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  But the content is there!
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  It also reloads itself constantly if you don't allow cookies from it. :)http://www.comcast.net/ does that too. There's some pretty brillant JavaScript there.
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  Useless use of preprocessor
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  [quote user="Carnildo"]While searching through some code to find places where it is assumed that "Macintosh" is synonymous with "big endian", I came across this bit of code:         case embed_qt_movie:#ifdef MAC_PLATFORM#endif#ifdef WINDOWS_PLATFORM#endif#ifdef UNIX_PLATFORM#endif#ifdef OS2_PLATFORM#endif            break;It's not a one-time thing, either.  This particular file is littered with similar constructs, sometimes with code in the "case" block, more often not, and with the number of platforms varying from one to four.[/quote]No, this is perfectly okay. It's a valid set of instructions to be interpreted in Whitespace. (See Google.) You just need to turn on the Whitespace preprocessor. To do that, you need to set the whitespace flag in the call to the compiler. It's a space, followed by a tab, followed by a space. If nothing seems to be happening, just keep trying. ;)
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  Klingon Programmers
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  #7 is the most hilarious thing I've read in a short while.Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' -- and they <font size="-1">ALWAYS WIN THEM</font>.  
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  Firefox causes break-ups...
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  [quote user="m0ffx"]No, in this case it's "I". I don't know why it's the case, but "me" seems to be only considered correct when you're referring to only yourself, not yourself as one of a group of people"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years." - is correct"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and me to break-up after having dated for 5 years." - is wrong, though everyone will understand it"This privacy flaw has caused me and my fiancé to break-up after having dated for 5 years." - is rather common, but also wrong; you should put yourself last, as "I" "This privacy flaw has caused me to break-up with my fiancé after having dated for 5 years." - is a correct usage of me  "This privacy flaw has caused I to break-up with my fiancé after having dated for 5 years." - is obviously wrongGrammar can often be a subtle matter.Oh, and I hate this editor. It may be WYSIWYG, but I prefer WYWIWYG - What You Want Is What You Get. [/quote] I don't think so.  'Me' is an object, whereas 'I' is a subject. This applies to both the single 'me' and the 'me' as part of a group  "This privacy flaw has caused my fiance and me to break up..." is actually correct, although certainly awkward.  Many people would unfortunately substitute 'myself' for me, which is also incorrect:"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and myself to break-up after having dated for 5 years"  -- yuckHere's a link explaining this.  Although the author here is mainly discouraging the use of myself, he explains that 'me' is actually correct here, (and why it sounds wrong). http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/myself.htmlA better approach would be to reword, like you did in sentence number 4. Or even better, "This privacy flaw has broken up my 5 year relationship."
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  So the only IT related thing is that she used a webcam but still...
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  I'm just going to pretend I'm on fark.com for a moment here--I'd hit it.
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  Hooray Array!
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  qPrint is an entity of a virtual print driver.. and that line of code only appends one record the the printed recordset. sp is merely an array, which would be fine if it wasn't such a mess. and also note; the values from the array originate from algorithms performed on a multi-dimentional array. yeah, beer was good last night.
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  WTF money story
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  [quote user="Jeff S"] I think constructing a large dome to completely cover the entire complex would be a better idea.[/quote]Surely it should be cunningly disguised as a volcanic island?[quote user="Jeff S"] One with a retractable roof, of course.[/quote]Of course ;-)
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  AP WTF
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  [quote user="mattd"]It is so strange that after years of consuming that Grade D beef, the onions made people sick.[/quote]The beef is cooked to within an inch of its life, then doused in chemicals that no self-respecting bacterium would tolerate.  The onions are served straight up.
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  Ernest Hemingway WTF
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  My favorite lampooning of the excesses found in literary academia is in the movie "Back to School".Rodney Dangerfield's character was supposed to write a paper on one of Kurt Vonnegut's books.  Since he was hiring pro's to do all his school work, he hired Kurt Vonnegut himself to write the paper (yes, that was really him in the movie).  Later, the professor of his literature class fails him on that paper, saying that whoever he got to write it doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut. 
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  Fun with casts
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  My suggestions where (1) resize the image when it's first uploaded (2) do 1 but also store it at it's original dimensions (3) do 2 but store it at multiple dimensions i.e. a thumbnail size, med size and large.  They store everything in the db because they haven't set up the dual file path system where most things are contained in the one java file and then other things are served from their own folders.  In the end it all came down to time, money and insane deadlines.
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  Lastdrive...
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  That is weird - physical drives on my home computer are B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,M,N,O,R,S,X (don't ask), network drives are P,Q,Y,Z, and USB devices usually get K and L (except for my HDD MP3 player, which always gets T - I wish I knew how this happened, so I could reproduce it on other machines where I get the USB-drive-hides-under-network-drive bug I mentioned earlier).BTW, why does this editor randomly start replacing spaces with non-breaking spaces?
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  The Phantom Start Menu entries
