🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Hidden rules to try to make it smart... Yeah, I hate that too. I prefer consistency, expand all replies / replied tos. Even if it is just one. If it is one and it is the next one, now we don't know it is a reply. Sure, we might guess, but we don't know.
So, make a big ass red arrow line that draws to the previous post if it is a reply, so I won't forget your damned impossible to remember and recognize exception.
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Testing, the next reply
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Testing reply 2@xaade said:
Testing reply 2
The quote lies.
And, shouldn't this quote box have a down arrow.But how did my post become the reply to my own post.
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Ok, I'm confused.
The thing you replied to originally was explaining how things work by default. Admins here have turned off the suppression of the reply to indicator.
Oh, ok, that makes sense.
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The thing you replied to originally was explaining how things work by default. Admins here have turned off the suppression of the reply to indicator.
EDIT: the suppression is on by default, but people didn't like it as there are ways to do a response that won't have the indicator at all without the suppression and so there was confusion between "was it suppressed" or "reply is from the bottom button (to topic in general)".
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Wait, you were trying to convince Jeff that 'smart' behaviour is bad? Good luck with that. Jeff is convinced by his 'research' (his own blog) that he's right even when he's pulled it out of his arse and things like usability or discoverability be damned.
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EDIT: the suppression is on by default, but people didn't like it as there are ways to do a response that won't have the indicator at all without the suppression and so there was confusion between "was it suppressed" or "reply is from the bottom button (to topic in general)".
Also, because with a suppressed indicator there's no way to nicely unroll the context. And it still suppresses sometimes.
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I worry about the unknown knowns instead. They're the ones that can really get you in trouble.
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Getting your minimum wage employees to write customer names on their coffee cups
Filed under: asking for trouble
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Falling asleep in a classroom full of trolls
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These people can vote... Part 1 of an occasional series (next)
A driver abandoned his car on a motorway thinking it was about to burst into flames, only to realise that the word "Fire" that had appeared on his dashboard referred to an Adele song [Set Fire to the Rain] on the stereo.
Article contains other stupidity, but that one was the worst.
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Abusing the canvas element to do ever more pervasive tracking
Also, using AddThis on a porn site.
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Trying to be funny and quote Life of Brian's emperor with a speech impediment without realising that the new word was the same word as another word giving a whole new meaning to my sentence without realising it.
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Abusing the canvas element to do ever more pervasive tracking
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It gets worse: .... and Belgium
I didn't knew that the register used such language.
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Yes it does. It's quite profane at times.
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I keep seeing profane and read profound.
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Giving Ken Ham a platform
Creationist Ken Ham has said that the U.S. space program is a waste of money because any alien life that scientists found would be damned to hell.
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“You see, the Bible makes it clear that Adam’s sin affected the whole universe. This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation,” he explained. “Jesus did not become the ‘GodKlingon’ or the ‘GodMartian’! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God’s Son remains the ‘Godman’ as our Savior.”
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"This one book says you're wrong so we can just ignore these other 1000 books that say you're right."
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Getting your minimum wage employees to write customer names on their coffee cups
Since it's now a thing, I'm pretty sure that they mostly do it on purpose.
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Marketing.
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Pretty sure that's from the White & Nerdy music video.
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Pretty sure that's from the White & Nerdy music video.
You just made me watch that video. Nope.
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Yeah, it's not quite Error'd.
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This one book says you're wrong so we can just ignore these other 1000 books that say you're right.
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+1. No likes. That topic.
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No, he ended up with even more versions, didn't he?
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Also, delayed reference:
Listen to me very carefully, I shall say zhis only o'nce.
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Actually, that show was bastardly clever by using accents (in Arthur Bostrum's case, intentionally badly) to indicate people speaking different languages.
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Actually, that show was bastardly clever by using accents (in Arthur Bostrum's case, intentionally badly) to indicate people speaking different languages.
I have a massage for you.
I have a mop. Would you like to take a leak?Classic.
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Or even just simply, Guud Moaning.
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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.”
Of course they couldn't tell the true cause, which was just to make sure no one actually came first and ate the whole bunch himself. I think if anyone would deviate from this pattern, he would be hurt by the rest. This is not altruism, but control.Of course it's not as nice if you put it like this, but works either way...
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Yay, Alo-alo!
Let's spew out all the obscure European references while stinking Yanks are asleep!
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Allo Allo was one of the more intelligent comedies of the BBC, in my view. Though I think it ran on a bit long, because there really was only so much that could be done with Ze Fallen Madonna With Ze Big Boobies (which were later Ze Missink Boobies)
Fun fact: in later episodes you will see Gordon Kaye has a scar on his head; he was out in the Great Gale of '87 and that scar is from it.
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Allo Allo was one of the more intelligent comedies of the BBC, in my view. Though I think it ran on a bit long, because there really was only so much that could be done with Ze Fallen Madonna With Ze Big Boobies (which were later Ze Missink Boobies)
Yeah, it became one of those annoying endless storylines. Sometimes you just have to move on.
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Only Fools and Horses was in that same boat. I imagine The Simpsons jumped that shark years ago.
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Be careful mixing your sea-faring metaphors. Could get you into an ice berg of trouble.
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Lettuce pray that never happens. Cos that would be terrible.
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I'm starting to think the Likes thread was a bad call on my part. I can't keep up! I thought I was close yesterday, but now I'm 2500 posts behind!
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That's only 5 days' worth of likes.
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I'm starting to think the Likes thread was a bad call on my part. I can't keep up! I thought I was close yesterday, but now I'm 2500 posts behind!
You wouldn't be in this boat if you'd been active in thread all along.
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I left the thread for one day and I'm now 5000 posts behind. On reading.
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Having a moderate size company (nearly 1000 employees) where you have a decent sized software development department, and zero software project managers.
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Having a small/mid size company (~500 employees) where:
- The CIO can be overridden by the COO on what software features are necessary. Even though the features the CIO wants to develop first need to exist before the features the COO wants can be developed.
- The COO controls the flow of cash, overriding the CFO and the already approved annual budget.
- As a subpoint of 2 - the COO wants to reduce the size of the development team for not meeting goals. Goals aren't being met because the appropriate tools cannot be purchased because the COO won't release the necessary funds. He has been informed of this and still wants to reduce the development staff instead of releasing the required funds.
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Sounds very familiar.
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Doing everything through AJAX calls, putting the server side methods in huge try/catch blocks, then only returning a non-meaningful error number if an exception occurs and displaying it to the user. How effing pointless is that?
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Doing everything through AJAX calls, putting the server side methods in huge try/catch blocks, then only returning a non-meaningful error number if an exception occurs and displaying it to the user. How effing pointless is that?
Or just displaying the error that was thrown instead of sanitizing it for the end user. The users get so damn scared by those screens.
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The users get so damn scared by those screens.
Error: Whoops :(
User: Stupid applicationError: General fault in subsystem in_88435: 0x94538599
User: I BROKE TEH INTERWEBZ!
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Error: Whoops :(
User: Stupid applicationError: General fault in subsystem in_88435: 0x94538599
User: I BROKE TEH INTERWEBZ!Pretty much. Though we have our in-house users trained to just do a screen cap and send it to our help desk
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Error: Whoops :(
User: Stupid applicationError: General fault in subsystem in_88435: 0x94538599
User: I BROKE TEH INTERWEBZ!I always liked the early Amiga crash screens. Black screen with red writing at the top surrounded by a flashing red box, and it spewed out "Guru Meditation" and a 8 hex digit error code (which was invariably 8000 000A, which meant memory read error, like a GPF) and the address at which it occurred.