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Customer just asked if we could interface with his spunk server. I assume that was a typo, as the alternative is too vile to contemplate.
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toe shoes posted:One of our devs got pulled up on the fact that his spacing was not matching up to the rest of the code his team is working on. He then proceeded to run a programme on the the entire apps code base to 'standardise the spacing' and wanted it to be reviewed and merged. The second company I worked for in Japan, our "outsourcing partners" used version control that converted all tab-stops to physical spaces(!) and was only 7-bit clean so it mangled any Japanese language comments added - meanwhile the dev environment did everything with soft tabs. Every time a module got sent offshore for fixing, my boss would run a diff on the thing (ignoring NOTHING) and then schedule a meeting for all of us to go through a printout of the diff, line by line, to check each change was OK. Fun days! (I could *almost* understand this given how crap the quality of code we got back was, but diffing whitespace / bringing up the comment mangling issue EVERY time was just insane) Yes we DID ask the partners to fix their version control, but they didn't. Left that job about 8 years ago and as far as I know they're still doing the same thing.
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Not a CV that popped into my in-box, but I figure this image was too good to leave stuck in "PYF Awkward, Ugly, and Gross"
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jim truds posted:using mobileiron as their MDM There's your issue (at least it's not AirWatch!) Yes, they're the magic quadrant leader at Gartner but all that tells you is that they have the deepest pockets. (Perhaps if I shipped broken updates the company I work for would be in the magic quadrant rather than the niche quadrant?) ookiimarukochan fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Toxteth OGrady posted:One of them, has 8GB of RAM, and a 32 bit OS. wtf? Toxteth OGrady posted:no one but me knows that its got 4x as much RAM as standard.
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Aug 29, 2013 18:12
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evol262 posted:Linux.
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Aug 29, 2013 18:33
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Crowley posted:We make any cable over 20m ourselves, but that's mostly because we already have the in-house tools and skills to do it, and we're making our own power, Coax and SLR cables too. Anything less than 20m get's a pre-made cable because they are just plain cheaper.
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Lum posted:Glad I'm not the only one who, as a teenager, got the job of setting up everyone else's CONFIG.SYS files whenever a new game came out. There's a weird bit in that - as far as I can tell - most of the people pushing the "PC Master-race" stuff were, at the time, Amiga gamers (certainly true of the Rock-Paper-Shotgun writers) whereas most of the PC gamers of the time are on 360 or PS3 now (famously Charlie Brooker) which is why they still moan about how difficult PC gaming is (as they have all the memories of IRQ conflicts etc - for instance the way that Soundblaster 16 clones always seemed to want to use the original Soundblaster IRQs by default, but real Soundblaster 16s used a different one, and this caused problems with crap clones/games)
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Lum posted:Didn't know Charlie Brooker still did anything to do with games
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Alctel posted:I remember still having to mess about with CONFIG.SYS and boot disks in the early 90s, which I thought was after the Amiga heyday?
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evobatman posted:"Our dedicated test servers will become the production environment at switchover". Am I right in being alarmed, or is this a thing that's done regularly? That's a LEAVE THE JOB NOW sort of thing, especially if you're technical support, as my (perhaps paranoid) suspicion is that you've only been brought in to be a fall guy (this comes from experience)
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GreenNight posted:He's actually serious - there was a huge bug in IOS and Exchange that would drain the battery if there was an Exchange account. Apple released an update just to help fix this issue. Recently MS also released some Exchange patches that did the same. It could also be that there's a badly behaved app that's using APNS for alert messages and is pinging too often.
