a) This is still a thing.
II) No support for polls when Javascript is disabled? Boo...
3) Why does it sort the poll options and move option 2422 to the end? Doesn't that break the joke?
Posts made by TwelveBaud
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RE: Poll: This is the sexiest one!
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RE: Firefox 33
That page has been a thing since Firefox 15. Glad to see it's starting to actually look awesome though, looking forward to it being on by default in 35!
(about:config β browser.preferences.inContent)
Edit: That's something they need to fix though. Nobody knows what E10S is, and few people know what Electrolysis is. It needs some sort of new blander name like Crash Protection, or some better marketing materials.
Filed under: we need a new tag cloud to attack, Discoursistency in editing, too!
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
The TOC on their home page uses Comic Sans.
That's the point of that one! Using Napkin instead of system-specific or Metal serves as a constant visual reminder that they're using a mockup rather than the real, final application.For system widgets, you want the system look and feel.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
(And btw. Roslyn is bit more than 'a dev tool framework'.)
@Gaska said:What is it, then?
The compiler.@Gaska said:Can it be used for the task at hand (at compile time, not runtime)?
Yes. You'll need to make an MSBuild task so you can do stuff at compile time (before it hits Microsoft's IL compiler), and you'll need to modify Roslyn to accept your metaprogramming syntax, but it's doable.@Gaska said:Will it be accepted in Windows Store?
Visual Studio's validator will probably fail, but it would still be accepted into the Store. Once preprocessed, the compiler will just be digesting regular old C# code, and Microsoft will have no way of telling you've fed it anything different. -
RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
GUI stuff tends to be really archaic (AWT) or look weird due to not using system widgets (Swing). I guess you could use SWT, but when IBM creates better features for your language than you do...
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
See also: NapkinLAF
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RE: Another Sunday at work: Let's see who screwed up this time!
(Yeah, I can edit corflags on the binaries.)
Damn it, you're not supposed to reveal secrets like that! Now anyone who comes across this topic can suggest that as a way to dodge upgrading! -
RE: Really inspiring confidence there, guys...
The Dutch government says "This is the keyboard we've declared standard, so this is the keyboard you will install!" and Microsoft sheepishly goes along with it. Get your MEP or someone to legislate US/English as your national keyboard and Microsoft will go along with it.
Filed under: we need a new tag cloud to attack, Source: michkap's blog
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
I'm working with Java 8. JDK8u20, to be exact. It has Observable class and Observer interface in standard library. And it doesn't make use of generics that were added quite a few versions back.
Java 2 version 1.8; get it right. And Observable/IObserver have been around since the first version of Java in 1991; no changes can be made, since that breaks compatibility.If I was one of the original developers of Java 1.0, I would fucking make real generics.
Java 2 version 1.5 back in 2004, which had to have bytecode compatibility with 1.4 and be callable from managed and native classes compiled in 1995 (Java 2 1.0).You mention Backward Compatibility, but C# had no problems bolting on Generics after the fact.
C# had the luxury of declaring "Common Language Runtime 2.0; if you're not built for me, go pound sand!" Java, politically speaking, didn't have that option.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't type erasure mean that compiler has no way to statically check type safety of generic containers when interacting with precompiled 3rd-party library?
Yup.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
My (flawed?) understanding was that you couldn't switch user contexts and it was much simpler to just spawn a sub-process instead of trying to elevate.
You can impersonate another user account, but you're still limited by any 'deny' ACEs in your token. UserInit launches Explorer with a 'deny Administrators' ACE in its token, which Explorer and its subprocesses can't revoke. Instead, UserInit gets asked to start the program itself, without that ACE, which it does after UAC goes through.Elevate a command prompt and run everything from that?
No prompt. Elevated processes don't have the deny ACE, and as a result neither do the processes that inherit it.I think it still prompts you even then though
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
Not sure if the reason is included in the manifest. It ought to be, but I can't spot where the description would actually go. Opportunity missed, Microsoft?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Windows_ActiveX_security_warning_(malware).png
Filed under: They've learned otherwise..., we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Web fonts with Unicode private-use symbols defined
But all of those plug directly into the same place as TTF. The only difference between the files is how the shapes are packed, and the only change to the content is switching out the filename.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
people should think really hard
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RE: Web fonts with Unicode private-use symbols defined
And I really don't see a problem with using SVG or PNG images either.
