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  May I present to you ... my positioning hack for Safari on iOS8
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  Its a different bug on Android / Windows Phone. Basically all touch devices act a little bit crazy when you pop open the keyboard on an input that is in a position fixed panel. There is not much you can do, short of flicking in to "full screen mode". It is however usable, unlike IOS8 Safari which is 100% unusable without hacks.
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  Hobbit code. Hidden bonus content: "pour encourager les autres"
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  @dkf said:Fifteen hundred drafts on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho, and a round of server cooties! Redis and Discourse have done for the rest. Yo ho ho, and a round of server cooties! Filed under: We need a new draft cloud attack
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  Tautological foreign key
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  I don't tdwtf from my work computer. I have too much vitriolic complaining to do and too high of a security monitoring profile. Therefore cell phones.
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  For the love of false, Jersey client edition!
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  And Discourse is TRWTF for fucking up the indentation after cooking. Gaaah!
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  ThreadSleep webservice
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  @flabdablet said:Rely on it for code behavior, sure. But nice to be able, during debugging, to work out easily which vendor I need to be swearing at. Then the parent exception class is still of minimal use. For example, suppose the people you need to be swearing at use a standard cast instead of an as-and-a-null-check. Guess what it will throw? Hint, it won't be one of their exceptions. But, the stack trace will tell you who to swear at no matter what exception is thrown. So not only is relying on the parent exception not terribly useful, it's also not necessary.
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  Getting the database name, the WTF way
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  @Buddy said:Isn't there a more incorrect sql command that they could have sent? SELECT error or just ASDF ghjkl? To get the error message involving the database name? Probably not. They might've been able to choose a more sensible table name (e.g., one of the DB's standard metadata tables) but no. The real problem is that they're parsing an error message in the first place, which is always a Thoroughly Bad Idea.
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  In case HTML changes the spec one day, again
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  @Maciejasjmj said:easiest way to quickly get an Excel Modern Excel tends to import HTML rather well ... dump it as a basic HTML table structure and it should import fine.
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  How not to copy a zero
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  @CarrieVS said:Like this. transform: skewX(20deg); hmmm...
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  Found in the code base at work
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  @VaelynPhi said:most of the time it's the original coder who's TRWTF True, or the maintenance mook that had it between the original programmer and you.
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  They say it's been phased out. I hope.
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  @boomzilla said:Wow...you can summon ActiveX from inside TSQL‽ Now I am glad I work with Oracle. @Maciejasjmj said:We wish. That's Oracle. @boomzilla said:
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  C string literals
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  @ben_lubar said:Even go string has womens underwear as image results. Google: Nobody is crazy enough to actually use Go. Did you mean g string?
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  PCSX2's GSHack Draw-call skipping
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  @riking said:In the rare case where you do need something game-specific, put that in the nameThey did. GSC_Okami
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  Is there a name for this pattern?
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  @RaceProUK said:If we get caught, everyone'll see us crash, see us crash “If we throw an exception, everyone'll see us crash, see us crash”
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  The real reason why I hate sprocs
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  Touche.
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  Sweet merciful Chaos, what did I just write?
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  Sweet!
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  From a single INSERT statement
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  Just found a page with a query for detangling the dependency tree. Jen McCown  /  Jun 30, 2010 Detangling Nested Views < Jen McCown I hate nested views. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them. This is the Nth shop I have been in that makes use of one view that pulls FROM and JOINs other views, which in turn pull from other views, and it’s foot-stompingly frustrating to work with. I’ve talked before about how inappropriate […] The most deeply nested view goes to 13 levels of nesting. The query on that page, when run against this view, has 567 rows of dependency references
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  Man ps
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  NOREPRO on mac, but, from your screenshot, if the analogy with cstime is anything to go by, stime may be system time (Which might be different to start time, but why I don't know).
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  Good job this is in Hungarian, clears it right up
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  int[] _iArray = new int[2]; try { _iArray[0] = 238; _iArray[1] = 182; } finally { AdjustDataListBoxSize(_SomPanel._SomeCombiPanel.lbxMLScrollInfo, _iArray); } @BuddyTFY
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  The new guy
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  It works for me if I middle-click, but that may be bypassing click tracking.
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  Representative constant
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  @Maciejasjmj said:Stop writing assertions in your tests. Problem solved. There's also code review.
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  How old are you?
