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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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and the backup works as well? wonders never cease

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Star War Sex Parrot posted:

I’ve become pretty interested in databases during my masters program and am strongly considering sticking around to do a PhD to do more databases research

It helps that my advisor is rad as hell

write a paper titled: how to coax dbas into letting you run more and longer queries

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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The_Franz posted:


or use visual basic. it was basically made to quickly hammer out gui-based tools.

but now you have a visual basic program to maintain

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Chalks posted:

I mean you're writing software for windows 95 so I guess you're past the point of worrying about things like that.

I missed that part completely

also, welp

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

i need a java library that does parsing of html, it doesnt have to be perfect, i just want to set up a proxy webserver and use the library to replace some strings without compltely breaking the html tags.

i own a domain that is a parody of a very popular nazi discussion board and i'm going to have some fun with it.

any suggestions

must it be java? I think pythons beautifulsoup does what you want, at least the scraping bit, the regex i'm more iffy on

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Xarn posted:

Also lol no* other choice in academia.

*For simple things you might actually transpile something into LaTeX :shrug:

depends on your field

life sciences for instance is firmly ms word land

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

c tp s: i really don’t like working with relational data structures in pandas so im now experimenting with local mssql server installation to avoid committing war crimes to our dwh

i'm still amazed at how bad pandas seem to be in a load of ways

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

basically each agent has a list of customers assigned to them. they log into customer management panel in the morning, and start going one by one, manually, through customer account pages. if they see that customer has an invoice due, they print out a blank invoice reminder letter form, open customer personal detail page, and write down their details, by hand, into the form, and the gold it into an envelope and write the customer’s address on it, by hand. two letters per customer. total volume of hundreds, if not thousand, per day.

:cripes:

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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eschaton posted:

I don’t know, what’s a p-lang with you?

pos-lang

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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CPColin posted:

Filter that feedback through middle management, if possible, in case that helps not paint a target on your back.

Managers that can't realize that the real question is, "Does employee X get the job done?" and not, "Does employee X work the way I want them to?" are the worst.

My manager who is also the CTO told me to put on a more happy demeanor so my colleagues would come to me with their tech issues. They felt I was scary.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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gonadic io posted:

this is legit feedback, being welcoming and approachable is important when pairing or sharing knowledge


it is

but they're salespeople and marketing. I'm also not a monster, I just don't smile.

edit: actually gently caress it and gently caress them all. never work at a startup

champagne posting fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jul 30, 2018

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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holy poo poo that is terrible

champagne posting
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:

extremely true

see also "we'll just write our own document storage system, it's easy" and anything involving goddamn workflows

about this:

what is a good system for version control and storage of documents?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

xml i feel, you can version files and their schemes nicely

e: brainfarted about format, not system. system is a good question.

no like marketing has a bunch of word and pdf files in different version how do you keep track of them in a way that's not terrible?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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eschaton posted:

make them write in LaTeX and use git?

lol

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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my new dog posted:

im terrible and my programming is terrible

:yossame:

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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lol if you have to deal with time zones and/or any naive time really

get a library dude

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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today in terrible programming: my boss said to me: "hey boiled can we remove the square brackets from the json output? yeah the ones demarking arrays, our scandi customers are having trouble parsing them"

:suicide:

champagne posting
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Symbolic Butt posted:

there's so many questions, like how is it harder to parse arrays than json objects :psyduck:

oh my it got better. After making the change the franchise partners got back to a relations person (thankfully i don't have direct contact with anyone) and said "postman no work now, it says syntax error :saddowns: "

:tif:

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Triglav posted:

i wanna write terrible programs for money that go fast and dont use a lot of ram

is knowing only c decently employable or do the businessmen really mean c++ when they write "c/c++"

businesses want agile, fast and cheap programs

realistically you may want to look into embedded something

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

use azure sql instead.

if you like me is a terrible dba who just need the database to work then it's amazing

that's all, i don't know how to continue this argument

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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table-1
TEST-table-1-delete

as Infiniti

champagne posting
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pseudorandom name posted:

C++ doesn't have a decimal type either

SQL does

and the guy who set up the SQL server at work used the type to produce large zero precision numbers, i.e. numbers with up to 18 decimals, with none after the decimal place.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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question: are image sizes ever an issue?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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cinci zoo sniper posted:

is this problem with all high level etl guys? ours is absolutely incapable to use ssh 10 months into working in a linux server shop. and by absolutely incapable i mean just connecting to server via ssh

learning and using version control doesn't give immediate value, and as such I doubt any boss would be willing to get that ball rolling

hell my current employer had no version control or code repository of any kind when I started

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

yeah anyone using Linux for etl instead of SSIS is a total moron

gently caress i would love either

i have a server that accepts user:pass ftp. Not even sftp or anything fancy. For double the fun said ftp server was rebooted for security updates (it's a windows 10 server because the CTO "knows windows" despite being a through and through apple person) and now the subcontractor who sends us files every night can't connect.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Chalks posted:

code:
10.20 * 100
1019.9999999999999
Thanks javascript.

Thavascript

i agree 1020.0000000000001 is better

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

also related to dbs and .net, why in the gently caress is the .net team still promoting entity framework? Its so loving awful. Is the vs/.net team just totally incompetent when it comes to databases?

afaik the teams at microsoft fight each other tooth and nail it might be incompetence through infighting.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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carry on then posted:

god i love worthless documentation of open source poo poo, just this smug air of "you work 80 hours a week so you have time to figure this out yourself"

how about worthless open source documentation from microsoft?

"What's that? Want to interface with active directory through python? With tokens? You madman figure it out":

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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there’s always more and it’s always worse

champagne posting
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Luigi Thirty posted:

call me when swift runs on the Motorola 68000

be the change you want to see in the world: write the compiler

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Skyl3lazer posted:

It took like 12 years for VS to be good though so it's not a great example. The difference between VS2007 and VS2017 is staggering

it's also really only good in windows. VS for mac is weird and features and documentation are all over the place.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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akadajet posted:

this is a good thing

if we’re lucky we might be rid of it in two decades

to be replaced with nothing

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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akadajet posted:

they should post the unmodified notch source code

they can’t, not after the chat bot

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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tay the bot

champagne posting
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cinci zoo sniper posted:

c tp s: im in data science and was asked today how much time would it take me to develop "mission critical" part of our architecture in a hypothetical new product

time to see where belize actually is

this lead me down the path to eventually be fired from my awful startup job

champagne posting
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cinci zoo sniper posted:

i quoted estimate of 3 full time weeks of my time + a month of full time of a full development team with overall prototype delivery in 2 months, which should be good enough to ward these thoughts away

“that’s nice but instead here’s 16 hours. we’re an agile company :downs:

champagne posting
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cinci zoo sniper posted:

nah this is a finance multinational and my boss is a former banking exec

that doesn’t sound fine at all

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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i want to learn some c++. is there an ide that’s the ide for this purpose?

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champagne posting
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pointsofdata posted:

Yeah letting the applications control the data structures is a surefire way to end up with a lovely db, loads of duplication and misrecs everywhere

a combination of huge views and an orm is likewise a terrible idea

although views a pretty good, if the underlying db is bad then, well it’s all gonna be bad

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