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Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Fabricated posted:

I don't really like EliteDesks but the dumb schools (I work in Academia and my group does everything from CJ poo poo up to supercomputers) that bought them before we picked up their support thankfully have not had too many problems

Optiplexes are perfectly fine past the god-loving-awful old clamshell ones which we have forcefully depreciated out of the schools that don't have/like spending money and foisted them on their poor grad students

The HP workstations seem to be fine; still prefer precisions though

Apple and HP to an extent really can't hold a candle to Dell support* though

turnaround is ridiculously quick and bullshit free

*if you're paying whatever ridiculous amount I can't recall for it like we are
I had a similar class in 2001 and we played with premiere and lightwave and it was pretty fun

the teacher had replaced all of the puck mouses though thank god

[rage] A ticket came in!

# ¿ Jul 6, 2014 07:54

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 15:58

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

qirex posted:

wow, mini microsoft comment thread getting way turbo racist

e: check this:

actually i'm pretty glad that the one racist commenter is just getting shouted down by everybody else. warms me heart

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 22:14

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

also holy poo poo why would you fire a shitton of testers. people who actually are good at and enjoy testing are pretty hard to come by.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 22:21

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

i mean i'm a tiny baby shithead who's only been working for a year, but what i've observed is:

- good testers aren't made, they seem to be born
- their skill at testing is 0% correlated with testing experience: our most detailed and skilled tester has an art degree and works part time so she can make sculptures
- since people who are good at testing often get underlying mechanics, they tend to get poached by dev

so it all adds up to if you have good testers that stay as testers and do a good job, probably give them raises instead of laying them off! because devs are not testers. they're too emotionally entangled.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 23:50

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Miley Virus posted:

just what i want for my business, funny internet jokes

we are transitioning to slackchat where i work and it is awful for this reason. loving idiot webdevs loading it up with all the reddit bullshit. it promises all this integration with services but our it team is a bunch of assclowns so it'll never happen. it also emails you every message it thinks you missed, and if you're connecting to it thru an xmpp/irc client (because there's no desktop app for linux (lol) and its web interface is dogshit becasue it's a web interface) that's all of them. luckily i have a spam button

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 14:35

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Condiv posted:

slack looks p cool, looks like it's hosted remotely though
flowdock's hosted remotely, we're trying to minimize that
hip chat is immediately disqualified for rage faces

we're not supposed to be using US services cause of NSA, but everyone wants to use skype and google docs.

if you disqualify things for rage faces I got bad news about slack

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 00:17

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

I just cut leg holes in old prada handbags

same but way way downscale

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 06:58

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Fame Douglas posted:

Money better spent on Google Apps.

i think you'll find that google apps is loving trash, op, even if for certain uses its good points (collaboration) slightly outweigh its bad points (capabilities, ui, bugs)

# ¿ Dec 31, 2014 16:55

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

my stepdads beer posted:

lol he calls firing one guy and getting someone else to do his job a total of 1.5 jobs. and you're 'less talented' if you said 'wow this is bullshit' and quit.

i think the key part they're missing is "and then hire a bunch more people until you have the same headcount you used to so people aren't sandbagging tests", but for some reason that's the part most companies miss. must be an accident oops

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 14:28

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

kalstrams posted:

more like virginot line

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 00:26

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Shaggar posted:

normal calculators don't parse equations, they compute the last operation when you hit the next one as if you hit equals.

so doing 1 + 1 x 2 is the equivalent of pressing 1+1 = x 2

yah but if it's gonna work that way it needs to update the display to show the intermediary result so you know what you're actually doing

# ¿ Apr 5, 2015 20:31

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

uncurable mlady posted:

ban

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 13:06

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

uncurable mlady posted:

vaginas aren't circular

maybe in person they are? i wouldn't know

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 13:07

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

Snapchat A Titty posted:

pretty sure they stopped using them because some exec realized how lovely it looked. Obviously both the one who decided they should use them and the one who decided they shouldn't got their bonuses. It's the way of the bubble.

hm yase fox news, up there with uber in terms of riding the bubble

# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 18:33

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

The Leck posted:

someone added a bunch of sa emojis to our work slack. i noticed when i saw as an option and figured it wasn't likely to have come from anywhere else.

i added

to ours because it is a very good emotion to convey

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 02:19

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

cinci zoo sniper posted:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

quote:

Powerful* text editors built on the web stack cannot rely on the OS text caret and have to provide their own.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 13:28

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 15:58

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

windows may be fine but a piece of software being windows only is a huge alarm bell that it's a pile of poo poo with a terrible ui made by morons forced on people who only want to escape and be happy but unfortunately this giant menu driven pile of trash only runs on Windows!

# ¿ Aug 3, 2017 01:22

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