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  @Luhmann said:What do you have against Lennon? If nothing else, his wife (whose twitter feed is Poe's Law in 140 chars or less) and that retarded "Imagine" song.
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  Chubertdev's snippet thread
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  @FrostCat said:Awww. You know what they say: use it, or lose it.
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  May contain a hash of options:
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  @Maciejasjmj said:Hey, it seems like <del> and <ins> tags have a cool diff background now. I don't think that was there before... This evening: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/strike-del-ins/6860
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  Coffeescript sucks
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  @TwelveBaud said:Who in their right mind would call Derp.merge4.name, especially in a pre-Harmony era?No one. A debugger might though.
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  Possibly not the best way to generate file names
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  @Jaime said:You looked at this mess and decided that changing seven + operators to a StringBuilder was the right thing to do? Possibly, I don't really remember - it was some years ago and I hadn't yet learned to profile everything before making optimizations. I do favour String.Concat over using + for string concatenation. This is a holdover from my VB6 days where + and & act slightly differently. Note that I wasn't allowed to change the format of the directory names themselves until it started causing problems for people who's opinions mattered.
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  DO NOT REMOVE!!eleven
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  Still better than Sage Timberline - that's a stinking pile of crap if there ever was one. Most of the time it's installed on a terminal server, since any kind of a bad connection can cause the DB to get corrupted (e.g. Jim 3 desks over sneezed, restore from backup). Oh, and did I mention that it's for construction accounting - probably the worst network connections imaginable (oops, the backhoe cut the line again). So bad connections are the norm.
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  From the darkest, blackest, most evil parts of my soul
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  @accalia said:this seems relevant here for some reason: Lit Brick: Comics About Literature by Jodie Troutman One like isn't enough. The Spaceballs reference alone deserves at least a kilolike!
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  Go + Dwarf Fortress + weird data formats = ?
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  @ben_lubar said:mlatu borada niktu? Edit: hanzo'ed
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  Everything is Relative
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  Yeah it was the legendary hasLayout bug. Though with a separate script for IE < 8 you could apply zoom: 1 onto block elements and it effectively did the same.
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  From the "Huh?" files...
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  @Jaloopa said:I'm not sure what the operator precedence would be there Assignment operators are very low precedence in most languages that have them.
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  The If-Switch anti-pattern
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  @reverendryan said:He was applying for a junior-ish frontend position. We weren't expecting him to be amazing, but I figured he'd at least get through FizzBuzz and on to something harder. This took him 25 minutes. Did you suggest that he reconsider his career choice? [spoiler]Just kidding, you'd probably get sued for that.[/spoiler]
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  Polish electorial calculator
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  @Maciejasjmj said:What's the joke? That Polish people have poor eyesight? That Polish people have exceptional eyesight? That he literally walks into the office, because he's half-blind? EXPLAIN! EXPLAAAAIN! The exam starts, the doc asks him to read the last line. The Polish fellow says, "yeah, I know that guy!"
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  How to increase your LOC count with IDisposable
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  @chubertdev said:Those will be sorted out by a GAU-8. those that can't be sorted out with a GAU-8 can absolutely be sorted out by a RDS-220
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  Excel is hard. Actually, no, coding is hard.
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  Yeah -- there are only so many ways to lay out a structure, given target alignment requirements/recommendations, data type sizes, and the alignment requirements that are imposed by the C and C++ standards. Most of the disagreements you'll run into are either in data type sizes, or absolute minutiae such as bitfield and char signedness.
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  What's the best way to determine which suffix to use?
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  I didn't name the language, but you can use "OpenEdge ABL" instead, if you want, because that's what they changed it to.
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  Parameterized SQL!
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  I see code like this, and I don't even analyze the lines. I can just look at the block as a whole, and see that it's bad. SQL injection, inner-platform effect, blonde, brunette, redhead...
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  From the textbook that thought there was a java.io.OutputStreamReader
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  Go fan-out task processor
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  Example usage: type DomainLookupJob struct { domain string result net.IP err error } func (j *DomainLookupJob) Process() { ips, err := net.LookupIP(j.domain) if err == nil { for _, ip := range ips { j.result = ip return } j.result = nil j.err = errors.New("No A or AAAA record found") } else { j.result = nil j.err = err } } func (j *DomainLookupJob) Print() { if j.err != nil { fmt.Printf("%s ERROR %s\n", j.domain, j.err) } else { fmt.Printf("%s %s\n", j.domain, j.result.String()) } } func NewDomainLookupJob(domain string) *DomainLookupJob { return &DomainLookupJob{ domain, nil, nil } } pending <- NewDomainLookupJob(line) cat domains | go run domainlookup.go
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  Double check it's really an element
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  Well, even if the argument to get() and set() is checked automatically, you'd still need to check for MAX_ELEMENT manually. If they're not checked automatically, I don't think it's weird to verify, especially if this class is used in a lot of places. I think this may be language confusion? Is there any point in even having MAX_ELEMENT in this language?
