When in doubt, just name it Steve. It's a nice name.
This from the person who completed his account name by mashing the keyboard when his own name wasn't available...
When in doubt, just name it Steve. It's a nice name.
This from the person who completed his account name by mashing the keyboard when his own name wasn't available...
I can't see why quality of product is necessary. I mean, how precise does an electron microscope have to be really?
He said 12+, not 21+.
I don't think there's any age at which reading @algorythmics's writing become appropriate.
Put a right to bear arms in its Constitution?
There aren't enough bears in this country to make it worthwhile.
The bug tracker is ironically named "Agile Software Development".
Agile Software Services would provide a more appropriate acronym.
What about INTEGER PROGRAMMERS?
I'm a COMPLEX PROGRAMMER
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Filed under: A significant number of my programming achievements are imaginary.
Relevant ads: I'm searching for a blouse for an outfit. I don't find one I like. The next day on Facebook I find an ad featuring a really pretty corset. I browse their site and find a corset and jacket combo I like for that outfit. They get money, I get my needs filled. This happens to me plenty since I don't block anyone's attempts to track me.
Or the annoying: My wife sends me a link to a dress that she likes, so I click it and then get followed around by dresses on every site that I visit for the next three weeks.
There are [s]||||[/s] | people who will now tell you off for explaining the joke.
That's a text editor in Rome.
...and the coveted MF rating?
That's reserved for movies involving Samuel L. Jackson.
Select the file, then use Shift + Delete for maximum compression.
That or Marketing
For some reason, I first read that as Thor of Marketing, which made the whole sentence much more epic.
And then he restored his code from source control. Right? Right?!
He tried to, but accidentally typed
git purge-and-destroy --all-including-remotes
instead of
git reset --hard branch
Filed under: An easy mistake to make, I mean, the keys are right next to each other.
When do I get my moneys
If you accept the currency of purple dildos, my vote can probably be swung your way.
So, rendering that poll should soon be able to happen before the heat death of the universe then...?
It's certainly contributing heavily to it.
Filed under: It's like bitcoin mining, but with even less return
Against my better judgement, I have submitted my details. To the person we've been tormenting for months.
How could this go wrong? >>
The real code is safely kept on your server, where you can effectively maintain it and protect it from the cruel world forever.
Also, it helps if you always refer to the codebase as "the precious".
Better idea: find out, and then tell @keith you found out. Just don't tell him the details of your discovery.
Feature request: flag people for evil.
Discourse gets the iPod style spinny wheel keyboard
You mean this?
they are claiming compliance with ISO XYZ, certified by company A
they claim compliance with ISO ABC certified by company B
I just checked and neither of these are real ISO codes, so I think they may be lying to you. Also, the company names are very suspicious.
I said I didn't want to know what it means!
It's okay, I didn't tell you what part of the male anatomy.
I've had a flash of blinding inspiration, which could help you to monetise this product.
When users upload a file, you don't encrypt the file contents, you hash them and store the hashed value in the database. Your storage requirements immediately reduce from possibly megabytes per file to, say, 40 characters per file plus the name.
When a user requests a specific file, the system adds it to a queue of pending requests and lets the user know which position their request is in.
A background process grabs one request at a time from the queue and:
If the similarity index is higher than a specific value, the system outputs the file to the user, with whichever file extension it originally had.
You can provide several levels of account, where the basic, free account will get no queue prioritisation, will receive a file with a 50% similarity index or better and will build files completely randomly.
More advanced accounts will provide:
Mix all of the above in various ways to make an almost incomprehensible membership structure.
The only feature which would actually provide an advantage is the queue priority, which will enable you to get your incorrect file more quickly.
oh, it's not porn.is it...?
It's a brick and mortar retailer, so I guess it's some sort of building supply.
Filed under: That's one ugly horse, One of these is not like the others, Check out my profile!
Excellent, never again shall I forget my password, "Check Donkey Power Fastener"!
