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3rd August 2005, 00:05 | #122 |
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People who care too much about things that don't really matter.
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3rd August 2005, 00:56 | #123 | |
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But does that mean you grind your own gears then? |
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3rd August 2005, 01:03 | #124 | |
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as an 'end user' of a particular application that has just been'upgraded' we are all tearing our hair out at the combination of old bugs not fixed and new bugs, and really stupid usability issues that indicate no one bothered to to any fucking requirements analysis/ user requirements whatsoever. I could write a small novel on the bugs in it, and the stupid user-unfriendly crap except its taking me so long to work around them all I cant do my actual job, let alone theirs. |
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i.e. Trying to explain to a client why taking "a couple of days" to refactor the code is a good thing, if they want their future enhancements to be easy (read: cheap) to add. Not kidding, I wrote a fucking awful Skip Tracing (i.e. tracking down debtors) web based program in .NET in two weeks. I'd never worked in .NET, and I'd never written a web app, and never used ASP.NET either. It worked (because the Coding Guru who I was working with spent 3/4s of an hour finishing it off for me on Christmas Eve, which was basically a) correcting my usage of a library he had written and b) using the correct .NET objects for what I was trying to do, reducing 30-40 lines of code to 5) but it only just worked. After this horrible experience I had to convince the client that despite apearances, I hadn't quite done a bang up job, and could REALLY use some time to get things sorted out (like removing hard coded SQL statements from the code base and introducing objects to represent debts/debtors/leads) before doing any furure work. They didn't believe me: "We've got serious time constraints from upstairs..." "I don't think we can factor those changes into our costs..." "If I ask you for this tiny little change along with the other ten tiny little changes, none of which were in the spec, it couldn't possibly cause problems downstream, could it?" Jesus, trying to explain to clients that Little Change A + Little Change B = big fucking bug further down the track that we cannot see yet because it was never factored into the change requests and planning we did, so can we please leve those changes until I've finished the current changes you want... is not fun p.s. NEVER EVER EVER FUCKING WORK FOR A BASTARD WHO TELLS CLIENTS THAT YOU HAVE MUCHO EXPERIENCE IN A BRAND NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN BEFORE, LET ALONE FUCKING IMPLEMENTED ANYTHING USEFULL IN. Ah yeah, now that grinds my gears p.p.s. Web development sucks arse, until you get your mind around stateless programming (which doesn't take that long I guess, but its still a mind shift). Then you go out and start learning LISP, and then your brain melts. |
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3rd August 2005, 10:40 | #128 | |
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I hate marketing. |
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3rd August 2005, 11:27 | #129 |
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What grinds my gears is when im doing something (development, writing a document etc), and my boss says 'lets catch up now' so i stop what im doing, and prepare for the catch up, then he fucks around for ages doing his own shit, talking to other staff members....whatever.
so i just sit here, not wanting to start what i was working on again, cause im basically on red alert for this meeting....it could happen ANYTIME.... sigh |
3rd August 2005, 12:31 | #130 | |
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3rd August 2005, 12:46 | #131 |
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I didn't have that much troubles with LISP, but then again I've not had to interact with it in anyway in a production environment and maybe my memories are making it seem much easier than it really is.
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3rd August 2005, 13:03 | #132 |
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Heh, I'm only at the
(defun add1 (n) (+ 1 n) ) and go woo! cos it works stage. Have been learning very slowly, i.e. when I can be bothered to boot into Linux when I have some spare time at home. Have done enough reading to start seeing how functional programming could be cool, and love the idea of code as data (my old boss used to rave about something similar when he was using Clipper, never quite saw what the big deal was until recently.) |
3rd August 2005, 13:20 | #133 | |
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Definitly worth a look at. |
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3rd August 2005, 16:06 | #134 |
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People who bitch about spam, ffs its just email, DELETE IT. It's not like you have to physically get up and run down the street to get rid of it. Hell, I'm the laziest fucker about and I can press a key without stressing out about it.
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3rd August 2005, 16:10 | #135 |
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Spam does get to be a pain when you're getting 150-200 a day. You have to use filtering, and then you have to check for false positives etc.
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3rd August 2005, 16:15 | #136 |
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people who get really worked up over things like servers, code, blah, anything IT really.
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3rd August 2005, 16:26 | #137 |
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People who can't upshift properly. Duh.
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3rd August 2005, 16:34 | #138 |
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Flatmates who use all the bandwidth when they're not even home.
.. And then when they get home, wonder why you pulled their patch cable. Last edited by stryka : 3rd August 2005 at 16:38. |
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3rd August 2005, 20:43 | #140 | |
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very short sighted as sooner or later your company's name will be mud when all the limitations become apparent to the client (who will never stop to consider the fact that their demands might have contributed to this situation - though - really the client should expect to be educated when they are asking for stuff that isnt possible - again consultant/BA's job) |
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3rd August 2005, 20:57 | #141 |
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also, can openers
they never last very long before they wont work - i just brought a new one and a week later its starting to slip flawed technology - why hasnt someone made a BETTER one? |
3rd August 2005, 21:29 | #142 | |
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3rd August 2005, 21:41 | #143 | |
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It should be - "i just bought a new one" Brought = to bring. Bought = to buy. Now I know you could be saying that you took a new can-opener home, but you're not. I'm not flaming you, btw, just pointing something out for future reference. |
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3rd August 2005, 21:49 | #144 |
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I agree with chiquelet.
What she pointed out really rattles my tits. |
3rd August 2005, 22:08 | #145 |
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3rd August 2005, 22:42 | #146 |
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Flatmates who invite their friends over and play drum n bass really loudly in the kitchen when everyone else in the flat fucking hates it.
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3rd August 2005, 22:47 | #147 | |
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3rd August 2005, 22:48 | #148 | |
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Damned goat. |
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3rd August 2005, 22:54 | #149 | ||
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3rd August 2005, 23:48 | #150 | |
HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE
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4th August 2005, 00:25 | #152 | |
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(edit) oh, and what am I doing to them? oddly enough, opening cans with them! Last edited by kimmyh51 : 4th August 2005 at 00:26. |
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4th August 2005, 00:33 | #153 |
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My god, the woman can't even use a can opener! She is a danger in the kitchen and therefore is of no use to anyone as a woman. Down the garbage shute with her.
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4th August 2005, 00:35 | #154 | |
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4th August 2005, 00:37 | #155 |
Stunt Pants
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Christ, you can't do anything. I bet you make really bad scrambled eggs.
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4th August 2005, 00:39 | #156 |
HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE
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I bet you can't get a girlfriend
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4th August 2005, 00:40 | #157 |
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He's got kimmy - they make such a cute couple!
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4th August 2005, 00:44 | #158 | |
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Women who can't cook. That really grinds my gears. Anyone who can't make decent scrambled eggs. It's so fucking easy to make, how can you screw it up?
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4th August 2005, 01:27 | #159 | |
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Seriously, the people that buy the cheapest low quality crap available then complain about the poor quality really piss me off. I spend good money to buy good quality stuff that will last well, why pay half as much for something that lasts for 10% as long? |
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4th August 2005, 01:56 | #160 |
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Hey.... I was about to make some witty comment about goats and grinding them.
But its escaped me for the moment, although I still feel the need to post something dang it. Fuck it, me and my goat are going to bed now to grind stuff. |