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Through a quirk of organization, I'm currently reporting to the manager of a remote team. This isn't so bad in and of itself, but he just absolutely does not want to talk through communicator or emails. "Hey, I have a question about this Frobnitz issue you talked about in an email, can I call you?"  Just send a goddamned email...Of course, I go into one of the phone booth rooms to call him, because he IS currently my boss...
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Lum posted:
There's something rather disturbing about that image. I don't see a man headbutting a computer, I see a headless man, or perhaps a man who has a CRT for a head. Or perhaps a computer growing a man, like some sort of fleshy appendage.
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Sep 30, 2013 18:30
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diremonk posted:Adding to that, what the job listing and what I was told in my interview is just a tiny bit different than what I'm actually going to be doing. Do your title and pay reflect your new found responsibilities?
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Oct 6, 2013 14:29
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Lum posted:poo poo that amuses me, but is probably pissing someone off right now: By kids who can't even spell check their graffiti 
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Oct 8, 2013 12:51
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Lum posted:Well to be fair, if they are Palestinian as they claim, then English won't be their first language. You'd think that "Palestinian" would be a word that they could spell correctly, though. It seems like it would be awfully high on the list. Or perhaps they are actually "Plaestinian?"
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Oct 8, 2013 13:39
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Inspector_71 posted:I found an electric typewriter in my basement at home during high school. Whenever I made mix CDs I would type up liner notes using it. My father had an electronic typewriter (a  word processor ) at his office for a long time. It was actually sort of neat; there was an input buffer with a small 80x4 screen hooked up to the keyboard, and the strikers would methodically pull a key off of the buffer until empty. If you made a mistake typing, you could hit backspace. If the text had not yet been printed, you were just amending the buffer. Otherwise, the built in white out strips would recover for you.It was a nice piece of transition technology, I have to admit.
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Oct 11, 2013 11:58
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Humphreys posted:and everyday is like a reset button, no carry over work from the previous day. This can be a huge negative if every day starts with a turd sandwich you can never improve upon.
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Oct 20, 2013 23:40
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There are issues if you rely on subsidies and benefits, it's possible for you to actually earn less, due to them disappearing at certain thresholds. That said, it's probably not what you're talking about.
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Oct 27, 2013 16:35
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sanchez posted:This is kind of the key here, there are edge cases, but it's unlikely the original poster is one of them. I wonder how many people take a Wendys gift card in exchange for overtime for this reason and consider it beating the system. Getting paid in Wendy's Frosties is an acceptable form of payment as far as I care 
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Oct 28, 2013 15:08
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Walter_Sobchak posted:Oh please, that wouldn't even be close to cracking the "Worst Stories Told in This Thread" list. Seriously. Does this story beat speculum bucket?
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Nov 4, 2013 17:14
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quote:The death of my auto repair analogy God help us all 
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Nov 9, 2013 01:17
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psydude posted:And indeed, at my previous job the older people were all "Lol nerd" when I tried to show them something Please tell me that it occurred something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43GChXc6RVY
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Nov 10, 2013 05:00
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CitizenKain posted:We currently have a pair of rotary dial telephones hooked up to our Avaya phone system. Each of those phones is older then a significant percentage of the employees in the building. Why would a modern phone system that isn't "the phone company" still support pulse dialing?  Were they really nerds' phones that were retrofitted to DTMF?
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Nov 17, 2013 16:39
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nitrogen posted:Why not? It doesn't break anything (unless you are a certain type of payphone) besides the CO still needs to monitor loop disconnects anyway, so why not? But that's like saying "why NOT support 486s in our newest kernel?" Sure, you can keep compatibility around for literally anything, but at some point you have to just let go.
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Nov 17, 2013 23:37
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Caged posted:And while you're copying and pasting poo poo into Outlook go and find that setting that removes the formatting from everything you paste. That formatting info is occasionally useful however, and outlook isn't the only thing with rich clipboard support. Take a look at http://stevemiller.net/puretext/
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mewse posted:PC load letter? What the gently caress does that mean?! It's like a Piņata, except that instead of breaking it open to shower sweets everywhere and give all the children stomachaches, breaking it open will shower toner everywhere and give all the adults cancer! 
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rolleyes posted:I'm confused by it tbh. Unless I'm missing something, under normal circumstances salting a hash shouldn't prevent you from comparing hashed values (especially for the same user) because you'd normally use the same salt value for that user all of the time. As I understand it, the point of a salt isn't to make passwords hard to compare within your own database or organisation, it's to protect against rainbow table attacks if your database is compromised externally. Giving each user their own salt is another technique that's getting more common, to prevent attackers from simply being able to build a rainbow table against your common salt.
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underlig posted:I like how the masking is actually in the shape of. .. I thought you quit, is your new job the same as the old job?
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This isn't strictly true. Investors (and i refer here to large investment organizations, since individual shareholders generally cannot force change) are willing to tolerate losses as long as there's a plan which incorporates those losses into a strategy which ends with growth. If "one quarter of loss = you're out" were true,
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Che Delilas posted:Yeah, I worded that poorly. I meant clueless in terms of knowing how a company's short-term loss will result in a long term gain because they don't know enough of the plan and/or the industry and what the implications of a decision might be. You are right that it is a generalization, as it really does depends on the investor. The most successful ones are those who pick an investment and treat it as that; an investment. Warren Buffett is probably the most famous example of this, time and time again cautioning people to make a decision and then let it be. If your company is owned by an "investment" firm that aims to squeeze as much out of your company before dumping, there's not much that can be done.
