@durnurd said:
While trying (and failing) to debug an app I'm developing on an iPhone, when the debugger couldn't run, the error report stated it was due to a boolean named "I_can_has_debugger" being false for some reason or other.
KTHXBYE
@durnurd said:
While trying (and failing) to debug an app I'm developing on an iPhone, when the debugger couldn't run, the error report stated it was due to a boolean named "I_can_has_debugger" being false for some reason or other.
KTHXBYE
@Aaron said:
As long as the subject matter is restricted to specific technical questions, rather than anything political or ideological or philosophical, it could work.
there are enough holly wars in the technological department as well ...
@Lorne Kates said:
Fuck each and every single placeholder text that ever existed.
@SpoonMeiser said:
Isn't Vista great?
My girlfriend bought a new laptop recently that came pre-installed with Vista. It apparently has a 4 hour battery life. However, it turns out that the benchmark tools they use to determine such a number, which represent the battery life of a system running at normal load, had not yet been adapted to take account of Vista.
We spent ages turning off any feature we could think of, but could not get the battery life to go beyond 3 hours.
benchmark tools ... yeah right ...
how the manufacturers determine the battery life
1. disconnect the display,
2. remove the harddisk
3. turn on the laptop and start the measurement
4. note the time when it powers down due to empty battery
5. add 0,5 h to the result in order to compensate for statistics
6. print it on the case
7. put a weaker battery in the laptop in order to cut costs, sell the bigger one for more money
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Wouldn't it be more important for him to learn what a search engine is first? Maybe learn that playing random files has nothing at all to do with search and/or organization? .Maybe he should learn that a VB6 application can't replace an OS no matter how hard he wishes, and no matter how many forums he acts like a fool on?
I see your joke, but this guy isn't going to get it. Please don't say anything that might be considered encouraging by someone who is operating in a different plane of existence.
This guy is the reason this site exists. He produces more great material in a day, than Alex can dig up in a week. In Alex's place, I would give this guy a job, to make sure I never run out of material.
I was just trying to give him a push in the right direction.
Speaking of material, when is the next TDWTF(C)(R)(TM) Programming Contest(C)(R)(TM) coming ? The topic could be "Build a desktop search engine" ...
@Nozz said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:Alright... So?
So nothing, I'm just trying to figure out what you're getting from it because it isn't obvious. Clearly you're not in it to "educate" him because he's clearly shown he can't be, arguing with him can't be that much fun either because he just keeps repeating the same stuff. There's obviously some enjoyment to be had here that I am clearly missing out on.
I'm still trying to find out what kind of thing this SpectateSwamp really is ... So far I have eliminated humans and computers ...
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@asuffield said:@Cap'n Steve said:
he also wrote the best bot I've ever seen (grammar not withstanding)I take it you've never seen a properly trained megahal, then. Once you've been on an IRC channel with one for a while, you get the hang of spotting them. It's really quite an old piece of software - turns out that semi-comprehensible English isn't that hard to generate, and it's kinda convincing because most people who speak English just aren't very comprehensible to begin with. Algorithms like that one have generated scientific papers that were convincing enough to be accepted by conference reviewers.
(There's obviously a person supporting it and keeping it roughly on-topic)
I call BS. This is clearly someone who has completely lost it.
I have a new theory :
Apollo mission trained monkey. Sent to Canada on a well deserved retirement.
@PJH said:
@tdittmar said:Sadly not, but just had a look, and one clause had me thinking WTF??!:@SpectateSwamp said:
I just registered with Sourceforge.netSomebody check their Terms Of Service. Is it allowed to host a complete piece of junk on their site?
What about all the other countries out there? And what about a non-violent overthrow?When you create or make available Your Content, you thereby represent and warrant that:
[...]
(e) Your Content is not obscene, lewd, lascivious,
excessively violent, harassing, libelous or slanderous, does not
advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States,
does not incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against
another, does not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule, and
does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
There you have it ..
First of all my brain hurts when I look at the DesktopSearch Code ...
And secondly it makes me wanna kill someone ...
Clear violation of the TOS
@morbiuswilters said:
Wow, you must some kind of wizard, having using the Internet in 1998.
someone please shoot him ...
I see no WTF here.
You have no Symantec products and therefore you have no problems.
@zzo38 said:
The only difference in this case is that most computers (or game consoles) now do not display a BASIC (and Forth, in a combination) interpreter when you turn it on.
they did once... old ibm pcs (and several clones) had BASIC interpreter in BIOS...if no boot record was detected on the floppy, they would automatically load BASIC...
this feature was dropped because noone wanted it...
as a substitute, they packaged first GWBasic and later QBasic within the operating system, which was dropped because noone wanted it ...
do you see a pattern here ?
NO ONE WANTS IT
and why in gods name Forth ? why not whitspace interpreter ? or brainfuck ?
at least then you could sell them to masochists.
that would be kinda cool, to go to the sex shop and see a computer console with brainfuck interpreter next to the lether outfits and whips and dildos ...
think hard core man ...
but seriously the idea is great: an open source console ...
very nice indeed ... and then you took the swampy way ...
first you started writing a Basic/Forth interpreter ... on a linux based console ...
Why invent the wheel again ?
there are several free (as in beer) basic interpreters out there .. just take one of them and jam it ...
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/basic.shtml
this was just the first hit on google .... sourceforge has certanly several more ...
and this too is could be a good idea, you take an existing basic interpreter, extend it with a 3D interface and make something like opensource darkbasic ... and it would fit perfectly to your opensource console, people would actually buy the console because they could easily create their own games with it, not just play the existing ones ...
but nooooo even when writing this thing, you still want to reinvent the wheel ... stack, list, queue, vector are basic datastructures implemented 1000 times before in 1000 different languages and dialects, tested and 100% bug free in various libraries, code available on the internet in 100 books ... only thing still missing is geek toiletpaper with stack implementation printed on it ...
but nooo you want to implement your own ... if you want to know how they work, just read a book, take an university course (most universities have datastructures and algorithms course in their curriculum), but do not implement it for the 1001th time ...
you are wasting your time doing someting when there are more important things to concentrate on ...
look at the bigger picture, list all features you need, how long it will take you to implement them and why do you need them ... and i'm talking some structured approach, look at the console and list all things you need to do, not just the front panel ... then it will be painfully obvious what you need to do ....
i am afraid to ask, but what kind of hardware do you plan on using and are you sure you could get that hardware in the quantities you need ?
while typing this i just realised something ... you're a kid aren't you ... i just had a flashback, some 20 years ago when we wanted to build the best computer with best features from commodore and spectrum ... it was the same thing ... focusing on small details, going to the design of the basic intepreter before we had complete hardware specs ... wanted to do everything from scratch (because only then will you be sure it is done properly) ...
man ....
thanks ...
those are some nice memories ...
for a kid, that stack implementation is not bad at all ... just keep it up, youll get somewhere in life ...
@zzo38 said:
in Super Smash Bros Melee you can disable pause, in which case you can't pause it.
the funniest thing i read in a long time