You get a lawn and white New Balances at 30. At 40 you get nearsightedness and additional back pain.

“jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone.”

QA: “Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?”

Reading ticket details…

Me: “Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?”

QA: “Yeah.”

Me: “Get him to fix it.”

QA: “I tried. Like four times.”

Me: Sigh “I’ll take care of it.”

QA: “Thank you!”

Canadians: Burn the White House to the ground

Me: “Oh no! Anyway…”

Sure. I’m not sure how much my advice is worth but I’m happy to offer it if it will help you out in any way.

management is the same.

Always has been.

I was laid off last summer. I decided to try my hand at the entrepreneureal path. I’ve gotten really sick on working of projects that are clearly DOA but management just can’t let go of them for one reason or another… Until they finally do and proceed fuck up my plans in the process.

There are tons of legitimate business problems that could be fixed with software but the big guys typically prefer to focus on speculative gambles rather than those.

I got the PoC done and I’m probably a month away from having a marketable service. I realize there’s a high probability of failure but I won’t succeed if I don’t try.

“We’re gonna make a fully functioning e-commerce website with only this WYSIWYG site builder. See? No need to hire any devs!”

Several months later…

“Well that was a complete waste of time.”

Remember when “The Cloud” was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?

I worked at a place where basically every other department would stand in the lobby at 4:58 PM, waiting for accounting (which was on the other side of the building) to leave. If you didn’t wait, the CEO would likely see you from his office window and you’d be getting a “talking to” by your supervisor the next day. I have never before or since worked anywhere where I’ve seen so much collective time wasting, trying to keep up the appearance of being busy.

This was an American company. I don’t miss that shit hole in the slightest.

Database performance tuning is its own little world and there are lots of complexities and caveats depending on the database system.

With MSSQL, the first thing you should check is your indexes. You should have indexes on commonly queried fields and any foreign keys. It’s the best place to start because indexing alone can often make or break database performance.

Wrap everything in moving blankets and secure with ratchet straps.

If you have anything really heavy, you might see if you can rent or borrow a small tractor with a hydraulic liftt and forks. I lugged a planer (300+ lbs) into my basement shop by myself, with a refrigerator dolly. I won’t make that mistake again.

Hamas. It’s always Hamas. Even when it’s not Hamas, it’s Hamas. And they’re definitely hiding in an elementary school in Gaza. Oh, and the kids at the elementary school? Also Hamas.

/s

ASP.Net Core is a phenomenal backend.

Nice! Veeam is already top tier B&R software but not having to run a Windows box to use it is a major enhancement.

No one in the recording industry has ever considered how stupid their plans are. If they did, they would stop constantly giving piracy free advertising.

You know what’s funnier? I mean, it’s not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it’s less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they’ll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they’ve been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

And the President of the United States is a steaming pile of shit.