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Well, it's the DoD and I understand there's a process they feel the need to go through, and I wasn't trying to shortcut the system. Hell, I wasn't even complaining. I simply stated my eagerness to actually start working.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: stated my eagerness to actually start working Hmm, exactly something a spy would say!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Finally he's unmasked, that is not the real Simmons, it is a doppelganger !
I had my suspicions for weeks already
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It's the DoD, everything is "HURRY UP! and wait"
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A similar case in the UK with security clearances. I started at [redacted] and after couple of months I wrote some code to generate a report. This was printed off and locked away. Then I noticed that there were a couple of other factors which may alter some of the numbers so I ran it again and asked for the original report so I could compare them and see if there was any significant difference.
"No, you are not cleared for that!"
I had to wait until six months after my start date when my clearance finally came through and I could check and find that the numbers were insignificantly different.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm with you on that. I would rather have too much to do than too little.
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I bet the funny thing is that this excessive slowness by Windows admin doesn't make anything more secure, quite the opposite if anything!
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Ah my sympathies, sitting around in a restricted area is as boring as batshit. I find even reading a good book boring after a couple of days and with limited or no access to the interweb it can be painful.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Shouldn't that be like a few hours work in this day and age?
And shouldn't they do that BEFORE you show up for your first day at work?
If it was me I'd have another job after a week, because things probably aren't going to get better after that
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I work for another three letter organization, newly half american, which produces cars. I'm basically in the same condition except that I started on Sept 24th and have a urgent release to be done Oct 31.
I can't even access the SVN server.
Nor do I have permissions to unlock most of the functionalities of the very program I'm developing.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Do you find pressing F5 refreshing?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes! Effing refreshing!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Very re-F-F-F-F-F-reshing
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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Unless there's an ALTernate method at hand. They key to this is to ESCape from the hum-drum responses and maintain ConTroL.
By the way, wireless people aware of the Ctl-F5 true refresh?
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
By the way, wireless people aware of the Ctl-F5 true refresh? A true refresh is only achieved by rebooting.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You're out of Ctrl, dude!
/ravi
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You're pretty spaced out yourself, Ravi!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he should go Home early have a lovely beverage like Tab[^] and watch some F1 racing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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How do I Esc from this thread? I'd like this to End, please.
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No - the very action of pushing down the F5 key is depressing!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I'm sure it will bounce back
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It does but I repress it.
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Yes
And as a side note I found a use for AutoHotKey today. I use Navicat for connecting to our Postgres databases and it's keyboard shortcut for running a query is ctrl+r. I'm used to the usual F5 to refresh, so I used AHK to send ctrl+r in Navicat when pressing F5.
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One of the things I like about Live Mail is that Send/Receive is by default bound to F5 - with Outlook is was sodding F9!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I prefer CTRL-F5 as it satisfies the freak in me.
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