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@Andy metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/ci/… starting at 2:50 in the video you can see cameras on booms in the shadows between the dresses, that's what that controlled.

that project was actually legendary in its nightmarishness. the fabricators who designed all the robotics had no idea what they were doing. there were so many sw workarounds for crappy robots. mostly not enough torque on the motors, shafts slipping, vibration problems, red tape, last minute fixes, missed deadlines, crappy production staff didn't help, that whole project was a mess.

there was this production company that only got the job because the museum "trusted" them for some reason since they were familiar with them. they were the four stooges. tripping over power cords while distracted by facebook on their phones, one dude didn't lock his scaffolding and it collapsed. total noob production mistakes.

there was this one girl who, every time she got up on a ladder, a shower of sparks and a blown breaker was guaranteed to follow.

it didn't help that those robots had no reliable auto-homing capabilities. homing did not work as designed for so many reasons. so manually homing them was like a 30 minute process that had to be done any time the power was cut.

on the bright side i made a crapload of money on that project

but i would not do it again

user202362

omg, I didn't fill the landlords section on condition report, I did it to at least 2 tenants

user202362

the new tenant is like "wtf you didn't do your job"

Jason C

@Telkitty oops

user202362

yeah, but the bond is used to make sure that I don't lose too much if they stop paying rent, never intended to keep any money from tenant because of small damages

Journeyman Geek

0_0

user202362

3:30 PM

I am retarded ... or just lazy

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC thank god. The museum folk I worked with were utterly competent.

@Telkitty " The solution - Write "Domicile was in adequate condition. The mortal will be allowed to leave unmolested"

Jason C

4:12 PM

meta.stackexchange.com/users/351462/steven-vascellaro is starting to annoy me.

The amount of trivial edits, pointless answers, dumb questions, and duplicate questions streaming out of him lately has an irritating rep whore vibe to it.

Journeyman Geek

lol

we arn't supposed to call them that any more

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Q: It’s time to retire the term “rep-whore”

Going forward, “rep-whore” (and its derivatives) will be treated like any other term that’s inconsistent with the community’s “be nice” policy: it will be removed. It’s totally okay if you’ve used it in the past. Nobody’s judging the many users who’ve used it. And users will NOT start being s...

Jason C

I know lol

Journeyman Geek

I do admit tho, he's been active

Jason C

But before I typed that I spent some time trying to think of a better alternative and, not my fault "rep whore" sums it up the best, lol. Blame English.

Journeyman Geek

lol

rep seeking? badge hunting?

Elephant

4:18 PM

Maybe won't help, but

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Q: What's a less offensive substitute for "rep-whores"?

This is a frequently thrown-around term on Internet forums in general and Stack Exchange specifically. Although it conveys a lot of meaning, I'd much prefer a phrase with a less offensive origin. Urban Dictionary defines a "rep-whore" as: A person who is obsessed with their status on an inte...

word-choice phrase-requests epithet-requests

Jason C

"Taking up everybody's time by making us handle duplicate flags?"

"Being annoying?"

"Contributing nothing?"

Journeyman Geek

lol

also, I've been feeling a little arkward about answering stuff, getting upvoted, and having it closed as dupe ;p

Jason C

That's been happening to me more lately in general, lol. I took it as a sign that I'm either getting lazy, or subconsciously fed up with doing the dupe searching legwork first. I always feel embarrassed about it.

It's especially embarrassing when I do it on tags I have a gold badge on on SO.

Journeyman Geek

yup

I've also been doing 2-3 questions a day, and been #2 this quarter so... ;p

I'm cough obviously being a reputation hunter of negotiable affection.

also, feels awesome to be helpful ;p

user315433

4:54 PM

Get replies from... "50+ CEOs for $20 per reply"... or "300+ JavaScript programmers for $5 per reply"... or "200+ writers for $2 per reply"..

user315433

So, would you rather get emails from four JS developers or from one CEO?

