HTML tag abuse thread
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I was thinking @system actually for that one.
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If only someone hadn't borked the limit on the longnames, we could come a little bit closer to unicoding ourselves something similar to signature guy :(
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I think that counts as a really really shitty text graphic for heartbleed.
too bad it may only work on chrome. IE doesn't support upwards overflowing zalgos
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@darkmatter I think my name is better than your name
CC 8B CC 8F CC 8B CC 8F
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Catastrophic regex.
Good times. (Also RegexBuddy is still awesome and HIGHLY recommended for doing anything Regex related.)
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Nice treads!
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Yeah it's kind of bizarre that it doesn't work for one type of unicode abuse but works for the other!
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The technical terms are 'ReDoS' and 'pathological case'.
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I guess that's about as long as that input will allow :(
128 chars boo
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Filed under: Inaccurate commit messages, just look at those diffstats
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Sounds like a how not to do distributed development. Or a WIP article for TDWTF.
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oh.
oh?
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Just look at the changelog and the assertion of 'temporary' and how much stuff got added along with 'quite a few bug fixes' and then we have a single push modifying 2000 lines of code at once. If this is standard practice for that development process, it's likely to get painful quickly.
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OH
wasn't replying to anything in particular.
this is the html tag abuse thread after all.
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Yeah, the development of that IRC bot is centralized... only one or two people working on a single copy of the code, which happens to be the canonical instance of the bot.
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I moved 11 posts to a new topic: Username autocomplete selects the wrong name
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Hah! That's what you get for using a stack-based RE engine. An automata-theoretic engine — such as the one used by PostgreSQL — will chew through matching those sorts of things nearly instantly. (That is, I've just tested with 120
x
s, and had a match time in the small-number-of-microseconds area, even with capturing of the results.)To be fair, the automata-theoretic engines are weird in other ways. In particular, when they don't work, debugging them is much harder…
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I moved 11 posts to a new topic: Username autocomplete selects the wrong name
Really? Seriously?? This isn't even in Meta...
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The 11 replies on the bug they are reporting are, though. Either have discipline and post in the correct topics / categories about bugs, or have posts moved so we can discuss the bug and deal with it properly.
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Well, that's a start, acknowledging that it might actually be a bug, though I have no faith in it being admitted as being bad design in the first place.
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You mean it might not actually be a case of 'I'm doing it wrong' and that it might be that the code is really broken? Say it ain't so!
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I didn't say anything. I'm just quoting a blog.
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That seems... ironic.
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Have a picture of my cats.
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All we need now is for Jeff to murmur about how the hate is flowing through you and how your journey to the Dark Side is almost complete.
Someone needs to put a Palpatine badge on Jeff.
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Better watch @Arantor, he's missing the joke and that's dangerous!
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Ha, listen to you :)
You should have concluded your post with:
"Don't fuck with the Riking!"
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@matches can't get teh youtubes either. (Shhhh) I think he might be in federal prison library or something.
He might be alt-tabbing between the only to thing he has access to: One. His inmate pen pal application, Two. His online King James version bible (single page...all loaded to the DOM so he can use ctrl-f for searching). And three. TDWTF with hijacked enhanced search functionalities. The guards are not privy to the latter...Yet.
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Close.
Among other things, I write reports that parse hundreds of thousands / millions of rows of data in both ad hoc sql reports, and ssrs reports.
So while I'm waiting for my queries to run, my ADD kicks in when I see the number switch in the title tab for my browser.
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I have some stuff that'll fix that but you won't be very good at conversations. Or alt-tabbing to TDWTF because you'll be un-distract-able.
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Awwww. He's a chillin lounge cat.
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I mean... my browser at work is blocking images of all cats. They are sticklers about such things.
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If you're working today you should quit.
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Not working...just some light and fluffy trolling for fun and profit.
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And cleaning my disgusting bathroom.
