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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 1

Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
The security portions of that POS may be fixed but the rest of it still sucks. As I am primarily an ASP.NET developer we write our stuff to work every other browser. Then we have to go back and add a bunch of work arounds so IE will work too. :w00t:

You aren't alone there. I do the same thing with writing it for Firefox and then adding in workarounds for IE. The newest version is even more broken than the previous ones.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 2

Kaput?

Oh Steve, why have thou forsaken us?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 3

Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Grant Fritchey (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2014)
Sean Lange (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
Did you notice that the "Active Threads" on your inner window was missing?
My active threads has been missing most of the day. For the same duration I couldn't do the QOTD either because it required me to sign in but wouldn't authenticate.
Now it is all back to normal again.
This has been happening about 2-3x a week for the past month.
I have been having the same problem a lot lately. It is somewhat random. I have noticed that if the Active Threads is missing I can go to the About Us link and it has consistently been on that page. Seems somebody did something funky with a base object somewhere that is causing some strange behavior.
It seems to be vary between platforms and browsers, Win7 and Chrome not good, Android and most browsers fine, Linux and both Google Chrome and Chromium good. Not using poisonous round things so cannot tell how that is:-P Most of the time on the Win7, only 3-5 active threads are shown, often time-out on external content and few other quirks.
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I tried it in IE 8 and IE 10 when I started seeing the problems and it did the same thing there too.
Mildly frustrating.
I've been seeing all kinds of crap out of IE 11 lately, so I don't know if it's the site or the stupid browser. I'm getting read to switch back to Chrome for six months til it starts puking again.
Ever since the old days when doing security related work when IE earned the name of Internet Exploiter, I do not use it, neither do I ever recommend it.
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The security portions of that POS may be fixed but the rest of it still sucks. As I am primarily an ASP.NET developer we write our stuff to work every other browser. Then we have to go back and add a bunch of work arounds so IE will work too. :w00t:
I personally go back and forth between Chrome and FF pretty regularly.

Share your pain there, see to many companies struggling when having to support Sh%#$£t Point and IE, customers using anything but IE, kind of a development version of catch 22.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 4

Koen Verbeeck (6/17/2014)
Kaput?
Oh Steve, why have thou forsaken us?

I have seen this happen several times over the last few days. Just click on the About Us link...for some reason that one seems to "reset" things.

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Jason Wolfkill SSCrazy Eights Points: 9832 More actions · Answer 5

I found a place I can take Joe Celko's bait without bursting an aneurysm.

Joe's challenge: Implement Conway's Game of Life in SQL.

My solution on my blog.

The Schelling model (Assignment #1 in Joe's article) seems a LOT harder!

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 6

wolfkillj (6/17/2014)
I found a place I can take Joe Celko's bait without bursting an aneurysm.
Joe's challenge: Implement Conway's Game of Life in SQL.
My solution on my blog.
The Schelling model (Assignment #1 in Joe's article) seems a LOT harder!

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"

"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:

Yeah that kind of mentality in a review system is hogwash.

How often does the mgr stay around to see the individual working late? (in my experience - it is very rare).

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GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:

So, basically an above-average rating requires you to do the work of other less-competent people for them.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 10

The Dixie Flatline (6/17/2014)
GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:
So, basically an above-average rating requires you to do the work of other less-competent people for them.

Who get an average rating rather than the "needs improvement" rating.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 11

SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/17/2014)
GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:
So, basically an above-average rating requires you to do the work of other less-competent people for them.
Who get an average rating rather than the "needs improvement" rating.

Nah, it's not that bad. It's late and I'm griping. Most of the guys are 'above average' as devs.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 12

GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
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The Dixie Flatline (6/17/2014)
GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:
So, basically an above-average rating requires you to do the work of other less-competent people for them.
Who get an average rating rather than the "needs improvement" rating.
Nah, it's not that bad. It's late and I'm griping. Most of the guys are 'above average' as devs.

Should we take that one further down the rabbit hole? 😀

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mickyT SSChampion Points: 10360 More actions · Answer 13

wolfkillj (6/17/2014)
I found a place I can take Joe Celko's bait without bursting an aneurysm.
Joe's challenge: Implement Conway's Game of Life in SQL.
My solution on my blog.
The Schelling model (Assignment #1 in Joe's article) seems a LOT harder!

I like it:-) I had a go at that one myself and used a similar principle, however I created a grid to neighbour relationship table. Also I added a geometry to the grid and stored each life cycle for the merkles (live only) allowing it to be visualised.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 14

SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
SQLRNNR (6/17/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (6/17/2014)
GilaMonster (6/17/2014)
Gotta love a review system where an above-average rating requires "Leaves only when work is done and stays to assist others"
"No pressure to work overtime" they say. :ermm:
So, basically an above-average rating requires you to do the work of other less-competent people for them.
Who get an average rating rather than the "needs improvement" rating.
Nah, it's not that bad. It's late and I'm griping. Most of the guys are 'above average' as devs.
Should we take that one further down the rabbit hole? 😀

As in, they're above industry average. Or you could say that a company average would be an above-average performer elsewhere.

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paul.knibbs SSCoach Points: 15320 More actions · Answer 15

Stefan Krzywicki (6/17/2014)Which one is it that, if you're logged in someone can see every password you've saved on the system in clear text?

Firefox allows you to view all your saved passwords, if that's what you mean--however, if you define a master password, it will ask you for that every time you ask it to show you your passwords, which seems reasonably secure to me.