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  I'm TRWTF (javascript eval)
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  for(var i = 1; i < 1000; ++i) { switch(i) { case 0: // Something; default: break; } } Threw in an optimization loop as a bonus.
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  Not? Shortcutting logic? Never heard of those!
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  @dkf said:I used to know something — perhaps too much — about memory circuitry design. Ah, memory circuitry. That's a whole other ball of wax. I've only dealt with logic, and don't really know much of the intricacies of memory design (and I'm OK with that).
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  Null check what you shall not!
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  Real human beings are TRWTF.
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  [s]Inheritance[/s]Incompetence tax
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  @EvanED said:But anyway, I was only... maybe 5% serious. 10 or 15 years ago you'd have had a serious point, though.
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  Hi, we're Intel and we don't give a shit about standards. Come work for us!
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  Four-sided coin.
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  It could be null!
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  @FrostCat said:So much wrongness packed into so few lines! Have these people never heard of non-public constructors? Isn't that part of the pattern? In their defense, these tended to be written circa 1991-93. Still a poor implementation though.
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  Every. Single. Class.
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  Even better, this changes on whether the function has been declared previously. Here is a sample that reproduces the problem in Visual 2005: Header file: //TestConstParam.hpp #include < cstddef> int Sum(int const *tab, std::size_t length); Source file 1: //TestConstParam1.cpp #include <cstddef> //#include "TestConstParam.hpp" int Sum(int const * const tab, std::size_t const length) { int sum = 0; for(std::size_t i=0; i<length ; i++) { sum += tab[i]; } return sum; } Source file 2: //TestConstParam2.cpp #include "TestConstParam.hpp" void TestConstParam(void) { int tab[] = {1, 2, 3}; int sum1 = Sum(tab, 3); sum1++; //hides "unused" warning } This reproduces the problem in Visual 2005, but it disappears if you uncomment the #include line in TestConstParam1.cpp. When the function is pre-declared with non-const parameters, this actually changes the mangled name under which the function definition is exported (from ?Sum@@YAHQEBH_K@Z to ?Sum@@YAHPEBH_K@Z)
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  Gotta make sure it's not invalid
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  Developers must sit on their hands at all times.
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  Endian Attack!
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  That header is supplied by the compiler, not the library! This is explained in the GCC manual as follows: The ISO C standard defines (in clause 4) two classes of conforming implementation. A conforming hosted implementation supports the whole standard including all the library facilities; a conforming freestanding implementation is only required to provide certain library facilities: those in <float.h>, <limits.h>, <stdarg.h>, and <stddef.h>; since AMD1, also those in <iso646.h>; since C99, also those in <stdbool.h> and <stdint.h>; and since C11, also those in <stdalign.h> and <stdnoreturn.h>. In addition, complex types, added in C99, are not required for freestanding implementations.
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  Wxgrid event comment
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  @delfinom said:Well it's better than QT. Have you ever tried suing the backwards garbage known as qtcreator? Is there a lawyer in the house?
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  Accessibility confusion
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  @cartman82 said:What that even does? It's invalid C++ that provokes a ‘class 'SomeWidget::HelperClass’ redeclared with different access compiler error in a conformant compiler. Quoth ISO 14882:2011 (11.1p4, I'm pulling from the N3337 working draft though): When a member is redeclared within its class definition, the access specified at its redeclaration shall be the same as at its initial declaration. [*Example:* [code] struct S { class A; enum E : int; private: class A { }; // error: cannot change access enum E: int { e0 }; // error: cannot change access }; [/code]*—end example*] @Eldelshell said:TIL you can write C++ code like that Yes, this is supposedly-C++. See above. @Eldelshell said:I wonder if Java... nope. Seems like a nice feature to have. Where's my JSR proposal template? MUHAHAHAHAHA! The evil ideas thread is that way though.