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SEKCobra posted:Have you tried turning it on? Lmao
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Middleman to a middleman to a middleman is loving with my cashflow and expecting me to just take it. Why can I not let these things go and just ignore them? Why do I have to fight on principle despite it achieving nothing?
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Jul 23, 2018 16:45
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I need to enroll the people making decisions at this company in a formal logic course. It's either that or going postal. This loving project has been in limbo for weeks. I was given a spreadsheet diagramming expected behavior. For each numbered case, there was a "logic" column that presented logical statements like "If they purchased a previous kit or scan product". Then there was a column of product codes to display in the filtered list (the whole project is building this filtering service to restrict the products that can be selected for the customer). I discovered that this spreadsheet made no sense. Some of the cases were redundant; case 8 was the exact same as 6, but it added "and they previously purchased a kit or scan"....but if any of the other poo poo was true, this was true by default (they can't be in the case status being checked for if they never had one of these products). But there was also some overlap....the case just asking if they purchased a kit or scan would always be true for most of the other cases, and the product list was then appended to those. Then QA was unable to cope with this and refused to test things unless that spreadsheet was revised to PRECISELY spell out the exact behavior. But the infuriating part.....they said go ahead and remove the redundant cases that add literally nothing. Fine. But then they just go "oh and if ___, just remove these product codes". You can't be that anal about the spreadsheet and testing and then just say "just do this". In my experience, any time a non-programmer opens with "can't you just....", what follows is always a simple statement that is loving impossible to implement in code. There's a reason the requirements are supposed to be stated as positive requirements. These scenarios should always be "if ____ is true, do this". The way I have this coded, I have a class method for each scenario that makes the checks and appends the products if they're met (if there's product overlap, I flatten the list later and remove duplicates). It's just infuriating when they delay this poo poo for weeks, making me look bad because this 8-pointer keeps rolling over sprint to sprint, being needlessly pedantic about testing (it's not that loving hard to just see that your test case can satisfy more than one scenario), and yet now they just throw that out the window with a "can't you just...." impossible request  I just kicked it back to them with "you need to present this request like the rest of the acceptance criteria and revise these scenarios; I can't "just" remove products, you need to be precise about when these products SHOULD be shown, not when they shouldn't". I just want this to be over.
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Jul 23, 2018 16:54
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poo poo pissing me off: After nearly a year of fending off poachers I've lost my extra cubicle/workbench Something not pissing me off: One of my coworkers is leaving in a month and I will get his office. Something else pissing me off: I may not be able to keep the office for very long, since we will be doing a remodel this fall and that office may not survive the process.
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Jul 23, 2018 19:18
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I have almost limitless time for people who don't know a lot but are ambitious, I have a bit less time for people who don't seem to learn but otherwise have their hearts in the right place, but absolutely gently caress lazy pieces of poo poo who are happy to put in sod-all effort under the expectation that somebody else is going to do their job for them.
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Jul 23, 2018 20:51
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Actuarial Fables posted:Nothing like being handed a cum-stained laptop to start out a Monday morning. ...how in the hell? Actuarial Fables posted:sales Oh, say no more. No, seriously, please don't  ...
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Jul 23, 2018 21:20
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I've never had a job where there were offices. Everything is open plan 
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Jul 23, 2018 21:25
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nexus6 posted:I've never had a job where there were offices. Everything is open plan Open plan has actually been proven to reduce productivity, but managers like it because it lets them catch people slacking slightly more often.