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  Speaking of weird file behaviors in AmigaOS 1.3 you could move folder A into folder B and then folder B into folder A and 'lose' both of them.  They were still on the disk, but there was no way to access them except with a disk repair utility. This was fixed in the next release.  So was the WTF worthy color scheme. 
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  I.Like(BigButts) &amp;&amp; I.Lie(False)
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  I spent five minutes on this and then realized I didn't want to spend more than that... I didn't even bother to write it out enough to see it compile. GetWhiteGirlIntro(); Rapper i = new Rapper("Sir Mix-A-Lot", State.LikeBigButts & State.CannotLie); List otherBrothers = GetHomeBoys(); Girl girl = Stage.BuildGirlWalkIn(); foreach (HomeBoy brother in otherBrothers) { if (girl.Waist == Waist.IttyBitty &amp;&amp; girl.RoundThing.Location.Equals(homie.Face)) { brother.Deny = false; brother.Sprung(); brother.Observe(girl.Jeans.Butt = Butt.Stuffed); } } i.Hooked = true; i.StareTimeout = Double.MaxValue; IRequest getWitCha = new BabyRequest(i, girl); request.Actions.Add(new TakePictureAction(girl)); try { foreach(HomeBoy homie in otherBrothers) { homie.Warn(i); } } finally { i.SetMood(State.SoHorny, new Reason(girl.Butt)); } Car benz = Garage.GetCar(&quot;Benz&quot;); i.Car = benz; while (girl.DesiredLocation == i.Car) girl.Use(i);
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  Why it's a good idea to read reviews before purchasing...
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  [quote user="Carnildo"][quote user="donazea"]"DVD discs containing AVCHD-formatted video are not compatible and should not be used with standard- or high-definition DVD players/recorders. The disc may fail to eject or all the contents of the disc may be erased without warning.""DVD discs containing AVCHD-formatted video should not be used in computers with packet-writing software installed. The disc may fail to eject or all the contents of the disc may be erased without warning."[/quote] Doesn't that rule out just about every DVD-playing device currently on the market?  It seems to me that the only things compatible with this are DVD-ROM drives and (maybe) Blu-Ray.[/quote]Reading further down the article, not even the current crop of Blu-rays (dunno about the PS3, I assume it would be okay).What made me go WTF wasn't so much the proprietary angle, but the discs being erased without warning.
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  Server-side Javascript
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  Re: Server-side COBOL Actually server-side COBOL in CICS (late 1970's) worked more or less like Java Servlets, kinda sorta.A stream of data came in from the terminal.  This consisted of data from form fields, along with a function-key code and something in a hidden attribute which indicated which procedure to call.  The procedure would take the data, make calls to the database and then format a response to send back to the terminal, including a hidden attribute that indicated the next procedure.Thousands of terminals could be serviced by one process on one mainframe.  There was no multi-threading (multi-programming, yes, batch programs could be running on the same machine at the same time, but "threads" (lightweight processes within a process) were still an exotic concept).  For each request, a procedure came in, did its work quickly and ended.  An infinite loop in the procedure would hold up the whole system.There wasn't really any advantage in using COBOL instead of Assembler, if you knew your way around the instruction set. 
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  Access VBA hell
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  You could write .NET or VB6 as a front end to the Access app, but you'd have to duplicate all the work. You could also write VB6/.NET COM .dll's, and have access call them, but it's more work than it's worth. Access can do amazing things, and small apps can be built very quickly.  The problem is not the tool (although file based databases are more apt for corruption, and I've had several forms become corrupted).  The problem is the availability of Access on most business user's desktops, and the need to rely on VBA to get things done.  Excel macros are also VBA, but you can do alot with Functions.
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  Microsoft Live caches its own broken stuff
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  That's bad, it's just....bad.
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  IE could not open site
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  I had this once too when working with javascript and the dom object model. IE (also IE7 !) is not able to properly handle multiple divs in a hierarchy when working with the dom model and getting stuff by id etc. in my case it simply happened trying to add the google map javascript to my site. the real wtf here though is not that there is an error, but that after you clicked ok (and as you can see, the site was rendered successfully) you are taken to dnserror.htm and the site disappeared. wtf? it could already render it! just display that damn javascript error
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  Legacy code. Or: If they are both null, only one is null, or neither is null...
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  [quote user="Carnildo"]IIRC, in relational algebra (ie, SQL), any comparison involving null returns false.[/quote]It's really a question about the realm of logic that the logic operators operate in. Are they diagraph or trigraph? C++ versions operate as diagraphs. Nulls are converted to false immediatly before we do any logic operations. SQL works in trigraph, where nulls are preserved through the operations and only converted to false if a true/false judgement has to be made.
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  Saved to the RAM from.. , err.., RAM?
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  [quote user="DigitalXeron"]I see another WTF: "ReadyBoost" - Using a memory stick as 'more RAM' it will slow down the system, memory sticks are slow compared to the disk drives and real RAM -- like... how can you use a device that, sure the band is at 480 MB/s (Given the benefit of USB2) the actual write speed to the chip is another thing.  [/quote] While I'd generally agree with that, usb memory has been getting much much faster. The other day I was copying ~600mb of data to a coworkers memory stick and it wrote at something like 20-30MB/sec. That's quite impressive, especially compared to laptop harddrives. Read speeds have doubled from 2004 to 2005 in these tests: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash2005.ars/8 and the current generation is even faster. It's starting to become a real alternative. 
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  When is an object not an object?...
