The official unpopular opinions thread
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@kt_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think Mr Moonlight and Doctor Roberts are the two worst songs by the Beatles. They're barely listenable.
Oh, and still on the topic of music: I don't like Adele. I mean, she's got a great voice and melodies, but her lyrics are so godawful I tend to regret I know English. Of course, apart from Skyfall.
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@Magus said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Megaman Battle Network 3 is the greatest video game in the world. So far at least.
OMG that brings back memories. I played for probably hundreds of hours and got to Bass, but I can't remember if I actually defeated the guy. I cheated on an emulator to get all the chips because there was no way I could be bothered to do it legitimately
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@cark I legitimately beat Bass GX and the time battles, then cheated for the 5 Mistman chips and beat all the rest of it. A year or so ago, I had a blue save that was past the time trials, bought white version and got all the Mistman chips, and used a friend's SP to trade them over, and beat blue completely legitimately.
That postgame is the greatest thing any game has ever done. It just keeps coming, with new crazy events every time you think you're done.
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@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I spend a significant amount of time on Reddit.
Same, though I only haunt a few subreddits dedicated to idle/incremental games. I stay far away from the stereotypical parts of reddit.
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I think CMMI and ISO are bullshit
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@coderpatsy said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I spend a significant amount of time on Reddit.
Same, though I only haunt a few subreddits dedicated to idle/incremental games. I stay far away from the stereotypical parts of reddit.
Yeah, I read:
- Askreddit
- Pokemon related subs
- LGG4
- TIFU
- Programming Humor
- Dataisbeautiful
- Tales from...
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think [...] ISO are bullshit
What other format are you going to use for DVD rips?
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@Karla I spend most of my time on:
- chess
- wicked_edge (devoted to traditional shaving with shave soap and either a double-edge or straight razor)
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@antiquarian said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
devoted to traditional shaving with shave soap and either a double-edge or straight razor
How much is there to actually discuss about that?
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
How much is there to actually discuss about that?
There are always questions about technique, which razors are better, etc., but mostly it's people showing off their recent shave gear purchases, and one guy with way too much money who can afford to spend $300+ on custom-made straight razors.
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think [...] ISO are bullshit
What other format are you going to use for DVD rips?
.mkv
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My favorite bands are Streetlight Manifesto and Tsunami Bomb
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@LaoC said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I know, my husband says I have to turn in my geek card.
TBH I've never even heard this was a must-see geek thing. Judging by IMDB it sounds like a really really shitty version of The Expanse.
I've never heard of The Expanse. I tried watching Firefly, and I've only gotten through the first few episodes. I think most anime that I've seen is better (I know, and ).
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@kt_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think Mr Moonlight and Doctor Roberts are the two worst songs by the Beatles. They're barely listenable.
Speaking of the Beatles, I don't think they were that great. By the time they stopped faffing around being pretty and got around to writing actually innovative music, there were already acts that did it better.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@kt_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think Mr Moonlight and Doctor Roberts are the two worst songs by the Beatles. They're barely listenable.
Speaking of the Beatles, I don't think they were that great. By the time they stopped faffing around being pretty and got around to writing actually innovative music, there were already acts that did it better.
Like who?
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@Polygeekery said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
You have now been banned from the UK.
Post-Brexit I'm probably not welcome there anyway. :-/
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Gladiator and Black Hawk Down are two most overrated movies of all time. Pretentious boring crap.
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Reggae is not music. Same goes for Hip Hop/Rap.
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Windows Phone is great.
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@Gąska said in Just another "How do I handle dates?" WTF:
getters and setters
Getters and setters are also a cargo cultist thing that doesn't help anyone and just creates boilerplate.
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@wharrgarbl they're not bad if they lock mutexes and send events on modification.
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@wharrgarbl also why tf move discussion out of that thread?
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@Gąska Because wharrgarbl
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@Gąska In this case the getters and setters are good. My hate is for the getters and setters that do absolutely nothing and you're not writing a library for third parties where you have to future proof because you can't simply refactor it's API.
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@wharrgarbl for me, getters and setters are usually a good indication that encapsulation is being violated.
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I like United Airlines.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Is this within the rules?
No, you're totally in for a bad time now. Check with the corrections officer.
The proper way to do this is: "Hey! See-Oh! Keys on 5!"
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@chozang said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Is this within the rules?
No, you're totally in for a bad time now. Check with the corrections officer.
The proper way to do this is: "Hey! See-Oh! Keys on 5!"
