[BetaWar]

*sigh* I get tired of people claiming they don't see how something could be done or asserting that it isn't possible when I say it is. A co-worker got me annoyed enough today in a conversation that I just spent the last ~3 hours writing up a POC that does exactly what I claimed could be done and they said couldn't. Perhaps not the best use of my free time, but I keep telling people that if they would just get management buy-in to rewrite the API we could do all these things they are trying to put together manually (read - someone on my team, likely me, will have to put together API descriptors manually and update them each time the API changes) in an automated fashion.

I absolutely loath the idea of doing busy work when we can get all the benefits for free if management would just wake up. I mean, seriously, considering the amount of time people have wanted this and attempted to plan out (and manually do) these descriptors, we could have just put the dev effort towards rewriting the API and have this free for now until the end of time. When you consider the added benefit of being able to unit test the API handlers with my proposed solution as well, it seems like a no-brainer to me. I am also talking about giving the automated stuff in the API enough information to be self-documenting, which would allow people to literally run an API command and get all API handlers, along with all their arguments and returns and descriptions/ validation regex on the fly without some external descriptor having to be maintained.

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[depricated]

jon.kiparsky, on 11 July 2017 - 04:59 PM, said:

I think I wrote a blog post about that...

We do so much by hand and waste so much paper it's mind blowing. People bring me stacks of papers like "here's an example of the spreadsheet" gee thanks couldn't just send the spreadsheet eh?

Soon. Very soon we'll get away from all that. I can't wait.

Finally found the mystery file that has all the data I need, so that's nice. Streamlining the process of creating it is going to be another matter entirely...

[modi123_1]

Oh hell.. there's a sub reddit for people selling Legos?! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge. Hide yo wallet; hide yo' paypal... this could get messy.

https://www.reddit.c...Legomarket/new/

[NeoTifa]

So I ask a dev to review my code. He can't find my commits. I'm like "they're there wtf are you blind?" Turns out I committed but didn't push. Hurrrrrrrrrr durrrrrrrrrr

[modi123_1]

Bwahaha.. nice one. Building friends and improving confidences.

[jon.kiparsky]

File under "Mistakes that everyone makes once in a while and nobody really notices except the person who makes them".

[NeoTifa]

I held a git lunch n lern on weds though. >_>

[modi123_1]

Oh? Wait.. "Git-git" or "git gud" and learn?

What'cha discuss?

[NeoTifa]

Git gut w/ git. We recently transitioned from svn.

[Damage]

so apparently there is a link between HPV and cancer. And HPV can be sexually transmitted leading to increasing rates of prostate cancer for example, as my doctor explained to me. Which was a segue way to a fairly awkward conversation given that the cancer i had was on my face....

[modi123_1]

Look'n damn legit Disney. Galaxy’s Edge should be a hoot.

[NeoTifa]

So you have HPV of the face, and it wasn't from the sun?

[modi123_1]

Watching this now..
https://www.microsof...ty-summit-2017/

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will consist of a variety of keynotes, talks, panels, and technologies focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) research: The Edge of AI.
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The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2017 will bring together thought leaders and researchers from a broad range of disciplines including computer science, social sciences, human design and interactions, and policy.

[jon.kiparsky]

Let us know if anyone is doing anything in AI. (as opposed to fancier recommendation engines and NLP, that is)

[modi123_1]

I tuned in where the chatter was more on the ethics, countering the media's "robots will kill us", philosophy, etc. How to use AI to make us smarter, not dumber, etc..