I am not sure how
In the midst of all that crap
A thread such as this.
Posts made by dhromed
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RE: <p class="MsoNormal">Some people really are stupid, and it's easy to go all "Derek Smart" on the...
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RE: Do you have lots of pictures of yourself?
@triso said:
@dhromed said:
<font size="5">Y</font>oda, is that you?
It liked I and ago weeks couple a Memento watched I.
Memento? Seen never have you assume I. Conclusion that to came you, sentence simple a such is it because, how see can I but, Yoda not am I, no.
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RE: Do you have lots of pictures of yourself?
@Spidey said:
Yeah, maybe she's like Leonard Shelby from the film "Memento".
Does she take lots of polaroids of you, and seem suprised every time you show up?
It liked I and ago weeks couple a Memento watched I.
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RE: How many web design rules can I break in one project?
How does letting everybody mess with everything make for a manageable, usable content repository?
Wikipedia is setting up accounts in order to prevent trolling and misinformation.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8425
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RE: User language
@masklinn said:
It is, it's a VNC-like application, but much easier to use, without any server-install hassle on the distant site and that doesn't give shit about firewalls.
Anyone who has to do helpdesk work (and that DOES include helping your mom/gf/whatever) should setup an account to this thing, the only things you get to ask the client being: go to page XXX, download the file, launch the file and you take control of the computer.
So then they have a little piece of software installed that grants Anyone All access at Any time?
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RE: Linux newbie requesting help!
@HAK said:
I'm illogical at times too. ;-)
Those darned female Homo Sapiens! Not a rational strand in 'em.
But while we're on the subject of human/non-human, I naturally agree that "female" and "male" are technically the same as "man/woman", "girl/boy", and even though I'm an animal, damnit, I'm not just any animal, I'm a human animal! Grant me my emotions!
<font size="2">) disclaimer: sarcastic non-hurtful intent, or, ";-)"</font>
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RE: Linux newbie requesting help!
Part of me dislikes it when women call themselves "female", as though they were the objects of biological study, denying their humanity.
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RE: Seem any faster?
I have a theory that one doesn't notice sudden, unannounced improvements that annoyed them a bit, subliminally, and that improvements that make soemthing disappear go entirely unnoticed.
BUT
Now that you mention it,
No more visible scrollbar shrinking! Delightful!
Maybe you could decrease bandwidth costs by taking a machete and hacking away at the source. -
RE: Login log in?
"The login" is shorthand for "login information"
"Log In" is the proper verb for logging in.
"User name" seems more like proper english, but I don't mind/care if I see "username".
This is all from how I've seen it used, though. It might be that, in the beginning, it was "log on". -
RE: my country
@Katja said:
I prefer to read http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/qa.html and see all the information the CIA has about Qatar. [:)]
teehee
So.
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RE: Sysadmins
I'd have to agree there is a 'loose' interperetation of the 'worst
since then' expression, basically meant to convey nothing more than
'very bad', which renders the 'since X' comparisin somewhat useless.
Language: the greatest idea since spoken bread. -
RE: How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly
I had BSODs in XP, when I ran a game with slightly outdated video drivers.
I have one DOS game left, Raptor, and it plays without problem under XP. -
RE: Sysadmins
"That million dollar screenshot and others like it is one of the most
idiotic ideas since support for the BLINK tag was discontinued."
rephrases as:
"That million dollar screenshot and others like it is one of the most
idiotic ideas since the discontinuation of support for the BLINK tag."
This sentence clearly states that discontiuning the BLINK tag was a stupid idea, and that BLINK tags are good.
Shouldn't programmers be more aware of syntax, grammar and semantics?
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RE: BORING - C# - Would you rate the readability of my code?
I only use it in the case of null and undefined. Checking against '' I do 'manually'.
But I'd just hate to be forced to do everything manually.
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RE: Apollo Hoax WTF
@brazzy said:
Bah. The biggest hoax is gravity. It's completely fabricated. The truth is that the earth just sucks.
All matter sucks. The big stuff a little more that the rest.
But it's nothing compared to magnetism or the nuclear forces. Now THOSE suck hard.
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RE: How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly
XP was such an exasperating experience.
Because it, like, works?
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RE: BORING - C# - Would you rate the readability of my code?
