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Anybody have recs on a free or at least very cheap PowerShell GUI IDE?

Having to manually code all the drawing commands to make forms etc is so cumbersome and time wasting.

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09-11-2016 , 01:20 AM

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Loki

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So I hear spring is adding some sort of reactive programming that'll make it more scalable, moving away from threads so that it's more like node. How's about that?

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09-11-2016 , 06:58 AM

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adios

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@craggoo - candybar is providing good advice in my view.

One thought I had is definitely find the folks that can grant you access and ask them to run grep for you (whatever else you need for them to do) and pass along the results. Do it in a memo(s) and cc your manager. Explain the assignment and why you want to proceed in this direction. Certainly reiterate the risks involved in doing an incomplete analysis. I wonder if your manager is giving this assignment to see how you handle it to see if you should be promoted.

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Then do research, find out what you need and ask for access? Why is this unusual? I'm not here to tell you how to do your job. You're the one who was trying to say you have some kind of unusually terrible situation on your hands - why is it that I have to play 20 questions to figure out what's bad if anything is bad at all? Remember, you started out with how it's just the worst thing in the world that you have deal with duplicate fields in different tables. Maybe point out something that is actually unusually bad? Because not a single thing you've mentioned qualifies. People build complex software, people move around and the knowledge of how things came to be gets lost. Sometimes documentation is sparse to non-existent, people who you feel like should know don't seem to know. Systems that you feel will be helpful in troubleshooting aren't accessible and things you don't even know exist are responsible for the problem you're dealing with. There's nothing unusual about this and it's quite hard to believe given what you've mentioned so far that you're dealing with a situation that is actually unusually difficult. You mentioned working with terrible coworkers - how do they get by?

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09-11-2016 , 09:34 AM

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jjshabado

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I've never worked for a really big company but the idea of sending memos, asking someone to grep through code for you, setting up meetings, etc seems crazy to me for a case like this.

But I also have never worked for a place with a really ****ed up data model (not perfect certainly - but not with many obvious duplications and deprecations and no clear team owning the data I want to use).

And if someone on my team was spending hours grepping through code instead of just talking to someone I'd generally be irritated.

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09-11-2016 , 09:41 AM

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ChrisV

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

Yeah this thread is starting to remind me of the Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch. ("A data model with duplications and no clear owner? HAH! LUXURY! When I were a lad our data model was composed of punch cards duct taped to the stomachs of ravenous wolves!").

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09-11-2016 , 09:51 AM

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jjshabado

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

This is what brought me back to posting ITT. Just genuinely kind of baffled by a lot of what's been posted here the last week or so.

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09-11-2016 , 12:52 PM

#25232

Loki

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setting up a raspi as a vpn server, trying to use cron to schedule a script to run every night to update, couldn't figure out why i couldn't test the script

yeah, sometimes things need to be executable

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09-11-2016 , 12:55 PM

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Craggoo

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Originally Posted by adios

This is not a current task I have. This was my first 'official' task that I was assigned before I knew how things fit together. Those deprecated columns I was telling you about... they still exist. We are currently in the process of transitioning our PHP backend codebase over into Go. The person who has done the most work on that... anytime he starts on something new he'll generally shoot out a message in dev channel asking "the following columns in table x don't seem to do anything. Before I nuke them does anyone have any objections?" Usually, it's only a couple columns but it has been as high as half the columns in a table.

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09-11-2016 , 08:37 PM

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When you read about an otherwise seemingly sane chunky ginger on a multi-state West Coast killing spree - it will be due to Chrome's maddeningly annoying ****ty-ass non-existent spellcheck suggestions.

Or you're one easily swapped vowel off? NO AUTO-CORRECT FOR YOU!

Google makes approximately a $billion/hour, 10k pure geniuses who can solve the most insanely difficult algorithms in a white-board, but they can't put one flunky on improving spellcheck.

The funny thing is to find out how to spell it I just have to go type the word into google and it figures it out immediately o_O

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09-11-2016 , 08:46 PM

#25235

Loki

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somehow lost the ability to vnc into my pi after turning on openvpn. I'm SSHed in, but i need to copy a file from the pi to my mbp and i'm having absolutely no luck. Whole guide was written two years ago for a version of the OS that doesn't exist anymore. Has been lots of trouble getting to nearly the end, but ffs is copying a file via command line over a network a pita if you're not experienced. SCP just refuses to work

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09-11-2016 , 09:06 PM

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RustyBrooks

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If ssh works, how the hells does scp not work?

Can you scp from the pi to your MBP (or to another place you can get it from?)

Also don't forget the whole filesystem is on a SD card that you can just remove from the pi and mount in your MBP.

