So if I post now, and then immediately after, maybe I can GET a prime?
Best posts made by Magus
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Just for @HardwareGeek and @Luhmann, now with extra 😽🐈
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Just for @HardwareGeek and @Luhmann, now with extra 😽🐈
I still think I like @translator best. Maximum entertainment value for minimum effort.
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RE: Is there a site like Daily WTF that explains why it's a WTF?
An honest question usually gets a reasonable answer.
And quite a few totally unreasonable ones, to be fair.
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RE: Contempt Culture
@magus Addendum: No one's self-worth should be derived from what software they use. Ever. That's the road to completely avoidable pain and grief.
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RE: Apple's newest iPhone, 2016
@accalia They've been saying they were planning this for some time... It's nice, because now you can't listen to music while your phone charges!
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RE: NodeJS reality check
@sockpuppet7 Because you can't trust that your code works otherwise. Congratulations, you've discovered why dynamic typing is bad.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Just for @HardwareGeek and @Luhmann, now with extra 😽🐈
Wait, I thought you were a fox, not a Tau...
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RE: Hashing algorithms are still evolving apparently
Someone should branch it, so they can name the branch BLAKE3-rat
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RE: Targeted advertising fail
The exact moment I opened this thread, I got a phone call. It was in Chinese. I don't speak that. I say it counts!
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RE: A Crime a Day posted in Funny stuff
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RE: What programming language people are migrating to?
@wharrgarbl So, "Okay, lots of factors mean we had to take JS off the list, but it's absolutely the thing that would have been in first place by any measurement if we hadn't"
Good. Fine.
Our world is doomed.
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit You Open Source people really do love the CoC. You just can't seem to get enough CoC.
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RE: AGPL
LGPL: You can statically link to it and you aren't suddenly GPL!
GPL: You can run it indirectly and not be GPL!
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@Bulb As a C# dev almost exclusively, I of course cannot fully agree with you.
I've seen what you're talking about many times, especially at my last job, but I honestly don't think object orientation is the core of the problem.
I think the biggest problem is books about architecture and design patterns. You yourself touched on why, but at my last job we had a product written by a group of people who read a book on domain driven development, and they managed to create a system that could take hours to process 5mb of json, using 30 microservices.
I'm still in awe of how incomprehensible and incompetent that mess was.
I will say that while object orientation is a tool that can be used for horrible things, the core of the problem is focus: I seriously believe that you should focus on making things as simple as you possibly can while minimizing the chances that changing them ends up destroying the entire system. Not on implementing some stupid pattern.
I like SOLID quite a bit, and recommend that people read the Wikipedia page on it, but at the end of the day, you keep that thing simple, you write tests, and you make sure you understand the scope of your problem, and you don't build in some stupid webscale database when your maximum customer count will be in the hundreds ever.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra Your breakfast of cooling paste and foam seems somewhat in keeping with your robotic persona.
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Polish Man Gets Mad Because He Made A Bad Deal
I liked the books, but couldn't get into the games. This guy won't admit to hating games, he just thinks they're stupid and worthless for telling stories. Having been proved wrong when they made insane amounts of money telling stories in a video game and making demand for his books in foreign markets increase dramatically, he now wants more money.
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RE: F'n Skype
TIL Chinese is a single spoken language. I hope they do African as their next language.
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RE: In other news today...
So, lets say you don't have religious problems with this, or mind having a Star of David surgically implanted into your body.
Is there any computerized hardware you'd trust to be implanted into your body? Would you be prepared to upgrade to the iEye 2s? What if Samsung made the batteries?
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RE: Procurement also has it's WTF moments
@Rhywden said in Procurement also has it's WTF moments:
Well, due to bureaucratic shenanigans we had to go through a different department. The "normal" department already had been bludgeoned into submission by science teachers from other schools. This department however didn't have the faintest of clues about the requirements for Physics and probably thought that it'd be the same as ordering a stack of printer paper or something.
Luckily, my vice principal came to the rescue and told them in no uncertain terms that they were stupid. The requirements thusly shrank rapidly to the number one(1) - I mean, there are only two sources and we still had some older, partly repairable equipment from one vendor which made that particular one more cost-efficient.But, yes, functional and performance requirements would be a good idea - however, it's still a bit of a nightmare when you're talking about equipment for school Physics. Because one single set of equipment is usually good for a double-digit number of experiments. And I was buying 20+ of such sets
Not to mention that the combination of sets is also possible and yields yet different experiment possibilities...Sorry to fbmac this, but I couldn't find the more recent time you talked about getting new stuff that you only have two vendors for:
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RE: Do you program in HTML?
And behold, the beast spoke unto man, "Lo, from my lawn must thou remove thyself"
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
Have you ever been to google or youtube in anything other than chrome?
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RE: "What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"
I may have mentioned this before, but one of the core products at this company is 30 years old and involves printing. It uses a programming language designed in-house to support forms with conditional sections, and creating a UI to input data on DOS and OS/2.
This product has been ported to Windows, through MFC and on to WPF, and supports client-server stuff that normally only a web-app could do - except it did it before web apps could. It has 30 years of laws baked into it, so it cannot be rewritten. It makes obscene amounts of money, and you've never heard of it.
