• anonymous (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Sunday is the first day of the week because 'Murica.
    No, Monday is the 1st day of the week. Whether Sunday is the 0th or the 7th depends on how you look at it.
  • (cs) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    chubertdev:
    Sunday is the first day of the week because 'Murica.
    No, Monday is the 1st day of the week. Whether Sunday is the 0th or the 7th depends on how you look at it.

    You're thinking of workweek.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    anonymous:
    chubertdev:
    Sunday is the first day of the week because 'Murica.
    No, Monday is the 1st day of the week. Whether Sunday is the 0th or the 7th depends on how you look at it.

    You're thinking of workweek.

    Was this supposed to be a joke or were you really trying to tell me what you think I was thinking of? If the former, I don't get it. If the latter, I think I'm pretty sure I knew what I was thinking of.

  • whatever (unregistered)

    With regards to all the gender stuff, there seems to be the attitude here that trans people just whine and seek attention; that is most certainly not the case. Gender is not as simple as physical sex, and indeed even 'sex' is more complicated than we like to make out as has been covered before. Some people just don't identify with the gender assigned at birth, and that is a strong part of their identity rather than an attempt to be edgy and deliberately awkward. A little acceptance and open mindedness goes a long way.

    Needing to use something other than a binary 0/1 value to describe gender isn't exactly earth-shattering; I think the recent Facebook changes basically allow a custom value (within reason, it's not there for people to take the piss) to be used. Using the wrong pronouns to refer to someone is offensive; imagine if someone used the incorrect ones to refer to you and that should be obvious.

    IMO, the word 'shemale' was inappropriate and changing it was the right thing to do, and that should have been the end of that. It almost certainly wasn't used with malicious intent, and I don't think anyone is implying that was the case. You can make the argument that "it's only offensive because you're making it so" about any kind of slur, but it just wasn't amusing enough in the first place to not stick out.

    So, yeah, insist that they're just being difficult if you want - you do have the right to - but you might just be making an asshole of yourself.

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    I don't get it.

    yup

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    anonymous:
    chubertdev:
    Sunday is the first day of the week because 'Murica.
    No, Monday is the 1st day of the week. Whether Sunday is the 0th or the 7th depends on how you look at it.

    You're thinking of workweek.

    No, Sunday is the FILE_NOT_FOUND day of the workweek.

  • JimTheJam (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    From the website: "Sunday is regarded as the first day of the week ..." which isn't a fact carved in stone as most of Europe counts differently. It refers to the bible and I find it amusing that God started to rest and then worked. (Not a bad idea, really!)
    I think you are making fun of something you don't understand.

    Saturday (a Sabbath) is the day of rest. God rested on the 7th day, Saturday. Christians (mostly) celebrate & rest(?) on the day of the Christ's resurrection (day after Saturday, the 1st day of the week).

    I've also heard that the the original Christians went to the synagogue on Saturday, and then met the next day (1st day of the week) to discuss Jesus's teachings.

  • Jonathan Wilson (unregistered)

    Not all government agencies are this bad. I did some work for one and it was nothing like this.

    Physical security was one badge/card that opened a few doors (front door, parking garage, access between the public section of the agency and the private office part) and activated the elevator to go to the upstairs office floors.

    Computer security was just a normal Windows login/password along with policies to lock the screen when not at the computer. Might have been some sort of password aging as well, not sure though.

    There WAS a requirement for new employees to undergo a police check though (but that was because these people were handling/had access to sensitive personal information).

    As for development, everything was surprisingly sane. All done in VB.NET with an SQL Server backend. No wierd requirements. No strange rules. No coding guidelines at all really. And all the work (the bits I was involved in anyway) were related to a redo of an old Access database into a modern VB.NET/SQL Server program.

    And the closest thing I remember to a WTF was a few things I wrote that were probably not very good due to my (at the time) limited skills in the technologies being used.

    Although some people would probably say that anything involving "SQL Server Reporting Services" is automatically a WTF :)

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to JimTheJam
    JimTheJam:
    Jon:
    From the website: "Sunday is regarded as the first day of the week ..." which isn't a fact carved in stone as most of Europe counts differently. It refers to the bible and I find it amusing that God started to rest and then worked. (Not a bad idea, really!)
    I think you are making fun of something you don't understand.

    Saturday (a Sabbath) is the day of rest. God rested on the 7th day, Saturday. Christians (mostly) celebrate & rest(?) on the day of the Christ's resurrection (day after Saturday, the 1st day of the week).

    I've also heard that the the original Christians went to the synagogue on Saturday, and then met the next day (1st day of the week) to discuss Jesus's teachings.

    If you consider Monday to be the first day of the week, none of those gymnastics are necessary. Sunday is the 7th day, and the day of rest.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Jonathan Wilson
    Jonathan Wilson:
    There WAS a requirement for new employees to undergo a police check though (but that was because these people were handling/had access to sensitive personal information).
    A fat lot of good that did.