SVG doesn't work right in IE until IE 9. PNG isn't vector, so it blurs when viewed with a different zoom level or DPI. TTF has neither of those issues. Plenty of other ones, but not those. -
RE: Chubertdev's snippet thread
Someone tried to track down the origin of that anti-mini-pattern a few years ago. Best guess it "outdated advice about ADO needlessly generalized."
That's a pattern from Classic VB. Everything was reference counted and self-destructed when the reference count hit zero. In theory, the VB engine automaticallyNothing
ed everything that went out of scope. In practice, ... well, let's just say there's a reason the patterned existed.Makes no god damn sense to still stick around though; the last time that was useful was 2001.
ETA: .NET 1.0 did support threading by hand with the Framework, but the BackgroundWorker component that made it easy for WinForms didn't come out until .NET 1.1, the
Task
classes didn't come out until .NET 4, and the magicalasync
goo won't come out for VB until .NET Roslyn hits. Classic VB, though,DoEvents()
or die.
Filed under: we need a new tag cloud to attack, COM/OLE lives!
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RE: Well, *how* senior?
Anyone one know of a Unicode character for "+1" ?
βThe closest I could find was a useless "plus sign below" combining character.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
If you're not an administrator (and, starting in Vista, an elevated administrator), the root of the drive has been read-only since forever, yes. Unless you play with permissions otherwise, standard users can only write to their user folder by default.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
Why does https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freeware.shtml need UAC approval when I start it up in Windows XP compatibility mode?
Because in XP compatibility mode it's trying to assert SeDebugPrivilege (access the memory of any running process that doesn't hold SeTcbPrivilege), which is required in Windows XP for any debugging at all, but not required in Windows Vista or later, where you can debug your own processes without escalation.@flabdablet said:The traditional Windows approach to the same kind of use case has generally involved baking passwords into the scripts, with varying degrees of obfuscation.
The proper Windows approach is to create a scheduled task and bake the credentials into the task (secured by Actual Security, not obfuscation). But, like UAC, "proper" got confused with "possible"...@created_just_to_disl said:I'll enable it back and - if I either get less than 5 prompts in 10 days, or have cause to cancel at least one of the prompts in the 10 days - keep it enabled.
Proviso: Exclude Java's updater from your criteria. It breaks all the UAC rules, Oracle knows it breaks all the UAC rules, Microsoft has publically derided Oracle for breaking all the UAC rules, and Oracle's response was to shrug and make it break even more UAC rules. But it's the only app I know that's that bad; the rest are extremely tame.@Quietust said:UAC prompts should only happen in the following situations:1. the program was explicitly invoked to run elevated (i.e. Run as Administrator)2. the program's manifest explicitly says that it should run elevated3. the program lacks a manifest, and a heuristic has classified the program as an installer that likely needs to run elevated (generally for stuff like "setup.exe")4. the program lacks a manifest and is flagged as requiring elevation for compatibility (e.g. you ran it, it didn't work, you closed it, then you accepted the Program Compatibility Assistant's recommendation to rerun it elevated)
This is correct, unlike much of the UAC stuff in this thread. Also, if you have UAC turned off, virtualization is turned off as well, which actually might make programs break more (specifically those that write to the Windows folder or the Program Files folder of an MSI-installed app).@created_just_to_disl said:If a program runs unelevated and it tries to do something that isn't allowed, it will not display a UAC prompt - it will fail to do whatever it was attempting to do. In any case, if the prompt DOES appear, then the only thing Windows knows is "the program wants to run with increased privileges"; it doesn't know why.
There is one notable exception, though - if a program tries to write to its own installation folder (or a registry key in HKLM), then Windows filesystem/registry virtualization kicks in and redirects it to a user-specific location so it won't actually require elevation (and subsequent read attempts will give it a combined view of the install folder and your user-specific changes). Of course, this doesn't apply if your program is manifested as UAC-aware, in which case the operation will simply fail (and you should've also manifested it to require elevation).
F:\Whatnot
Well, duhhh; default NTFS permissions apply to all volumes, not just C:. Check the Security tab of Properties and fix the permissions. When you're too warm, take off the jacket; don't strip completely naked!@created_just_to_disl said:Do I need to go and mess with the access rights of each folder I create to allow it to be used by non-privileged programs?
You can change it on the root of the volume and it will cascade down into all the folders that don't specifically forbid it (like Program Files, Users, and Windows). I don't recommend doing this on the system volume though since that opens the possibility of malware overriding those subfolder-based prohibitions.@boomzilla said:TRWTF? If that's correct, it sounds like a very user hostile action. And not in a Jeff sort of way.
