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eschaton posted:tag the CEO on LinkedIn and say “hey, remember when I asked for a raise to a salary that was still below industry average, and you said you could just replace me? how’s that working out for you?”
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ThePeavstenator posted:How much did they flush down the tube to not give you $40k? cinci zoo sniper posted:iirc he quoted earlier a couple mil Over 2.5 after flailing around with a third party company that charged them over $200,000 for some initial work and then wanted several hundred thousand more to which the CEO said no. eschaton posted:tag the CEO on LinkedIn and say “hey, remember when I asked for a raise to a salary that was still below industry average, and you said you could just replace me? how’s that working out for you?” eschaton posted:what’s important is that all the CEO’s peers see it I am extremely tempted to do this. 
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Jul 12, 2018 14:01
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that owns so much
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Jul 12, 2018 14:39
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promoted post on linkedin targeting the ceo's connections
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Jul 12, 2018 16:17
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Bloody posted:promoted post on linkedin targeting the ceo's connections wait... can you target it like that?
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:wait... can you target it like that? de facto yes, as long as you waste some of your money on targeting other randoes as well. just dial it down super tight wrt ceo's demo 
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Not to rag on people with business degrees... but the CEO has a degree from the university of Phoenix...
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Jul 12, 2018 16:55
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ratbert90 posted:Had lunch with a old coworker yesterday. Highlights include:
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anthonypants posted:knowing what you know now, would you still be okay at that job for 120k Oh god no. That was the catalyst. The reaction coming from it told me that I was right to leave, and to never EVER consider going back. I would however consult for them for $240/hr 8 hour minimum
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Jul 12, 2018 17:29
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bob dobbs is dead posted:de facto yes, as long as you waste some of your money on targeting other randoes as well. just dial it down super tight wrt ceo's demo oh gently caress i have some hilarious ideas i'm going to abuse. a lot of my friends started blocking me on facebook when i was using promoted posts, i feel like i can do more with linkedin
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ratbert90 posted:Oh god no. That was the catalyst. The reaction coming from it told me that I was right to leave, and to never EVER consider going back. you mean $750/hr
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Jul 12, 2018 18:44
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you mean $750/hr *dog hours
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Jul 12, 2018 19:26
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you mean $750/hr On second thought, I make enough money not to ever work for them ever again.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:39
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jfc exporting data as actual xlsx files is painful. can you just specify a column as being a datetime and the excel will treat all cells in that column as one? No, you have to specify the column type as being a date, style the cell as a date as well and then the individual cell content as being a formula that calls DATEVALUE("gofuckyourself" ) to parse it, otherwise you get a cell that looks right but gets filtered as a string not a date until you hit enter on it when excel goes "oh hey a date" i guess I know why every previous implementation of this reporting component just used csv and made users set up their own data type so everything was peppered with "number as text" errors Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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Jul 12, 2018 21:20
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:jfc exporting data as actual xlsx files is painful. can you just specify a column as being a datetime and the excel will treat all cells in that column as one? No, you have to specify the column type as being a date, style the cell as a date as well and then the individual cell content as being a formula that calls DATEVALUE("gofuckyourself" ) to parse it, otherwise you get a cell that looks right but gets filtered as a string not a date until you hit enter on it when excel goes "oh hey a date" Yeah Excel sucks, and every API I've used to generate XLS has this same shityness
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Jul 12, 2018 22:05
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i have found manually opening csv in excel and saving as xslx every single time someone wants a report to be less of a pain in the rear end op
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Jul 12, 2018 22:16
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could you export to ods, or to xml and generate the xlsx container yourself
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ratbert90 posted:Oh god no. That was the catalyst. The reaction coming from it told me that I was right to leave, and to never EVER consider going back. whatever you're doing now - is it hiring
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anthonypants posted:could you export to ods, or to xml and generate the xlsx container yourself its the xml that's the issue. using the openxml sdk is the best way to generate openxml docs/spreadsheets but you still have to deal with problems related to the specification itself. most of them have to do with display issues caused by wonkiness in old versions that has become expected behavior by users. also you can set formatting in the document itself or in a stylesheet so what goes where can be a headache.
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Janitor Prime posted:Yeah Excel sucks, and every API I've used to generate XLS has this same shityness ive done a fair number of custom xlsx report generators in apache poi and every time i work with it i find a new instance of it missing what i would think would be a basic function
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Bloody posted:whatever you're doing now - is it hiring I’m a full stack embedded Linux engineer with a specialty in infosec. There’s a negative unemployment rate for people like me. 
