
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pixaal posted:They likely only need to restart the print service. HA! That's how the office does it! By restarting the server. Complete with password under the keyboard and so dusty you could guess the admin login by which keys aren't dusty. I love being off the network. Also, not my problem and as if our IT support company will fix anything
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I have a whopping TWO tickets open with ATT. my service rep just can't seem to understand that they are different issues (in fact wildly, obviously different) and constantly confused them even when I remind her every time. She also sends brand new emails every time instead of replying to threads. So annoying.
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Oct 28, 2016 16:57
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Bigass Moth posted:She also sends brand new emails every time instead of replying to threads. So annoying. This is up there with war crimes on the list of bad things to do.
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xzzy posted:Sort of. I think. Explanation of where the line is are not well documented. USB-C Alternate Mode basically allows arbitrary use of the USB3 data lines on the Type C connector. You get four high speed differential pairs (optionally supporting the USB2 pair as a fifth with a dock or nonremovable cable) plus a low speed pair while retaining USB standard power and configuration channels. At the moment Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, HDMI, and MHL all have official alternate modes. Intel has proposed one for analog audio to allow smartphones to drop the jack while supporting a passive adapter. Some have discussed an Ethernet mode, which could either be passive similar to the audio mode or active using SGMII, XAUI, etc.
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Oct 28, 2016 17:30
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Bob Morales posted:What if it's 'curriculum vitae.doc' Last night I was trolling through Monster.com and they ask you to name your CV to "Make it more interesting to people to search for!"
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Bigass Moth posted:She also sends brand new emails every time instead of replying to threads. So annoying. Our ticketing system has no concept of "reply to mail from customer", only "send a mail from the ticket". One of many little things to hate about it.
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Our ticketing system allows handling tickets in email just fine, but what it doesn't do is trim quote trees so if it's a long ticket and you try to view it through the web browser the comment history is a scroll wheel destroying waste of effort.
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Pissing me off: Getting up at 6 AM in a cold house to get ready for work, giving myself an extra ten minutes over Google's estimated travel time, and still being late. I really hate this hour long commute. I like the work, but it's only the end of my first week and I'm already considering looking for something closer to home. The only reason I hesitate is that I'm making 30% more than my previous highest paying job. Less per hour once you consider it as a 10 hour day, but I need the money.
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 Hey, can you tell me why my test Skype for Business conferencing doesn't work? Is this the test environment you installed without our help and hasn't worked at all? Yes, this is that one. So do you know why? What did the system, IIS and SfB logs say? I don't know, I haven't looked at logs. So do you know why? ...This happens multiple times a week.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off: Getting up at 6 AM in a cold house to get ready for work, giving myself an extra ten minutes over Google's estimated travel time, and still being late. I really hate this hour long commute. I like the work, but it's only the end of my first week and I'm already considering looking for something closer to home. The only reason I hesitate is that I'm making 30% more than my previous highest paying job. Less per hour once you consider it as a 10 hour day, but I need the money. I took a like, 2% pay cut to go from a 1 hour commute to a 5 minute commute and holy poo poo is life so much better!
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anthonypants posted:They sent me a screenshot of the zone file. Why For security reasons, when you change the registrant's first name, last name, or organization name, you consent to a 60 day lock on transferring the domain name. Because you have provided your consent, Section 3(6) of the ICANN Policy on Transfer of Registration between Registrars permits us to decline your transfer request. hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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mattfl posted:I took a like, 2% pay cut to go from a 1 hour commute to a 5 minute commute and holy poo poo is life so much better! Yeah, my last job was 10 minutes away, it was really nice. This one pays $22 opposed to $16.5 though. That's an extra $5-600 per month since I'm exempt from federal taxes this year, which goes a long way.
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anthonypants posted:The transfer you requested has been declined because you opted-in to a transfer lock for 60 days when you agreed to the GoDaddy Change of Registrant policy. Called It
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quote:Upon denying a transfer request for any of the following reasons, the Registrar of Record must provide the Registered Name Holder and the potential Gaining Registrar with the reason for denial. The Registrar of Record may deny a transfer request only in the following specific instances: gently caress off is agreeing to terms and conditions express written objection.
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ratbert90 posted:I am a embedded Linux engineer. I am going to try to convince my boss I need a surface studio. Learn to use hyper-v. Congrats you've got a 27 inch adjustable linux box.
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Thor. gently caress my whole weekend I guess
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Bob Morales posted:What if it's 'curriculum vitae.doc' Surely its curriculum vitæ.doc?
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milk milk lemonade posted:Thor. block all attachments (except for pdf). That's what i had to do  Now is the time to move to memecast and sandbox all attachments. Or  option barracuda.