It's been that way since NTFS first came out as a way to enforce quotas and "cleanliness". FAT, FAT32, XFAT, and UDF partitions have no security, so floppies, flash drives, and CDs/DVDs/BRs are as wide open as goatse.@dookdook said:Not that any of that has much to do with my original Java/Firefox issues...
Sure it does, it's just UAC is OS-wide. You want to get togrumpy catmath software that nobody bothered to try to get working on Windows because they're afraid it'll "just work", and you won't let anything that's trying to protect you from terrible, terrible security vulnerabilities get in your way.@blakeyrat said:The problem is shitty application developers who don't know anything about how the OS they've chosen to develop in works, and also don't give a shit about shipping software with huge bugs.
+1@FrostCat said:Here's an example: when I was about 5, I stuck a my finger in an electrical outlet. You know what happened? I got a shock, and because I'm not a moron I never did it again.
+1@VaelynPhi said:Yes, but as has been pointed out already, if all UAC gives the user is a nag screen, they'll eventually just see it as something to click through, eliminating its functionality. Any information it could give the user would encourage them to take the prompt seriously.
Which is why, when Microsoft introduced it, they had clear guidance for what was supposed to happen for apps written post-Vista, one of them being: "Only show this as late as possible, after warning the user in your own UI, with a shield on the thing that triggers it, and only when absolutely necessary." And then Java fucked it up.@VaelynPhi said:I find it hard to believe that it couldn't be made to have more information. Something knows that the process user doesn't own that file or have permissions, or else UAC couldn't have been triggered.
Except for COM (an ancient temple the map to which has been all but lost), UAC can only be triggered when starting a program, and all the information you get is "this program wanted to start as Administrator." When a process tries to do something that requires elevation and it isn't elevated, it just gets told "Access denied", period, no user interaction given.@VaelynPhi said:Or even better, run it chrooted so it thinks it can do whatever it wants. [I may just be tossing these out to stir up @blakeyrat...]
Yep, that's built-in, and with UAC on it's invisible.@tarunik said:and I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows 7 installer did a similar thing.
Nope. All servicing is known-offline servicing, starting with Vista. The Windows XP installer, on the other hand...@mott555 said:This is a reasonable compromise. Gays get what they want, the religious folks aren't forced to redefine things.
While I feel it's a reasonable compromise too, the religious folks have already rejected it. They feel allowing people to receive the same "bundle" of civil rights as marriage, without being religiously "sanctioned" as a marriage, devalues marriage too much and is therefore "insulting" and "blasphemous" and other nasty words. -
RE: Someone PLEASE explain why chrome keeps doing this
Re: off-by-default etc.: can you turn off Australis?
Don't be helpless. And Australis is not a privacy issue -- despite being incredibly stupid and the product of Faaborg's "Let's make everything the same, only different!" brainworms -- so it's outside Pale Moon's usual purview.
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RE: Someone PLEASE explain why chrome keeps doing this
with all the crap that Firefox has taken up doing, I've switched to Pale Moon (OK, it's still Firefox, but it has had a lot of the intrusive crap removed),
You realize that Pale Moon is less secure, due to not keeping up Every Six Weeks and jettisoning OCSP, and that everything it claims to remove you can just turn off in Firefox's settings, some of which is off by default anyway?
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RE: I have failed as an IT Professional
Doesn't work because this sandisk presents as fixed storage
Works as intended, which is TRWTF. That's not actually a flash drive, it's a USB "SCSI controller", with "a DVD-ROM drive" (with the "U3 PortableApps Launchpad System Software and other valuable Value Added Software" disc loaded and autoplaying) and "a HDD" hanging off of it.
Filed under: siiiiiiiiigh, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: TFS Upgrade!
With Visual Studio Premium/Ultimate, there's a little area in the corner called "My Work". You can drag work items there and have it automatically track time spent and link changesets, shelvesets, and test results to that work item. When you have to context switch, dragging a work item back out automatically shelves your work -- tied to that work item -- and takes you back to the last changeset. When you're done there, dragging the work item back in unshelves and merges for you.
The biggest problem I have with shelvesets is that, by default, they go away as soon as you use them, and they don't retain history. The second-biggest problem I have with shelvesets is that most people don't know they exist, and those that do know they're stored server-side and available to any other developer to fuck with.
