Yeah, and even more fun, if you don't post very often (like me), you have to recreate your account in the new system. Not a big deal, but somewhat unexpected. One would think that Alex would migrate all the accounts, not just the frequent posters, as he told me.
Posts made by slavdude1
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RE: Finaly a Front page WTF worthy of the title
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
I apologize for the italicizing of quoted comments. Stupid CS decided not to let me use the Quote button after the first time.
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
Ultimately, though, you're writing Dear Internet for advice which makes me think you are having second thoughts.
Actually, I'm not really having second thoughts, though I really do regret leaving the QA person in the lurch. The other developer whom they finally put on the project at the end of March (the system architect, one of the original authors of the system) has not been able to get to any of the work assigned to him because he has been busy with other, higher-priority projects. That means that this one is the Project That Wouldn't Die and will now be even further behind.
My soliciting the DWTF community for opinions is just that; I was curious to see how others have handled similar situations. Yes, I know, the title is clickbait and all that.
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
I've also just walked off jobs before but, handing a letter of resignation to someone clearly not expecting it is exhilarating and freeing. More so than just walking away. Many of the times I've walked a small part of me felt like a failure. Delivering a letter of resignation puts the power back in my hands.
I did want to leave on my own terms. I have been fired before, and it's not nice. It's a lot easier to explain to potential employers when you resign rather than get fired, in my experience. YMMV.
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
We don't know how "suddenly" you resigned, so it's impossible to answer. When did you resign? Before or after the meeting? How much notice did you give? Did you do it in person, in writing, or both? Your narrative is missing certain details critical to the story.
It sounds like the problem here is a bad relationship between you and your boss. You should feel comfortable going to your boss and asking for help, and your boss shouldn't feel the need to hide behind a misleading meeting invite. Obviously it's too late to do anything about that now.
As for how suddenly, I wasn't planning on leaving when I went into work yesterday. I resigned before the meeting, giving them no notice, in writing (WTF#1, I suppose). The thing is, I was never clear as to whom I could report things like this to. I'd been asking for 6 months about what came after this project. Crickets. When I get blamed for someone else's mistakes, I am not going to sit still. Why should I be the one to suffer for poor management or planning?
BTW, Blakey, I always enjoy your posts, yours and Morbs'.
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
@Nexzus said:
The situation you described does sound shitty and would prompt me to leave.
Honestly though, I would have made sure I had something else lined up before I left*, and I would have given two weeks notice. People will remember you for that. I hated my last place, still gave almost 3 weeks notice.
* I have a family to support.
I would have given the two weeks, but this was simply the last straw, and the stress was really getting to me.
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Am I TRWTF?
Up until yesterday, I worked for a company whose mission I believe in. The company manufactures medical equipment (specifically, blood-collection devices) and is a subsidiary of a large multinational based in Japan.
I worked in the department responsible for producing software that allows customers (both in-house and in the field) to monitor device performance and the types of procedures they are being used for. Because we had recently been acquired by our new Japanese owners, our senior management set some rather ambitious goals for the year, both in terms of sales and software development.
We didn't exactly meet those goals. One of the problems on the software side was that people kept resigning, and there have been no new hires in our department for over a year. So, to the meat:
I was assigned a project that was supposed to be a maintenance release of some of our infrastructure. You know, fix a few bugs here, tweak performance there, maybe add a few things that were deferred from the previous release. The problem was that I was the only developer on the project, and the scope kept expanding. I'll be the first to admit that I suck at asking for help, but one would think that the higher-ups would begin to notice that the project schedule was slipping. When I did ask why they intervene earlier, I was told that everyone was busy.
Okay, so: infrastructure is treated as less important than the customer-facing systems it's supposed to support. I was unable to do the work at the level of quality that I wanted to and that the company deserved because of the sheer volume of it. Basically, I was getting blamed for poor management. Shit rolls downhill, you know.
Anyway, I got a change to my weekly one-on-one from my boss yesterday. This isn't really that unusual; he would often reschedule due to conflicts or meetings called by his boss. But yesterday was different: he changed the date to Friday afternoon (tomorrow, in fact), lengthened the time to an hour, and moved it and to a location where I had never been, in the other building on campus. Naturally, I got suspicious. Looking at the calendar, I saw that he had another meeting scheduled for the same room at the same time with his boss and a representative from HR. The meeting was to develop something called a "Performance Improvement Plan", which is one step away from dismissal. The cynic in me told me that there was no way that this was going to end well. If my boss had simply come out and told me why we were going to be meeting in a different room at a different time, things might have been different.
As I said, I'm not the greatest at asking for help, and I know my quality was suffering over the past few months. But am I TRWTF for resigning so quickly?
TL;DR: I got tired of the hassle at work and resigned suddenly. Dumb or smart? You decide.
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RE: "PCs are dead and Microsoft is a goner, everyone will soon upgrade to a tablet/phone/Chromebook"
@morbiuswilters said:
That was when I realized the tech media was completely run by people with the intelligence of crows who did nothing but gather piles of shiny objects.
Man, why you gotta insult the crows?
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RE: C.S. class WTF
@Clueless_Luser said:
To those who have stated this isn't a WTF, I must respectfully disagree, and here's why:
- I'm well aware that day jobs will frequently mandate painful, obtuse and/or suboptimal development environments (in fact, I've worked at places that did this). However, in this case, I'm not a paid employee, but rather a paying customer, and as such, I feel I should be able to request platform-agnosticism and get it.
Ah yes, the entitlement mentality. This idea of education as a consumer product is not that new. I saw it when teaching for the University of Phoenix lo these many years ago. Lemme tell you something: you're not a special snowflake. You're a student in an introductory class. You don't get to dictate how you are being instructed, or the tools you must use to complete that instruction. Other posters are correct in their statements to you that this is the way the world works. If you don't like the requirements for the class, drop it. Better yet, do some more research into other CS programs and transfer to one that is more your liking.
