The Bridge

7:00 PM

@badp I've gone to a different carrier, and kept my number. That's law in Canada, that once you have a cell number, you basically get to keep it until you move to a different region.

I'll be doing that again near the end of October as well.

Unionhawk

Here I'll probably keep my number unless I move to Canada or something

FAE

When I went to Toronto for the first time, I had no idea that you had to dial the area code when you were within the city to make phone calls.

Jason Berkan

settles into rocking chair When I was young, we only had to dial 5 numbers.

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Unionhawk

I suppose you want us to get off your lawn?

FAE

Also all mobile numbers in the Netherlands start with 06.

Ben Brocka

7:04 PM

@badp what's a home number

(they're increasingly rare in the US)

FAE

@badp in the US, there's no way to tell just by number

Michel

Afternoon Bridge

FAE

they're all formatted the same

Unionhawk

Also that.

Powerlord

@BenBrocka It is? What platform is it on?

Unionhawk

7:05 PM

We literally have a home phone for the sole purpose of having something that our alarm system can use to call the police.

Ben Brocka

pax prime will have a PSN sale including Transistor

Powerlord

(sorry was in meeting)

Unionhawk

And locating misplaced cell phones

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord oh, I think I'm thinking of a different Zombie game with a different "dead" pun. I remember playing something vaguely like that on Vita

hard to tell them all apart these days

@Unionhawk I just IM someone to call it. I can text my parents via google voice, usually works

Powerlord

This one is the Pikmin-style game.

Ben Brocka

7:08 PM

surprised alarm systems can't use the internet for that somehow

oh, this was an RTS...that I can't remember the name of

Unionhawk

They can, but ours is as old as the house, (nearly 15 years, I think)

FAE

Our phone line isn't actually even a phone line.

It's basically glorified VOIP.

MBraedley

@BenBrocka I actually have a home number (runs and hides)

Unionhawk

Incidentally, the TV phone Internet bundle is cheaper than TV Internet from twc here, which is slightly pants on head

Ben Brocka

I get enoguh spam calls on my cell phone, I can't imagine a home phone

Frank

7:14 PM

Yay. One of our websites failed to complete an order due to an apostrophe.

Shoot me now.

Arperum

@Frank Oh god. You are so doomed.

Unionhawk

@frank any preferences on weapon used?

Frank

@Unionhawk Nuclear?

Ben Brocka

we have 3rd financial software that won't accept them in certain fields

Arperum

@Frank You sure that you don't want deathstar level stuff pointed at yyou?

Ben Brocka

7:16 PM

Fortunately I think it chokes on itself and dies rather than allowing SQL injection. I can't actually do anything about it though, we just told people not to use them

Frank

@Arperum I had to burn through two levels of IIS error handling for it to even spit out a proper error message.

Ben Brocka

Excellent, my order of a bad game and a bad game console has been delivered

I am good with money

Arperum

@Frank fun times. I've been digging through database connector errors myself. Got it fixed today. Apparently "server rejected connection" means "we deleted some columns in our tables, didn't inform you that your stuff would break on update, and now your select query is wrong.

Also: the database browser program you've been using for trying to figure out what's wrong is going to try to access random memory where it shouldn't and that'll result in errors too.

Frank

@Arperum Ew.

Arperum

@Frank Yea, fun times were had. Did I mention that I am actually working on some other thing that has a pretty unmovable deadline?

Frank

7:41 PM

@Arperum Welcome to IT. Where miracles are expected.

Arperum

@Frank I'm fully aware.

Origami Robot

SERIOUSLY, WHY IS SOMEONE FROM JAMAICA CALLING ME?

IS IT ONE OF YOU?

IS SOMEONE IN HERE FROM JAMAICA?

FEichinger

I can assure you, the caller does not need to be from Jamaica for the call to originate in Jamaica.

(No, that was not a confession.)

Origami Robot

SOMEONE HAS A GUILTY CONSCIENCE

Frank

@Arperum And the reward for managing the miracle is another one.

Origami Robot

7:44 PM

IF I SAW SOMEONE PERFORM A MIRACLE, I'D LIKELY ASK THEM TO DO IT AGAIN

Frank

@OrigamiRobot And then another, and another, and another, until miracles become commonplace.

Origami Robot

WHAT KIND OF SELFISH PERSON HAS THE ABILITY TO PERFORM MIRACLES AND DOESN'T?

Frank

@OrigamiRobot Welcome to IT, where everything we do is a miracle, because nobody understands computers.

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Lazers

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Q: Why do some people think online features are necessary for all games?

I've been around the internet lately and have seen people dissing games from companies like nintendo (well, that's the only one I have actually seen often enough to warrant memory) for not including very many online capabilities, arguing that all games must have some sort of online because it is ...

Ben Brocka

p good question

Frank

7:54 PM

sigh

It's Clash of Clans:Star Wars edition

Rapitor

@Frank not surprised

actually no. i'm surprised it didnt come out sooner

mobile gaming holds nothing sacred

glares at roller coaster tycoon mobile

Martin Sojka

Well, you can rate as utter garbage.

Arperum

evil glare at ~~dungeon keeper mobile~~ money stealing sim

Rapitor

@MartinSojka 1 star isnt enough

or i should say its still too nice

Lazers

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Q: Premature vs Mature town hall

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