Fortunately I value my zero miles far more than their fantastic offers, news and competitions.
Offset of first question mark: 7px
Offset of second question mark: 15px
Offset of end of question marks: 459px
Width of one question mark = 15 - 7 = 8px
Width of all question marks = 459 - 7 = 452px
Number of question marks = 452 / 8 = 56.5
[u]There are 57 question marks to the nearest whole question mark.[/u]
Filed under: Close enough
What's wrong with the summary button under the first post?
The problem is that this is a forum full of programmers who know how difficult it would be to write an algorithm which could reliably summarise the topic. As a result of that, we don't trust the algorithm. I tend to scan through the topic, and use a cursory glance to sort the wheat from the chaff.
A non-programmer who doesn't appreciate the complexity of what you're trying to do may well be more inclined to trust it and to use the summary feature.
Filed under: Also, TDWTF members choose to "like" the randomest things...
Well, look at the screenshot. How many px of usable space do you see there? This is completely worthy of a WTF entry in its own right. Android is still pretty bad, and I say this as a daily Nexus 5 user. Have I mentioned that Android Chrome has crippling performance problems unique to the platform as well?
First, that looks suspiciously like landscape mode to me. Turn your phone by 90° and you will have more vertical real estate to display the editor in. In other words: if you insist on holding your phone in landscape mode, you are doing it wrong.
Second, I see plenty of unused space where, e.g. the quote button could go, on the right side of the "cancel" button.
Third, if you insist that the editor should also be usable in landscape mode (as would be your right as a user of Discourse), then give the box a special "landscape-mode" layout: putting the buttons on the left will give you at least one more line in landscape-mode.
Finally: less padding will also give you more room for the main functionality. What the heck, why not go to extremes (as Apple did when they went from skeuomorph to extremely-reduced-flat) and simply make the editor window take the entire window (1 pixel border) with a "hamburger" somewhere for quote, cancel, reply, upload...?
It's up to you how you do it. Just do it.
Speaking of doing it wrong, do you really feel it is necessary to manually quote the image directly under the post above, which contains the very same image, literally 100px above? What does this redundant duplication achieve other than needlessly pushing your reply text down?
I agree with @codinghorror, that's really annoying.
I don't think I've ever seen forum software that has a delay on uploading an avatar before...
Discourse is the first of its kind in many aspects.
Filed under: Most of them negative.
how did you manage to get only 25???
I have an ... unconventional web browsing setup.
I pay two Chinese child immigrants £1 per week to deal with all of my web requests. Li listens through a speaker to the incoming bits and paints the page onto a sheet of parchment. He's very unhappy with infiniscroll as he now has to deal with rolls of parchment that regularly reach 15 metres or more. Also, YouTube buffering is atrocious.
When I need to make a post, I get Yu to make crackling noises into the microphone connected to my modem. His performance has been sub-standard this week on account of his sore throat. I've reduced his pay by half until he gets better.
My thanks go out to Raymond Chen for providing the inspiration that made this possible.
ins't that hat new?
Indeed. My Christmas hat was becoming uncomfortably seasonally appropriate.
Why do I need a watch when I already have a phone?
Dual screen goodness?
butthurt businessmen who want to keep showing off their male jewlery
You're supposed to put it on your wrist, not your penis.
I live in the UK. Why is every company bombarding me with emails about Black Friday now? I've had emails from:
Fitocracy
Gourmet Society
Nectar
Amazon
Argos
Musicroom Card
IKEA
and two different software companies.
I can somewhat understand Amazon introducing it as they're so multinational, but why does every company in the UK feel the need to copy them?
Backdoor gone wrong?
I saw that movie last week. It was okay, but there were a few shitty scenes.
This is where a normal programmer might back-up and question their approach instead of just charging right ahead.
You could almost suggest that these people should be excluded from participation in software development...
I don't know, but I can confirm that the same example is on the registration page.