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I got a notice on Tuesday that we would be hiring someone in customer service and interviews would be during the week and they should have the name Thursday. Okay great I said I don't like only being told at 4:50 on a Friday when someone starts on Monday. Thursday (yesterday) I am told they are going to need more time. Okay sure. 4:45PM Friday (10 minutes ago) I get a Resume on my desk: Make accounts for Monday 8AM. Sure the accounts are now made but I don't like being told last minute. I was prepared and had the powershell script ready to spit out the return statement. Debating claiming I needed to remote in to get the accounts made since it's documented as a 45 minute task before I automated making the 6 accounts. I'd get an extra hour of sleep on Monday, but no user is going to have a problem during that time aren't they. They are already coming in before my scheduled time. Yes you read right I get a resume, that means make an account. That's our process, if I'm not aware of a department I get to read the resume and fumble around to try and figure it out since HR usually isn't even informed yet since we almost always start hiring from a temp agency which doesn't involve HR only the hiring manager. This is honestly better than when I started and the process was manager takes person to me and they hover while I make accounts.
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pixaal posted:This is honestly better than when I started and the process was manager takes person to me and they hover while I make accounts. 
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incoherent posted:block all attachments (except for pdf). That's what i had to do Not even remotely in my control unfortunately. Hope their backups are tight cause their file server just got hosed
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incoherent posted:block all attachments (except for pdf). That's what i had to do Why 'except for pdf'?
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"so uh, you spend a lot of time looking at Jiras huh..." Because I'm underutilized and bored, duh Instead: "uhm.... I like knowing how things work..." "I have to read that stuff and I don't even understand things by reading it" I wish I wasn't doing this job answering rote questions for idiots who know just enough to be dangerous, or the loving retards who think they know more than me yet are calling me for help. I wish I was getting my hands dirtier and working with the software itself. That being said, programming just makes me mad. Can't there be a position for QAing software or giving feedback on the UI design that doesn't require some bullshit like a psych degree? (which btw, why do you need that, when it's common sense how and what users will expect or want?) I don't have those degrees and I'm pretty confident I could spend a few hours designing a better UI that these chucklefucks come up with. Instead you have one team designing a thing they think users want, while the programmers design something they think the users won't gently caress up, and the management approves based on their minimal interactions with the customer base, gently caress the guys in the trenches and what they think. Oh, and make sure it takes 6 months for it to come out, and when it does, you drop half the things you wanted in the first place because it would take too much money to implement. /rant GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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Sure, there are design positions. User Experience (often abbreviated UX) Designer is probably what you're looking for. I'm a dev so I don't really know much about the tools they use but a very cursory glance at job postings shows me things like Photoshop, Illustrator and Visio. Stuff you can use to sketch out both user interface layouts and a user's path through a hypothetical program, I imagine. Though unless you find a position doing that kind of thing that's also product/project management (possible in small companies), you aren't going to have any control over how long a product takes to build or what features get dropped on the floor. You're going to create a beautiful classical painting of a UI and the customer is going to throw a fit and demand that it be smeared with donkey feces, if they don't reject it outright and give you something they dreamed up while high or something they liked 27 years ago instead. And the product manager is going to tell you, "I know we pay you specifically for this, but we are going to ignore you and give the customer what they think they want instead. We like wasting money and producing sub-par products!" If by some miracle your design gets accepted the devs are going to make compromises to get some MVP out the door before an arbitrary deadline. Some piece of your design that ties the whole thing together is going to get left out because function always trumps form (at least from the devs' perspective), and imposed deadlines are never far enough in the future to get both exactly where everyone wants them to be. Obviously I exaggerate here, but this is the general reality of software development. Successful shops will accept this reality and find ways to work well within it. It usually involves being flexible and open to doing a lot of your work over again. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I don't have those degrees and I'm pretty confident I could spend a few hours designing a better UI that these chucklefucks come up with. Instead you have one team designing a thing they think users want, while the programmers design something they think the users won't gently caress up, and the management approves based on their minimal interactions with the customer base, gently caress the guys in the trenches and what they think. Oh, and make sure it takes 6 months for it to come out, and when it does, you drop half the things you wanted in the first place because it would take too much money to implement. There's some element of truth to this, but it's not always as bad as all that. What you're looking for is either a User Experience (Design) position or a Product Manager position. Both are more difficult than they appear, and there's some validity for the psych or business education requirements you find. However, that "common sense" you're talking about? It's not as common as you think. If you have that and the experience to do the actual work of the position, you can often get past the degree