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geeves posted:One of our VPs recently told us a story how his former COO used to hold phone conference meetings from home. In the bathtub. This is awesome and I would love to do it too, though? As long as there's no camera and the sloshing is minimised why should you care how I luxuriate in my own home?
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Volmarias posted:This is awesome and I would love to do it too, though? As long as there's no camera and the sloshing is minimised why should you care how I luxuriate in my own home? Yeah the one thing that got me about that anecdote was that it probably had a terrible echo.
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Nov 29, 2018 07:08
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geeves posted:One of our VPs recently told us a story how his former COO used to hold phone conference meetings from home. In the bathtub. Hey it was good enough for Winston Churchill.
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Nov 29, 2018 13:49
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necrobobsledder posted:American business always seems to have standard practices border upon near-criminal and completely rear end in a top hat practices. I’m not particularly convinced that it’s efficient beyond what it looks like on paper. Welcome to capitalism.
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Nov 29, 2018 14:11
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Volmarias posted:This is awesome and I would love to do it too, though? As long as there's no camera and the sloshing is minimised why should you care how I luxuriate in my own home? I read this as a response to the masturbation story 
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Nov 29, 2018 14:14
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Volmarias posted:This is awesome and I would love to do it too, though? As long as there's no camera and the sloshing is minimised why should you care how I luxuriate in my own home? It's the only place I get good signal!
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Nov 29, 2018 15:33
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Che Delilas posted:It baffles me how blasé our management is about sharing intimate details of our product with the people we're selling it to. No, I'm not taking a screenshot of our goddamned cloud infrastructure or putting together a class hierarchy diagram for a particularly noisy client. They're subscribing to our service, not buying a how-to guide to make their own.
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Nov 29, 2018 15:46
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I am working on a user story in a specific area of our application that I am familiar with. There are two user stories left for our team to work on in this area - the one I have assigned to myself, and the other that literally states "To be determined after all other [Application Area] user stories are completed" as the first thing in the description box, bold text and everything. It's even linked as a successor story in Azure DevOps. Guess what user story got picked up by another dev before I'm done with my user story?
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Nov 29, 2018 17:54
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Vulture Culture posted:If your infrastructure is somehow your secret sauce, what benefit are you even getting from the cloud? Those were examples of the many things they've asked for, almost as if they want some insight on how to build it themselves.
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Nov 30, 2018 01:22
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Che Delilas posted:Those were examples of the many things they've asked for, almost as if they want some insight on how to build it themselves.
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Nov 30, 2018 02:20
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necrobobsledder posted:American business always seems to have standard practices border upon near-criminal and completely rear end in a top hat practices. I’m not particularly convinced that it’s efficient beyond what it looks like on paper.
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Nov 30, 2018 04:15
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How is it that people in TYOOL 2018 still can't use Outlook worth a drat, especially employees at a software development company? It's kind of a rhetorical question, but why would you reuse a separate email thread to report a new bug ticket, only to have the two tickets inevitably get mixed up in the email thread and confusing everyone involved? The "New Email" button is only like 5 buttons to the left of "Reply All". TGIF.
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Nov 30, 2018 16:13
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Protocol7 posted:How is it that people in TYOOL 2018 still can't use Outlook worth a drat, especially employees at a software development company? Microsoft's GUI changes are rear end is how
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Nov 30, 2018 16:40
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dumb question: for a parent--<child data model, when looking for the child in a REST service, is: /parents/{id}/childs/{id} more restful, or should I just go /childs/{id} I feel like the first is more RESTful but the second makes more sense and I'd like to know your collective thoughts on the matter (doesn't count as bikeshedding if it's an asynchronous conversation  )
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Nov 30, 2018 16:46
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Microsoft's GUI changes are rear end is how It is but I imagine the "reusing one thread to talk about something else" thing isn't unique to Outlook. Edit: The one that gets me is when people use an email from me to open up Skype with that email as the subject line while talking about something else completely.
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Nov 30, 2018 16:55
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ChickenWing posted:dumb question: for a parent--<child data model, when looking for the child in a REST service, is: The first one is more consistent: GET /parents = List all parents GET /parents/{id} = Get a specific parent GET /parents/{id}/children = List all children of parent GET /parents/{id}/children/{childId} = Get a specific child Of course, you could opt for both consistency and convenience and make GET /parents/{id}/children/{childId} and GET /children/{childId} map to the same controller action. New Yorp New Yorp fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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Nov 30, 2018 17:28
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:Of course, you could opt for both consistency and convenience and make This is what I was going to say. If you anticipate a situation where you might have the child ID, but not the parent ID, you might want to have this route available so the parent wouldn't need to be looked up.
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Nov 30, 2018 17:36
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That begs the question, is every child id globally unique or just unique to the parent? And if it is globally unique, do you even call that a parent child relationship, or is it just two associated sets of data?
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Nov 30, 2018 17:46
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:i could write a book about things that can go wrong with putting spas in iframes. it'd go like: My current employer puts everything in "popups" that are just an iframe inside a div. I spend more time fighting bugs that must have existed since they started doing this 15 years ago than I do on anything else. My current headache is that querySelectAll run on the parent dom doesn't appear to search inside iframes.
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Nov 30, 2018 18:16
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I remember introducing an employer to XMLHTTPRequest in like 2007, rewriting the core part of their product to simply send the relevant data and have the browser do something useful, instead of creating entirely new pages every time. I was apparently some sort of wizard back then, especially since I preferred debugging my local environment via the debugger instead of printing debug logs. In retrospect there was a lot wrong with that place.