[/Troll]
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RE: New design pattern: For loop on something you're not using that still does the work.
@OzPeter said:
@Zemm said:
@AndyCanfield said:
I'm with him on this one. On Safari the code quoted by the OP does not wrap, and in fact truncates it if the browser is narrower than that text. So even though I do get scrollbars when I make the window narrow, the scrollbars .. they do nothing.@Mithious said:
// 100 lines of standard stuff that doesn't use j and fits really well into a separate function
What? This one displays fine on my phone. There are other terrible code examples on this site that doesn't. If it's legible on a 4.x" screen it should be done on a desktop monitor. Unless you're as blind as a bat and use 200% page zoom on a 24" 1280×800?
FireFox does the same. I get a scrollbar at the bottom of the screen, but not for the display area.
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RE: The front page
It seems pretty clear to me that the third-party support service was either incompetent or overly zealous in the CYA department. Perhaps 911 shouldn't be outsourced like that.
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RE: Windows 8
Well, given the crappy way Microsoft has been managed for the past decade, this is perhaps not surprising.
I use C# in my job (I write software for engineering applications), and I love Visual Studio, but MS is late to the party with phones and tablets. Trying to push Metro into environments where it doesn't seem to be the best fit, such as desktop applications or VS11 itself, doesn't strike me as a long-term survival strategy.
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RE: Sweden's worst driver
@mott555 said:
@HighlyPaidContractor said:
@mott555 said:
Guitars will gently weep if they read this.
Thankfully, guitars can't read.Cocaine and some strange brew after midnight might make you change your mind about that.
Nah, that only works if you're in a white room with black curtains at the station.
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RE: Centralized Application Configuration Management
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]OIC... Your IT development costs will skyrocket if you walk that path, then.[/quote]
Do you mean the costs of retrofitting our existing applications? What about maintenance costs?
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RE: Centralized Application Configuration Management
.@amischiefr said:
It really depends on what kind of information you keep in your configuration files. What kind of data do you plan on storing in the DB? B2B connection information / login params? File names? URL / DNS information?
The idea is to store such things as database connection strings, log storage paths, timeouts, and the like--everything that one normally finds in an app.config or web.config file. That would include the stuff you mention above
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Centralized Application Configuration Management
Hi all,
My boss would like to be able to store all of our configuration data for all of our applications in a database so that we don't have to rely on our network people whenever there is a change in an application's configuration. She would like us to do this for all of our applications--console, desktop, and web. If you have had any experience with this kind of thing, could you tell me about it? Did it work, have mixed results, or become TDWTF-worthy?
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RE: Adobe Premiere CS 3 installation
How about Contribute (http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/)? My alumni association uses it for its client websites. I have never used such a slow, crappy POS in all my years of working with computers.
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RE: MD5 Brute Force Attack
@PJH said:
Did you want salt or pepper with your MD5 hashes?
Personally, I like ketchup. Lots of ketchup.
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Software Development and Human Rights
There is an article in this week's ZDNET (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6213376.html) via TechRepublic (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=211&tag=nl.e606) about the development of software features that might violate people's human rights or be otherwise immoral in some way (leaving aside hacking). What do you all think? Are we as developers responsible for how our software is employed by the end user?
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RE: Where is your e-mail address located?
@belgariontheking said:
@BradleyS said:
As a member of the "other" category, I'm always quite happy when somebody gives me the option to not pick "female" or "male". It keeps me from that minute and a half of staring at the paper trying to decide what I'm going to be known as here. And, fyi, "other" can be transexuals, hermaphrodites, other people with "gender issues", and some people who just don't consider themselves to have a set gender at all.
Screw that. You're born with a gender, just like me. That's what you put on the form. Through the miracle of medicine, we can give you different genitalia, so you can switch. Other does not apply to humans. No matter who you are, you should consider yourself a set gender. I don't think we should be defending a website drop-down in defense of less than one half of one percent of the population, who can't decide what gender they are. Imagine them trying to order dinner at a restaurant.
Gender issues? Give me a break!
Sorry (ok not really) if I sound mean, and I'm not trying to bash sexual orientation (gay, straight, bi, furry), just people who don't understand that there are only two genders.
Actually, sex is the physical characteristics you are born with. Gender is what is in your brain.
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RE: Report a power outage
It also reminds me of the days when, if you had trouble installing a modem into your computer, you were supposed to email tech support and alert them to the issue.
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RE: So I was sitting in my cubicle ...
@merreborn said:
I get into line, and when I get to the counter, I'm greeted by the "Self-Service Kiosk." This is a touch-screen device that allows you to input your
The Menlo Park (CA) Arby's has had a system like this since the early nineties, running on 3 curses-based touchscreen terminals, built into the counter. For those who couldn't figure the things out, the guy who worked the register could complete the order on a screen on his side of the counter.
I guess it was a slight efficiency boost, 'cause the guy who'd otherwise be taking orders can instead spend most of that time doing other tasks. In theory.
I thought it was really awesome, as a child.
Yeah, I know that's a typo, but it's still pretty funny, especially when the touchscreen is messed up.
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RE: Project Meeting gone wrong
Could this be the Australian version of <i>The Onion</i>?
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RE: Has Anyone Seen This One?
Agreed, but perhaps it was the only way he could get anyone to listen.
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Has Anyone Seen This One?
Kaiser Project Manager punished for pointing out IT problems:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/FREE/61109011/1029/newsletter02
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RE: The best web design agency in the world...
Why? I use IE and didn't have any trouble at all closing the dialog by clicking Cancel.
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