requirements. I like to describe that as "being able to speak both engineer and customer." It's a valuable skill. As for your rant, I feel you're looking at it purely from the perspective of front-line product support. While I firmly believe that is a valid perspective, it's not the only perspective. If you are in support, you see your product at its worst all day, every day, but the average user may never see these things. Being able to broaden your perspective is required if you want to take a bigger role in a product's lifecycle. Here's an idea of the Product Manager's role from the perspective of a reasonable company crewed by adults who listen to each other. Shocking, I know, but they do exist. I'm happy to work with such a company. Product Management takes feedback from stakeholders, including but not limited to Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, and others. Executives in the company (of course) set the overall direction. They use this feedback and the executive mandates to build a backlog of Things That Must Be Done. Items in the backlog are budgeted, based on both monetary cost and on how long it'll take to implement. It'll take the team X days to implement a feature could make us Y dollars. That other bug is costing us Z dollars per week, but will take N weeks to complete. Other items are hard to quantify, such as negative impact. Are people talking about this negatively? Is this harming our brand or reputation? If so, maybe it's more important despite being relatively low-impact. It's a squeaky wheel, so it's considered. This is where that cutting room comes in to play. Sometimes, even though there's something that really sucks, it's simply not as valuable as something else. The software has to be released at some point, so it becomes a cycle of putting in the more valuable items (and maybe some squeaky wheels!) over the lower-value items. The Product Manager makes his decisions, and the items are scheduled for work. Everything else stays in the backlog, to be considered for the next release. This terrible calculus is how you can get those long-term bugs that never seem to get fixed, and I get your frustration. I can think of half a dozen issues I've wanted to get fixed for nearly five years that are still in the backlog because they're low impact. I hate it, but I can't argue about it. Also, just FYI, setting accurate time estimates for releases is difficult and takes a lot of time and effort. There are people whose entire careers are based on planning, budgeting, tracking, and reporting on release schedules. And even then, the budgets set are often wildly wrong, resulting in delays or major cuts or both. Lastly, let me let you in on a dirty little secret: the courage to say "no" is the sign of a good Product Manager. Imagine someone who can't say "no, this isn't a valuable feature" or "no, your pet project cannot take precedence" or even "no, it's unfinished and buggy. We cannot release it in this state, even though I'm the one who promised a release on this date in the first place. I was wrong." Do you want that person running your product? Of course not. I'd be shocked if you couldn't think of at least one misguided product sold by your company that was released in a terrible state, recalled for emergency fixes, re-released in a slightly less terrible state, then canceled entirely because slightly-less-than-terrible is still really loving awful. Maybe there's a few stragglers still out there using it. Maybe some of its tech found its way into another product. But whatever. Lots of companies have one of those. I'm sure you can think of that product. Right? Right. Bet you dollars to donuts that product was managed by yes-men.
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My predecessor so carefully covered his incompetence and irresponsibility with a thin layer of gold. Everybody here champions him as a hero because the guy before him was stuck with 1/3 the budget and had to duct tape poo poo together. Yesterday i started digging into licenses. The first red flag was there was no documentation for our licenses. When I checked vendors, it turns out my predecessor never bought licenses for anything unless it came with the device. Whatever was purchased at some point expired years ago. It's my first month and my whole budget for next year is shot trying to reconcile 4 years of license compliance. And I have to be the one to point out their hero for a fraud.
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If you think you've got it bad, consider this: my predecessor was the CEO's wife.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:My predecessor so carefully covered his incompetence and irresponsibility with a thin layer of gold. Everybody here champions him as a hero because the guy before him was stuck with 1/3 the budget and had to duct tape poo poo together. This is how they're going to react to violating licensing terms if it's anything like 95% of the organizations out there: 
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Sheep posted:If you think you've got it bad, consider this: my predecessor was the CEO's wife. Owners neice was the person before the person before me "We should bring her back" She left in....1992?
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More poo poo that pisses you off: my predecessor was the CEO's wife
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Virigoth posted:AWS AMI chat What the hell? Why is the security guy asking for this? Thanks Ants posted:The priority when dealing with companies that aren't licensed correctly is to make sure none of that poo poo can get onto you. This. Two jobs ago we got hit by a Microsoft audit to the tune of $300,000 and I got to pull out my printed copies of emails sent to, my boss, his boss and the CFO saying we were well out of compliance and we were going to get hit big if we didn't true up. Well we got hit, got billed and couldn't immediately pay. When a merger later came up, this item in the disclosures was one of the facts that sufficiently weakened our position such that, during the merger it was our set of employees that got laid off as redundant instead of theirs. The first to be let go? My boss, his boss and the CFO. I was in the final six to be let go and I heard from their HR/finance folks that got one of the largest non-C-level packages of the layoffs. There is no big enough.Agrikk fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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