🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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I clicked "Rebuild Solution" instead of "Build Solution" so now I have to wait while it recompiles all my files for no reason.
Is this a solution for the entire Internet? What's the time delta?
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The time it took me to realize I made a mistake, open this topic, and post that was about one second short of the build finishing.
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Developing at the speed of Java!
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Altering your finger print and getting caught again.
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I clicked "Rebuild Solution" instead of "Build Solution" so now I have to wait while it recompiles all my files for no reason.
Meh. Try having an ASP.NET project which for some reason when you start it under "Debug", needs to recompile and redeploy every single time, and also does the compiling on first request.
And it starts a browser, and if you close it by accident, you're back to square one, even if you didn't change one letter in the code.
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While you're obviously right, one of the basic rules of usability is that any potentially "bad" operation must have an undo feature (in this case, a way to cancel the rebuild and go back to the previous state).
But apparently the common mindset of the people who design IDEs and other development tools is "they're programmers, they don't need usability".
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It has a cancel button hidden in a menu, but once you start the rebuild, it deletes all the intermediate files so you can't exactly go back to an incremental build without letting it finish.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8400222.stm
I can see another Bad Idea™ in that news story - the fact that this is all that took to fool the biometrics:
Skin patches on her thumbs and index fingers were removed and then re-grafted on to the matching digits of the opposite hand.
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Letting your mate, who has a brother who's clumsy about keeping his own phone about his own person, photographing you while you're at a urinal.
Of course, [the photos taken that evening] have not been circulated as widely as the one Robinson [the mate] took at the urinal. The one which Perez Hilton headlined on his website: ‘‘Australian Rugby Player Kicked Off His Team After A Photo Of Him Peeing Into His Own Mouth Is Leaked!’’
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‘‘I’ve been copping it every day but I don’t care what people say about me, Todd’s the one who is hurting. He’s the one that’s lost the career out of it,’’ said Robinson, who claims the photo became public when he sent it to his brother, who lost his phone shortly afterwards.
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And it starts a browser, and if you close it by accident, you're back to square one, even if you didn't change one letter in the code.
Debug -> Attach to Process -> w3wp
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Debug -> Attach to Process -> w3wp
Works half the time.
Shift + F4, Start Options, I'LL OPEN THE PAGE, DON'T DO ANYTHING.
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Works half the time.
Probable you have multiple application pools. It's pretty reliable for me, which is good because our 25-step custom MSBuild doesn't support simple F5 to debug.
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Probable you have multiple application pools. It's pretty reliable for me, which is good because our 25-step custom MSBuild doesn't support simple F5 to debug.
Yeah, it completely depends on how you have it set up in IIS. I'd rattle on about the web.config values, but I'm too far into this bottle of vodka to remember it.
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Works half the time.
Shift + F4, Start Options, I'LL OPEN THE PAGE, DON'T DO ANYTHING.
Wow. This makes remote debugging with Eclipse sound like a Good Idea.
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Wow. This makes remote debugging with Eclipse sound like a Good Idea.
It's really not that bad.
"Don't open a page. Wait for a request from an external application." being the actual text for the option.
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I meant the "works half the time" mostly.
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Depends on the IIS settings.
<sessionState mode="[Off|InProc|StateServer|SQLServer|Custom]" />
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This is not becoming more persuasive.
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This is not becoming more persuasive.
It's pretty basic when you work with it. I had an app that had to be up very reliably, and performance wasn't that big of an issue. SQLServer session state made it a whole lot easier.
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http://www.ifdefined.com/blog/post/Jeff-Atwood-is-trying-to-kill-me.aspx
I cannot recollect if I have posted this!
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And I see nothing has changed in 6 years.
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http://www.ifdefined.com/blog/post/Jeff-Atwood-is-trying-to-kill-me.aspx
I cannot recollect if I have posted this!
Man, I read that "to completion" expecting it was going somewhere, but it was just kind of a shaggy dog story. I mean, it briefly describes how Jeff Atwood is kind of a douche who doesn't listen to the people he talks to, but we all already knew that.
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SPOILER: The author didn't die in the accident.
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And the moral of the story: Never listen to Atwood!
That is funny but a wrong moral, @aliceif
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Bad idea: Forgetting which topic you're in, trying to be the first to like the most recent post, while the
page is still loadingDOM is still having stuff shoved into it and jumping around randomly, and not being able to find which post you just accidentally liked. So, one of you clowns may have gotten a like you didn't deserve. Or the button may have moved while I was in the act of clicking it; I'm not really sure.
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SPOILER: The author didn't die in the accident.
-1 for not using the
[spoiler]
tags. Just shameful.