Is this supposed to refer to this:
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@Maciejasjmj said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Speaking of the Beatles, I don't think they were that great. By the time they stopped faffing around being pretty and got around to writing actually innovative music, there were already acts that did it better.
ABBA may well be the best band that has ever existed.
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ORMs are a freakin waste of time. Writing SQL by hand is at least twice as productive
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@cark Having recently started using Entity Framework, I'm inclined to agree. For super simple CRUD style stuff it lets you forget that there's a database backing everything, but as soon as you need anything a bit more complicated it becomes at least as much work to maintain the ORM as it would be to just write the SQL.
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@Jaloopa When I used LinqToSQL I found it good for almost everything, and you still could use SQL where it made sense.
I really love like if you update your mapping the compiler will check your linq queries. Something that doesn't happen in any other language ORM.
For anything other than Linq stuff, I agree it's a waste of time. (Hybernate, activerecord, sqlalchemist, all bullshit).
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SQL is bullshit and object databases would be better.
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@anonymous234 I've never seen anything good based on object databases, and Oracle and PostgreSQL claim to support it for ages.
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@cark said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
ORMs are a freakin waste of time. Writing SQL by hand is at least twice as productive
Then you've never used a good one. I'm too lazy to write stupid glue code that creates the domain objects.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Oracle and PostgreSQL
Object-relational DB = relational database with a few convenience features != object DB.
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@asdf give me an example of a object DB you think is a good idea and I'll say you're on the right thread.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
give me an example of a object DB you think is a good idea
Did I say that the concept works well in practice? No, I didn't. I simply pedantically corrected you when you called PostgreSQL an "Object DB". It's not.
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@cark said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
ORMs are a freakin waste of time. Writing SQL by hand is at least twice as productive
Then you've never used a good one. I'm too lazy to write stupid glue code that creates the domain objects.
Find me one that does:
- Lateral joins
- Upsert
- CTEs
- Any convenience functions for querying the information schema
then we'll talk
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@cark that's vendor specific stuff, and a good ORM let you fallback to SQL in the 5% queries where that are worth it.
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@wharrgarbl 5% my ass. I used upsert and lateral joins just yesterday. And isn't an ORM supposed to abstract away vendor specific stuff? It's not like upsert and CTEs and information schema aren't standard
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and you know what else the ORM I used yesterday didn't support? Joining a subquery. I mean, fucking baby jesus, they're like in every fucking second query I write. How the FUCK do they not support that?! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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@cark whatever %, a good ORM doesn't take SQL out of the table.
And by good ORM I mean Linq, all the rest are shit.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
And by good ORM I mean Linq
Even though it lacks support for many-to-many relationships?
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@cark said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Find me one that does:
Lateral joins
Upsert
CTEs
Any convenience functions for querying the information schemathen we'll talk
SQLAlchemy
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@RaceProUK said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Even though it lacks support for many-to-many relationships?
When I used it there was no problem with that.
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@cark said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
ORMs are a freakin waste of time. Writing SQL by hand is at least twice as productive
Not really an ORM but no SQL:
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I was disappointed by Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2. Trying to minimize spoilers here:
The music was less fun, feeling like it was just there for the sake of "the first movie had a bunch of oldies, so this one should too," without really understanding how the music enhanced the scenes.
Baby Groot being really stupid was funny the first few times they did it, but it got old fast.
Drax felt completely out of character with his outbursts of raucous laughter at every little thing.
Despite passing references to Thanos and the Infinity Stones, nothing happened that moved the wider MCU plot forward.
But the biggest "miss" was the ending. In the first Guardians, the villain was defeated ultimately by being way too serious and failing to realize that he's in a comedy, and it was great. But they didn't do anything like that this time; instead it came down to a standard superhero slugfest action scene.
The film was OK, but it could have been a whole lot better with some attention to detail. To me this was the first MCU offering that really felt like "a sequel purely for the sake of having a sequel."
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While I agree with you on Baby Groot and Drax, the truth is I had better laughs during this movie than I remember during the previous movie, and ultimately that's what I care the most about. May be I need to re-watch the first movie though.
I think Stan Lee's cameo as too much on the nose. I don't remember him ever having so much screen time.
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@masonwheeler said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
To me this was the first MCU offering that really felt like "a sequel purely for the sake of having a sequel."
:O
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@masonwheeler said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
In the first Guardians, the villain was defeated ultimately by being way too serious and failing to realize that he's in a comedy, and it was great
I don't even remember it's ending, I think it was meh