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  [quote user="Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over."][quote user="PhillS"]There's no reason I know of why they would have to represent the value internally as a 'null object', as opposed to just null.[/quote]Of course there is: primitive types (int, float, double, etc.) cannot have a null value. Their wrapper classes can, but do you really want to box/unbox all the time when you're iterating through the cursor? No, you don't. IMO, C# 2.0 solved this problem very elegantly with their nullable types construct. [/quote]How is that any different than using Java's object oriented number classes?  The following works perfectly in Java: Integer num = null; if (num != null) {     System.out.println(num); }Autoboxing makes this work, so it only works in Java 1.5.  In Java 1.4 or earlier, it'd have to be:Integer num = null;if (num != null) {    System.out.println(num.intValue());}
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  Something rotten at the Microsoft Convention
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  Kinda like the iPod offered as a prize by the contact agency to contract staff working at MS, including those working on Zune...
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  Rube Goldberg
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  [quote user="Thanny"] Discovered an amusing WTF at that site.Go a a given week, then rapidly (i.e. with center mouse click, in Mozilla/Firefox) open each of that week's stories in a new tab.  It shouldn't take long to find one story's title on the tab, but another stories body in the tab window.Looks like the page is using session-global variables.  Sometimes a duplicate of the page header shows up instead of the story.[/quote]I usually get around to reading the week's worth of articles on sunday.  I have to manually set the date to the previous Monday in order to get them to actually show up.  If I put in the wrong date, sometimes I was getting nothing but process errors.  I can't duplicate the errors right now, so perhaps someone fixed that.It will still show up with last week's sharktanks under the following week's dates though.  It makes it confusing to figure out if you've missed some.I think someone wrote the system assuming people would read it during normal working hours m-f.
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  ID3v2
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  [quote user="Jud"]It's too bad the site is down.  The spec is really quite a treat.If ANYONE can tell me what I'm supposed to do when the event type is 0xFF, I'll do a backflip and a cartwheel for you.  Is it padding, just keep reading 0xFF until you hit a real value, or is some kind of chain implied?  I can't figure this one out.[/quote]Personally I'd bet on this one: "just keep reading 0xFF until you hit a real value".The evolution of the spec is also a WTF in itself. Like how unsynchronisation is done on the tag level in ID3v2.3.0, and switched to the frame level in ID3v2.4.0, while still keeping the (now useless) global unsynchronisation flags of v2.3.0.You gotta love the layout of the v2.3.0 document too: it basically describes the whole spec without explaining what this unsynchronisation is (it's masking parts of the tag that look like an mpeg synchronisation sequence), leaving it for the very end, just before the copyright notice. The v2.4.0 spec tries to alleviate the pain by splitting the structure spec into a separate document, but still makes the same mistake. sigh
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  Communicating bad news
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  [quote user="nobody"][quote user="mbvlist"] Ubuntu user reporting ;). I downloaded the cab-file without any problems, using Firefox 1.5 on Ubuntu 6.06... And I wouldn't consider changing from Ubuntu to XP an upgrade anyway.[/quote]Ditto... Great, so now I have a .CAB file; WTF am I suppose to do with a frigging .CAB file? OpenOffice sure don't wanna know about it.[/quote]Use cabextract to extract the files from that container. :) ('sudo apt-get cabextract' if I'm not mistaken)
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  Open the website on your desktop, take a snapshot of your desktop ...
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  [quote user="versatilia"]TRWTF of course is Xeyes not only being used, not just having a garish colour scheme, but taking up such a large chunk of the screen!  I really hope it's because he has some kind of sight problem, and not because he just likes it![/quote]Actually it's not xeyes taking up the whole rest of the screen; xeyes window is transparent (er, rather, shaped). Looks like it's running with no title bar too.But the pic is till interesting; I thought I was *really* retro when I was running WindowMaker until last week when I finally switched to Metacity. This one looks like kwin with lololvwlwm (or whatever it was called again) lookalike theme. Yep, very 1995ish. Makes me wonder if anyone has made FVWM1-lookalike Metacity theme =)
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  WTF from High School
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  [quote user="KattMan"]Sounds to me like you can not assertain the intent of the original author, but you can apply this to the translator.  With that attitude this then becomes valid.[/quote] I'd take it further, and say you cannot ascertain the intent of the original author.  "can not" means it's possible not to do.
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  #defining insanity
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  [quote user="The Hermit"]This may not even be a WTF at all.I haven't used the MetroWerks IDE in a long time but from what I remember, it's meant to develop lots of stuff for embedded applications. It automatically defines MWERKS, and my guess is that the IDE overrides myCONSOLE_H during build depending on which embedded platform it was building for (if that platform had a platform specific console).  I've seen this kind of thing before and my guess is it does it for other includes as well.[/quote]Before it was purchased by Freescale, MetroWerks CodeWarrior was [i]the[/i] C/C++ development environment for the Macintosh, and this is Mac/Windows/DOS/*nix crossplatform code.  Part of the MetroWerks Standard Library provides a full POSIX-like environment on MacOS 9 and earlier, including standard in/standard out.  On some non-MetroWerks compilers (note that it's "#if[b]n[/b]def MWERKS"), you need to include a file called "console.h" and a separate library to get an emulated terminal and make I/O to stdin, stdout, and stderr do something sensible.Of course, The Real WTF is that they're specifying "not CodeWarrior" when they should be enumerating the compilers that [i]do[/i] need console.h.
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  De-code
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  [quote user="H3SO5"]Next time my code will have stuff like: foo = FOO_foo(foo.foo, foo.foobar)![/quote]You mean: foo.fooBr
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  Sorry kids, you missed christmas!