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Jul 23, 2018 21:54
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You mean because they can cram in more desks
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Jul 23, 2018 21:59
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chin up everything sucks posted:Open plan has actually been proven to reduce productivity 4 day weeks have shown to increase productivity too, but no manager I've ever worked for believed it.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:00
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nexus6 posted:4 day weeks have shown to increase productivity too, but no manager I've ever worked for believed it. I always loved working 4x10s when it was offered, especially when overnight.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:02
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You mean improved buzzword workflow and increased paradigm dynamics in a modern workplace layout no nobody involved in this decision is giving up their office why would you think that
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Jul 23, 2018 22:03
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Collateral Damage posted:Some PC servers have "hot"-swap RAM as well. You need to take the module offline first, which causes the memory controller to redistribute the content to the other modules, then you can swap it out and put it back online. There are also some that support mirrored RAM configurations where the same data is stored in two sticks (meaning you effectively have half the available RAM) and the loss of a module theoretically doesn't cause any data loss. I've seen this on a lot of midrange and up servers, though never with actual hot swap support. I'd have to assume that any boards supporting "hot" swap of the modules also supports a mirrored mode. Of course in reality just like with a RAID system it's always better to properly offline the component being replaced through the OS because there can still be unexpected hiccups if you just yank the hardware out.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:26
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Sprechensiesexy posted:F5 documentation "You want to run a trunk from the F5 to a vPC pair make sure LACP is set to passive" Gotta be active on one half of it dawg Activate it extra good and it should go E: “have you tried turning it off and never turning it on again and looking into a change of careers?”
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Jul 23, 2018 22:42
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Proteus Jones posted:He'll definitely have a SPARK system if he tries to hot-swap components. Back in the day I hot swapped ide drives a few times on a desktop pc.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:47
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nexus6 posted:4 day weeks have shown to increase productivity too, but no manager I've ever worked for believed it. As have 6 hour work days
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Jul 23, 2018 22:48
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chin up everything sucks posted:As have 6 hour work days I instituted a personal policy of 6 hour workdays 4 years ago and nobody's called me on it yet.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:49
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wolrah posted:
It's amazing how often people use "the system should handle it" as an excuse/shortcut for doing things properly. The drive that's blinking red is the bad one, let's just yank and replace, why go into the raid manager? Restarting Windows shuts down the SQL service, why would we shutdown the service first before we initiate a restart? We have multipathing on this VMWare host, why should we put it in maintenance mode before re-cabling one path? "Mechanical sympathy" is a thing in the IT world and you should never lean on disaster level protections to do routine maintenance.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:50
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chin up everything sucks posted:As have 6 hour work days That's lazy millennial talk! Why don't you want to give up half of your waking life for a job that pays less than people were making thirty years ago? Sounds like you just don't want to work!
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Jul 23, 2018 22:52
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bull3964 posted:
I agree with your other examples, but why is this an issue? A soft reboot/shutdown should gracefully shutdown any services. And while I have seen exceptions to this, it's usually lovely LOB applications not something ubiquitous like SQL Server.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:11
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Jaded Burnout posted:I instituted a personal policy of 6 hour workdays 4 years ago and nobody's called me on it yet. In a given week I'd say I do 15 minutes of actual work.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:25
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The Fool posted:I agree with your other examples, but why is this an issue? The timeout is shorter. If you have a larger SQL instance, it may take longer to shutdown and unmount the DBs than the OS will wait for during a restart process. Windows won't wait forever for a service to stop on its own and may consider it hung and terminate when you really just have to wait longer.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:29
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A third party hasn't made their change at the agreed time, well done all the people involved. Why does basic competence seem to be an unachievable goal?
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Jul 23, 2018 23:32
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Jaded Burnout posted:You mean because they can cram in more desks Open offices are cheaper, less stuff to buy and replace. Open offices are cheaper to move desks around. (Less cubes to take apart) Open offices allow you to cram as many people in as possible. Open offices look more modern and sound better on paper. And like a previous poster said, the people making the decisions rarely are sitting in the open office. Funny how that works.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:33
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xzzy posted:In a given week I'd say I do 15 minutes of actual work. I do more than he does, but here I'm not talking about actual work vs apparent work, I arrive at 9:30 and leave at 4:30 with an hour for lunch.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:34
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bull3964 posted:The timeout is shorter. If you have a larger SQL instance, it may take longer to shutdown and unmount the DBs than the OS will wait for during a restart process. Windows won't wait forever for a service to stop on its own and may consider it hung and terminate when you really just have to wait longer. Incredible, had no idea this was a thing. Makes so much more sense now on some past experiences. Expecting a windows system to properly shut down a windows service isn't unreasonable though. I am still going to remove a blinking red drive though because gently caress the world.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:37
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WFH is so good. Had a great lasagna from last night with a beer for lunch, then went on a hour hike while answering slack occasionally from my phone.
