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MC Fruit Stripe posted:That was amazing, did you just write that off the cuff? I love everything about it. Thanks, it was off the cuff but heavily inspired by my experience at a startup.
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Volmarias posted:I want to believe that you know how strlen works and this is a troll post. Depends on what your doing. Strlen is perfectly fine if you know how big your array is. I dont do a lot of string handling to begin with anyways, but when I do its usually snprintfs and Char arrays that I memset to 0 anyways, which thinking about it he should have done to begin with. FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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ratbert90 posted:Depends on what your doing. Strlen is perfectly fine if you know how big your array is. I do t do a lot of string handling to begin with anyways, but when I do its usually snprintfs and Chad arrays that I memset to 0 anyways, which thinking about it he should have done to begin with. It probably wasn't C anyway
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Sep 25, 2014 15:15
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evol262 posted:It probably wasn't C anyway Works in c++ as well. 
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Sep 25, 2014 15:18
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ratbert90 posted:Works in c++ as well. But not Java or C# or SQL any of the other managed languages where you could reasonably use char (and which are far more likely to be used for writing reports)
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Sep 25, 2014 16:19
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This year I will be receiving a separate annual review from each of my four bosses. Yes, my last boss is somehow still one of my bosses even though she and I both report to my new boss and my box is no longer below hers on the org chart. I said "this makes me feel overmanaged" and my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." Not only is that a stupid thing to say since I don't receive leadership from any of these people, nor can one person be simultaneously led by four people, but I'm actually older than my new boss. This is less like a job and more like a hallucination. And I didn't even get to choose between the red and blue pill!
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Sep 25, 2014 16:42
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evol262 posted:But not Java or C# or SQL any of the other managed languages where you could reasonably use char (and which are far more likely to be used for writing reports) char(2) with the parenthesis around the 2 like that sounds more like SQL to me, especially in the context of reports. Contextual screaming: I'm working at a startup and I think this is the 7th time we've "pivoted" since February. These pivots mean we've gone from a company that offers a fairly cool service to one that is literally just acting as a middleman between other providers and provides almost no real service of their own. We run out of money early next year if we don't get enough customers. Also, the company has fired 4 people out of 11 and is still in the process of rehiring, during a super shaky time for any company - that first year after formation.
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Urit posted:char(2) with the parenthesis around the 2 like that sounds more like SQL to me, especially in the context of reports. I don't code in SQL, and I thought the parenthesis was just a weird auto correct for square brackets. I am the man you code with. 
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Sep 25, 2014 17:04
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Urit posted:Contextual screaming: Is this your boss? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA
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Dick Trauma posted:my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." hahahahahaha is your new boss blind
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Sep 25, 2014 17:36
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Dick Trauma posted:This year I will be receiving a separate annual review from each of my four bosses. Yes, my last boss is somehow still one of my bosses even though she and I both report to my new boss and my box is no longer below hers on the org chart. I said "this makes me feel overmanaged" and my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." I would have replied "Fine, let's switch places then."
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Dick Trauma posted:This year I will be receiving a separate annual review from each of my four bosses. Yes, my last boss is somehow still one of my bosses even though she and I both report to my new boss and my box is no longer below hers on the org chart. I said "this makes me feel overmanaged" and my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." Your age?? Aren't you like in your 40s? It's not like your an intern or new guy.
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Sep 25, 2014 17:53
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Tab8715 posted:I'd honestly reply to DickTramua's email with "Yes and one million dollars". I do some EDI mapping on it. I'm not a huge fan.
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Sep 25, 2014 17:54
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Tab8715 posted:Am I the only goon that works on AS/400s? I'm sick of having work with SYSVAL, WRKOUTQ, STRPRTWRT, Fix Central, PTFs... I just threw two out. We still have one running. Actually, those weren't really running, they were just plugged in and sitting around JUST IN CASE.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:32
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Dick Trauma posted:This year I will be receiving a separate annual review from each of my four bosses. Yes, my last boss is somehow still one of my bosses even though she and I both report to my new boss and my box is no longer below hers on the org chart. I said "this makes me feel overmanaged" and my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." Jesus loving christ, tell your new boss to hire another custodial employee because the condescension pooling up is starting to rot the wood in the building.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:45
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It helped that during the conversation I'd only popped out one of my earbuds, and the other was blasting "What fresh hell" by Leviathan into my head.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:55
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Dick Trauma posted:This year I will be receiving a separate annual review from each of my four bosses. Yes, my last boss is somehow still one of my bosses even though she and I both report to my new boss and my box is no longer below hers on the org chart. I said "this makes me feel overmanaged" and my new boss said "I would've killed to have that much leadership when I was your age." The Aristocrats.
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Sep 25, 2014 19:44
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I have never understood how someone would have more than one boss. It just doesn't make any business sense.
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Sep 25, 2014 20:04
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.beer TLD's went on sale today. I'm tempted to buy thisiswhyidrink.beer and just redirect it to this thread.
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Sep 25, 2014 20:13
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ratbert90 posted:I don't code in SQL, and I thought the parenthesis was just a weird auto correct for square brackets. I know us database guys get no respect but SQL really does require a different mindset and it is dangerous for developers without this to get too involved. I've lost count of how many cursors and how much questionable dynamic SQL I've ripped out of stored procedures that were only there because the dev couldn't think in sets (sure I get that occasionally there isn't an alternative but neither of these things should be your go-to)
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A phone bill came in.... my work mobile. So it turns out that my work gave me a SIM card on a tarrif with 512KB of data with further usage charged at £1.80, they did not put a data block on the SIM. I work mostly from home with some on-site work. I had a relationship breakup back in June, and moved out onto a friend's couch, she did not have broadband. In those two weeks I used just over a gig of data. £1800 phone bill, the bill has only just reached my boss and alerted him to the problem. The bills for July and August are yet to arrive. Lum fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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I posted this in the Coding Horrors thread, but figured it'll be a better audience here. AWS is rebooting their entire cloud this weekend to deal with the Xen/bash vuln: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/09/25/amazon_readies_global_glory_reboot/ So... good luck if you have mission critical stuff on AWS I guess?