Feeds

5:32 PM

Podcast #107: We’re Just Trying to be Non-Terrible

Jess Pardue on May 01, 2017

Welcome to The Stack Overflow Podcast #107 recorded Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Stack Overflow HQ in NYC, where rats were invented! Anil Dash, CEO of Fog Creek and all around great guy, is joining us again. Probably only so that he can talk about Glitch and how amazing it is! (It is though, you should try it…)

Today’s shenanigans include:

Special guests Jess Lee and Ben Halpern from the Practical Dev are in the studio to tell us all about their Developer Stories and journey to dev.to.

Ben Halpern’s website is a work of art that you must see to believe. Note: have your sound on. You’re welcome. …

rene

6:10 PM

Streamlining deletion of quality block evasion accounts is close enough to Streaming deletion of quality, right? So it is not me ... and posted by Brad, must be OK...

Jason C

6:24 PM

Heh...

From meta.stackexchange.com/questions/295425/…

rene

@JasonC yeah, saw that still [status-by-design]

Travis J

7:32 PM

@Gerry - I would rather get an email from one CEO over 100 JS developers.

M.A.R.

Dear Travis,
You're fired.
Without regards, Badass CEO

Travis J

Well I guess I know who isn't going to get any preferred shares from that tone of voice.

hichris123

8:12 PM

→ 9 messages moved to Chimney

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ CEO's are overrated, tremendously! Just think of them as the average idiot as yourself.

Jon Ericson

@TravisJ A lot less reading that way. Like half. (Is that a JS developers are terse, CEOs are verbose or both joke?)

user315433

8:42 PM

On deck in the election circus: Puzzling

user315433

Not that a circus would have a baseball field...

user315433

RPG election ends tomorrow.

Travis J

@πάνταῥεῖ - I don't really agree with any of what you said :D

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ You're a CEO?

Travis J

@JonEricson - hah, didn't even think of it from the reading angle... so true though. I haven't found many verbose CEO's from my experience, usually they tend to not want to spend time doing frivolous things. Also, have you seen the JavaScript chat room? heh, 100 of those responses could be bad for your health

@πάνταῥεῖ - I wear many hats :)

πάντα ῥεῖ

8:50 PM

@TravisJ Well, in OOP design we have the principe of single responsibility :-P

Travis J

Cross cutting concerns are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

M.A.R.

I've earned Sportsmanship on Chem.meta before getting it on the main site

Now I gotta ask for an FR to count meta Sportsmanship in an election . . .

Travis J

elections are more about review counts than anything else

Although, to be fair, being a moderator isn't exactly a walk in the park. It takes a lot of time, or at least it is supposed to.

πάντα ῥεῖ

9:06 PM

@TravisJ Well, I read your profile. I'm convinced that will fail to scale with significant company growth. But anyways have my respect!

Travis J

@πάνταῥεῖ - It is fine to think that, but that is like looking at a yacht and thinking it will never float. What I am saying to you, is that it is already scaled.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@TravisJ It's scaled to that niche you're serving. I've been managing loads of software projects as a one man show, from requirement analysis trhoughout to implementation, and I well know what I'm talking about (and you do). Let's agree we're not average idiods ;-)

user315433

> Even if Documentation fails the content won't be going anywhere. At the very least, we'll put it in a data dump. meta.stackoverflow.com/a/348635

user315433

Which will be readable and searchable, assuming someone builds a website rendering the contents of a complex database like this... and the chances of that website allowing edits aren't that good, which means the content will be dead anyway.

πάντα ῥεῖ

@Gerry Documentation still is a relevant topic??

Journeyman Geek

10:44 PM

@TravisJ the 'routine' stuff is actually not that bad

unless you're a SO mod (and then you have numbers) you can probably get away with popping in multiple times a day for 5 minutes and sniping the mod queue

Journeyman Geek

11:27 PM

erf. I posted something half asleep and got all the special red tags wrong ;p

Journeyman Geek

11:45 PM

hm. speaking of tags. I've been hearing a lot of complaints of what looks like the tag engine acting up again and either throwing errors about tags or blank paging.

they're annoyingly transient tho, so I donno if its worth meta-bug-reporting

"getting reports" - people complaining on chat ._.

ah, someone's metaed it. excellent

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