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  [quote user="MrBester"][quote user="Marak"]<cfset daystillxmas = DateDiff("d",xmas,Now();)>[/quote]I hope that the Java[Script]/C# style line delimiter character is just a typo (even though it's two rows away on most every keyboard from the surrounding chars) otherwise I'd claim a WTF that a scripting language required it in the middle of a method call[/quote]I expect that is a typo (I don't know CF), but even if not, "it uses semicolons for a different purpose than My Favourite Language" is definitely not a WTF. 
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  Time to panic!
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  It is widely known in the UK that the "terrorist threat level" is just MI5's way of saying "how badly we want a budget increase this year". Treat it like any other government agency whining about how they need more funding - ignore it.
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  As seen at rentacoder
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  [quote user="Carnildo"]Not quite.  He's got a screen magnifier, and he wants the text to be smoothed.  It can be done without too terribly much trouble using OCR+re-rendering of the text, or using a good adaptive scaling algorithm, but at the $100 price he's asking, I'm certainly not going to bid.[/quote]Hmm... there is a 100ms speed requirement, but no $100 price tag. 
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  Flickr Javascript Gems
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  So let me get this straight...In the beginning we wrote machine code.Then we wrote in a middle level language and compiled to machine code.Then we wrote in a high level language and compiled to bytecode that executed in an environment developped in a middle level language.Are we now writing code in a high level language and compiling to a super high level language?  Hmm... so in a few years... Perfect! I'm going to revolutionize software development with a compiler that translates machine code to english!
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  [video] Japanese Spiderman
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  It's... a poorly-done Spiderman... meets Power Rangers... meets Flash Gordon... meets... Voltron... with... a brain aneurism.
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  Load bearing stack-overflow
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  [quote user="DaveK"][quote user="bugmenot"]The OpenGL matrix stack is distinct from the stack used for holding variables. Anybody posting about uninitialized variables needs to re-read the first post.[/quote]  No, YOU need to grasp the concept that there can be variables on the heap as well as on the cpu stack, and that they can be equally uninitialised, and that expanding the matrix stack until it overflows can cause a lot of heap to be sbrk'd and then filled with one kind of data rather than sbrk'd sometime later and filled with a different kind of uninitialised data.[/quote]You need to grasp the concept that the OpenGL matrix stack might not even be in main memory at all.
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  Get Shot in the Chest...Buy a Playstation 3!
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  [quote user="Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over."] [quote user="versatilia"]Good gravy... people arguing about grammar writing 'conviluted' 'sentances'.[/quote]Grammar != spelling. [/quote] Ah, yes, but there were both spelling and grammar mistakes made in this thread. To the person who asked something to the effect of, "shouldn't writers be able to write?:"  Well, you'd like to think so, except a lot of modern "journalists" are really lazy, and/or gullible.  See also, fauxtography.
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  The registration system - Part 1
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  ### mm_init Initializes base configuration variables in the main configuration object. Sets reasonable defaults for unspecified settings, then allows configuration file settings to supercede, then environment variables to supercede, and finally parses command line arguments, which override any other conflicting settings. Takes and returns a configuration object (MMConfig) sub mm_init { my $cfg_obj = shift || return undef; Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling", "no_ignore_case"); Set some defaults my $daemonize = ''; my $quiet = ''; my $port = 27415; my $bind = "0.0.0.0"; my $logdest = "/var/log/mm/mm.log"; my $cfgdest = ''; my $stderr_severity = 1; my $showvers = ''; my $showhelp = ''; my $result; my @argv_copy = @ARGV; ### Copy the arguments so we can restore them $result = GetOptions( "daemonize|d" => $daemonize, "quiet|q" => $quiet, "verbose|v+" => $stderr_severity, "logfile|l=s" => $logdest, "port|p=i" => $port, "bind|b=s" => $bind, "cfgfile|c=s" => $cfgdest, "version|V" => $showvers, "help|?" => $showhelp ); if(!$result) { usage(); exit(1); } if($showvers) { identify(); exit(0); } if($showhelp) { usage(); exit(0); } @ARGV = @argv_copy; #Reset the ARGV array for another pass-thru (after a HANGUP) $cfg_obj = mm_read_config($cfg_obj, $cfgdest); if(!defined($cfg_obj)) { die "Can't find a valid config file." } mm_process_env($cfg_obj); ## Allow environment variable overrides my $cfg_hashref = $cfg_obj->config(); if($quiet) { ## If quiet is specified, set console severity $stderr_severity = 0; ## to 0 (Critical Errors). } $$cfg_hashref{"__STDERRSeverity"} = $stderr_severity; $$cfg_hashref{"__useSTDERR"} = 1; ## By default we print to stderr. if($daemonize) { ## If daemonize specified set some single-shot config vars. $$cfg_hashref{"__daemonize"} = 1; ## stderr isn't used in daemonize mode. $$cfg_hashref{"__useSTDERR"} = 0; } Copy any supplied command line options over config $$cfg_hashref{"net.port"} = $port if $port; $$cfg_hashref{"net.bind"} = $bind if $bind; $$cfg_hashref{"logDestination"} = $logdest if $logdest; Return the config object to the caller return $cfg_obj; }
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  The registration system - part 2
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  [quote user="SilverDirk"]so in short, they were re-inventing reflection with a half-assed interface?  and then using this pseudo-reflection throughout the code instead of compiler-verified statements?[/quote] Exactly... and, reflection has some great uses, but not when your in charge of the entire domain model where the model is highly cohesive.
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  Webnotes-communication between parents and school
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  OK, it's actually not anythingt created specially for the school purpose... There is some company behind it and offering it to schools. And what surprised me it does not look as there is any security hole.
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  SpeedTouch POS
  • viraptor  