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RE: Steam's "Discovery Update"
He's purchased a subscription to those games; as long as Valve remains in existence, they're morally obliged to continue to grant him that subscription. Legally, they can cancel it at any time, but if they started doing shit like that for no reason then there would be a massive revolt.
And even then there's always NoSteam...
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RE: I got trolled by Sublime
but I'm curious what in the highly-cropped screenshot leads you to that conclusion?
The Aero titlebar? The gradient of the menu bar? The fact that the shortcut keys were reasonable things like "Ctrl" and "Alt" rather than "β" and "β₯" and "π"?
Filed Under: it having a menu bar at all?, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Charge your iPhone in microwave - 4chan does it again with iOS 8
The Private Clubhouse Effect: [...] This also applies to individual threads, which will go on pages-long tangents.
Discurse prevents this.
Filed Under: what's a page?, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Making the best of MS Office files
We're not even asking them to switch to ODF, we're just asking them to read/write it sanely as an export/import format (they already have some support, even, from what I've read).
They do, and have had it since the same time they got Save to PDF (Office 2007 SP2). The main thing you lose is all style and theme definitions; if you open the document again, expect any new headings, SmartShapes, master slides, et cetera to be Discoursistent at best. Of course, the intersection of "people who use styles and themes outside of LATEΧ" and "people who have their anti-M$ tinfoil hats glued on and only use ODF" is zero, so it's not perceived to be a problem. -
RE: Apple Watch
Still gets the order of operations wrong when you try to raise a negative number to a power, though (it does the power first, then negates the result).
That is actually the correct order of operations. Unary negation comes after exponentiation precisely because it's a multiplication by -1. There's even a specific sentence in the manual about this.
Filed Under: TRWTF is not being able to enter negative numbers directly, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Git troubleshooting flowchart
The 'detached HEAD' error happens when GitHub for Windows interrupts a sync due to merge conflicts between the local and remote repository. Fixing this involves opening the shell, running 'git status' to see the specific files with conflicts, fixing those conflicts, and then running a 'git rebase --continue' to finish off what GitHub for Windows was initially trying to do. I agree that this is cumbersome to new Git users, and we're working on a better way to handle merge conflicts directly in the GUI so that users don't have to email support to figure out what on earth is going on.
Oh my *god* is that what they're doing? No wonder you're ending up in no-man's land so often! Why are they doing that? Why? For the love of God, *why*?Sync should do a pull, followed by a merge, followed by a push. Period. Non-interactive rebase? Are they trying to be dangerous and terrible, for the sake of stupid shit like "clean history"? Especially since they explicitly don't support
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RE: Git troubleshooting flowchart
Lemme explain "detached head" for you:
Some gigantic shitlord was working on the project with you. You and he were doing your own things, and you pushed your commits upstream, as you should have. Then he tried to push his commits, and got an error message that went something like
can't fast-forward upstream
. This means that he was trying to push commits that didn't include your work. But rather than accepting this, pulling your work and merging it in with his, the gigantic shitlord decided to force through his push anyway, bypassing two warning screens which explicitly said "this will wreck everyone else's repo, only do this to fix [these specific problems, none of which is "I don't wanna merge"], are you ABSOLUTELY SURE?"Thus, as a result of the gigantic shitlord's actions, you weren't working on a branch anymore. It's gigantic shitlord who's to blame, not Git.
That said, Git is very terrible if you're not using Visual Studio's built-in support or Eclipse's built-in support or at the very least some sort of GUI. And it's sad that the documentation on how to escape this situation is lackluster at best.
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RE: Bennett Haselton
Back on topic, for some screwed-up value of topic... @dkf said:
The only sane way to fix the infrastructure issue is to require some sort of open access rules, so that there can be competing ISPs offering service over that infrastructure. The case can be made for this, especially where public money was (supposedly) given for the construction of the infrastructure in the first place.
In the US, something similar happened. ISPs were given money by taxpayers (by way of government) as "common carriers", requiring them to do certain things like ensure 98% of households within a geographical area could access service and allow competitors to use the infrastructure at cost. The companies built out the most profitable areas, but when they were told to honor their common carrier agreements they said "shan't; we're not common carriers π"This is what happened in the UK. It was fought tooth-and-nail by BT (our erstwhile telco monopolist) for years; they eventually lost and things got a lot better. What's more, as soon as you've got one set of infrastructure offering that class of service, if you've got alternatives they improve as well. (I've not used the BT infrastructure for many years, but the presence of real competition has forced the cable company to offer some pretty nice deals; even their cheaper tiers are actually quite good. Well, in this area anyway. )
And we let them, thanks to their deep involvement with politics. Only now, several decades down the road, are we reconsidering that decision, and even though the public has responded with such force that the FCC can't handle it, it's still far from a sure thing.
