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Frist am i doing it right?
ETA: !1!!!5!one!!211!11!!1!
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I think so, but I'm not sure if you expressed enough exuberance with your declaration! :)
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Nope. [image]
(I got the DiscoChromeNotification while the topic looked like this. Streaming fail)
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Better?
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Perfect!
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That's just stupid. What you do is split the script in five and run each part per day, so that nobody catches on to the fact that you've automated your process. Otherwise you just invite them to burden you with a similar task, except it's one you can't automate, and give you an unreasonable deadline based on your previous performance.
Also, "Jarosław"? It's "Jarek". That's like insisting on calling a Nate "Nathaniel".
Also also, a Polish story without me on it? Goddamn you, Erik Gern! *shakes fist*
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I thought these identical notifications were going to collapse into a single notification, but they never did. [image]
Maybe Discourse runs in Dual-User Mode?
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I assume Erik just wanted an excuse to use some fancy unicode characters...
I saw the same, but I had two tabs open and figured that's what confused the dischorse.
On Topic: TR :wtf: is Jarosław didn't at least get a free case of beer out of the deal...
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As if that wasn't enough: [image]
I am almost certain that @Fox was the first person to like this post. The like history agrees. [image]
I don't think Discourse can tell the difference between foxes anymore.
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Closer inspection reveals that @undefined was the first to like your post.
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To be fair, a lot of people can't.
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......
excuse me.... i have to have a word with Discourse regarding proper attribution.
/me stomps off holding a battleaxe in her mouth.
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Where are you going with my ex-wife?
Very good. Carry on.
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Some people prefer their full names. I'm not a fan of people calling me 'Nick'.
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to use an analogy I'n not to happy when people call me "Cali" in real life instead of "Accalia" where Accalia is standing in for my IRL name.
Online i'm totes okay with you calling me Cali if you prefer, Just so long as you don't call me late for dinner!
:laughing:
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From quite a young age, my son would correct you if you called him by a shortened form of his name. We certainly didn't instill that preference; we'd call him by the short form, and he'd correct us.
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Oh, I was expecting a major WTF in the system couldn't handle the http requests that fast. More than 1 per second!? That's just crazy!
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At least he didn't mangle the full name (I assume you'd have yelled about it if he had).
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This whole story is fabricated.
Singing the form and superviser's "go-ahead" just to enter the building and then freely installing Python to someones government computer? Letting it work over night?
Impossible!
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Did you mean "axe-wife"?
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I'm in the situation where my name can't be shortened, but about couple of years ago multiple people independently started calling me by... something, I can't even figure it out. It's longer, it's neither a diminutive nor an augmentative (both would be longer than my name, too) it's just... something.
I never heard it before, it just poofed out of nowhere a couple of years ago, independently, from people who don't know each other. I am confuse.
On topic: why in the hell would it take several seconds to enable a field? :wtf: is it doing?
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Some time ago, at work, I was temporarily transferred into a different department. After a few days, my boss suddenly stopped calling me Lenny and started calling me Leonard. I'm not sure why he suddenly decided to be more formal. My name isn't Leonard (or Lenny).
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Well, there's your problem!
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Probably reloading the entire page from the DB with a round trip for each field (or at least row).
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Faked me out. I thought the Script was going to be the RWTF - and totally corrupt the database because of some hink like load timing is important.
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He could also replace the web-application with a proper one using django-admin in 15 mins.
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That can result in good humor sometimes. I remember watching Ghost Hunt, where the main character guessed that this guy's nickname was "Naru", and he couldn't understand how she could possibly know his nickname.
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Well, in this specific case it's actually a modification of my name that doesn't mean a damned thing. The modified version, not the name, that has a meaning / source like all names do.
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FTFY
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My given name is "Jaime". Some people assume that it's a familiar form of James and call me by that. It annoys me, not because they got my name wrong, but because instead of acting on the facts (anywhere they saw or heard my name it would have been Jaime), they just guessed. I'm not hyper-sensitive to people not getting my name correct - it's spelled strangely and misspellings don't bother me.
At my last job we had a VP named James <<LastName>> (where <<LastName>> is the same as mine), and he preferred to be called "Jamie". Since his nickname was in the company address book (me), and my name came before his alphabetically, I got a lot of his email.
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I confess, I had to copy that story into Word and change the names to Jerry and Andy.
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Obtaining a lock, probably. In a horrible manner.
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Sounds like how I nicknamed a co-worker (Kevin) at a previous job, Special K.
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I had a friend on grade school whose name was Bill (or maybe Billy.) I remember watching him correct a teacher once who insisted on calling him William. It's kinda funny watching a 3rd-grader argue with a nun.
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I think GMail has decided that anyone who calls me BENJAMIN is a spambot that scraped my name off the UWM "here, spambots, have a list of everyone's names and email addresses" list.
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Won a bet with one of my elementary school teachers - I have no middle name. She bet me a dollar I did. Brought in my birth certificate. She paid up. My parents and I had a good laugh about that.
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I run the karaoke at a local bar from time-to-time, when they need someone to fill-in. A while back, after working every night for a week, I had multiple people come up to me and say "Hey! I remember you! You're Steve, right?" No, my name is not Steve, but after the 3rd person (and a good bit of alcohol) I said "Screw it. I'm Steve".
And so, it became the running joke that I signed up as "Steve" for karaoke. It actually worked out, since there were about 5 other regulars with my same name, but no regulars named Steve. As a result, I ended up just signing up as Steve from then on. But I didn't really tell anyone outside of the people who I hung out with at that bar.
I was about 3 months later, I walked into my father's office to meet him for lunch. His secretary has been with him for multiple decades, following him from job to job, so she has literally known me my whole life. She looked up from her desk and said "Hi, Steve. ... I don't know why I just called you that..."
That was the day the joke officially went too far.
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Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean...
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Exactly. I keep waiting for the part where Jarosław is hauled off and arrested for unauthorized use of a government computer. I still also trying to understand how he "knew" that he could write a script to speed up data entry? he even admits "This one’s on me. I had no idea what torture they put you through until you showed me.”
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I've been waiting for it since 2005, but alas.
Filed under: yay for Polish in-jokes!
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I'm having trouble audiblizing this word in my head. How is
łpronounced? Best guess: "Jar-oh-svf-law"Admin
w, generally.
Jarosław will be something like /jɑːɹoswɑv/ - or "ya (as in Yankee)"-"rho (as the Greek letter)"-"suave". Accent on the second to last syllable, as usually in Polish.
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I'm not a fan of being called Nick either. Maybe because my name's James...
(I never liked it being "shortened" to Jamie - which is the same length anyway - although that's a popular convention here in Scotland. Not quite sure why, I just never liked it.)
Back in the Army, in WWII, my grandfather was told that since there was already a Lawrence in the unit, he needed another name. "Have you got a middle name?" asked the CO. He did: Edward - which they shortened to Ted. Everyone who met him in the 70 years since that came to know him as Ted, except his own family back in England, who still call him Lawrence - which always feels a bit weird for the family here, growing up knowing him by two different names depending on context.
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Here, that should help:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/a/4aedeb41744d81c688e0c7808161daeb4e285a00.mp3
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Oh! That makes sense! adds character to pronunciation matrix, though I usually don't pronounce "Yankee" like "yawn-??"?
TMYK.
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J id pronounced as Y in most Slavic languages AFAIK. At least the ones I know (of).