Spent two hours today pulling together info necessary to convince a useless entity with too much authority and too little responsibility that they were stupid idiots.
Then they found out they were wrong and without so much as a "oh, sorry for wasting your time" they swept it all under the rug.
Yea. I know. It would have take 30 seconds and two searches to see there was at least something fishy about those two items that they probably needed to check out further before pointing fingers.
I keep all such instances of their idiocy in a folder and then when they come to me I'll start sending them zipped copies of their follies and ask them to take a day to think carefully and be really, really sure before asking again.
Ever have one of those days where you sit down at a station, ssh into another station, and realize you just made a ssh connection to the station your sitting at?
our company generally takes good care of our own, and our customer allows us to handle resource management the way we want (they're not allowed to pick and choose people because of the Federal Acquisition Regulations)
so if one of our "resources" (people) goes away for some reason, everything is hunky-dory if we can backfill them
or have someone work overtime
the only time our customer would get pissy is if we don't meet deadlines or deliver on commitments
but they don't care how we do it
that said, in the past, subcontractors have been more expendable than direct employees, during layoffs and such
the company tries pretty hard to keep its average, above-average and excellent direct employees, well, employed -- doesn't let go of them easily, no matter of hardship or illness or whatever
we do testing, requirements analysis, software engineering, DevOps, consulting, that sort of thing
and our customers have big, complex internal systems and processes that take years to learn
a new hire, no matter how intelligent, is inherently less valuable and useful than someone who has a lot of organizational knowledge of our customers
a lot of our customers have built significantly complex internal software from scratch, or nearly from scratch (using some other platform like SAP or SalesForce, etc. as a springboard to write zillions of lines of custom code)
no matter how smart you are, it will take you hours to get simple things done when you hire on into that environment, whereas veterans of the organization just go tap-tap-tap and they're done
@JourneymanGeek I was just looking at my suggested edits in my summary and noticed that the "pending"/"accepted" section is a link to the review status for that edit.
In that, a (more) link expands to show the review history of the reviewers, and the edit history for me.
Not realizing I'd had any rejected edits, it decided to see why I had 3 of them, and learn from that. I could only find 1 reject in my short history, and don't know where the other 2 come from.
Could they be rollbacks after the edit was accepted?
Duh. One was deleted in fact. we discussed it here. The temporally reversed duplicates. Could have been another one somewhere as well.
I don't mind the "reject". Now that I know it's there, I can check me record once in a while and learn from the rejected ones. The one G-Man cleaned up, for example. I should have done that myself, but didn't. Live and learn :)
In a sense though, I have lower standards for this sort of edits since its an essential site task, with long term implications which is a complete pain to do.
I'm actually having fun chasing down some of these images. Either spinning up VMs to create them or ferreting around in Google for things. This one was a beast.
I want to be able to find text on the following awesome image and where the text is located in it. This is not the first time I stumbled upon such a challenge and probably many people have similar questions from time to time as well. I think this stands as a good instance of the general issue.
T...
Maybe it's from chasing bugs in card decks, but I like digging around. Computers are fun and anything useful is secondary.
Speaking of long-term implications. I've also discovered that the first tag for a question is also the leader on the window title. So, that one above has [macos] as the first tag, and the window title is "macos - Find text on an image - Super User".
I think there's been about 3 cats I've gotten along with
a friend's cat (which oddly enough hates most guys), a big old one eyed tom who was a lot friendlier than he looked, and died in a fight with a snake, and the little cat that lives just outside my neighbourhood (when she feels like being friendly)
Hi. Can I ask a doubt here? If I have to get exam results from a page, I type in the roll number to do it. However, I want to like download the results of all possible roll numbers in a category. How do I do it? results.sofworld.org/results Someone told me to use wget. I tried for some time but failed.
First have to figure out how to craft the POST, then parse the returned HTML, not tiddly-winks, but doable. Wonder it will accept the values in a GET and still work?
http://results.sofworld.org/results
I was hoping if I could get all possible results of say type:
16th NCO
Roll no:
DL0071-**-*-***
My roll number is DL0071-11-B-005
I was suggested on chat to post a question. I have Chrome on Windows 10.
@fixer1234 I thought you might find this information useful: Note: Firewall App Blocker doesn’t change Windows Firewall default settings. If you use 3rd party security software or a 3rd party firewall (e.g. Avast), they can disable your Windows Firewall. Firewall App Blocker runs properly only if your Windows Firewall is enabled. Source: sordum.org/8125/firewall-app-blocker-fab-v1-5
@karel, I spotted that someone had created a new tag [fab], which was dangerously ambiguous and undefined. I replaced it with a product tag and drafted a minimal wiki excerpt, not knowing if it will get used for more than the one question. I'm not really familiar with it. Do we need to do anything?
I found that Jeff Atwood is no longer part of Stack Exchange!!
So, I'm curious to know what is he doing after farewelling Stack Exchange.
Has he found any other amazing organization or project? Or developed/developing any software model, web engine or something else?
Their electronic and electrical goods are overpriced and don't match what other places have, so they don't turn over stock well and end up with crap and out of date stuff. And then they don't actually get any new stock or new types and just become worthless for buying from.
We needed a 7" tablet a few months ago, for like 3 months they either had stuff that was out of stock everywhere or was about 2x more expensive than it should have been.
Moving off a rented server (mostly serving websites); have moved the website data, moving /home/* data; exporting database data; and will copy over /etc/ for good measure as well. Anything else I shouldn't overlook?
If all else fails, there's the old fashioned way - On Ubuntu or debian,use dpkg --get-selections to dump out a list of installed packages, and install them with dpkg --set-selections. The equivalent of this for red hat based distros is yum-debug-dump and yum-debug-restore (optionally with --insta...
> How bad was Friday's defeat of the American Health Care Act in the House of Representatives? Bad. Very bad. The AHCA was the first major piece of legislation pushed by the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress, a key political test early in the president's term, when he should be at the height of his power and party cohesion at its strongest. In spite of all of this, Mr Trump, Mr Ryan and the Republicans running Washington could not get the job done. For Republicans Friday wasn't just bad. It was a disaster.
Ahahahaha
My predictions are coming true!
Trump's presidency is just gonna be 4 years of nothing getting done
> Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee, who was jailed twice in his homeland for posting political and religious criticism online, has been granted asylum in the United States.
I am trying to use Wget to access a RESTful interface, but I can not figure out how to do HTTP PUT with Wget. How can I do it? Or isn't it prossible?
http://results.sofworld.org/results
I was hoping if I could get all possible results of say type:
16th NCO
Roll no:
DL0071-**-*-***
My roll number is DL0071-11-B-005
I was suggested on chat to post a question. I have Chrome on Windows 10.
I found that Jeff Atwood is no longer part of Stack Exchange!!
So, I'm curious to know what is he doing after farewelling Stack Exchange.
Has he found any other amazing organization or project? Or developed/developing any software model, web engine or something else?