Add to this most of our ISPs have unspoken gentlemen's agreements not to compete on price, and their cable/tele parents have gentlemen's agreements not to compete geographically, and our courts have mindbogglingly approved all this as "not an anti-competitive issue"... π
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RE: Mutant validation
Yeah, but you've massively reduced the effective capacity, and you need a lot more sets of points to allow trains to pass each other. Upgrading to having a track in each direction more than doubles capacity, even for freight, while greatly simplifying most operations.
Except we don't need capacity. As it is, we don't even need additional points for trains in opposite directions passing, because we already have them at stations to allow mainline trains to pass stopped trains, which doesn't happen that often either.
since you put both power and fancy brakes on each set of bogies rather than putting all that stuff on the engine;
So, rather than having a locomotive being the single, central source of motive power, now each unit of stock needs that capability. Since it does not make fiscal sense to try to maintain third-rail (due to corrosion) or catenary (due to wind, oversize trains, and so on) systems throughout vast, sparsely-inhabited rural US, each car needs its own diesel engine, separately maintained and fueled, along with its own electrical subsystems (remember, even at 160MPH, most trips are still going to be several hours, so passengers will need "creature comforts" like wifi and a club car and stuff). I don't think that's gonna work out, really...
it mustn't be run in the way that the vast majority of US rail systems are.
Agreed. But the ones that are run that way in the US are done along heavy urban corridors (e.g. Amtrak Acela Express in the Boston-NY-DC corridor) where there's both heavy traffic justifying the added expense and heavy urbanization making the tracks a lot easier logistically to maintain. The ones run the more traditional, at-the-speed-of-freight way (like the Amtrak NE Regional once it leaves that corridor) don't have the ridership to make dedicated rails make fiscal sense (use <5% capacity?) and go through bumblefuck nowhere to get there (40 miles of nothingness between Manassas and Culpeper, 40 more miles of nothing between Culpeper and Charlottesville, 60 miles of lightly-mountainous nothing between Charlottesville and Lynchburg, and that's relatively urban compared to most cases!).
We can try to make rail more attractive by eliminating gov't subsidies to air carriers (who got them as part of the heavy regulation of the air industry half a century ago), but that still doesn't solve the problem of too few passengers wanting too diverse destinations in a very large, empty landmass.
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RE: Mutant validation
(and if you're putting it all on a single track used bidirectionally, you really aren't thinking about even moderate speed operationβ¦)
But we can "get by" with that, especially since you're proposing quintupling both capital and operational expenses in laying and maintaining a stretch of track. (The extra 1x comes from switching.) -
RE: Lighting logic
@CodeNinja said:
it's also easier to stage 'malfunctions' on a simulator
That might be why they have the stupid double-logic, so that there's a "convenient" extension point for an indicator to be spuriously on (due to a ground fault) or off (due to being burned out). While the vehicle under test obviously should not have that information, the instructor himself/herself might want it. -
RE: C# hate
the bad ideas thread is way
Filed Under: we need a new tag cloud to attack, new plugin idea:map topic IDs to arrow-emoticon trips and auto-hotlink them
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RE: Conservapedia: The funniest site in the world
Maybe motorists aren't being charged the true cost of maintenance on those roads, or the true cost is not being paid?
Aside from the Interstate system (dependent on a fuel tax that is declining in revenue because of increases in fuel efficiency), more than the true cost is being charged, but thanks to inefficiencies (corruption, perverse incentives/disincentives, anathema to closed roads) the maintenance needed is not the maintenance that's being done.
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RE: The wonderful world of compilers
JavaScript is a scripting language. It was never designed specifically for the web, and many apps use it as originally intended.