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dennyk posted:Trust me, there are much worse things in the world of mail servers than iMail. I used to work with a system that one of the many companies my place merged with built entirely in-house (with no documentation, of course); the POP3 and SMTP daemons were both Java applets running on a Solaris 8 box, all mail messages (including attachments) were stored in an Oracle database, and the webmail front end was a ColdFusion page running on a Windows 2000 server. I'm sorry, am I reading that right? As in the mail daemons were applets that required a webpage on that machine to be open? 
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Ynglaur posted:Can I quote you on this? Please? I've been annoyed by this by a particular vendor for the last 8 years. Their app literally examines the JRE version at launch, and if it doesn't match exactly, just immediately fails. (Actually, it's worse: it directs you to Java.com, which of course...only has the latest JRE version.) What's probably happening is that they certified the behavior against one specific major/minor, and do not want to support issues with any other versions, since in addition to security fixes, there might be bugfixes, or new bugs introduced. Doing a full regression test against a new minor version every week is expensive, and they don't want to constantly escalate issues to engineers on the off chance that it's actually a JVM specific issue. It's bad behavior on their part, though, since the message that they're giving you is "we care more about our support costs than your internal security." You should try to find another vendor if possible.
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Alternately, find someplace where you can
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Gweenz posted:Fellow Americans, coming in to work sick is not a badge of honor. Nobody is going to steal your job if you stay home. Regardless of the truth of that, if you're paid hourly and live paycheck to paycheck, you literally cannot afford to stay home sick. As far as salaried employees go, there's generally a limited number of sick days, after which you get to show up or get written up / fired. There is a vanishingly small number of employers which think that sick employees staying home and not sicking up the workplace is a good idea, but good luck on getting in there.
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Or at the quality that you'd like, unless that is written into the contact.
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Varkk posted:Pissing me off, clients who won't make decisions. Is there a reason you have not said that you are waiting for her boss to make a decision, and that you cannot proceed until he does?
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So, on the subject of the Penny-Arcade style of recruiting... (click to embiggen)
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luminalflux posted:Developers putting over 200k files in an S3 bucket, with no directory structure What type of files are they, and are they meant to be visible to anything but automated systems?
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ookiimarukochan posted:I've complained about "large vendor" before here several times. As a former Samsung mobile developer who still has his ear to the ground, I feel you and can probably speculate on some of the causes. Samsung has gotten where they are by being the least worst choice, not the best choice.
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I got a new job for my Christmas bonus 
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chia posted:I got a three week temporary layoff or whatever it's called starting on the first of January. Hoo-the-loving-ray. You see lemons, I see an opportunity to cram in as many in person interviews as possible.
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Inspector_666 posted:Dogecoin should not just be allowed, it should be encouraged. Such acceptable use policies Very electricity bill Many McAfee install bundles
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Humans can actually determine whether the issue marked URGENT! but involves not knowing how to save files warrants paging someone. The real solution is to post exaggerated SLAs on the form and state that urgent issues not escalated to phone support may not get the necessary attention, then rub that in the client's face if they try to say that you ignored them. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Dec 30, 2013 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:Unless I'm missing something their order page is all over pure http (didn't want to put in payment info in case I accidentally bought something but certainly the form you put in the billing address etc is submitted over http) which would have me looking for a different vendor straight off. Don't worry about it, your credit card has probably already been stolen at this point.
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Had my exit interview today, where I got to explain that the selection on the cookie platter during lunch was the driving factor in my decision to change jobs.
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Went in to work today for my goodbye lunch. No one else went in to work today due to the very heavens casting cold and dark allusions to their future without me. 
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ghostinmyshell posted:Why do salespeople do this to me? I don't work 7 days a week, stop telling our loving clients to call me directly on a Saturday because their thingamabob broke and it can wait, but you just wanna be nice. I wish my manager would put a stop to this poo poo. "Who is this? Oh, OK. I'll get to that on Monday when I'm back at work. He told you what? Oh, that was an outright lie, I'm actually hourly and not scheduled to work today. Yes, he does say a lot of things doesn't he? No, sorry, there's no one else. OK, bye!"
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Lum posted:One of the phones I had (I think it was the Nokia N97) had a wonderful feature where ignore was separate to hang up. It would silence the ringer but let the call keep ringing before being dealt with however your network would normally deal with an unanswered call (e.g. 7 rings then voicemail). That's almost certainly impossible as a 3rd party app. Surprisingly, the telephony stack is pretty much segregated to prevent dickery among other things.
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Che Delilas posted:I feel like this isn't getting enough attention and derision. This is what we call a deal-breaker. It is definitely a silly thing, but I'm curious how seriously they take it, and whether it's there to weed out "Expert" Java devs who have written upwards of 1000 lines. What am I saying, it's probably taken at face value without a trace of irony.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Starbucks is basically responsible for coffee culture in North America, even though some of their their coffees are overroasted, and "Charbucks" is some Micro$$$oft level poo poo. Yeah, I have to agree. I love me some coffee, but I'll drink a venti mocha because sometimes I just want a chocolate coffee near-milkshake  For content, my first day of work as a Googler was today! And then around 3:30 I was done with orientation (for the day) and got to meet my coworkers, and apparently I'm going to be doing server-side development instead of iOS? And then I find out that there's an on-call rotation It's me, I'm the one who's upset about his pod not having a diamond crusted shell.
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