[QUOTE=TrafficMan;51380761]This makes me hungry for dog food[/QUOTE]
Cause life is such a treat.
Working with several surface only clients has definitely solidified me in never getting a tablet as a primary mobile device.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
Especially not a surface.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51381502]Working with several surface only clients has definitely solidified me in never getting a tablet as a primary mobile device.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
Especially not a surface.[/QUOTE]
What ones are they using and what are the problems?
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51381548]What ones are they using and what are the problems?[/QUOTE]
Pro 3's and 4's. And metric fucktons of problems. More firmware issues on the 3's and more hardware failures on the 4's. And the Microsoft official SP3 docks are absolute trash and fail very frequently.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
The other week I RMA'd [I]4 of them[/I]. And I have another one to RMA this week.
When I worked at Xbox I had to use a Surface as a primary machine.
I hate them.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51381900]I love my Surface RT even though Microsoft is doing everything they can to fuck their owners over, I never have to worry about charging or bulk luggage, it's always working for me and it's my main to-go coding device
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
RT Church 4 life[/QUOTE]
Jesus Christ Sam just let it die.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51381900]Microsoft is doing everything they can to fuck their owners over, I never have to worry about charging or bulk luggage, it's always working for me and it's my main to-go coding device
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
RT Church 4 life[/QUOTE]
Given your love for dead platforms I've come to the conclusion you're the technologically modern version of a ~ironic~ hipster.
[QUOTE=kaze4159;51380718]Welcome to node
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wfoNU6lSAig/WCyS_TAltlI/AAAAAAAAP1s/j_QdNSYmABE/s0/2016-11-17_03-10-21.png[/img]
This is the default hello world project created by Ionic, the folder tree is so deep windows refuses to move the root folder[/QUOTE]
That's how you know something really fucked up. Go boot Linux to nuke it
More like boot to Linux and install it
So Windows 10 magically stopped being retarded and now detects HDMI Audio. What. The. Shit.
[QUOTE=garychencool;51382407]That's how you know something really fucked up. Go boot Linux to nuke it[/QUOTE]
Or just delete it with 7zip and keep your games.
Hmmm, I've been thinking about getting rid of my old 2011 3DS. It just isn't comfortable to hold anymore. Maybe a 2DS is something a bit more usable?
I have the box, manuals and everything, but shitstop pays $60 regardless. What can I do to get rid of this one and get a 2DS without spending any money? I intend to sell the 3DS and use the money to get a 2DS or something.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51380073]that's pretty clever in a manufacturing sense , they can make 2 cards with the same amount of pcb space[/QUOTE]
There was a time when larger PCB's meant a better product because it indicated a Vendor was not afraid to use all 12" available in an ISA/PCI slot. Small cards usually meant cheap garbage.
[img]http://computer-retro.de/Bilder/Multi-IO/Adaptec-AVA-1502AE-ISA-SCSI-Controller_thumbnail.jpeg[/img]
That whole post is just loaded. :v:
look at all that room for courage
[QUOTE=helifreak;51377727]How did they manage that? Any time I log in on a new device they email me a code I have to put in.
You also really should have had 2FA auth on, which would have stopped that shit completely. I didn't but I fixed that.
Honestly I find it hard to feel bad for people who leave 2FA auth off and get "hacked."[/QUOTE]
Well, for someone who were stupid 4-7 years ago and started creating too many email accounts, it's hard to have 2FA on old, unused accounts. I should've set up 2FA, sure, but I'm not pissed off to being hacked (3rd time already in 5 years I guess?), but because Microshit just won't completely restore my emails.
Now, I'd like to know if I can shutdown my old email accounts completely... It should be easier than cleaning up all the spam I get, unsubscribing from everything and make them usable again.
EDIT: what does the &GC mean in the topic title? Garbage Collectors?
General Chat
Storytime! Gather around, younglings, and I shall tell you the tale of my new employer.
I've taken a part-time job, in order to stretch my funds while I try to get an career going as an indie game dev. That's a tale for another night, though - now is the tale of the Legacy Application.
My new job is with another refugee from the Former Employer (who still has a bunch of NDAs so I still can't name them), and he's been working on maintaining, and struggling to update and upgrade, the Legacy Application for a small laboratory that does pollutant testing, mostly (but not exclusively) on air samples. They have a custom application to manage their workflow, originally coded in PHP 4 by a third person who appears to have never actually learned how to program.
Over the past year or so, my coworker (boss, I guess?) has been mostly stuck in maintenance mode. He's gotten things mostly stable, so at least is doesn't crash, but it's certainly not a quality bit of code.
A rewrite was attempted, in Node, but aborted because a full rewrite was just too much work for one developer, while maintaining the Legacy Application. You'd think we might start from scratch now, but the code's been cleaned up enough that it's not too bad to start from.
It's still pretty bad, though. The original developer may have lacked talent completely, but my coworker is mostly practiced at front-end design. He's polished the interface up with HTML5 and CSS3 and Jquery and all that jazz, but anything database-related is still original, save for bugfixes, and the internal code isn't that great either.
Notable highlights so far:
A new DB connection is opened and closed for every single query
Every single SQL statement is constructed with string concatenation. No parameterized queries, no mysql_real_escape_string, not even mysql_escape_string, just "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = $id". If it [I]can[/I] have SQL injection holes, rest assured, it [I]does[/I].
No objects, ever.
Nested one-line conditionals ("if (thing) do_something(); else if (stuff) if (whatever) do_another_thing()"...)