    Besides some famous recent cases, there are also some less famous ones such as Monica Hernandez and/or her colleagues who stole withholding from US taxpayers so the US accused the victims of fraud, and some people who spied for other countries instead of spying for the American people. A fat lot of good those police checks do.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    JimTheJam:
    Saturday (a Sabbath) is the day of rest. God rested on the 7th day, Saturday. Christians (mostly) celebrate & rest(?) on the day of the Christ's resurrection (day after Saturday, the 1st day of the week).

    I've also heard that the the original Christians went to the synagogue on Saturday, and then met the next day (1st day of the week) to discuss Jesus's teachings.

    If you consider Monday to be the first day of the week, none of those gymnastics are necessary. Sunday is the 7th day, and the day of rest.
    If you consider Monday to be the first day of the week you're a heretic in three of the world's most popular religions. The bible says God rested on the seventh day, which was the Sabbath, Friday sundown until Saturday sundown.

    Christians met on Sundays because the temple was occupied by another religion on Saturdays. Muslims shifted the opposite direction.

  • DrDugong (unregistered)

    Everything you are describing is a result of somebody having laid down some very sensible rules, which is a damn sight more than what most projects have. A good architecture starts with consistency, and that means everybody doesn't get to code things up willy-nilly however they want (as you seem to want to do). What you are describing (whining about) are the phenomena that frequently occur when the enforcement of consistency results in simple operations taking more work to fit to the defined pattern than to code ad-hoc. You, with your obvious lack of architectural vision, are not seeing the fact that having things be consistent is far more valuable than having them be quick and letting everybody fingerpaint the way they want.

    Does the architect of a building tell everyone to go ahead and frame walls in whatever way seems most convenient to them? Fuck no. There are codes to be followed, and the fact that you whine about this shows that you will forever be a drywall nailer because you clearly have no understanding of how important architectural patterns are. Your architect has defined a set of rules that will ensure the portability, refactorability, migratability and scalability of your system. You, as a junior-level knowitall, are doing your best to torpedo that at every turn. Believe me (because I have seen/fired your type before), it will cost far more to undo all of your garbage work than it will for you to do it up-to-code the first time.

    It boggles my mind that:

    1. You would complain about writing formulaic code instead of nutting up and writing a code generator
    2. You think a detailed dev guideline document is a BAD thing
    3. You think a DAO API full of getByTHISProperty(), getByTHATProperty(), etc. is better than a single call with a single parameter object. What if I want to make it a web service? What if I want to apply an AOP pointcut for all methods accepting query payloads - oh wait I can't because I have an idiot on my team
    4. You would even dream of saying that coding to the highest level possible API (JPA) is somehow a bad thing, and that instead you should be allowed to spew JDBC spaghetti all over the place
    5. You think backing seemingly static data with layers of abstraction is dumb. You fail miserably for even thinking to write a day list as a set of constant strings. 'forgetting multi-lingual support' - no, you don't get to. You also don't get to forget that weeks don't always start on the same day, that the day of the week can have many formats and god forbid they be consistent between components, oh yeah and that an enumeration of the days of the week is ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM A CORE API.
    6. You think that presenting a single case where function result caching was inappropriately applied means the whole mechanism should be denigrated
    7. You think that there is ever such a thing as knowing KPIs of a system before you are at least halfway through it. Did you know them ahead of time? No, you didn't. You are certainly doing everything in your power to ruin perfomance though, so great job.
    8. You think that your security compliance team has anything to with software development. They are administrative idiots who picked an underpowered, poorly planned tool to do a job. It sounds like you should move to that department.

    Seriously, you need to think about your career choice. If you wan to be an all-star then take a lesson from your architect, because based on what you have said he is very good at his job. If you want to be a code monkey 4 life then shut up - you have no right to complain.

    You've got me all worked up now. I think I'm going to blow off some steam by converting my system to use Cassandra, Glassfish, REST, cluster-scaling and a whole new security interception layer. Oh, wait - I don't have to, because I designed it right from the start and got rid of everyone like you. Holy freaking god you suck.

  • JohnBoy (unregistered)

    Is this from healthcare.gov?

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Norman Diamond
    Norman Diamond:
    anonymous:
    JimTheJam:
    Saturday (a Sabbath) is the day of rest. God rested on the 7th day, Saturday. Christians (mostly) celebrate & rest(?) on the day of the Christ's resurrection (day after Saturday, the 1st day of the week).

    I've also heard that the the original Christians went to the synagogue on Saturday, and then met the next day (1st day of the week) to discuss Jesus's teachings.

    If you consider Monday to be the first day of the week, none of those gymnastics are necessary. Sunday is the 7th day, and the day of rest.
    If you consider Monday to be the first day of the week you're a heretic in three of the world's most popular religions. The bible says God rested on the seventh day, which was the Sabbath, Friday sundown until Saturday sundown.

    Christians met on Sundays because the temple was occupied by another religion on Saturdays. Muslims shifted the opposite direction.

    No, the Jews just had it wrong. Sunday is the 7th day of the week.

    Note, this also makes for a good response to the 7th Day Adventists who tell me I'm going to hell for worshipping on Sunday.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    No, the Jews just had it wrong. Sunday is the 7th day of the week.

    Note, this also makes for a good response to the 7th Day Adventists who tell me I'm going to hell for worshipping on Sunday.

    And the Christians had it right, but more by accident than by design.

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