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Discourse just rolled me back to post 108 after I submitted my last post...that was disorientation +1
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. Either have discipline and post in the correct topics / categories about bugs, or have posts moved
So you see it as your job now to discipline members of this community? @codinghorror, you should have never got granted moderator rights on this forum.Edit: to clarify: it is for the poster to decide which topic is best for his current post.
If you can't handle bug reports any other than make them post, clone them. But never move them. If Discourse can't clone: make it so. It is your baby.
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I think we should make a new game called category shuffle (also known as... a pretty typical day on the forums)
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Hear hear.
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Catastrophic regex.
This is SEO at its best. Not related to topic, no reply, just pushing one's blog in a forum. If I could dislike this post I would.But since you link to your blog post: making an issue of
(x+x+)+y
is ridiculous. I can only assume you've read the referenced email and thought: hey, this would make a nice blog post, I can build on that.Reason: noone, really noone, would ever come up with a regex like
(x+x+)+y
for any other reason than to test a regex engine to its limits. In an academic sense of "what happens if..." or in the TDWTF sense of "can I break something with...".x+x+
is redunant and is also covered byx+
alone. The brackets are superfluous as well.(x+x+)+y
boils down tox+y
.Yes, it might / will break regex engines. But with complex engines, there is always something that will break them.
Nothing new, nothing to see here. Move on.
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Hear hear. And this is why Jeff is so reviled in this community.
I feel I should relinquish my 'is TRWTF' title because while I'm generally quite self-deprecating, it's done with a mild tinge of depression and a mild tinge of being witty and British (because it's one thing we do extremely well as a nation)... but the more I think about it, Jeff is TRWTF.
If you put a crap expression in, you're going to make a pathological case. Is Jeff arguing that the parser should prevent him from being a twunt? Is her advocating that the system should refuse PEBKAC or PICNIC or even eye-dee-ten-tee errors?
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it's done with a ...a mild tinge of being ... English
FTFY. That's at least my perspective as an outside "astute observer of British civilization" to clone @Nagesh's motto.but the more I think about it, Jeff is TRWTF.
+1. I haven't figured out in what sense yet, but +1.Is Jeff arguing that the parser should prevent him from being a twunt? Is her advocating that the system should refuse PEBKAC or PICNIC or even eye-dee-ten-tee errors?
Probably neither. He's just read something and made a blog post out of it. As @codinghorror, he's a blogger. And with his street cred, he doesn't have to understand what he's blogging about, he will get more than enough followers, just because @codinghorror is Jeff Atwood from Stack Exchange.The funny thing is, the more I read of his posts on Coding Horror, the less I'm inclined to be a regular reader. I just don't have the time for platitudes.
Filed under: Because I
wastespend all my free time on TDWTF's forum!
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x+x+is redunant and is also covered byx+ alone. The brackets are superfluous as well. (x+x+)+y boils down to x+y.
x+x+
isx{2,}
, notx{1,}
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I seem to recall Morbs finding the blog hilariously funny for the variety of things that are somewhere between incompetent and WTF in his estimations.
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I seem to recall Morbs finding the blog hilariously funny for the variety of things that are somewhere between incompetent and WTF in his estimations.
Can you post a link? :mischievous_grin:
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x+x+
isx{2,}
, notx{1,}
Ok, you are right. so make it
xx+y
. Still not the monster from the blog post.
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Not related to topic, no reply, just pushing one's blog in a forum. If I could dislike this post I would.
Really? Not related to the prior posts about bad regex affecting performance in the editor here? Try again.So you see it as your job now to discipline members of this community?
Absolutely not what I meant in the slightest. Have discipline about reporting bugs in the correct category. If you cannot do that, they will be moved to the correct category on your behalf, because I love you. If that is a problem for you, perhaps there are other places on the Internet you would find more to your liking.
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A semi-compliment
Succinct but accurate
Not one of Morbs' but seems aptBut this is the one I was looking for which seems the best description yet. Perhaps 'hilariously funny' was the wrong interpretation. I found his reaction funny, let's leave it at that.