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erg miscommunication

My programming job is usually fun, especially when I successfully upgrade their server to more stable architecture and, ahem, an OS that still receives security updates.

I declared the upgrade as having been finished and let them know.

They found a couple of bugs afterward, which were due to upgrading from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.2. (We had zero tests before this big upgrade started, but I have added several.)

I fixed the bugs and charged for them, and now the client is like "We did not expect or were not informed that certain functions would not work after upgrading."

It was certainly not my intention for anything to not work, but I cannot check everything; I am just one guy maintaining an old PHP system.

I had a nice reply (with Tariq's help):

I agree it does not make sense to have to pay for things that do
not work after an upgrade. I believed and still believe the
upgrade to be complete, and all the parts of the site
working. That is always my intention that the site works as well
or better than before.

In actuality, maintaining the website and database should be at
least a 2-person job.  One in charge of programming, and one in
charge quality control. Due to budgetary and time constraints,
unfortunately that is not feasible.  So I have to cover both tasks
myself.

I am working toward building an automated quality control system.
This will reduce the amount human time needed on quality control,
(but not completely eliminate it.  Machines are still not smart
enough for that!)  The automated quality control system is still
not complete.

I understand your concerns, and I am continually striving to
improve the system.  Under the current budgetary constraints, I
cannot set a timeline for having the automated quality control
system in place.

- Rob

Boss Nate says I cannot tell them that I am just one person, because "that is an internal thing and they don't care about that."

My rough draft after talking to Nate:

Sorry. I admit that I made a mistake in communication.  I said
that because I belived it was finished.  In reality these tasks
were part of the overall upgrade.  I would have to do them and
charge for them in August or September.  In this case I did not
notice them in September and I did them in October.  So it should
be these tasks would have to be paid already in the past.

It is an ongoing project and I said it was done but it did not
mean it is done done.  These should have been done then and should
not be individually billed.  I am sorry I take it back that it was
done but these things are ongoing work or job or tasks or
whatever.

In my online men's circle today, I recognized all this is pointing to stuff I "have to do" but do not want to do. It reminds me of being 7 years old.

be me

be 7 years old

not do homework

teacher asks for homework

no homework. am 7.

teacher says to my face "I could just shoot you"

be fucked up rest of life

So today I proverbially brought her into the circle and shredded some papers while yelling at her stuff like "you can't fucking say that to little kids! You should not be teaching! I passed your stupid class without doing the homework so obviously it was not necessary! You want the homework? Here you go!" and ripped paper to pieces and threw it around like confetti.

So what am I going to do now? Not worry about the email.

Okay, now that is out of the way, here it goes:

I am sorry I made a mistake in communication.  I said the server
upgrade was complete because I belived it was finished.  It is always
my intention that the site works as well or better than before.
Otherwise I will let you know as soon as possible.

The tasks billed in October should have been done as part of the
overall upgrade.  I would have to do them and charge for them in
August or September.  In this case, I am sorry, but they were done and
charged in October.

The server upgrade is an ongoing project and I said it was done
because the rest of the upgrade can wait.  I got the server upgraded
to Ubuntu 18 using PHP 7.2.

The rest of the upgrade is to have a system that knows how to check
itself and never changes once it is deployed. That is my goal, but it
takes time to make that possible. Because we don't have a system that
completely checks itself, I try my best to check everything.  I am
sorry these few things were missed.

I just sent that to Nate for review. I look forward to having a project manager.

today mens group, urbit, scc, gg

MKP

Men's group this morning outlined above.

urbit

In Urbit news, I am doing assignments in Hoon 101. The first is apparently to see if we have everything set up okay, which I think I do, but cannot figure out how to write this function ("gate" in Urbit).

This is my attempt at creating a hoon script which writes a number in a different format. If I run this with input 0, I expect the output to be ~zod, which is galaxy number 0

|=  a=*
`@ub`a
 

But when I run it via +aura 0 it fails as below:

> |commit %sandbox
>=
: /~bus/sandbox/25/gen/aura/hoon
> +aura "fffhbhbhbhbbgffxfcgv"
/~zod/home/~2019.11.8..13.39.06..44bf/sys/vane/ford:<[4.828 18].[4.828 59]>
/~bus/sandbox/0/gen/aura/hoon::[1 1].[2 7]>
/~bus/sandbox/0/gen/aura/hoon::[2 1].[2 7]>
/~bus/sandbox/0/gen/aura/hoon::[2 6].[2 7]>
nest-fail
ford: %slim failed:
ford: %ride failed to compute type:
ford: %plan failed:
ford: %core on /~bus/sandbox/0/gen/aura/hoon failed:

SCC

Instead of jumping over a glass wall, I asked SCC staff to send someone to retrieve my hat which fell on the other side of the wall as I draped my jacket on the glass wall. Gosh that took a lot of ~~will~~ wont power to not jump over the wall and get it myself! XD

Lessons were fine. First Yasu practiced clockwork dolls, weather radar, BEMS, and Smart Eye Sensor. Then Azusa asked me to doublecheck her spript (sic) for the history zone (firsts of their kinds).

Soness!

I am really grateful to get to work with Soness for presentation support this coming week! She and I have been working together for years, and I am always amazed with how she helps me find just what I want to say, even if I don't always know it!

GG

Next is GG lesson here in Akihabara. It's my third-to-last lesson with them. :-(

urbit (23:57pm)

Yay I solve the first week's assignment.

|=  a=*

@pa

I am not sure why I did not get it sooner.