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RFC2324 posted:I was really hoping you were reading through the thread opening replies in new tabs so we could enjoy random replies to posts from years ago. I can drink enough this next weekend and do just that.
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MF_James posted:Looking at other people's code is like staring into the abyss. Hey I commented everything perfectly on the dev build! Then I refactored and had to rewrite all the comments, so they were a little less flushed out. Then a core requirement in the scope changed, a version or two went by, another refactor, and bug fixes after test deployment. None of the comments were accurate so I deleted them all. I figured the code would change again so I didn't write new comments, but then it was packaged and delivered as final. Totally not my fault my code has no comments.
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May 21, 2018 04:08
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The best bit of code i've ever written I did while blackout drunk. I spent the night before at a party, got convinced to have a drink, ended up drinking until 5am, then decided "gently caress it, i'm not gonna sleep" and drank through my college classes. According to everyone else I was very quiet (i was probably too scared to talk in case i'd get thrown out) but the code I wrote worked and didn't have a billion wasted lines of dumb poo poo. I also didn't comment it. gently caress. I'm usually not able to program without asking for a ton of help because i'm an idiot
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May 21, 2018 09:36
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xzzy posted:Anyone who doubts this needs to work with python's datetime module for a while. After a few hours you'll be converting everything to UTC just so you can compare timestamps without wanting to stab yourself. Have a big local customer which wanted things our local time _because_. All sorts of headaches regarding Elastic stack since they are super hard on the "No, UTC only, if you are using anything else, change that"
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May 21, 2018 10:28
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I get so pissed when I see comments that are like “temporary!!!!” Or “do not remove!” With no additional documentation.
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May 21, 2018 12:13
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My favorite comment was discovered in the bowels of legacy code at my last job. "TODO: Find a better way to do this." I checked, and that comment had been added over two years prior and it was doing some really shady raw SQL poo poo that turned out to be the root cause of a half dozen bugs in the backlog.
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May 21, 2018 14:59
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Bigass Moth posted:I get so pissed when I see comments that are like “temporary!!!!” Or “do not remove!” With no additional documentation. I find that "DO NOT REMOVE" is not from the person that wrote that code, but from someone else who found it, thought it was doing nothing removed it and the entire thing broke horribly. They then failed to figure out what it was doing before giving up and just leaving it. There's also generally something wrong that makes you think maybe it's that bit of code so you're going to trace an error to it over and over again until someone finally figures out just what that does.
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May 21, 2018 15:00
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BaronVonVaderham posted:My favorite comment was discovered in the bowels of legacy code at my last job. "TODO: Find a better way to do this." This feels like a really big metaphor for life.
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May 21, 2018 15:00
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Kyrosiris posted:This feels like a really big metaphor for life. It would be a better metaphor if the guy Karoshi’ed a week after making that comment.
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May 21, 2018 15:03
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My IRL todo list would probably make my life better if i just did it, so it's pretty apt imo
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May 21, 2018 15:16
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poo poo pissing some poor SOB off: Some kind of explosive lying on the floor of server room? 
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May 21, 2018 15:18
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Sirotan posted:poo poo pissing some poor SOB off: Some kind of explosive lying on the floor of server room? So, what you need to do is make sure the clockwork for the detonation inhibitor is still working. Get real close to the device and see if you hear a ticking (like from an old wristwatch). If you don't, find a baseball bat or something and whack the nose (front) of the device until you start hearing that. Please post results, I'm very worried for you! 
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May 21, 2018 15:22
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Sirotan posted:poo poo pissing some poor SOB off: Some kind of explosive lying on the floor of server room? I know what this is, this is a snow cone maker.
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May 21, 2018 15:23
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At my wife's new hire orientation, they told a risk management story that involved someone opening up a filing cabinet and finding a grenade. The grenade's pin had been pulled. (Edit: this was an army base, but still.)
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May 21, 2018 15:29
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Schadenboner posted:So, what you need to do is make sure the clockwork for the detonation inhibitor is still working. Get real close to the device and see if you hear a ticking (like from an old wristwatch). If you don't, find a baseball bat or something and whack the nose (front) of the device until you start hearing that. Turns out it was a bomb according to the op of that thread https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8kzx5p/some_kind_of_explosive_lying_on_the_floor_of/dzbu0dm posted:Update #2:
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May 21, 2018 15:31
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Haha how the gently caress
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May 21, 2018 15:36
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May 21, 2018 15:37
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Finally a use for windows defragger.
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May 21, 2018 15:39
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Less-explosive poo poo pissing me off: Nov 2017 - We start planning a major transition of an old process into a new system. It's a brand new world, and we have a blank slate to design the new process (within system constraints). I point out that I did this exact same project in my previous job, outline several pitfalls I encountered and eventually overcame, and suggest a strategy. Boss and clients overrule me and instead design a grotesque, needlessly complex system that requires daily admin-side work to keep running. It's confusing to users, the clients are unhappy, and oh did I mention that the data provided to us by the clients was faulty? March 2018: We go live. Tier 2 tickets increase by about 300%, directly related to this project. May 2018: We all agree that an overhaul is needed for FY2019. I again delicately point out that we might try a strategy that I have experience with. I am again overruled by boss, who proposes a variation on the current system. My proposal has 11 objects, the boss' has over 600. This will be fun.