Well, I admit that I'm biased by first coming into contact with ECMA,
rather than C or C++. If I'd come to JS later, I might have considered
it too much of a lackadaisical language. For isntance, I wish the ; was
mandatory. It would remove doubt as to whether your specially formatted
code would work or break, and the code would interpret faster, since
the engine doesn't have to guess, and you'd have multi-line strings
with literal linefeeds, instead of \n.
Here's my summarized opinion on 'boolean context':
- converting {null, '', undefined} -> false is a good feature that
makes life easier for us without introducing ambiguity. These values
are essentially 'nothing'.
- converting 0 to false is something I don't like, since I see 0 as a
real numerical value. It's an int, and it's there. Use [code]variable
== 0[/code], just like you use [code]variable == 'certainvalue'[/code].
- converting {null, '', undefined} -> false is a good feature that
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RE: The most resource intensive program ever
Of course, the real question is, why did Microsoft put the remaining system resources as an item in Running Processes?
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RE: BORING - C# - Would you rate the readability of my code?
@IngisKahn said:
Are you saying that
if (disposing && components)
is remotely readable?
It's the most readable of all, to use mere humans, which is what a
programming language is for. Humans. [code]if (something)[/code]
basically says "[i]if it's there[/i]" which is a fuzzy concept for
which your brain is VERY thankful, and doesn't require the extra
synaptic cycles to parse the [code]== somevalue[/code]
High-level languages are supposed to make things easier for humans so
those humans can focus on more complex concepts. If a language fails to
cater to humans, it fails a high-level language. Then you might as well
go back to Assembly.
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RE: Please .... i need your help
Have you talked with classmates yet?
An old teacher of mine one said about getting help:
- Try it yourself
if that doesn't work: - Ask a smart classmate
if that doesn't work: - Ask the teacher
PS.
You might say that that's an algorithm: a series of fixed steps to
complete a task. In this case, the task is Getting The Answer. :)
Also, friend Google knows everything. Internet rules.
- Try it yourself
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RE: The porcupines
@emptyset said:
<font face="Courier New" size="2">THE ENTIRE FARM WAS PULSATING PORCUPINE QUILLS.</font>
Are you sure that's not, like, um, grass?
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RE: The most resource intensive program ever
Why is PCmag allowing a computer- and Windows-illiterate to write mindless columns on computers and Windows?
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RE: Please .... i need your help
Did they give you these questions without explaining things in class?
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RE: BORING - C# - Would you rate the readability of my code?
object references have no implicit conversion to boolean in C#
Already, my opinion of C# has lowered.
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RE: Another Boss-ism
@brazzy said:
This WAS true at some point in the past; I remember that about 15 years ago, my uncle's 286-based portable DOS box even had a "park" command you had to execute before switching off the power to prevent head crashes - there was apparently no such thing as an OS shutdown in MS DOS.
In the grand old days, I transcended my n00b status on an XT with DOS 5 or 6 or summat, that I turned on and off quite frequently, and I've never head of a 'park' command. But perhaps it was slightly more modern than your uncle's.
The little wonder had a huge, red power switch that would give a gratifyingly moist CLACK! every time.
My current beast has a whimpy button that goes *tick*. Meh.
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RE: BORING - C# - Would you rate the readability of my code?
Take this:
if( disposing ){
if( components != null )
{
components.Dispose();
}
}
You are advised to compact that to:
if (disposing && components)
{
components.Dispose
}
That goes for all your comparisons with null -- all are redundant and can be cleared up to [code]if (object)[/code] and [code]if (!object)[/code].
Single-char variables ('e') are a bad habit.
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RE: Who needs input validation anyway
and the server
will happily execute it.
Unless, and by far the safest options, you grant the databse user that the script uses few priviliges.
If you allow an SQL injection attack, that's one thing.
If you allow an SQL injection attack that allows for dropping of databases and tables, then you need smack your DB admin.
Me and my hosting is something of a grey area, I think. I only have 1
DB user, which, necessarily, has full priviliges. Someone could easily
screw up my database just by adding some SQL to the querystring. I
therefore validate by checking whether the ID inserted into the SQL is
actually a number and nothing but a number.
I fail it silently if the ID passed via QS isn't a number, providing no
information to anyone. It's simple enough to warrant silent failure.
Perhaps I'll make an exception for invalid IDs.
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RE: Javascript calculation
Leave out the 'fucking' and I'll give you a 'thanks'.
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RE: Router WTF
@John Smallberries said:
<font size="2">embedded developers</font>
"There's a little man inside my computer!"
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RE: Traffic Lights say: GO!