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Jul 12, 2018 23:54
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I'm using EPPlus in c# so 50% of the problem is excel being terrible (particularly with dates) and 50%really bad documentation of the library. also this is based of dynamic queries so I have to check the actual data type of each cell to then generate the proper excel cell type. It works but it's horrid. edit: because as above, excel doesn't give a poo poo if a column is formatted as a number of you don't also define the individual cells in it as numbers too
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Jul 13, 2018 00:39
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eschaton posted:I used to have to explain to people regularly why Xcode can’t just “import” their Makefile and generate a project from it why can't u just "import" my Makefile and generate a project from it
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Jul 13, 2018 01:32
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brew install gnu-tools --with-names there, now you can hth
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Jul 13, 2018 01:45
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--with-default-names? Whatever
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JawnV6 posted:hey eschaton because make files and xcode are bad
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Jul 13, 2018 02:03
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"Hey guys let's only send diffs fron our dynamic forms to save space in message transmission!" "diffs" discard null values since form fields are "dynamic" therefore when a value is null or empty it is assumed that the form field was not required to be collected. This results in situations where once you set field ABC to a value, then try to update it by removing all values, ABC will revert back to initial value since empty string result was never considered to be a change in the first place. Meanwhile, email infrastructure is dying due to 1.5 million exceptions being sent each day to 40 people that filter emails to trash immediately.
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floatman posted:Meanwhile, email infrastructure is dying due to 1.5 million exceptions being sent each day to 40 people that filter emails to trash immediately. Back when I worked at Experts Exchange, we ended up having to create a separate email server for non-Production email traffic because every time somebody tested an email blast or broke the database on Dev or Test, suddenly nobody got their Production emails for several hours while the sysadmins frantically tried to clear the queue. Fun times!
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floatman posted:"Hey guys let's only send diffs fron our dynamic forms to save space in message transmission!" software engineering
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CPColin posted:Back when I worked at Experts Exchange, we ended up having to create a separate email server for non-Production email traffic because every time somebody tested an email blast or broke the database on Dev or Test, suddenly nobody got their Production emails for several hours while the sysadmins frantically tried to clear the queue. Fun times! so did they use their own site to ask questions or
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Jul 13, 2018 04:17
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Maybe they used snack overflow
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Progressive JPEG posted:so did they use their own site to ask questions or The CEO told us to a few times. We said, "Sure, if you're cool with us not getting an answer for four hours, then having the 'experts' squabble over who was more wrong, we'll ask on our own site." Then we just used SO or whatever else came up on Google. I almost never got a decent answer in the half-dozen or so times I tried. I'd log in and check, but I haven't logged in since they laid me off last January and I want to keep it that way! The only thing I'd log in to do would be to delete the four Java articles I wrote when the CEO bribed us with a week of paid leave if we, as a company, wrote 100 articles by Christmas or something. Not worth the effort, though.
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JawnV6 posted:hey eschaton because your Makefile is Turing complete
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holy poo poo you (really anyone) was still either using or working for EE in _2017_????? hhhoooooowwwww does that POS company still exist? I figured SO killed them dead the second they launched because EE sucked so bad (no offense)
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i feel like this conversation demonstrates why dogfooding is important. all employees: our product sucks
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gonadic io posted:i feel like this conversation demonstrates why dogfooding is important. all employees: our product sucks project manager: thanks for the feedback, we don't have time to address it all so we're going to launch as-is and think about these issues for v2
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Jabor posted:project manager: thanks for the feedback, we don't have time to address it all so we're going to launch as-is and think about these issues for v2 are you at my place
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after launch: okay so these are all the new features and integrations we promised the investor and or client for v2. if we get time we can refactor and look at those bugs
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gonadic io posted:after launch: okay so these are all the new features and integrations we promised the investor and or client for v2. if we get time we can refactor and look at those bugs 
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:holy poo poo you (really anyone) was still either using or working for EE in _2017_????? hhhoooooowwwww does that POS company still exist? I don't know! At least part of it probably had to do with a lot of people who don't diligently check their credit card statements every month. It sure seemed like we were hemorrhaging customers for like seven of the ten years I was there, but somehow the lights stayed on in the office. They did lay off like 40% of the rest of the company a few months after they got rid of me, though.
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