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Scaramouche posted:I posted this in the Coding Horrors thread, but figured it'll be a better audience here. AWS is rebooting their entire cloud this weekend to deal with the Xen/bash vuln: Huh. This affect S3?
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Lum posted:A phone bill came in.... my work mobile. Are you on the hook for this? I assume they gave you the work mobile to enable you to do work from home.
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Scaramouche posted:I posted this in the Coding Horrors thread, but figured it'll be a better audience here. AWS is rebooting their entire cloud this weekend to deal with the Xen/bash vuln: If it's mission critical you're already doing multiple Availability Zones and working with high availability systems anyway. Right ? Netflix probably won't notice this, Dropbox will probably be ok.
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Simpleboo posted:Are you on the hook for this? I assume they gave you the work mobile to enable you to do work from home. They assumed I would use my home broadband. I assumed they wouldn't have chosen such a ridiculous tariff. In the 2 or so years I've worked from home, they have had a lot more than a gig of data out of me, for free! After getting to the bottom of what went on, I basically said that in writing. I pointed out that O2 (the SIM provider) do a tariff with 5GB / month, unlimited calls and unlimited texts for £20/month and that I couldn't reasonably be expected to realise that my phone (which had no data bar in place) was on such a horrendous tariff since O2 don't even list the one I'm on for sale.
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Sirotan posted:.beer TLD's went on sale today. I'm tempted to buy https://thisiswhyidrink.beer and just redirect it to this thread. Whoever you are, I love you.
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Sirotan posted:Whoever you are, I love you. Holy crap that was fast
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A couple of devs sent me an email requesting they be given admin rights to upload .vbs files on our production SharePoint site. Let's see what IT Security has to say about that.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:58
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Had a developer tie up one of my guys today for 45 minutes saying that RDP wasn't working. Claimed he was using the right account, etc. etc. My guy does a screen share, developer was trying to log into the wrong domain and wrong account. Same developer later says that he's tired of VDI, it's slow, etc. He'd been compiling stuff on it all day...when they have a TFBuild server that we paid consultants to come in and setup at his request. My next job, I will be the consumer of someone's services.
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internet jerk posted:Why would they be uploading script files to Sharepoint? That is an excellent question. I'm guessing somebody is trying to implement some kind of ridiculous hack.
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No, sir, you cannot have access to "Active Directories" to add your staff to SharePoint.
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tango alpha delta posted:That is an excellent question. I'm guessing somebody is trying to implement some kind of ridiculous hack. Sounds to me like they need manager approval and a business justification for not just the elevated privileges but what it is they're trying to accomplish before it's even considered; by considered I mean denied.
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internet jerk posted:Why would they be uploading script files to Sharepoint? Probable dumb reason: They want to create a scheduled task to run the .vbs file using cscript.exe
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Lum posted:They assumed I would use my home broadband. I assumed they wouldn't have chosen such a ridiculous tariff. In the 2 or so years I've worked from home, they have had a lot more than a gig of data out of me, for free! Please keep updating on this. I got caught with a personal dongle from Orange. Had a 500MB monthly allowance with a £2/day max cap if you exceeded the quota. Worked fine for my light, occasional use. Until I got stuck in a hotel for 3 days and decided that £6 was worth it for unlimited internet for the 3 days, instead of using the hotel's expensive net (£15/day). Got saddled with a £90 charge for 3 days use as they denied that the cap existed - even though I confirmed when I bought the dongle and twice afterwards with their CS team. I've taken to recording any interactions with any company over the phone.
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So we're apparently meant to be putting "pm" in our worklog. This means preventative measure and its meant to be what we've done to stop this issue from happening again. Good idea in theory, except all our fixes are to stop a problem permanently anyway, or can't be helped (user forgot their password, on site printer has died, etc). This hasn't stopped the boss from sneering at anyone who doesn't put "pm" in front of their fix. I've not been sneered at yet, but the whole thing is just dumb. If someone is just shoving a temp fix on an issue, they need to be dealt with personally, not with some crappy policy that doesn't differentiate between things that can be prevented and things that can't. I suppose this is more a rant of "gently caress managers who just go "new policy" instead of dealing with an issue" rather than an issue with this specific scenario however. spog posted:Please keep updating on this. Agreed. It'll be interesting to see how they handle this. dogstile fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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MobileCos are hilariously dumb - if they're not doing crazy poo poo like letting low level engineers read SMSes to/from certain numbers without any monitoring (at least they were in 2002), then it's different fiefdoms within the company fighting each other as to why things do not work.
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dogstile posted:So we're apparently meant to be putting "pm" in our worklog. This means preventative measure and its meant to be what we've done to stop this issue from happening again. PM surgically forced users eyelids open and had them watch their password being typed over and over again. Attached punishment electrodes to users naughty bits and forced them to type their password 10 times in a row, correctly. Removed electrodes when user revealed that screams were of pleasure, shuddered.
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Volmarias posted:PM surgically forced users eyelids open and had them watch their password being typed over and over again. Attached punishment electrodes to users naughty bits and forced them to type their password 10 times in a row, correctly. Removed electrodes when user revealed that screams were of pleasure, shuddered. This is even better of you didn't read the posts above and though PM meant Project Manager.
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