Job thread

[Cheddar]

Wrong thread. 

[Samprimary]

Dear f13

i have had another employer flake/go crazy on me

please find someone to find this worthless shitgoblin for junky shit qa work or community management or idk whatever

[Yegolev]

I believe we need QA people.  I don't really know what that means in the context of what we are doing, though.  Also, "we" doesn't mean my team since we do weather shit.  Although we do need someone to QA JSON when we do a release but we borrow someone from the QA pool.  /ramble

[Viin]

Dear f13

i have had another employer flake/go crazy on me

please find someone to find this worthless shitgoblin for junky shit qa work or community management or idk whatever

Where are you located? NW US?

[schild]

Dear f13

i have had another employer flake/go crazy on me

please find someone to find this worthless shitgoblin for junky shit qa work or community management or idk whatever

Hex Ent needs a community manager

badly

[Yegolev]

I'll conjecture that there is a reason for that condition.

[Yegolev]

Also, I can hit a PokeStop from my desk.  Part of the total compensation package.

[schild]

Also, I can hit a PokeStop from my desk.  Part of the total compensation package.

How would you like this canned AIDs delivered? UPS or FedEx?

[Yegolev]

Please deliver in the same way that I get my health insurance.

[Sky]

Thanks, Obama.

I'm going to miss that line.

[Yegolev]

I'm confident that the next admin is going to use it a lot.  Assuming we elect someone capable of speech.

[Samprimary]

Dear f13

i have had another employer flake/go crazy on me

please find someone to find this worthless shitgoblin for junky shit qa work or community management or idk whatever

Where are you located? NW US?

yeah, boston. I also have worked remotely quite a bit.

[Yegolev]

We have an office in Andover.

[Yegolev]

Now this is happening:
http://giphy.com/weatherunderground

srs bzns in here

[Sky]

moar catz

[Yegolev]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-09/weather-channels-web-mobile-growth-leads-to-advertising-insights

The print version is framed next to my desk and I get to look at those two cats every day.

Edit: Print version also has a photo of Neil Katz, so three of them, I guess.

[Sky]

I use NWS because it doesn't do nonsense like that 

[Strazos]

So, after a heck of a lot of flying, just got to my next assignment. I'll be based in Sharm el Sheikh and running around the Sinai and bits of Israel.

Apparently, the hotel internet sucks. I'm having trouble checking email, but I can play World of Tanks on my new laptop? Ok.

Also, there's a little ice rink. It's not big or sophisticated enough to warrant repeated skating, but I'll at least go over at some point and get an obligatory selfie while skating in the desert. 

[Yegolev]

I use NWS because it doesn't do nonsense like that 

That is entirely fair.  I would, however, suggest using the European model since it is superior in most cases to the NWS model.  Even over the U.S.

[rattran]

I'm with the other curmudgeon, and use NWS. My wife for some bizarre reason uses the weather channel mobile site, and then bitches about it.

On the job side, I'm trying to figure out how to never ever go to Atlanta again, and just replace the $5k in money I make there. So far the 'best' options are either work in Oklahoma for 6 weeks, or sit at home in the dark trying to see how cheap we can live for that time.

[Ard]

Welp, I'm starting to actively live out Office Space.  My project manager's brilliant solution to doing too many status reports is to do yet another duplicate status report that doesn't feed from any of our existing sources.  Kinda glad I've got multiple interviews stacked up now.

[Yegolev]

I'm with the other curmudgeon, and use NWS. My wife for some bizarre reason uses the weather channel mobile site, and then bitches about it.

Thanks to your wife for the money!  But really, if you're going to restrict yourself to a single weather model: http://www.ecmwf.int/

[Paelos]

On the job side, I'm trying to figure out how to never ever go to Atlanta again, and just replace the $5k in money I make there. So far the 'best' options are either work in Oklahoma for 6 weeks, or sit at home in the dark trying to see how cheap we can live for that time.

You could work in Sandy Springs OTP, 

[Yegolev]

So much, I am not saying.  Plenty of money but it's twenty miles per hour in both directions.

[rattran]

I'm with the other curmudgeon, and use NWS. My wife for some bizarre reason uses the weather channel mobile site, and then bitches about it.

Thanks to your wife for the money!  But really, if you're going to restrict yourself to a single weather model: http://www.ecmwf.int/

Grabbing a dataset to analyze from ftp doesn't seem as convenient as weather.gov

Just sayin'

[Cyrrex]

For some reason I have the Weather Channel app installed on my phone.  It is so horrible that it is quite impressive how horrible they managed to make it.  I have no idea about its weather predicting abilities.  It is trying to update me on all the flooding in the southern US, as if I give a fuck.  Flooding in the south is like number three on the top 10 list of ways to improve the south.

[Chimpy]

I use the WUnderground app on my phone. Does what I need it to do which is tells me if there is a chance of rain so I can plan on when/if to mow the lawn. 

[Yegolev]

WU uses the same data as the rest of our stuff, which means they also have the least-wrong forecasts.  I use that app.

Most people are OK with passable forecasts, I think.

Grabbing a dataset to analyze from ftp doesn't seem as convenient as weather.gov

Just sayin'

I think they would charge you for it, also.  If only someone would meld together these different forecast models and choose the best result for any given location ....

[Paelos]

For some reason I have the Weather Channel app installed on my phone.  It is so horrible that it is quite impressive how horrible they managed to make it.  I have no idea about its weather predicting abilities.  It is trying to update me on all the flooding in the southern US, as if I give a fuck.  Flooding in the south is like number three on the top 10 list of ways to improve the south.

Speaking for the South, go fuck yourself. 

[HaemishM]

As someone with that Weather Channel app on my phone, I only use it to check the general forecast and the temperature for when I have to walk my dogs. Living in Mississippi, I'm quite well aware that "chance of rain" equals "who the fuck knows." I literally experienced three goddamn seasons within the span of a few hours the other day, with at least two of them occurring simultaneously. The man that tells me he can predict the weather in Mississippi with anything even approaching 30% efficiency can get fucked.

[Rendakor]

I just google "weather zipcode" whenever I'm contemplating some outdoor activity; no need for an app.

[Furiously]

My brother in law raved about Dark Skies, for the Florida weather and to know when you are about to get drenched.  I ended up paying 5 bucks for it for the wife and I. It's not horrid.

[Yegolev]

Really I think it doesn't matter in the end for regular people.  I have seen the statistics as to who is better and by how much (Dark Skies is pretty bad), but I don't look at the forecast at all.  If I get wet, I get wet and deal.  The science is pretty cool but even predicting for the next hour is a gamble.  And, the more I learn about how it works, the less seriously I take it despite the scientific and computing advances I deal with.  Just use the phone app you like.  Although I'd like it if you used one that made money for me.

For business customers, though, even a little more accuracy is important.  The system we made live last month has increased (and will continue to increase) the accuracy, but I'd be surprised if any casual user would notice.

[Strazos]

So I've only been here since Wednesday, but I'm already getting sent out an about through Israel today...via a 9 hour drive, just to get to our start point. Wheeeeeee.

[Sky]

If I get wet, I get wet and deal. 

Are you single? Because this sounds suspiciously like single guy talk.

Because yeah, I give no shits about some rain. But holy hell if there is a single drop in a five mile radius, everything is cancelled forever.

Women.