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09-11-2016 , 09:25 PM

#25237

Loki

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tried both ways and it doesnt work

incoming ssh requests to my mbp appear to be blocked

suppose i could mount the ssd card

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well, i tried that. can either have a mouse or keyboard but not both while using the card reader i have. Looked like nothing but rpi boot materials in there, wasn't the normal file structure as when it's up and running.

maybe connect a thumb drive and copy that way? i dunno, running out of patience

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09-11-2016 , 09:42 PM

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_dave_

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start a web server on the Pi or an FTP server or something and copy your file in there

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09-11-2016 , 09:54 PM

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RustyBrooks

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Web server idea not bad.

To mount the Pi on your MBP you need to have EXT2 support. It's been a while since I've done it but here's an example:
http://blog.gbaman.info/?p=328

If you can ssh from A to B but not scp from A to B then I am pretty confused. Apparently it's a thing though. More info here:
http://superuser.com/questions/39535...k-but-ssh-does

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09-12-2016 , 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by adios

@craggoo - candybar is providing good advice in my view.

Haha, thanks!

What I'm hoping that he can change is the recurring attitude here:

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

Sometimes I get back what I expect and sometimes I don't.

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you're almost forced to code in a very basic manner.

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

What I meant is that I have no choice who I work with within the company.

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You keep seem to suggesting that I somehow have control who I work with within an organization.

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

If I need that column data I might try to grab it from the incorrect table. The only time I would find out 'you should be getting that value from table y not table x' is if/when someone in the know tells me or I have to deal with a bug report related to that.

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

Problem is no one wanted to tell me (or knew) where/which bits of legacy code did what.

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Literally at times I would go and ask someone "I've been tasked with migrating functionality x over. Do you know where that currently lives?" And the answer was usually no or a "you might find it in repository x".

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

This is a situation where I have no idea where the code is I'm supposed to migrate. I don't know which file it's in. I don't even know which repo its in. And no one I ask knows either. Worst is that the people who you would expect know what I'm looking for are in the dark as well.

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Nobody knows which ones because nobody knows where the legacy code is that reads/writes to the correct table. It's literally trial and error to find out which is the right table. I gave up after a while trying to locate this legacy crap I was tasked to migrate.

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

The basis of your argument is I have access to all the company repos. I do not. Any repo I need (or want) access to has to be granted by one of the handful of people that have the permissions to do that. The code I'm looking for isn't necessarily in any of the repos I have access to.

It's like nothing is knowable, everything is controlled by somebody else and giving up is the only way. I guess that's not the worst way to live and there are bigger problems in the world but:

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

I don't want to work with mature programmers that do all sorts of terrible things because they never learned the good way to do them.

In my experience, becoming a good, effective programmer is directly correlated with having the exact opposite attitude. Everything is knowable, everything can be controlled and you never give up.

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09-12-2016 , 02:09 AM

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greg nice

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quick question:

i'm looking for an open source frontend for a SaaS app. something that just handles basic user management stuff like login, and having user's own dashboard, acct management options, etc, where i can then just plug in my actual SaaS value in behind it. anyone know of something?

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09-12-2016 , 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I hate Chrome's auto-complete too. We use JIRA at work, where ticket URLs are in the form of something.something.net/something/PROJECT-1234. When I want to open a particular ticket my instinct is to type PROJECT- and hopefully get an autocomplete link to an existing ticket where I can just change the number on the end. My browser history is full of visits to these URLs.

So, I type PROJECT- into the bar and what do I get? ****ing github URLs, like all of it, because they also have project- (but lowercase) in the name, and also some stuff on Confluence which I almost never even use. ****ing worthless! Firefox is way better at this.

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09-12-2016 , 11:47 AM

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Grue

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man I wonder how many millions of man hours have been wasted specifically fixing bugs raised by the fact that number zero in javascript evaluates falsy while every other number including negatives is the opposite..

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09-12-2016 , 11:57 AM

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RustyBrooks

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Originally Posted by Grue

I dunno, this is actually very common and is present in many languages.

I just spot checked python, C, C++, tcl, perl. It appears that Java does not really allow implicit casting of ints to bools, but everywhere I've looked that people are using ints for bools in java, they basically suggest using "myint != 0"

So... I would say that it's not really a javascript problem. I am not sure that it's a huge problem or waste of time at all, really.

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09-12-2016 , 12:01 PM

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suzzer99

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Originally Posted by Grue

Great book on this history of the number zero. Apparently zero didn't exist in most numerical systems until recently, and it caused all kinds of problems.

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09-12-2016 , 12:07 PM

#25246

PJo336

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Code:

function point(x, y) {
    if(!x) {
        doStuff(x);
    }
     .....
}

I assume he means something like that? Where 0 can be a valid value but youll lose it

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09-12-2016 , 12:13 PM

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RustyBrooks

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Yes, that is a bug that I am sure happens. But like I said, it's not some weird feature of javascipt, it almost certainly has it's origins in assembly with stuff like x86's JZ/JNZ (jump if zero, jump if not zero)

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09-12-2016 , 12:41 PM

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muttiah

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Originally Posted by greg nice

Seems you could use almost anything. I'll say that Java with javafx is pretty nice for thism. Way cleaner and nicer way to build a UI compared to JS CSS approach.