Random Rants

[tatmantall]

+1 Mcl

[Seul]

@tigerpac:

^+1 Gnome

Same for people who gather at the entrance of stores to chat… Or people who stop in the middle of the pavement... OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY YA *****...

[urbanwoodsman]

Just browsed AirBnB for the last 30mins. if you visit NYC and don't use that site, you are a fucking idiot.

[Snowy]

Drove an hour to use a really nice Spa+Sauna (with pool, of course). Fucking Spa+Sauna are closed until the end of October. Still a lovely swim, tho, so 1/2 rant

[seawolf]

Not sure we have a 1/2 rant thread Snowy

[ohighyo]

Today, the American justice system taught me something. If you want to murder an unarmed teenager,  or your two year old baby.  just move to Florida!!

[Finn666]

@ohighyo:

Today, the American justice system taught me something. If you want to murder an unarmed teenager,  or your two year old baby.  just move to Florida!!

that verdict sucked balls big time…really don't have a single percentage of understanding, why the fuck the jury acted like that. un-fucking-belivable

(sry if this might fall under the "no politic talk" rule, but i had to at least comment on this!)

[bagley920]

Tbh guys, I stopped following this trial because it just became a race thing

[Graeme]

I got sent a programming test by a potential client (via an agency) on Friday. The requirements were to write a simple Android app to do the following:

• Open a connection to the company's website and pull a web page down.

• Parse the HTML to extract employee data.

• Download employee portraits from the location specified

• Write a simple UI to display this, which is designed to cope with devices of differing resolutions.

• And, optionally, display the portraits in a circle, rather than as a square.

The expectation is that this will take two to three hours. Even assuming each of the above will take an hour, I'd guess at twice that. Plus I'd need a bit of time to update my laptop's development environment, which is currently running six to twelve months old software, and that can take time.

I saw a few of these things last year, and they always take a lot longer than expected. But that's always the case.

The really annoying thing is that I frequently am asked to do these tests before I actually speak to the client, and then hear nothing back. So I'm starting to get a bit more militant about it.

[derivative666]

Shipping from Germany to the US 2 weeks down 3 or 4 to go. Fucking bullshit!!!

"Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"

[Finn666]

@derivative666:

Shipping from Germany to the US 2 weeks down 3 or 4 to go. Fucking bullshit!!!

pourquoi?…

[Finn666]

1.5h to customs (2ways) just to pay a total of not even 15USD!?
I mean fuck just open the god damn package, have a look and let me send a fucking email to confirm what's in the fucking box

[Snowy]

@seawolf:

Not sure we have a 1/2 rant thread Snowy

Gah, sorry for shitting up the thread

[beautiful_FrEaK]

^^ not even 15$ customs for 2 pairs of Vibergs and you are ranting? First world problems?!

[Finn666]

^ well even first world problems can be problems sometimes

serious rant:
while unloading the car and filling up the fridge, a whole pack of eggs got out of control and messed up the fucking fridge! had to made scrambled eggs for lunch and had to clean the whole fridge…damn
now off to work!

[Megatron1505]

Angry today, don't know why.

[Giles]

Cos some arse ripped you off for an S95 last night?

[Megatron1505]

Wait until said arse receives a box containing a bag of flour.

[Giles]

Matt has just got a sudden promotion to unpacking beatch….

[mclaincausey]

I have a professionally-related rant that I'd like to go into detail on, but as this is a public forum I will keep it to this:

Accept or reject meeting invites, and then honor your decision.