@AlpineR said:
What would happen if there weren't a green light
for the bike lane? I think then the bikes would obey the light for the
car lane, which is sometimes red to let cars enter from the road that
ends at the T. But those cars don't impact the bikes (hopefully), so
they need a green light to explicity tell them they're exempt from the
cars' red light. It was probably cheaper to install a 3-color light set
permanently to green rather than order a special green-only
light.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
But I think most bikers, wingers by natures, would completely ignore the car light if they see no interference from car lanes.
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RE: Javascript calculation
Had the same issue a while ago:
It's almost a proper reason to write your own arithmetic functions.
add(a, b)
subtract(a,b)
multiply(a,b)
divide(a,b)
Back to Lisp!
One day I will properly learn to use toFixed, toPrecision and toExponential.
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RE: Syntax highlighting: its been bothering me
I assume he means for a function on his code-related website, or somesuch, not for his own personal code use.
Because then he'd have to write a text-editor, too.
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RE: A Software Engineering Paper WTF
They generate faster code because it, um, types faster?
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Traffic Lights say: GO!
Traffic Peculiarity.
On my route to work, I come by a T-crossing. Along the top of that T,
the lane going from right to left, there is traffic light for a bicycle
lane that goes straight ahead. It always shows green, and the red and
orange lights probably haven't lit up for two decades. If it were to
show red at one point, it would mean that you are not allowed to ride
straight on on a lane without left or right turns.
My theory is that this light is leftover from an earlier time when that
particular crossing didn't have a separate lane and light for
left-turning bicycles. But now that there is, the old light is
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RE: Wtf video
It looks slightly like an upside-down image of a DJ slapping a record on the table.
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RE: Another Boss-ism
@brazzy said:
@Brendan Kidwell said:
@Manni said:
The second question is: If you resize a picture in Word, why does it retain the original data and only display a resized picture?
I'm not a fan of Word or any other word processor, but there is a good
reason Word does this: The crop/resize/constrast adjustment operations
are reversible if you store
them as metadata next to the picture, rather than change the picture
itself.
More importantly, it can make use of a full resolution of the output
device. Actually resizing the pictures so that you get a crappy
screen-resolution pixellated image even when printing on a
high-resolution printer would be a REAL WTF.
true.dat
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RE: Vim vs. IDE (flame on)
One thing that Vim may help prevent is stress to the side of my thumb.
Because your thumb types in an awkward position: with its side.
Arrow-key+control = side of right thumb
Alt = usually side of left themb
spacebar = side of current thumb
down-arrow: side of thumb
Also, the capslock key should be way on the other side of the keyboard
next to pause, scrolllock and printscreen because alt-tabbing and
ctrl-tabbing or even typing 'a' all to often leads to inadvertant
all-caps. I am lucky that Editplus has a caps-mode converter (ctrl+L
for lowercase).
If capslock goes there, then naturally, it makes sense to put numlock
in that group as well. So then you have a spot left on your numpad. You
can use that for a smiley or something. It would also add another key
to bind in games. Yay.
Well. I feel pretty good after redesigning the one-hundred-and-N-keyboard. I think I'll go write some code. -
RE: Trouble with todays thread?
I do hope they work on that KingKong-sized memory footprint of Firefox.
It restores very slowly. -
RE: Vim vs. IDE (flame on)
Dear Tom_ and Stan, you have both failed miserably in providing
arguments beyond exclamations of "that's not true!", supporting them by
explaining concepts I grasp fully.
The crux of the matter lies in the possible appliances of the word
'less'. Can it be used to denote a smaller number of discrete items, or
is it limited to relative continuous quantities of the lesser variety?
Nothing in my experience so far save for the odd Americanist tells me
that the latter is true. 'fewer' remains a commonly accepted anomaly.
For the sake of the argument, I won't begin backing out by suddenly
arguing that a language's aspects are valid by grace of its speakers,
not a rigid booklet of rules.
I admit full defeat on the matter of nowt vs. naught. I had never seen
'nowt' before, and its queer, simplistic spelling and usage within that
context made it all to easy to be mistaken for a misspelling of the
familiar though underused word 'naught'. -
RE: Google is a developer of AJAX??
AJAX is a kludgly technique that uses pages of code in both client-side
javascript, XML files and server-side script in order to change a tiny
thing on-page without reload.
So it only pays off in bigger projects, suh as Google does with maps and mail etc. -
RE: This way.
Remember, if someone is more of a moron that you, he or she is not 'moroner'.