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-1 for not using the
[spoiler]
tags. Just shameful.[spoiler]Spoiler tag has started working.[/spoiler]
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Several gains of +1 Immunity to Cognitive Dissonance here.
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not being able to find which post you just accidentally liked
http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/hardwaregeek/activity/likes-givenWas it this one? http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-bad-ideas-thread/254/505
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Was it this one?
Probably; I don't see any particular reason why I would have liked that one on purpose — there's nothing wrong with it, but I don't do ASP.NET, and there's nothing in it that strikes a chord with me. And dang, it's too late to undo my like.
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And dang, it's too late to undo my like.
Serves you right for not wholeheartedly admiring my posts, bastard.
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Serves you right for not wholeheartedly admiring my posts, bastard.
Wholehearted admiration is a barrier to communication.
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http://www.ifdefined.com/blog/post/Jeff-Atwood-is-trying-to-kill-me.aspx
I cannot recollect if I have posted this!
What a terrible load of directionless nonsense.And he's just pretending his chaos-system for forks is making him go faster.
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Wholehearted admiration is a barrier to
communicationdiscourse.Now kindly stop doing it wrong.
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Microsoft. (examples taken from the Windows 7 Extended Support date announced topic.)
Windows 7 to hit Extended Support status in six months
So, Microsoft is apparently so dedicated to their flop Windows 8, that they are going to push WIndows 7 into the equivalent of a retirement home, even though Windows 7 has a growing market share. Is Windows 7 getting old? Sure, but they need to get something better than 8 out there before they start retiring 7.
Microsoft to Revamp Activation System with Windows 9
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@abarker - Alternate windows versions are good / bad.
Example: XP - Good, VISTA - Bad, 7 - Good, 8 Bad.Stick to ubuntu and feel good. True story about uBuntu.
An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African
tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that
who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run
they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together
enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as
one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: UBUNTU. UBUNTU
in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are.”
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UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are.”
I believe the name "Groupthink Linux" is available, in case someone's interested.
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Genuinely serious post:
Get away from Ubuntu. It's bogged down to shit. If you got used to all it's bells and whistles, Linux Mint is great. They cut most of the crap out and they re-check the packages and use their own update manager so there's less chance of regression bugs. Both Cinnamon and MATE are great as desktop environments if you're used to Gnome-like stuff (using Cinnamon myself). And Nemo is a great file manager, it's a fork of Nautilus from before they done fucked it up.
If you don't need PPAs and/or bleeding-edge stuff go for LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). I have it on my work PC and I had no problems getting packages for anything I need to do my work. I keep Ubuntu-based Mint on my laptop because I like to tinker with stuff though.
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@abarker - Alternate windows versions are good / bad.
Example: XP - Good, VISTA - Bad, 7 - Good, 8 Bad.Not always:
2000 - Bad-ish
ME - BadAnd who's to say that they can't break that pattern anyway? They could always release another flop with 9.
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I got burned on Mint. I was using their XFCE version for about a year. But
- The ceaseless branding was getting on my nerves
- There was a memory leak I couldn't get rid of (probably kernel, but still).
A few months ago I did a bare Debian install (no built-in WM) and then did a custom-modified XFCE installation on top of it (I like corner-snapping). I miss software center and gnome-based dpkg installer a bit (I refuse to install gnome bloat). But overall, I've never been happier.
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I considered going to pure Debian. But I'm just too much of a lazy bastard to sit down and install all the extra bits I need myself.
Might give it a go when I go on vacation in a few weeks. I'm sure it won't be as painful as I imagine it, but I still have this irrational fear from the time I tried Debian while I was still an absolute noob.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad
Just... WHAT?
Starting this is stupid. Backing it is... WHAT?
Also, oneboxing kickstarter as just an image and nothing else. Proper link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad
Edit: Oh, no, it's just a preview fail... so... to the meta?
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I dunno if putting the kickstarter together was a bad idea. Look how much Potato Salad the guy is going to be able to make. Plus the guy did it with a goal of like $10 (too lazy to look up what it actually was) so it was just a joke thing. Now all the people giving money...
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For $70.000, that better be the best god damn potato salad the world has ever seen.
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Because making sure phones and laptops turn on won't be a headache or anything.
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That's happening for the US as well. Which means either somebody knows more than what they're letting on, or they want us to think they know more than what they're letting on.
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The latter. Combined with the fact that keeping people in the dark and full of fear is a fantastic way to keep them docile.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
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They've been doing it for a long time as it is the quickest way to check if the item is "functional". I mean you can still stick things inside stuff and have it turn on, but this is faster than opening everything.
EDIT: They referring to the US at least, I've had to do it for domestic stuff too.