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  [quote user="viraptor"] Ok - I didn't want to write about it, but after it happened 4 times today, I'm really pissed off.Have you ever seen home SpeedTouch wireless/dsl device? It works (most of the time). But every time, I try to make a connection, that times out, I don't just get message from browser - oh no. Even if my browser can wait 5 secs for timeout, this router can't stand waiting 2 secs. If I don't get response in that time, it takes over the connection, sends page with 302 redirect to:http://192.168.1.254/cgi/b/ic/connect/?nm=1&client=192.168.1.65&server=server_ip&event=ServerTimeout&url=whateverIWantedToSeeThis page shows:Network Error... Your requested host could not be reached. Click on the link below to retry.my url Of course there are some minor glitches in this action:1. Url is not escaped, so parameters are lost.2. It gets redirected, so POST is lost.3. Url is now correct and points at router, so I can refresh.... the error page.At least you get a nice "Network Error..." (doh!) page when you timeout, and not the sad old information from browser, which actually allows you to work normally after you close it.And it's not my network, so I'm not able to log to that box and see if it can be turned off :/Note to self - NEVER buy SpeedTouch boxes.[/quote]
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  Firefox &quot;Compatible&quot;
  • boris_grishenko  

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  [quote user="Cloaked User"]I wouldn't be too sure - I once worked on a website that explicitly disallowed caching of any of its contents in the T&Cs. [/quote]So they sued Microsoft, Mozilla, and every person who ever visited their website?Thank goodness a waiver/license/list of terms/contract can't always be upheld.  We could make an entire website out of the WTFs in license agreements alone! 
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  Spam Forwarding
  • David_L  

