Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 2:59:54 pm PDT #14706 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Man, some people weird. One of the testers, in trying to do a performance test on our system, came up across a particularly nasty and elusive error we've been trying to track to its source for months, but the developers can't duplicate it in a controlled environment. But the tester can, and has--repeatedly. So much so, that he can't complete his performance testing.

I drag a developer over to him and his screens full of error and resist the urge to bang their heads together, because the tester has never done me wrong, but eventually the developer comes back to me, helpless, because the tester wasn't generating errors in any places he was tracing the code.

Does this really take an entire extra person to move to the next step on? Seriously?


Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2012 3:04:35 pm PDT #14707 of 30001
brillig

I love Rescue Ink, as well, big burly scary types looking after critters.


dcp - Jul 19, 2012 3:05:38 pm PDT #14708 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

...what's the inoffensive verb for Shanghai?

Wrangle? Draft? Press-gang? Dragoon?


sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 3:07:49 pm PDT #14709 of 30001

I saw a tv piece on them a year or two ago. Maybe the same chapter, maybe not.

Totaly lucked out on my swim tonight. They kicked everyone out of the pool when I was only a lap shy of the main event. Didn't get my cooldown laps (and can feel that. Legs were all wobbly walking to the locker room) but since I'm still hearing thunder 2 hours later, I wouldn't have gotten a chance later tonight.

ION, Pumpkin apparently thinks Devi was responsible for the really close cracks. After one scared her mid-jump and made her land next to Devi, every subsequent crack, she'd run up to Devi and hiss in her face. Odd little bug.


sarameg - Jul 19, 2012 3:13:20 pm PDT #14710 of 30001

One of the testers, in trying to do a performance test on our system, came up across a particularly nasty and elusive error we've been trying to track to its source for months, but the developers can't duplicate it in a controlled environment. But the tester can, and has--repeatedly. So much so, that he can't complete his performance testing.

Whereas in my env, operations comes up with a nasty and elusive error but test cannot replicate in and I get to bang my head together with the developers all the while with a nasty error.

I feel your pain.


Kat - Jul 19, 2012 3:18:14 pm PDT #14711 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

My niece just posted pics of her summer. She was, apparently, in New York for Fleet Week. As part of the fleet.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 3:23:49 pm PDT #14712 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I asked the developer here in which sections of the site they put the trace code, if it's not any of the places the tester hit. Dunno. Uh, which places was the offshore developer trying to reproduce the error? He does some mighty aimless clicking between screens on his computer. Dunno? Over here mostly?

So I just finished going through the first half of the trouble tickets, and I can only hope those are the errors the offshore developer was trying to duplicate and that's what he's tracing, because that's what I gave the tester, and tomorrow is GODDAMNED BATMAN DAY.

One more status report, and I can leave...I can do this...who makes me do two status reports in one day? That's no fair...and technically it's three because I wrote one at six this morning.

IO9 had a "Wear Batman fashion to work" article. Which omitted the belt buckle I'm wearing today, so there's now a selfie adorning their crack journalism.

Okay, 1 hit of tumblr, then status report, then home. Oh, look! Company jellybeans!


Sue - Jul 19, 2012 3:33:34 pm PDT #14713 of 30001
hip deep in pie

what's the inoffensive verb for Shanghai?

Press gang?


msbelle - Jul 19, 2012 3:38:50 pm PDT #14714 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

what types of work would you all have a daily helper do, say you had to fill 3 hours of work a day.

Thus far I have:

grocery shopping - 1 hour/week
iron 5 outfits/week - 1.5 hour/week
cooking - 1 hour/day
fold laundry - 1 hour/week
vacuum - 30 min/week
sweep - 30 min/week
dishes - 30 min/day


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 3:39:57 pm PDT #14715 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm going to go with dragoon. It sound piratey.

I used metonymy in my final status report, and not even strictly correctly. If I get called on it and corrected, I will do a fist pump of being properly one-upped. Otherwise, I have to do something to make me feel better about still being here and still going through emails. Almost done, though. Just have to do the Out Of Office prep.