Most variables are globals
No foreign keys in ANY tables
Some "foreign keys" are [I]strings[/I]
No indexes on anything except when MySQL does it automatically
Passwords were encrypted with MD5 (better than nothing, I suppose)
Mix of latin1 and utf8 columns [I]in the same table[/I], which I didn't think MySQL even supported
Some (but not all) boolean columns are defined as INTEGER(8) UNSIGNED. Not TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED, which is what BOOLEAN is equivalent to in MySQL. A full 32-bit integer.
Most variables in the original code are named $f, $k, $v, $v2, or so on. If you see a full word, it's been refactored since He Who Shall Go Nameless moved on.
All input validation and permissions checks are done in Javascript
Now, the good thing about being a pair of developers reporting to a nonteknischen is that we have free reign to refactor and revise to our hearts' content. We're essentially doing a rewrite of all the internal code, keeping only the HTML templates the same. The database schema was completely rewritten - in just a day. Now we're going through the entire codebase to make it work - and we're fixing every other problem as we come across it. We've moved it onto a PHP 7 server (from PHP 5.0).
Once we finish the refactor/rewrite, it's on to new features. First one is automated invoicing - and I have full approval to write unit tests for all of it. After all, it affects money, that makes it Serious Code in need of Serious Testing.
Now, life isn't all lollipops and rainbows in G-Man's G-Land. For one thing, the office we were supposed to move to is still covered in 2015's paperwork. So it's the two of us, plus four computers (most of which are repurposed gaming rigs, for some reason), in a 1m by 1.5m room, which has a heat vent in it (and the building is already in heater mode). Needless to say, it gets [I]pretty fucking hot[/I]. No idea when they'll clear out an actual office for us instead of a storage room with a desk.
I hate lab software. One of my clients makes air filtration shit and does all sorts of testing, every single one of their lab programs are a bitch and a half.
[QUOTE=pentium;51382732]There was a time when larger PCB's meant a better product because it indicated a Vendor was not afraid to use all 12" available in an ISA/PCI slot. Small cards usually meant cheap garbage.
[img]http://computer-retro.de/Bilder/Multi-IO/Adaptec-AVA-1502AE-ISA-SCSI-Controller_thumbnail.jpeg[/img][/QUOTE]
I know what you meant. You can just tell how much features are packed on this badass sound card just by the sheer size and number of ICs:
[t]http://s011.radikal.ru/i317/1205/c3/db686ea8bc7c.jpg[/t]
Yes, those are RAM sticks. ON A SOUND CARD.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
And yes, there are THREE IDE headers that lets you directly plug your CD-ROM to the card
[url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA26R1GB3988]car shaped mouse because why not[/url]
[QUOTE=garychencool;51382581]So Windows 10 magically stopped being retarded and now detects HDMI Audio. What. The. Shit.[/QUOTE]
I finally reinstalled windows to get hdmi audio back.
But now my network speeds are shit, and they will completely stop at times.
I can never win.
[QUOTE=Humin;51383274][url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA26R1GB3988]car shaped mouse because why not[/url][/QUOTE]
Ordered
[QUOTE=Levelog;51383108]I hate lab software. One of my clients makes air filtration shit and does all sorts of testing, every single one of their lab programs are a bitch and a half.[/QUOTE]
I imagine 90 percent of enterprise software is total balls.
[QUOTE=DuCT;51383290]I imagine 90 percent of enterprise software is total balls.[/QUOTE]
Your imagination is limited.
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;51380540][img]https://i.imgur.com/MGXRUsl.png[/img]
Used to be hyped about this feature, I just hate it by now. Can't close it as far as I know so I have to wait it out until I can access whatever is behind it. If I mouse over when it's disappearing I end up reopening the damn thing[/QUOTE]
I've literally had this song stuck in my head since that episode.
[QUOTE=DuCT;51383290]I imagine 90 percent of enterprise software is total balls.[/QUOTE]
99 percent.
Actually, our in house training website is something out of the 2000s, flash and everything.
[QUOTE=DuCT;51383290]I imagine 90 percent of enterprise software is total balls.[/QUOTE]
Its quite amazing when you see they spent 5 or 6 figures on licensing a program that it riddled with more bugs than a Bethesda game at launch.
Like we have two entirely seperate phone systems. One has a client that the latest patch is entirely broken because it doesn't recognize that Windows 7 can read SHA-256 certificates so it fails everytime.
The other system has a client that the Visual C++ 2010 portion of the installer will fail because chocolatey can't verify that the installer is intact even though its already installed, requiring a command line hack. The other half it fails to install the install half the files or give you blank error messages meaning you installed successfully.
And my previous employer had a CMS that would CRASH THE ENTIRE SERVER if you gave it a large integer in the quantity field.
Ask anyone in IT and you could get loads of these stories.
Ironically, the most reliable enterprise software vendor in my experience is fucking Microsoft. Surprisingly, their shit mostly works, even if it is unnecessarily complex to set up at times.
Wanna see the dumbest power connector placement ever?
[t]http://asia.dl.sapphiretech.com/archive/gm/PDimg/11156-01_HD4650_1GBDDR2_2DVI_TVO_AGP_C02_634466825587860446.jpg[/t]
This is how the card looks like with any aftermarket cooler:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/mldahIQ.jpg[/t]
I'm surprised this guy even managed to get a cooler to even mount on it
holy shit thinkpad docks have a fuckton of ports
Will the Mini 3 dock fit even if the T430 has the 70++ extended battery in it?
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