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PurpleButterfly posted:One Japanese-speaker probably transliterated "hook" into katakana as フック, and then a different one transliterated it back into English. "gently caress" is a generally-understood term in Japan - everyone over 18 (at least) knows what it means(and, as I think I've mentioned before, in my experience when Japanese developers get angry they tend to swear in English, which I find hilarious) - they were probably being all passive-agressive at you (This is extra-likely if you're in some sort of partnership which was set up with a non-Engineering part of the Japanese company, BUT communicate with the engineers) My real joy with our Japanese partners is that as of about a year ago they decided they only ever wanted to communicate with us in English (before that it was in Japanese) - and their English is terrible. They also seem to forget that all their emails are seen by (1) a native Japanese speaker (who, admittedly, studied IT in the UK, so their engineering Japanese is not great) and (2) A bilingual engineer who's spent more time as a developer for Japanese companies in Japan than most of their employees. Sometimes this means they include chunks of emails that they really really shouldn't. It's as if they've generalised "No foreigners speak Japanese" (which isn't true anyway) out to "No-one in Foreign countries speaks Japanese" (forgetting that there genuinely are some Japanese ex-pats out there)
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Crowley posted:So... Day of the Tentacle? Current job I work from home pretty much every day, but I did once have a job where I was told to not come into the office for two weeks as I had been out of the country and they were worried about swine flu (this was me going home to the UK while working in Japan) - total cases in the UK at that point? 2, in the other end of the country. Total cases in Japan? About 600, clustered where we were!
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Lum posted:Suddenly I'm afraid that they may try American HR practices over here. Unless they were planning on re-jigging it so you're all employed by a US company - which I can't imagine they would as it causes a tax nightmare - all you'd really need to do is point out how hilariously illegal (laws that are actually enforced) many of those practices are. Chairman of the board of the US company where I work for the UK subsidiary (purely for aforementioned tax reasons) designed beer coasters we gave out at a major US trade show with screen-grabs of an iPhone with the clock at 4:20 (a reference which almost no-one got!) so I can't imagine that drug testing here would ever become a priority.
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mysteryberto posted:Pro tip to anyone with the cloud to butt extension turned on. It will replace forms you are typing in with butt as well. Normally hilarious but bad for job apps.
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Not me specifically, but hoo boy I bet a shitload of tickets are being generated at LA County right now. (If you've read the news reports, it's not "hacking", it something Apple have deliberately allowed since they added enterprise support to iOS, and apparently Apple have claimed somewhere that it's fixed in iOS 7 which is a complete lie)
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:"hacked"
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I'm actually amazed that for the pricepoint, noone's developed a way to use touchcover surfaces with a policy enforcement app
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ratbert90 posted:I once had a programmer ask my boss what a byte was. GargleBlaster posted:(I'm not sure how a firing for saying something like that is even legal in England).
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ratbert90 posted:I don't mean go program in assembly, but to have a basic understanding of how memory on a OS functions and is managed. If you don't, I am convinced your code ends up in the coding horrors thread. Congratulations, you've just described about 70~80% of people being paid to program - and it's not helped by the number of degree courses that seem to only teach languages like Java and C# which don't really do memory management (but can end up with resource/memory leaks if you don't know what you're doing!) An anecdote - rather than "data" - I know, but there was one guy I knew, with a freshly minted degree from the University of Waterloo (which is supposed to be good!) who had absolutely no idea of how anything "low level" worked because it was one of the last things they studied and it had failed to sink in (i.e. they started with the highest level programming languages and worked down, which to me seems like a terrible way to reinforce bad habits)
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Crowley posted:It's just a PR disaster waiting to happen. Apple have bluffed this out several times now (PR disasters waiting to happen I mean) and nothing sticks! Even with Jobs long gone the infamous RDF is still in place as far as I can see.
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KweezNArt posted:This happened at a company I worked for some years back. One of the newly minted DMs at the company wanted to promote friendly rivalry between the stores in his district and share information by creating spreadsheets with account IDs, profit margins, financial information, etc. on them. He then turned around and hosted them all on Google Docs.
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mysteryberto posted:MDM should be able to prevent people from upgrading to iOS7. However Apple in all their wisdom did not think that was important and users are free to upgrade as they please. The only block is IT going guys please don't upgrade.
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mllaneza posted:Remember when HP was an engineering company ? They still are, it's just that they're called "Agilent" now
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Dead Cow posted:But yes, users can uninstall it off their phones themselves, good thing we dont use it for app blocking like our sister company.
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Pilsner posted:Eh, next to sysadmins, developers are by far (on average) the most computer competent people you'll find.
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Khisanth Magus posted:I do wonder how all the "uncomfortable around someone watching porn" people would handle living some place like Japan where it seemed like regular newspapers have a porn section and said papers get read on the trains all the time. I don't know, maybe my time living there just kind of changed how I view such things.