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May 21, 2018 15:40
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Just had a interview with a potential CTO for my company. It started getting pretty hilarious, and I was stifling a laugh, when every time there was something this guy didn't know he would just say "well I would toss it up to the cloud." Not "we'll use the cloud" or "lets find a cloud solution" it was always "tossing it to the cloud" like he was playing basketball with servers and databases. Still not as bad as the guy with the 6 page resume, with reference links to more pages. You know you have OCD when your resume has a glossary and table of contents.
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May 21, 2018 15:42
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Sirotan posted:poo poo pissing some poor SOB off: Some kind of explosive lying on the floor of server room? I feel like that should be making the news wherever it is.
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May 21, 2018 15:42
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Sickening posted:I feel like that should be making the news wherever it is. Sounds like it's the former Jugoslavia so this is probably just a Monday for them? E: Yup, that's the rear end-end of an AT-3 which (in addition to extremely wide use by Eastern Bloc forces) was used on the BVP, a number of which were stored nearby. That's probably where it came from? 
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May 21, 2018 15:45
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No, Mondays are attempts at insurance fraud caught on dash cams. Bombs are a humpday activity, gets the heart rate up.
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May 21, 2018 15:51
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sitting in the bathroom stall for my entire lunch break. Its nice in here.
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May 21, 2018 17:00
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/\/\/\ make sure to use the handicapped stall at the end. The Luxury Box is the only way to poo poo at work. 
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Tailored Sauce posted:sitting in the bathroom stall for my entire lunch break. Its nice in here. There was a lower ground floor at my old job with just empty offices in, but the toilets got cleaned just as regularly as all the other ones. Nice and cool and dark in there. Good poopin.
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May 21, 2018 17:21
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Agrikk posted:make sure to use the handicapped stall at the end. The Luxury Box is the only way to poo poo at work.
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May 21, 2018 17:22
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Yeah there's two poopers here, both are fully enclosed (yay) but the one closest to me is in the coldest room in the building, the seat is super low and the interior of the bowl comes in super early, so sitting on it is the worst experience. So I walk across to the other one.
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May 21, 2018 17:49
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We can't use the handicapped shitter because we have handicapped customers 
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May 21, 2018 17:55
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The Macaroni posted:Our non-handicapped toilets are six inches closer to the ground than the Luxury Box and I have no loving idea why. It's not that the other toilet is high, it's that the other ones are short as hell. Apparently every man but me is 5 feet tall here. (Not true.) low toilets are the best toilets. The craps just fly out.
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May 21, 2018 18:12
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Amending my earlier complaint post about the project overhaul. Had a productive conversation with management and we're looking at ways to make the new one less bad. I seem to briefly be in a better timeline than expected.
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May 21, 2018 19:06
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Pissing me off "IE10 is short for Windows 10": Been on a support call to a vendor all day, trying to get their website to do whatever it is that it's supposed to do for the purchasing. It just loads a blank page whenever you go there in Chrome, Firefox, IE11, or Edge. They still claimed it's on our end, even after plugged a computer directly into the backup modem with no firewalls just to prove I'm right. After finally getting to an engineer, they updated their website and no longer support IE7-9 they now support IE10 as their only browser. The old site working in every single other browser wasn't supported and they check for IE10! When I told them there's no way to get 10 installed on Windows 10, they told me IE10 is just a quick way to say Windows 10 and if I needed help getting Windows 10 it was a free upgrade from Microsoft. The amount of bullshit in that sentence caused me to ask for a senior engineer. To which I was informed he was the sole programmer and he doesn't take phone calls normally and was upset for me wasting his time. I have recommended that we drop the software immediately as the vendor is about to go out of business. pixaal fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 20:25
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pixaal posted:Pissing me off "IE10 is short for Windows 10": Holy poo poo. wow. I'd cut ties immediately
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May 21, 2018 20:46
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pixaal posted:Pissing me off "IE10 is short for Windows 10": Reminds me of the "engineer" at some 2 bit niche software house we used to use. It didn't support widescreen resolutions. To even use the software you had to set your resolution to a non-widescreen selection. I complained enough that he finally called me and said "widescreens are a fad, and we are not going to bother supporting a fad". Its noteworthy that this exchange occurred several years into the widescreen "fad" when standard screens where already difficult to find. They finally did relent and make it work properly on widescreen resolutions... My next hurdle is that it doesn't work at all beyond 1920x1080. And it sure as hell is not DPI aware. On a side note.. Why the gently caress do we still use this software?!
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May 21, 2018 21:00
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I too enjoy saying random combinations of words and declaring that they stand for whatever I want.
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May 21, 2018 21:00
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Reddit has determined that the bomb in a server room was a fake (based on local police denying any such thing to local news). So instead of a typical day in a slavic country, it's a typical day in the life of trusting the internet for anything. xzzy fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 21:09
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stevewm posted:Why the gently caress do we still use this software?! 
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Elizabethan Error posted:because noone else makes it probably, aren't vertical markets fun?  
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Pissing me off: A desktop application that is being used as a sort of Windows service application. It only works with an actual desktop session to launch the app. When the server reboots (which per the GPO of the client it happens each week), and the service is always down in the morning. So the client setups a service account, and runs the application under it. It works fine, however they don't bother to reboot it to test if it works after are reboot. Seriously, don't bother to test the very problem you were working to solve? And suddenly, it's my (linux admin's) problem to figure out this windows monkey business.
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