Brendan Eich of Netscape coded JavaScript in 1995 during a ten-day drunken bender, solely so applets (a la Java) could grope around in web page content and vice versa. Microsoft cloned it in 1996 and happened to shove it into their "Active Scripting" cesspit, allowing it to be used like you claim it was intended, and Macromedia then got on the same bandwagon in Flash MX and Adobe in Acrobat 5. But its original design was specifically for the web. -
RE: PHP integer types
Hint: Eve player speaking here
There's a reason Crowd Control Productions made an arbitrary precision math library in Perl for Eve, and that's because they knew what Eve's unique playerbase was likely to do. The same doesn't necessarily apply to Mott's friends. -
RE: Dont need no loops
stmd is "more correct" in this case, but "less correct" in the general case (which is "I fucked up my list numbering; Markdown, fix it! Fix it, Markdown!")
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RE: Steam - Valvetime in profiles
(Desura has one, but it's only aimed at game developers.)
They have another one that their desktop client uses. Open source too, if you can find it buried in that horrible mess before your eyes start bleeding.
Filed Under: even the OMGWTF contest entries look better, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Dont need no loops
No. If I type "3." in the editor at the beginning of the line, I get "1." on the screen.
How fucking generous is your version of "pretty much OK", man? Christ.
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RE: Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
Here's an idea for you - why not, erm, remove keyboard input from Visual Studio? And create a pointy-clicky interface instead for entering syntax instead? Keyboards are so fucking last decade.
You forgot about Project Spark and Kodu, didn't you?
Filed Under: Klik 'n' Play, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Twitch is now muting any video containing music.
TBH the real solution to this [...] would be to let Twitch/Twitch Partners pay a small percentage of gross revenue [...] ASCAP when they detect music being played on a stream (say 70%).
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RE: Switching from iPhone to Android? Don't count on getting texts for a while...
Your iPhone link looks okay. Your Windows Phone link is to some garbage by a profligate app spammer that describes what Hangouts does, but doesn't actually provide access to anything. Google only offers their Google Now app on WP, has blocked Microsoft's YouTube app, and has blocked access to Google Talk from several unofficial WP apps, so there ain't no WP solution there yet.
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RE: Google Accounts
Buy it on Steam or GOG. You may have to use the Unreal Tournament .EXE though, although it uses all the .U's from the original game.
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RE: Constant name
In honor of this, I will now add a constant to my user stats userscript:
FUCKING_HELL_DISCOURSE_WHY_ISNT_THERE_A_FRIENDLY_NAME_FOR_POST_COUNT_STAT = 5
CLOSED BYDESIGN
as apparently comparingpenis sizepostcounts is considered a barrier to discourse.
Filed Under: Discourse is a barrier to discourse, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Google Accounts
Yes. Sooner or later you realize this Windows thingie is only going downhill. You then upgrade to linux and never look back.
Because you can't, becauseradeon
doesn't work with your (not that newish, not that oldish) graphics card or whatever god-forsaken version ofdrm.ko
gets dumped in your lap, and trying to runX
just shuts off the display until next boot, and no matter how you play with the kernel command line or runlevels ingrub
your distro refuses to not startX
because "why would anyone want that?"Repeat for four major distros.
Filed Under: The Luxury of Ignorance is still alive and well, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Licence? What licence? All your links are belong to us!
Except the United States has this funny thing called the DMCA (47 USC Β§230) which means Discourse installation owners aren't liable for what their users post or otherwise cause Discourse to host. Furthermore Sony v. Universal City Studios and MGM v. Grokster provide that as long as a platform or product has substantial uses other than copyright infringement, the makers of that product/platform aren't liable either. Since Discourse presumably allows people to engage in, well, discourse, Atwood couldn't be sued either. Only the individual user who makes a post to Discourse is liable.
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RE: How to reboot in Windows Server 2012
WinC is a thing, and it opens the Lucky Charm Bar? Today I Learned...
Filed Under: TRWTF is "Charm Bar", we need a new tag cloud to attack
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RE: Just sharing a link to TRWTF for customer service
The kicker in this instance? They aren't using JS for those links. It's plain HTML as View Source would have shown, had I the opportunity to post again before that topic was closed.
The jQuery Fairy flits down from the ceiling, tipping from side to side as the breeze blows past her wings. Her landing on your shoulder is so soft you can only barely feel it. Leaning into your ear, she whispers, in a soothing yet chastising voice,
"Late-attached event handlers using
on()
?"
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RE: Your license will expire in 17 days
But all the instances, on separate computers, that are separate versions, just suddenly woke up one morning and went "I'm gonna use this garbage license!", all without talking to each other?
Filed Under: TDEMSYR, we need a new tag cloud to attack