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And we didn't even know you were engaged to a big fat Greek!
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But my most recent boss was always promising to "ping it over" - meaning send an email, nothing to do with seeing what came back. It was bloody irritating, but he was always trying to "leverage synergies" too...
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Beauty!
I wonder how many mistakes there were due to inability to distinguish between R and L in speak...
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Now I know how the Dharma project operated.
beep beep 4 8 15 16 23 42 *bee-
I wonder if they used Access. I mean, they had computers that were obviously made to look old (that or the people behind the series didn't know that old terminals won't let you type out the letters smoothly)
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Is it time to discuss the abuse of "glitch" yet?
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You sir, get one internets
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Never heard it used that way here in germany. I guess if i ping myself on this in 2-3 years, it will be common. Yay for globalisation =/
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I know a drug dealer who does that - its such a wind-up.Mind you, I now enjoy ignoring it,& waiting for the twat to phone up & say "I dinged(his version of pinged) you,why didn't you phone me?" He only does it because he's to tight to buy enough phone credit(or he's spent all his money on crack - stupid 38 yr old teenager that he is)
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If the customer agreed to pay, say, $3000 for the job, and you deliver the agreed upon work for $3000, how is that defrauding the customer? The fact that he found a more efficient way to do the job than the customer expected or that the competition was capable of doesn't make it fraud.
If I go to the store and the sign says, "Model 17B Widget: $150", and I take a widget to the cash register and they bill my credit card $200, that's fraud. If they bill me the advertised $150, that's not fraud. Whether the widget cost them $140 or $10 is irrelevant.
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I can't believe this. It took me by myself 80 hours with (shudders) VBA to do the same job with twice the records.
That's got to be the most awful thing I've ever heard.
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The fact that you don't understand this concept shows you actually are a two-bit code monkey. Further your boss has crappy managerial skills for allowing that response to fly.
If your only answer to when something will be done is "it'll be done when it's done" how can a company possibly budget a project, how can other projects depend on your project to be complete on time? How can anyone depend on you to get your act together and deliver something?
No, in the real world, in companies with more than a handful of employees, results matter. And part of results are being able to say when you'll deliver something.
Would you use a delivery company who's motto was "it'll get there when it gets there"? It's an example, yes, and I'm aware software is more complex, and most of what we do is stuff that's never been done before (if your project is interesting anyway.) However, if you have any decent experience you can draw a ballpark on how long a given piece of functionality will take to build.... Now I'm not saying you'll deliver on that initial estimate, but as problems crop up you'll make new estimates. If you can't do that, then yes, you are a two-bit code monkey.
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Half the company were Voodoo Priests? Wow. So they would have done what to stop this from occurring? Is Zombification as remediation for office problems allowed where you live? I'm not sure two zombies attempting data entry would sound much better.
Addendum (2009-05-20 17:47): My mistake. Loa are actually the gods/spirits.. not the priests. Makes it all the more impressive, though.
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You aint done no FORTRAN :-)
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As for "sizing", I can only guess that calling it an "estimate" would be too blue-collar.
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I have made good money in the past being employed as a data inserter for exactly this sort of system migration.
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The Really Real WTF is you not understanding the phrase "being pinged". Seriously, dude. There are so many ways to answer your question, I don't know where to start, and I have trouble believing it's a real question.
(P.S. If it is a real question, please turn to your nearest cube-mate and ask them.)
-- Furry cows moo and decompress.
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This only threatens to annoy me to that degree during an outage.
That is, say I'm the foo admin, and the foo server is down - first time in two years. My pager goes off, I start to take a look at it - and it's not a simple restart issue. I write a quick note telling my manager it's down, and I'll have a fix ETA to him as soon as I have one.
Five minutes later, he stops by and asks what the ETA is. I respond, "Dunno. We have some major corruption here. I took a backup and then restored from the prior backup, and it still spewed - but it was working 30 minutes ago, so I need to look into it more. Could you get Wally to look at it with me?"
Three minutes later, the boss stops by again. Wally's nowhere to be seen. If the boss now explains why Wally's not here, or at least asks about whether Alice could help, or something like that, that's cool. But he doesn't - he's a PHB. He asks about the ETA.
I turn and look at him, hands off the keyboard. "Current ETA is never, because you're keeping me from working, rather than getting me help like you're supposed to be doing."
PHB goes off and never bothers me excessively for status again during an outage. I turn around and get back to working on the problem.
At least, that's my track record thus far. We'll see how long that lasts, however. We'll also probably see what happens when it fails to work that way.
To those who say this means I don't know what I'm doing: If I knew exactly what the problem was, I'd have an ETA. It's an outage that just came up - most likely because Wally managed to accidentally spill fermented coffee grounds into the server or some crap like that. But until I know why it came up, giving an ETA on a fix will be very difficult. I'm not psychic, despite the fact that it was apparently a job requirement (not listed - but they felt all the successful candidates would know about it anyway, since they were psychic and all). I didn't claim I was psychic, but they hired me anyway.
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I still don't understand what power leveling has got to do with gold rolex.
I mean, is there anyone else for whom this conjures up images of steamrollers running over gold watches, or is that just me?
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its all about money these days. eveything you see everywhere you look has something to do with money. i tell ya what, smoke five joints, six bowl packs , and five more joints, and youll realize things like this. look at your computer...........look at yourself..........look at the floor, the ceiling out the window....EVERYTHING HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH MONEY. ceiling, took money to build it, same with the floor. out the window, look at the grass......PROPERTY, MONEY, SOMEONE OWNS IT, same goes with the trees,what outside besides the clouds sky and beyond does not revolve around money.yourself, everything you wear costs money right? your computer...you bought it, and if not you, somebody did!i look at my own hand, rebuilt in surgery,money money money. a world without money........WOULD BE MADNESS!!!!what would the world be without money. even gods property has fallen victim to money. god doesnt own the churches, people do.god would slap us for falling victim to the devils right hand man, MONEY.