If you live in the USA, this would not legally count as a contracting position. If you used their equipment (especially if you are required to use their computers), you are most likely classified as an employee, regardless if you were working under a 1099 or W2.

http://corporate.findlaw.com/human-r...microsoft.html

Gullanian, do you have any logs for the Railgun errors?

tail -f /var/log/messages

find "railgun" and be sure to keep the exact case since grep is case-sensitive:

tail -f /var/log/messages | grep "railgun"

If that's nothing helpful, then try cat to get all the messages:

cat -f /var/log/messages | grep "railgun"

It's been awhile since I dealt with this, but I think the computer usage is only part of the determination (as referenced by your link as well).

I've definitely worked with contractors that used company computers in the past.

This is probably true of the vast majority of contract workers though - it only matters if you, individually or as part of a class, want to take this to court. This is another why the whole "I'll take twice the pay if I'm contracting" is nonsense and why most contracting is done through a third-party vendor, which insulates clients from the legal risk.

I had another interview. This time the guy didn't realize that I had no prior job experience. I don't know if he looked at my code and went off that or didn't look at anything at all before scheduling the phone call (which lasted only 17 mins).

Well, at least my next interview is with someone who I know has actually seen my code and (I think) knows that I have no prior job experience.

daveT how did you learn a language obscure enough that you have only done contract work in it? how did that all come about? what language?

I'm studying for my Spanish test with Excel, blown up to 125%. One word/cell (PERDER) in the whole spreadsheet is fried-looking. If I change the zoom it fixes itself, but scrolling doesn't matter.



How can this even happen?

That's weird, does that cell have some weird conditional formatting turned on? If you open another spreadsheet is it the same cell?

Right, I'm trying to be somewhat careful with my language. I'm probably not careful enough.

But not really talking about court cases, but rather something innocuous like collecting unemployment.

It's not really what I said. I said it's easier / more likely to get contracting / remote work using languages with a dearth people who are good at it, due to a lack of local talent.

IRT to contracting -vs- employment specific to me, It's easier for me to say "I can do this for $X in Y time" than saying "I am better than person B because..." I don't have a good sense of comparison to other people. Also, the former is low-risk for both the person and the company; the latter is higher risk for both. The point is that my thoughts aren't universal to all people, just something to consider.

In the cases I'm talking about, the company is looking at a 10 to 50 KLOC code base that needs to be fixed or continued. The person who built the product did the best they could, for better or worse, and can't continue, or the person responsible for the code quit and the company has no real options. I never once got a call for a contracting position in Python, (though I'm very good at it) because they can put an ad up on Indeed and get 100 local applicants over night.

I don't want to discourage you at all. I'm rooting for you to get that awesome remote / relo position.

I asked about Shopify earlier.

I swear I'd never write something like this about any product, but... it's magic.

So last night, a player who about 400 games played, of which last 3-15 minutes, and had the username of "NateHiggers", ate a ban from me rather than change his name (and keep his fairly impressive stats).

Oh internet.

In my time at 2+2 I've asked several people to take a name change - several have accepted, which actually really surprised me. Most of them said that in retrospect it was dumb to have an offensive name. (None were as offensive as that one, though, here I don't think we'd ask for a name like that, we'd just instaban)

can someone change the misspelling in my name? thx

I'm struggling with how to approach this problem. Part of it is my game is somewhat adult themed (not porn just a sensitive subject). Due to my above post I'm putting in a basic regex matching block list and right now is just the very obvious racist and antisemitic ones. I don't really care about porn or swears so whatever, I mean who can't laugh at losing to someone named "penispenispenis". The wife wanted "pussy" banned (but not the c-word oddly) and I was like.. eh.

I have no idea how to IP ban people as I reverse proxy through nginx and thats not at all a thing I am good at. But if this thing grows to 100+ players on at a time which I think it will I will need to find a moderator style solution.

I think only red admins can manage that here.

Rackspace run it all for us, and they say no errors in the logs. Really sucks as I was so excited for Railgun but Cloudflare have now thrown the towel in and said they just don't know. Oh well

Ah, yeah. Rackspace has some wickedly talented sysadmins. I wasn't sure if you were looking at Linux yourself.

I was thinking one of two things:

1- memory leak would show an error (segfault?) and shutdown. It's very strange that it would just stop working like that. I'd guess a possible keep-alive setting or stale version, but I believe Rackspace would've looked into that as well.

2- Interfacing with .net is buggy (possible stale version of Railgun) or could be something your .net server settings. Your are serving on .net, right?

But if Rackspace and Cloudflare can't figure that out, sheesh... if you ever get it working, let us know. I'd love to know the solution.

Grue, set up a cronjob to run once a day to run this sql and email you if a username is spit out. We have it post to a slack channel called monitoring along with the results of images with too much skintone.

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Heh there are a lot of funny ones in there

When I played poker online I made a point of trying to pick screen names that would annoy people. This is like a crib sheet of ones to try.

me_irl

So my userlist/lobby displays by winrate after a threshold. Some dude started quitting games if he was about to lose to not mess up his winrate. Players report it and I give him 1000 losses. Cmon internet.

So if you run that list before create the fear is they'll work around it?

Quitting should always be a loss imho

Quit should be a loss. Disconnection can be handled different ways but I generally prefer it to be a loss as well. That's assuming your game is something with live connections and not some turn based thing.

The griefers dont quit they just AFK and there's no timers to I can't quit == loss exactly. I should probably put in a timer on actions but I never know how that sort of thing will affect performance. Right now it seems fine.

Anyways I have ideas about a karma system that effectively allows players to vote on if someone should take a karma hit and if so they can't play or chat for 15 minutes/120 minutes/forever if they continue to get dinged which I think will be fine. The internet sucks.