The Whiteboard

user20683

12:07 AM

@Caters it's a programming exercise, not wikipedia. Put enough detail that someone visiting will feel like they learned something but don't waste too much time on the content unless it's for a client.

user20683

Besides, there's nothing saying you can't update it later

user114359

12:41 AM

@RobertHarvey sure, but why 400 of those all of a sudden? It was not a late answer two days ago.

user15026

@Snowman They changed the late answer rep threshold from 10 to 50

enderland

1:03 AM

@Telastyn NM is SO. MUCH. FUN. :D

Telastyn

@enderland a few k xp short

enderland

1:21 AM

@Telastyn it feels like a sniper rifle compared to the NY - the range upgrades give it 17km and you can get a spotter plane to like 19

Telastyn

I have about an hour left to play if you're up for some

enderland

I'm off now

Telastyn

enjoy

enderland

I'm going to love playing it, all that practice I got in the Wyo and NY is really useful

Gotta love citadeling people at like 17km, stupid clevelands... ;)

Duga

1:37 AM

I think this might be better over on programmers.stackexchange, but it could be off-topic there too. — Ken Y-N 45 secs ago

user114359

@AshleyNunn thank you, that explains it.

user41796

1:49 AM

@WorldEngineer Yeah, I was really struggling on what to decide to do with that particular question. Interesting but also just ... je ne sais quoi.

user20683

@GlenH7 I tend to lean toward preserving relics but that's the humanities in me :P

user41796

It may be my delete vote on there. At least one of the answers was just garbage. But the reply from Borland was cool. And the top voted answer was fairly informative.

user41796

That one ought to age well. And locking it makes sense.

user20683

@GlenH7 generally I try to treat stuff that "celebrities" answer with a little more care

Duga

4:11 AM

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it belongs on programmers.stackexchange.com — Adelphia 13 secs ago

Duga

9:33 AM

Have you done any code or are you strictly looking for advise? If so this might sit better in programmers.stackexchange.com — Glitch100 40 secs ago

maple_shaft

11:26 AM

@durron597 Still no word from Google yet, how long did it take for you to get the results?

Oh, and funny enough, I was approached yesterday and was offered a promotion to Technical Architect

Bust my buttons... if I don't get into Google then my programming will decrease to a mere hobby where it was once my profession

> "Let me get this straight, you want me to sit in an ivory tower and do nothing and answer to no one, draw up UML diagrams that nobody will read or look at, and you want to give me more money?" - In My Head

Duga

@Adelphia Programmers has the same "primarily opinion-based" close reason, same as here. This question would be downvoted and closed at Programmers. Please read: What goes on Programmers.SE? A guide for Stack Overflow, also the Programmers on-topic page — Snowman 49 secs ago

Thomas Owens

12:28 PM

@maple_shaft I'd be happier writing less code at work. That means I won't be drained and I'd perhaps want to write more code at home, where I get to choose the technologies and platforms I use and not someone else.

I want to learn Android development, for example. But I just don't want to sit in front of an IDE at home after doing it at work. On weeks that I don't code much at work, I'm more likely to read about coding and do coding at home.

maple_shaft

@ThomasOwens I suppose it could be a good thing. One thing that concerns me is that in my zeal to prepare for the Google interview, I have zero motivation to look at or deal with code now

what if I go there and get burnt out?

i have a lot to think about

I played with Android development a bit. It was such a well defined ecosystem that I felt that I struggled to even get a simple app running

it seemed to me that that there was a big learning curve, but once you crossed it you could crank out complex apps with crazy productivity

Thomas Owens

12:45 PM

@maple_shaft My friends at Google don't appear to be burnt out. But it could be a team-by-team thing. I've heard that at Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. Different teams are radically different.

Jimmy Hoffa

@ThomasOwens different offices especially

enderland

@maple_shaft aren't you basically burning out in your current job regardless?

Thomas Owens

@JimmyHoffa Probably. But I do know of two people who went to Apple and had radically different experiences at the same site.

At a large company with multiple sites, I think it's safe to say that every unique site will be different.

maple_shaft

@enderland I am burnt out because of stupid people running the show and me desperately trying to keep the plane from crashing with only one wing and two working engines

enderland

@maple_shaft so it sounds like Google might be better since it'd be likely to burn you out in a better way, if it does? :)

Jimmy Hoffa

1:00 PM

@maple_shaft and for some goddamn reason, somebody put one of those engines in the cockpit!

Happy Coffee Day

maple_shaft

At least in my new role I am afforded an ivory tower so i can watch the zombie apocalypse from safety above, with 20 years of stockpiled canned goods to help me last

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland plus there's the whole "You can work anywhere you want" afterwards

maple_shaft

@JimmyHoffa I am enjoying a fine French roast before my onslaught of confused meetings

Jimmy Hoffa

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

►

^-- I tried to figure out what a French Roast was, but this is all that came to mind

maple_shaft

@JimmyHoffa ha! icuwutudidthere.jpg

enderland

1:05 PM

@JimmyHoffa yeah, probably a lot easier to get remote jobs too if you have Google on your resume

since if I remember right @maple_shaft can't relocate

maple_shaft

1:18 PM

@enderland thats right

Thomas Owens

The Hunt for Red October has left Netflix. :(

maple_shaft

Stack Exchange will be sorry for passing me up for an interview

:)

Duga

I suspect this would be better suited to Programmers - it's pretty high-level, and by no means unique to Python and/or ZMQ. — jonrsharpe 54 secs ago

user55340

@maple_shaft I wish I could draw the picture we had on a whiteboard about the direction of a project. It involved a plane crashing into a mountain and the project managers ordering the dev team to dig a tunnel through the mountain so the plane would fly through it.

Thomas Owens

1:35 PM

I'm looking at you, @enderland. LET OUR ANSWERS RUMBLE.

enderland

@ThomasOwens lol I just noticed that your answer is a ~~copy~~ similar to mine :P

Thomas Owens

I didn't refresh to see your answer.

enderland

:)

Maybe it'll hit HNQ

Thomas Owens

I still don't know what PCI has to do with anything, though.

But then again, I'm not a PCI expert.

enderland

I suspect this is a "we're doing a project relating to PCI and want to version it like we are, but heard about semantic versioning and think we should do it HALP ME" question rather than anything to do with PCI

sad, this still isn't migrated - stackoverflow.com/q/32871379/1048539

Thomas Owens

1:43 PM

@enderland Have the flags been handled?

enderland

@ThomasOwens oh, still pneding

Thomas Owens

I just threw my flag on it, too.

Duga

Email and database connectors are switched in factory implementation. Also i think this quetion would be best answered in programmers.stackexchange.com — Arthur Rizzo 19 secs ago

enderland

I should have clarified on my PCI comment. The issue is that audits and their cost influence when the major and minor components change, not necessarily a true new feature. For example, if a feature related to payments is introduced, we bump the minor number for PCI. But if we add a brand new feature related to something in the gui, it doesn't. Only the patch changes. So in this case we don't really get a say in the matter as developers since someone else makes those decisions. — void.pointer 1 min ago

what am I missing about this?

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