@anotherusername said in Jeffing 233 posts sucks.:
where the numbers don't mean the same thing as they do here.
Welcome to Whose Reply Is It Anyway, the show where every quote's made up and the numbers don't matter
@anotherusername said in Jeffing 233 posts sucks.:
where the numbers don't mean the same thing as they do here.
Welcome to Whose Reply Is It Anyway, the show where every quote's made up and the numbers don't matter
I redacted instead of deleting because @jaloopa made me laugh
The recruiter is up to something, but I don't know what.
He probably sells a "fix up my LinkedIn status" service. Ignore.
@RaceProUK NodeBB predictive algorithms suggested this would be a git/mercurial flamewar by the time you're done ;)
@Shoreline said in Fuck You, I Quit - Hiring Is Broken (article):
You're part of the human race
Sweetie, you're going to have to learn at some point that not everyone's problem can be your responsibility.
@BrisingrAerowing said in WTF Bites:
How the fuck does THAT not get noticed in testing?
Clean installs with no single-player data.
@DogsB This. Either charge me a monthly fee, or show ads, but not both.
Discourse i love you
because you would rather black the name of
paging than enquire whose Android hasn't been
upgraded which would be embarassing for
both
parties and because you
unflinchingly insist that
infiniscroll is made of rainbows and
unicorns
Discourse i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn CPU
cycles to buy new shinies and when
you're flush you blame
Google and because you are continually committing
nuisences but more
especially in TDWTF
Discourse i love you because you
are perpetually putting good
user experience in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making new bugs
Discourse
i hate you
By request of @onyx I'm reposting this in public from the yamirant thread:
Come on, brain! We need to write non-technical examples to explain technical concepts! Why you no work?
E_NO_CAFFEINE
I just gave you caffeine like, two minutes ago. Something? Anything?
...bees?
Sure, bees. Whatever. The farmer needs to track his bees.
On mars!
.... for srs? Whatever.
Appropriateness is the final attribute. If the user needs to track the number of bumblebees on their honey farm, and we deliver a complete, accurate simulation of what bees would be like on Mars, we’ve ultimately done nothing to help the user with their actual problem.
@cartman82 It's a weird sort of prisoner's dilemma: it'd be best if a third party won, but if some people vote 3rd party but not enough other people do, Trump wins, which is worse than Hillary winning.
It'd probably be really cool if a non-Trump conservative won on a third-party ticket: it'd show that everyone rejects Trump, but at the same time, open the door for a more than two-party candidate system, which we desperately need. There's at least two republican and three democrat sub-parties out there that could use a divorce from each other.
It has the standard "resize" mouse pointer on it. That's an even older and more recognizable symbol than whatever the heck two lines are meant to mean.
Status: I was mentioned twice since the last time I checked in. Both times were in the context of murdering someone. Uh.... thanks? Glad to know my skills are missed XD
I know you're all up on Apple's dick, but iOS only makes up 12% of the smartphone market, so you're going to have to deal with Android somehow. Windows Phone is still behind, but it's on the rise, unlike iOS. In the next ten years you're always talking about, it may surpass iOS entirely. So yeah, I'd take it somewhat seriously in the long run.
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Apple?:
Slideshow
My family members with iphones keep sending me weirdly blank messages with a video of a still image. It took me forever to realize these were 1) slideshows, which are 2) automatically created when they attach multiple images, and 3) the text of the message was a caption to the last image in the slideshow. THE least efficient way to read a message.
No, an american hour is equal to fifty minutes, BUT WAIT, if you act now in the next 30 seconds, I'll throw in TEN EXTRA MINUTES, that's a $99 value, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Well, then show me the editor which does what he says
It's possible -- you may want to sit down for this -- for all programs to be wrong.
@coldandtired said in WTF Bites:
I had to read that a few times before realising you were talking about the venom rather than the shitty grammar.
No, that's what I mean: the sentence fragment leaves me asking "What the hell is the missing main clause?! Oh god, is it death? It's death isn't it."
@AlexMedia You mean... they might have to support multiple browsers? For a WEB application? The poor babies! That's awful!
@Polygeekery said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E03:
Then I realized he was just researching.
You can see the question reads, "I have this code working", which is one step above his efforts ;)
Ended up on a StackExchange site looking for advice on Kodi. Every second or so like clockwork another one of these appears:
@boomzilla But you argue so handsomely, I'm overwhelmed by your virile pedantry!
deal with the avatar generation differently
There's literally 26 letters of the alphabet, and a handful of colors. Couldn't they just make a handful of spritesheets with the alphabet on a solid background and ship them with Discourse? CPU time: 0.
@flabdablet Dear unnamed flagger: Self-doxxing is allowed. People can make their own risk assessments. Thanks.
"Now I'm pinging it from 5 terminals! When will it go down?"
Depends, are they on Ember or Angular? Maybe 10, 15 minutes.