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Jul 23, 2018 23:41
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Weve tried to get our slavemasters to allow us 4x12h and 4 days off but they say no. We currently do weird 8h shifts with 4d on, 1d off, 4d on, 1d off, 4d on, 6d off rotation Sormus fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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Jul 23, 2018 23:56
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Office design chat: My dad worked for DoI for a good 40 years (not IT, he used computers for decades writing and editing regulations and still types with two fingers). When they moved buildings, they ran out of space for his cube, but had an empty office. He did not rate an office, so they put a cube inside the office, effectively blocking the window. I swear to God this is true. Zil posted:I always loved working 4x10s when it was offered, especially when overnight. It's fan-loving-tastic. I'm about to go back to 5 days after two years of 4x10, and I'm quite sad about it.
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Jul 24, 2018 00:34
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Jul 24, 2018 00:41
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I berated a project manager for 10 minutes on a call today and just snapped when he said "maybe you just overcommitted hmmm" when we got voluntold to work on this with no extra staffing. I'm so embarrassed and pissed off at myself. This project is becoming such a clusterfuck and so many people are getting added in because everyone wants to be a part of it that it's falling apart because of to many hands in the jar. Good news is we're just about done setting up the Production Infrastructure so we can pull back some...but I think we have to teach all these new devs how our pipelines and culture work....
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Jul 24, 2018 01:33
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xzzy posted:Also if you know the customer has nowhere else to go. I used to help setup IVRs on PBX's and I had at least two office managers start crying when I'm trying to help them whiteboard the call menu.
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Jul 24, 2018 04:48
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IVRs are tools of satan, so checks out.
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Jul 24, 2018 04:51
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Virigoth posted:I berated a project manager for 10 minutes on a call today and just snapped when he said "maybe you just overcommitted hmmm" when we got voluntold to work on this with no extra staffing. I'm so embarrassed and pissed off at myself. This project is becoming such a clusterfuck and so many people are getting added in because everyone wants to be a part of it that it's falling apart because of to many hands in the jar. Good news is we're just about done setting up the Production Infrastructure so we can pull back some...but I think we have to teach all these new devs how our pipelines and culture work.... Sometimes the boss needs to be told when he's out of loving line. Assholes act that way because they usually don't experience consequences. 50/50 you've made an enemy or you've snapped what has always been his paper maché spine. Good for you, and good luck.
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Jul 24, 2018 07:51
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Bob Morales posted:I am bad at communication Argh this makes me mad, half your boss's purpose is to take the factual information you give him and present it to the executives in a way they can digest, understand, and accept. Your boss is a drat coward.
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Jul 24, 2018 07:54
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4X9 was great. The 3 day weekend was bliss. I'd even go 4x10 if i could at this job. Caught up on my e-mail last week. it's been quiet. Glad I managed to convince my boss to get me a pluralsight account.
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Jul 24, 2018 09:34
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Sickening posted:And like a previous poster said, the people making the decisions rarely are sitting in the open office. Funny how that works. Job #1: Open office except director who had his own office Job #2: Open office except CEO who had his own office Job #3: Open office except senior staff who had their own offices Job #4: Open office, nobody had their own office Job #5: Open office except managing director who had a desk separate from everyone else Current job: Open office except senior staff who have their own offices Whaddaya know
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Jul 24, 2018 09:55
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xzzy posted:In a given week I'd say I do 15 minutes of actual work. All of my actual work these days is just sending out an occasional email or transporting a backup. Meaning that i'm gonna get in like 1000 hours of python in the next year.
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Jul 24, 2018 10:08
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Totally unrelated to stuff going on with a now ex-driver of ours, is there an easy way to save a complete SMS conversation stream from an iphone into something readable like a text file etc.?
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Jul 24, 2018 10:59
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Humphreys posted:Totally unrelated to stuff going on with a now ex-driver of ours, is there an easy way to save a complete SMS conversation stream from an iphone into something readable like a text file etc.? Not sure about direct from the phone but if you have Messages linked on a laptop or whatever you can do a simple select-all copy/paste.
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