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Crowley posted:Someone has the Helpdesk email in their contacts and gave LinkedIn permission to trawl their mail/Exhange/whatever account. LinkedIn spams you.. With the user's permission.
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We are working on integrating an API from <large company> - they approached us. They know they are talking to engineers. Any time I discover an issue - and this happens all the time, it's very immature and the sample source in the documentation is less likely to work than the Windows CE samples in MSDN (my previous benchmark) we have to go through their general ticketing system. This adds days - literally days - to the process. EVERY TIME.
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A ticket just came in, even though it was sent 8 hours ago. Hopefully this is anonymised enough: "Dear support" - all emails to our support address automatically generate a ticket. this will become relevant later "<customer> just tried to send out <over 3000> <service-specific, with a unique key in each email> emails. None of them have arrived. The <2000ish> we sent yesterday seemed to work. Is this normal?" They were using gmail addresses (i.e. they've set up well over 5000 gmail addresses, for testing) and several thousand of these addresses had typoes in them. This means several thousand bounce messages from Google, generating several thousand "a ticket was created" notification emails, and crashing the email server. It's now up and running, rate/resource limited, and I am sitting here watching the bounce messages / new ticket messages / "email couldn't be sent for over 4 hours" messages add up. This customer also sells a variety of web products, they have a larger engineering department than we do. Who in the gently caress there thought this would be a sensible idea? I mean, am I missing something here? Does this seem like a sensible thing to do to ANYONE?
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:singapore: actually - appears to be a pan-sinitic effort given the "Aizawa" surname, same as MS Taiwan's Silverlight mascot. I assume that there's an amusing pun going on there in Chinese like the Madobe surname that MS Japan uses for all their -tans (Nanami, Claudia, Yuu and Ai - and writing this out in English has finally caused me to cotton on to why the Windows 8 -tans are called Yuu and Ai) notwithoutmyanus posted:A report came out that basically said that without their Android shakedown (patent trolling) and the billions it makes they wouldn't even turn a profit in multiple business units. ookiimarukochan fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Nov 8, 2013 |
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Oh drat, I didn't even catch that he was reporting it. I would expect significant bad tidings for MS as long as they fail to compete.
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Crowley posted:A cameraman said it best when I admitted to him that I watch almost no TV at all: "TV is something we make, not something we watch." (NHK in general has this major "We are grown up people doing a grown up job. Now try and be more grown up!" thing going on that the BBC doesn't, if that helps)
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GoatShaver posted:So I work for a pro sports team, and I get a call asking me to check out some ipads that are set up for public use, as a kiosk, to only access a newspaper. Between losing my mind because people keep finding/using pins to jam into the home button, which will also them to close the kiosk software (what?) apparently an iOS update broke restrictions which led to someone adding a personal email account to the device. In public. At a sports venue. Then, queue outrage as very quickly this person realized that, oh hey, it won't let me remove my account!
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Varkk posted:One job I left they insisted on 6 weeks notice. At the time I quit I had 4 weeks of holiday time owning I needed to take or lose. I gave them the 6 weeks, then gave them 2 weeks notice I was using the holidays, as the contract stipulated. The only job I've had where they wanted me to work out my notice was the one where, up until my last day, they genuinely couldn't believe I wanted to quit.
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potato of destiny posted:E: you know, I think I meant that for the other thread. Still, though. "A ticket came in: please buy 1000 extended support agreements for Windows XP. This is affecting production" (bonus if they're wanting pre-SP3 supported, as I'm pretty sure MS won't allow that)
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Volmarias posted:
I suspect that if Lum had seen this she'd have brought it up as she obviously has more Netware experience than me, but famously Novell had an employee called Randy Bender who pushed out a least a few of their technical articles.
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I'm Randy, from Marketing.
Are you now?
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Lum posted:And yes I had a childish giggle at that name on a few occasions. Hours of fun - literally hours. Even more fun when you're reading at work, AND the only person to understand English, and people want you to explain why you're laughing. (I was genuinely barred from looking at ANY websites in English while at NEC headquarters working for them on a win32/MFC project. As anyone who is fluent in not-English will tell you, searching for programming help in any non-English language is a stupid idea - just within the remit of Microsoft here, the German MSDN is machine translated so makes no sense, and the Japanese MSDN is hand-translated which means that it is out of date, and has large chunks missing)
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