Status:
/.../
while(stomach.notEmpty()) {
try {
stomach.digestFood();
} catch (Exception e) { //Should be PoisonedException e -jc
/* We found some weird stack overflow here during testing,
but I'm not sure we can even get there in production.
Evo can always patch it later if so. --Gd */
/* Yes. We can. Only now, the Culture module's assessIllness routine depends on the
existing behavior, so we can't patch it. Lesson learned. --jc */
bowels.void(bowels.getContent().asLiquid()) //force emergency void
stomach.purge(stomach.getContents()) //Should be stomach.getFood() to prevent the loop
} catch (DehydrationException e) {
die(); //unrecoverable
}
@sloosecannon Maybe my marriage is so strong the pair of us are matched as a single character?
.... wait, does that mean threesomes? I'm going to choose to interpret that as having kinky threesoms.
...but hopefully not with UTF-16-year-olds...
@cartman82 said in Stanford dumps Java as introductory class:
@raceprouk said in Stanford dumps Java as introductory class:
I like JavaScript, but I will not for a moment pretend it's an easy language to master. Understanding how the this pointer works alone takes a lot of learning.
Wat?
"When you do
something.fn()
,something
isthis
insidefn
"It's literally one sentence.
it'd work that way in Java. JavaScript is special.
Bad idea: letting the domain a QR code still found in the wild points to lapse:
When a developer says "Tests seem to be randomly failing", that always means "I changed things willy-nilly and broke the tests and don't care to understand why".
Always.
Source: I know this because of my learnings, because I have seen many tests in my day, and also because of the pixels.
@Vaire You don't remember the daily Discourse cootiestorm that would happen around lunchtime in the US?
googles 'school cupcakes'
Also hoping to challenge the cupcake fairy to come up with something a little different than the usual attendance cupcakes.
drat. I mean
Presenting...
Attend-ants cupcakes!
http://cdn-blog.hwtm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ant_cupcakes_1.jpg
Adding the flame marker has become the forum shorthand for "This thread got nasty". For a while there, it did. I personally don't have a problem with the flame marker.
Changing titles out of spite seems like posting nasty things out of spite or any other spiteful action: generally a shitty thing to do. Changing titles for humor purposes I don't have a problem with. We typically take a light hand with moderation unless someone gets particularly shitty, so I figure resolve this kind of thing like any other problem: flag it.
@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
copy&paste was nowhere to be found.
My instructor today was just talking about how an upcoming iOS update involves a shared clipboard between his desktop and his phone. I asked, why would you want that? He said, well, transferring URLs. I pointed out, what you really need is a button in Safari that says "Send to my phone". Who the fuck wants a shared clipboard?!
@pydsigner said in AWS issues:
t2.large [on demand] $1641.36/year
t2.large [reserved] $664.65/year
@reverendryan said in AWS issues:
We'd need to move off the burstable t2 class and on to the m3 or m4 class.
An m3.medium reserved would be $420/yr with no up front. An m3.large reserved would be about $832/yr.
m3.medium: 3.75 GiB of memory, 1 vCPU, 4 GB of SSD-based local instance storage, 64-bit platform
m3.large: 7.5 GiB of memory, 2 vCPUs, 32 GB of SSD-based local instance storage, 64-bit platform
So I think the real question is, what is the current budget for this forum, and what are we on now exactly? We're willing to do the cost/benefit analysis and find the best size for the budget, and potentially even willing to cover shortfalls, but we need data to do so.
Or constantly rant about Mac Classic and how much better it is than modern OS's.
@Maciejasjmj Dignity? In this forum?
(It's more common than you'd think)
Google had to change the cars' programming with regard to crossing double yellow lines after discovering the autonomous vehicles would instead just sit permanently behind other vehicles double-parked on the road.
if 50 words for mud show up in casual conversation
If 50 synonyms of the same word show up in one conversation, it's definitely time to head, transport yourself, run, flee, escape, locomote, travel, make haste, and possibly even vacate toward the hills.
If there was no Discourse, they would make no money.
If Discourse chases people away for having security flaws, they make no money.
What do they spend more time doing, bikeshedding improving Discourse, or "supporting" it?
Discourse is clearly the product being sold, regardless of the details of how the contract is negotiated. The fact that it's also being sold for $0 with no support changes nothing about it being the product.
...Amazon? Are you drunk? Why do you think I need a microwave?
ESPECIALLY A SAMSUNG wtf?
(It sent me an email full of microwaves. @cloak15 anything I should know about happening at home today? The bloody thing was fine yesterday...)
This is getting fucking rediculous.
Bitbucket keeps saying I need a CAPTCHA. Only, instead of telling me when I try to log in via the web gui, it sends that back to my git client as an authentication error (which causes Kraken to forget my password because it must be wrong, right?). I then have to go to the interface where inevitably I'm still logged in. So I have to log out. Then, if I click "didn't mean to? Log in Again", it'll fuck it up; I have to go to the home page and click "Log In" from there. I then enter my password, and then am prompted with a captcha and have to enter my password again. Then I go back to Kraken and retry the push, where I'm prompted for my password a third time.