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  Post edit time limit? Crap. I like editing my posts. I wanted to remove the details about "3" and change the domain to example.com so any "paul" or "me" spamgourmet users couldn't get three spams if those two addresses were harvested.
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  Put the webcomic on a wooden table, take a photo...
  • emurphy  

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  [quote user="iwpg"] http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/73660.aspx[/quote] Thank you! 
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  DotNetNuke
  • mare  

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  @MasterPlanSoftware said:When you click a link, the portal engine does many things, including counting access to the pages, and logging them to SQL. This is considered very important to some portal users to gain statistics on their sites. So what? There's no good reasons to break all the links for a damn blasted server side operation that's got nothing to do with the client. @phx said:In ASP.Net you can use a LinkButton (which looks like a hyperlink, but causes a postback - which posts the form contents back for processing), or you can use a HyperLink which renders like a normal hyperlink tag (and obviously doesnt post form contents). Which is a case of retarded naming, most people just want a link, so they'll use the first thing that says link namely "linkbutton". Says link, looks like a link, should be a link right? And this is why you see heaps of completely unusable ASP.Net websites. The Daily WTF was like that too, I don't remember if it was when it ran CS1 or before Alex customized CS2, but I still have the GreaseMonkey script that got rid of all that retarded JS.
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  WTF in Haskell
  • lolpande  

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  @Autonuke said:[quote user="nick8325"][quote user="Autonuke"]howManyEqual only makes sense for 2 or 3 numbers, so using a list would be overkill.Does it? Why's that? It seems to make sense for any amount of numbers to me...howManyEqual should find the size of the biggest equivalence class in a set, in other words the biggest number of same elements which appear in the set.Actually, come to think of it, that's not what the original howManyEqual does, because it'll return 0 if all three elements are different, but the list/equivalence-class version will return 1 (since anything is at least equal to itself). IMO 1 is a more sensible answer, but I didn't realise it was different earlier...[/quote]It could make sense for more than 3 numbers, I guess - e.g. howManyEqual( [1, 1, 2, 3] ). But I don't see what a sensible answer to howManyEqual( [1, 1, 2, 2] ) would be. If it's about the biggest equivalence class, 'howManyEqual' isn't a very good name.[/quote] Well by using Map or IntMap we could return a set of (value -> count) pairs which would yield the number of times a given value is present in the list. Using foldl and IntMap would make it fairly easy too.
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  Breakpoint Boogaloo
  • themagni  

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  [quote user="themagni"]He's not actually French. I just picked a different country at random for anonymity.[/quote]Careful... Things like that can turn into expressions. Like in: "I once worked with a "french" programmer."... ;)
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  Embarrassed that their code works in IE.
  • Cap_n_Steve  

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  I did something like this to get around filters at Xanga.com. They allow JavaScript, but try to limit what it can do. Obviously they fail miserably.
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  I'm lovin' it
  • sheriffpony  

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  One could design the next McDonald's website perhaps? It'll have to ask the viewer if they want cookies with every page request.
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  Being the oldest registered TLD isn't it's only notable feature...
  • donazea  

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  [quote user="swordfishBob"]Those 25 reasons - were they on a wooden table?[/quote]if it was, i would have posted it in the other thread...re: calling a URI a TLD - did i? 
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  5 + 5 = 9...DUH, MORON...
  • wiggzie  

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  Ah, that was the piece I was missing. Thanks!