Random Rants
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scary photo @Chris ! glad you guys are all ok.
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Dented the shit out of it too, what a nightmare.
The roof, though, agh. I'm sorry for your trouble, Chris.
You just finished a bunch of work on the house if I recall. ::) -
I wish it were just a storm causing damage in my town. Minneapolis is making the world news for all the wrong reasons. we have had 2 days and nights of rioting resulting in buildings being looted and burned. This police officer was wrong and should be charged, but out economy is in the brink now, and this isn’t helping. Our governor called up the national guard to assist. All nearby towns are closing all shops and boarding up windows in anticipation of the rioting spreading to the suburbs.
I work about 2 miles from Minneapolis, but thankfully I live further out. I have a family member who is a police officer, and his family is not looking forward to him going back to work.
Minnesotans are better than this, police are better than this…
End rant.
Happy birthday to my lovey wife tomorrow.
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This was St Louis 6 years ago with the Michael Brown shooting. We had widespread rioting throughout North county and violent demonstrations downtown. A lot of the violent offenders arrested weren’t from the area at all but came in town for the looting and burning. The sad thing is that there were so many peaceful demonstrations that were ruined by a few folks.
The Judge who did the sentencing for Officer Wilson lived a few blocks away from me, so there was a lot of tension in my neighborhood. The national guard was set up 2 blocks from my home. Luckily all the demonstrations done near us were peaceful, poignant, and did justice to what the family wanted to see.
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Oh, man… that's tough.
Is any of this covered by your homeowner's insurance? I know this probably falls into the "act of god" category but, still...We'll see. The roof repair guys are coming tomorrow to try and find the leak, which will determine what repairs will look like. Water remediation crew was here today and they were optimistic about the relative lack of damage and retained moisture in the walls, floor, and ceiling. The deductible on our homeowners insurance is fairly high, so this all may be out of pocket, regardless of coverage.
All in all, it's a disheartening chain of events, but we're healthy and safe, and stuff can always get fixed. We'll be fine.
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Why are the English capable of being such utter twats? Since households visits have been permitted neighbours on two sides have had people visit everyday, drinking, music banging. Pre lockdown they were pretty reasonable families, no they are acting like fuckwits.
Legally, as they have young children, there is very little that can be done short of appealing to their better nature. I have to have very confidential phone calls and have been working from home.
Maybe I should just give in and go to a beach in Kent and get into a drunken fight like others seem to be doing. We are a sorry nation.
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Some a-hole stole my cc# last week, likely using a skimmer at a gas station, and charged $220 worth of food and gas in Maryland. Of course, that money will be returned to me by my bank but it’s still irritating that this kinda crap still happens.
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Why are the English capable of being such utter twats? Since households visits have been permitted neighbours on two sides have had people visit everyday, drinking, music banging. Pre lockdown they were pretty reasonable families, no they are acting like fuckwits.
Legally, as they have young children, there is very little that can be done short of appealing to their better nature. I have to have very confidential phone calls and have been working from home.
Maybe I should just give in and go to a beach in Kent and get into a drunken fight like others seem to be doing. We are a sorry nation.
Americans refuse to be out twatted. Sunblock!? You wussies, that's baby oil! Burn, baby, burn!
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I thought of numerous things to reply. I haven't had enough to drink yet.
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Confederate flag and Swastikas, they're a nice bunch…. ::) ::)
And a big ol' SS in case the giant swastika isn't enough… ???
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So the cycle continues. Either the female on the ehhem, far right, of the picture is pregnant, or it is Matt Lucas.
It was heartening to see that the great English public made international news for their thoughtful, considerate, compassionate behaviour on Bournemouth beach. The locals I've spoken to in Southend, where I work (finally back in the office from time to time) have said they feel trapped in their own homes. Most of those visiting are Londoners, but some reported driving 3 1/2 hours… To Southend?? Are you fucking stupid?
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I don't own any Iron Heart SS shirting or shorts, so Minnesota's blazing hot summers require me to resort to "mall clothes". I went to toss on one of my go to's this morning and saw this. Have no clue how it happened, but it's a major fail and all the more reason to buy better engineered clothing.
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It's Monday, so obviously time for another rant from the world of job hunting.
I've got a coding test to do, and I have to write an Android app that does the following:
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Read in JSON data from a file.
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Request permission to use the phone's location service.
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Use the location service and the data from a file to find the nearest city. (Given everything is in latitude and longitude, than involves looking up an algorithm to calculate distance from these.)
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Make a call to a web service to request weather data for that city.
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Display the data in a simple UI.
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Have a fallback to display a message that the app needs location permissions to be enabled to work properly.
Apparently this is all to be completed in two and a half hours and it's a timed test. I think that each step is probably a couple of hours work. (Any developers here with any thoughts on my estimates?)
I had a crack at the test last week, got part of the way through, and basically submitted a note saying that you've got to be kidding if you expect this to be done in the given timeframe. I emailed the testing company to raise my concerns, and their reply was that other people complete it within two and a half hours, but it's a real achievement to do that.
I'm currently about ten hours in, with another five hours to complete it. And that's recycling a little code from another project…
I'll probably write another rude email to the testing company.
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What's the testing platform?
I could probably do the below in 2hrs now, and I'm not a SDE. It wouldn't be optimal, but it'd work.
Read in JSON data from a file.
Request permission to use the phone's location service.
Use the location service and the data from a file to find the nearest city.
Make a call to a web service to request weather data for that city.
Display the data in a simple UI.
Have a fallback to display a message that the app needs location permissions to be enabled to work properly.This, I'm not sure if there's an easy way to solve that counts. There's URLs and libraries that solve this out there many of them.. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20169467/how-to-convert-from-longitude-and-latitude-to-country-or-city for EG If that counts, yeah I could do it in 2hrs.
Use the location service and the data from a file to find the nearest city. (Given everything is in latitude and longitude, than involves looking up an algorithm to calculate distance from these.)
Hang in there!..