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
That is ... wow. "Wrong" doesn't even begin to describe the magnitude of the incorrectness of that sentence.
Rote memorization is certainly one way to learn, but it's often considered one of the worst options.Unless the context is doing a physical action. You know, like this context right here we're discussing. Muscle memory is only built one way, and it isn't by not practicing.
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RE: Good job, that Bing!
I literally got as far as doubleclicking the EXE and noticing the publisher on the UAC screen wasn't right
And people turn that off!
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
The one you probably aren't familiar with denotes a means of transportation frequently involving horses.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Wow, good to see the code tag is working correctly!
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Please, someone, just write boring code. Please, look at your problem space, pick the tools you need, and then just write something boring to solve the problem.
You don't have 2 billion users. You'll probably never have 100k users. You don't need web-scale adaptive-load actor clouds.
Just make it boring! Please!
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Never buy flowers at a monastery.
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RE: C# try/catch/finally
public void Brillant() { try { Brillant(); } catch(StackOverflowException) { Brillant(); } }
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RE: Well done, Blizzard, even *you* are officially promoting gambling
@pie_flavor Belgium is correct. And their opinion is worth more than yours.
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RE: In other news today...
@pie_flavor Once again, they're the company that named their most excessively priced product yet XS.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: NPM and everyone who thinks it has redeeming values is wrong, reason 387293798:
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RE: 96 macbook server rack
Edit: wow, it's 2015 and web code can still mess up "special" characters
Welcome to Discourse. We hope you enjoy your stay. Make sure to check out the random teleportation, number-reordering, and text swallowing attractions.
Anyway, possible reasons:
- The people who came up with this were dumb.
- The people who came up with this were dumb, and macbooks were cheaper for the same power compared to other Apple products (Unlikely, but Apple).
- The people who came up with this were dumb, and no one called them out on it.
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RE: Steam is now Discord
Valve finally made something that works on Windows Phone. On accident. After it was abandoned.
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RE: I fucking hate StackOverflow sometimes
@blakeyrat I've been at the "You might have to be Eric Lippert to answer that." stage with the questions I need to ask for a while now, and/or working on insane proprietary architectures that all the guidelines for the system being used say to never do.
SO has zero value to me anymore.
But I spent a lot of time on the Software Engineering one, back when it was called Programmers, and there was a lot of good information there back then. But it was better to just... browse it. Not ask questions.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: In a meeting about how our team feels lately, they asked why we rated our ability to change architecture and innovate so low..
I couldn't help saying, "The architecture was designed by someone with a well-worn pair of Complicators' Gloves, and we aren't allowed to change it."
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RE: What favorite UI element will we lose next? Everything?
The next UI element we lose: All of them!
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RE: PSA: MS Word is broken
@bb36e nah, man, it'd have to be named something meaningful, memorable, and pronounceable like UlIbSpFrFxTtT31s18. (case sensitive)
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@Captain given that it only reaches 1% above 50, this forum should be empty within a year, given that we're all our oldest member.
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RE: Tinder is shit
@blek It's just another case proving the point that people still don't seem to understand:
Things are not popular because they are the best. They are popular because someone was convinced they are the best. Maybe they were first, or maybe a small trickle turned into a movement.
Most people don't care about details. I think in Tinder's case, the only detail they care about is the number of people on it. They'll put up with things no one should ever have to put up with for that.
But that's basically just how humanity works.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
At least they fail predictably. "Oh, right, they must not have gotten that bit right." vs jellypotato.
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Re: Defend something you disagree with
@Yamikuronue said in Defend something you disagree with:
When you tread the same paths over and over in your mind, your neurons form patterns, and it can be hard to jar yourself out of that way of thinking. But it's useful to try.
In this mega-thread, defend a position you disagree with. The more you disagree with it, the better. But it has to be a real justification. You have to be able to explain how someone thinks this way, find the places where they're right and the places where they diverge from you. If you want to argue with someone, don't argue your own opinion; argue with people saying things you agree with by disagreeing with them.
As this is the salon, you have to be civil about it; in this thread, however, feel free to use to bow out of a discussion when you just can't come up with a defense for the POV you're temporarily adopting, since, you know, you probably agree with the things you're defending against.
I'll start in the next post.
I'm hesitant about posting this, and I hope this is a place that makes sense to do it:
I'm seriously worried about this thread. I really like the idea of the thread, and everything in the OP, and definitely think a thread like this could be an advantage. So far, though, the conversation that is going on seems to be people trying to wield strawman arguments for their opponent to defeat, rather than people trying to understand the opposition's opinion and argue it in good faith. The reason I say this is that, despite the way it may seem to some, people here do not seem to have very extreme positions, relatively speaking. So the positions right now are ones that even the most extreme in their directions here will likely find odious and insulting.
There's a lot of potential for damage there, as instead of trying to understand the perspective and argue it, it could very easily result in more and more exaggerated bad-faith arguments.
I don't think that's happening now; right now, it looks to me like the posts in this thread are all made in good faith, or near enough. I just hope that people will be cognizant of the risk, because of the potential for hurt that could result. Please be careful.