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Nov 30, 2018 18:24
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:It is but I imagine the "reusing one thread to talk about something else" thing isn't unique to Outlook. Thank god our company is switching to Teams by the end of next year. Skype for Business is such rear end.
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Nov 30, 2018 19:32
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LLSix posted:My current employer puts everything in "popups" that are just an iframe inside a div. i've seen crazy bullshit like people trying to make context menus and dropdowns using iframes (if you hear the term "iframe mask" from a developer, you should take away commit privileges).
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Nov 30, 2018 19:58
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Protocol7 posted:Thank god our company is switching to Teams by the end of next year. Skype for Business is such rear end. We used Teams for a while. Good luck is all I have to say.
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Nov 30, 2018 19:59
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dantheman650 posted:We used Teams for a while. Good luck is all I have to say. We haven't had any technical problems with it, but our company is one of the larger companies out there and has some pull with Microsoft, so I suspect we get the primo support.
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Nov 30, 2018 20:15
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The best thing I have to say about Teams is that it is an improvement over Skype.
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Nov 30, 2018 20:37
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does teams allow for copying and pasting things that are more than 6 characters?
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Nov 30, 2018 21:07
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:does teams allow for copying and pasting things that are more than 6 characters? I've never had that issue with Skype, though in my experience it is a complete PITA to copy anything in Skype. It is about 90% less of a pain in the rear end to copy anything in Teams. It retains all formatting and hyperlinks if pasted into Word or something though.
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Nov 30, 2018 21:58
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Teams is kinda slow sometimes (on Mac) but 1000% better than Skype.
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Nov 30, 2018 22:13
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ChickenWing posted:dumb question: for a parent--<child data model, when looking for the child in a REST service, is: How do you deal with the relationships between a grandfather, father, and son?
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Nov 30, 2018 22:47
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Protocol7 posted:How is it that people in TYOOL 2018 still can't use Outlook worth a drat, especially employees at a software development company? I've never used outlook in my life, AMA
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1068569128506728448
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Pedestrian Xing posted:Teams is kinda slow sometimes (on Mac) but 1000% better than Skype. I imagine 50% of corporate espionage now is capturing Google searches of IM conversations accidentally pasted into a browser address bar because Skype refuses to just copy the URL.
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm not sure I would sweat that any more than I would worry about another company's engineering team cobbling together a competitive threat from Stack Overflow snippets, personally. If they're wasting all their time fishing for things that are either obvious or unimportant, it's pretty clear they have neither the technical expertise nor the initiative to actually execute this or anything else. It's probably one person on the team who fancies himself the World's Best Critic looking for ways to make themselves feel smart about your product, despite being way too lazy to build anything of remotely the same complexity. I probably shouldn't give it a thought, they certainly don't have the competence to build a version of what we sell them. I just think it's dumb to drop trou like that, simple components or not.
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Dec 1, 2018 02:53
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vonnegutt posted:Apparently Amazon, for all their faults, does a written agenda thing and actually sets aside like 10 minutes at the beginning of the meeting for everyone to silently read the agenda together. That is a fault, that artificially inflates meetings by 10 minutes. You should read the agenda before you accept an invitation to decide if it's appropriate for you to be there, or if someone else needs to be there not on the agenda, or if it's something that can be solved with a one line email.
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Dec 1, 2018 03:22
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Hughlander posted:That is a fault, that artificially inflates meetings by 10 minutes. You should read the agenda before you accept an invitation to decide if it's appropriate for you to be there, or if someone else needs to be there not on the agenda, or if it's something that can be solved with a one line email. this is what they actually do for document review, not meeting agendas get together, read document silently, discuss for remainder of meeting
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TwoDice posted:this is what they actually do for document review, not meeting agendas Yeah and to be honest it’s way better than it seems.
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Janitor Prime posted:Yeah and to be honest it’s way better than it seems. i'm not convinced it's better than other forms of document review (doc comments, whatever else you want) but it's not insane
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TwoDice posted:this is what they actually do for document review, not meeting agendas Not so insane. Although there's no reason to have to read it in the room unless there's a regulatory/legal element. It's perfectly normal at my company to timebox and bill say .25 hrs to a client for having to take time out of the day to read and respond to documentation. Like our project managers may hop across a dozen clients across a day and their schedule is close to 100% booked. If the beginning of a meeting has 10mins timeboxed to read documentation (*and people who have read it can do other work while they wait) it's totally sensible.
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I did a code walkthrough today for the middletier server I've been maintaining for the last couple months. I actually feel bad that I made people sit through that and I really should have broken it down into multiple focused meetings instead of one 1h30m bore-a-thon. Lesson learned 
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Love to arrive at a conference room right when a meeting is scheduled to start to find nobody there, so I go to the bathroom and return a minute later to find people wondering out loud where I am and going, "Oh, here he is!" when I walk in! Also love for the PM to hijack their own meeting with an issue that involves the application we're talking about, but not the project, because the issue happened to the wrong customer. Then, when I say I don't know what's causing the problem, continues to explain the background of the issue for five minutes. Then, ten minutes later, finally acknowledges that I probably could've just sent an email and not come to the meeting that had only two other people in it. Ugh, this position really shouldn't be full-time and every time I have a meeting, my brain starts chanting, "QUIT! QUIT! QUIT!"
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