The Whiteboard

5:10 PM

Yes, I starred The Codeless Code. No, it's actually not for the hat.

@durron597 Oh. Hmm, one fat finger and you're in a pretty bad situation. Though that match-up is exceptionally hard to lose.

overexchange

hai

@MichaelT i want to know, how to apply in canadian IT market as you have been there? do you think you can give some input? am applying for canada immigration next month. we get extra points in immigration for employment

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user20683

7:35 PM

room topic changed to The Whiteboard: General Discussion for programmers.stackexchange.com Pants optional when telecommuting. [good-booze] [horror-stories] [monads] [my-code-is-compiling] [parsing-errors] [the-other-monitor]

user20683

Not Bridgeness is now covered by type inference and automated sanity checks.

7:54 PM

@psr ... hats you say?

user55340

8:08 PM

@overexchange I have no idea. I'm not Canadian, nor have I worked in Canada (and any implication that I might was strongly discouraged by customs). My job search most recently (accepted!) was in state capital in the US for a civil servant position as a Java programmer. So... nope... no idea about Canada at all.

@WorldEngineer Ha bridge, we're not crazy, our personality is just dynamically typed.

user55340

@psr You, sir, are a duck.

user20683

@MichaelT No, he's a quack.

user55340

@WorldEngineer if he responds to quack() he's a duck.

whatsisname

@MichaelT: by accepted as in you're moving to Madison?

user55340

8:09 PM

@whatsisname Yep. The various logistics are all working out for the smooth transition of housing.

whatsisname

Did you look in the twin cities? Or did you want to stay in sconnie?

@WorldEngineer How about a quakken?

archives.erfworld.com/Kickstarter%20Stories/44

user55340

@whatsisname there are various aspects of family that made moving back to the Madison area more desirable.

whatsisname

gotcha

8:27 PM

@psr yeah and some asshole keeps re-arranging our integer cache. Who knows what personality we'll have next...

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9:35 PM

hmmm should I take tomorrow off or not

Hint: You shouldn't not take it off.

user15026

10:15 PM

I wish I could take it off, though 2.5 days of work this week isn't bad

Matt Giltaji

i get only thursday off, everything else would come out of PTO :(

@MattGiltaji really? thats... a bummer

Matt Giltaji

yeah they are a bit stingy with the days off here

That's how my current client is surprisingly

of course the company that signs my paychecks gives me the 24th and 25th off so I just told everyone that I wouldn't be in on Wednesday and they seemed pretty OK with it

user20683

my company gives me 3 weeks of vacation but no sick or pto

10:29 PM

Man we have a lot of random conversations in this group. lol.

user20683

anyone know any good resources about how to organize your email?

10:45 PM

@WorldEngineer yes

1) inbox
2) processed
3) "waiting for"
4) action-required

and technically (5) "deleted"

user20683

@enderland subcategories for inbox?

@WorldEngineer maybe "reference"

Organizing emails into folders/categories requires that you do it correctly 100% of the time -- otherwise you have to search anyways and have to search anyways, which means you waste most of the time you spend organizing email anyways

Matt Giltaji

@enderland or you use rules to automatically sort for you

@MattGiltaji yeah. I guess I also have a few automated folders for stuff which is completely automated

but otherwise I basically don't bother categorizing/sorting because unless you are perfect at it, you still have to search

and it often takes a long time to organize it

user20683

I'm on a fair number of newsletter lists

10:50 PM

if you want to read it, put it in (4), if not, put it in (2) or delete