How not to comment
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Sorry I forgot the dots in the URL.
PS: who came up with this box ?!
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Okay you're gonna wanna explain what the daily wtf you're all talking about. o.o
##Why one-inch isn't really one-inch:
Everybody has heard of a 2x4 (pronounced "two by four"), but few people realize that the actual height and width of a 2x4 is really somewhere close to 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" depending on dryness of the material and milling methods. Similarly, a 1x (pronounced "one-by") is only about 3/4" in thickness. Wood shrinks when it is dried, so lumber mills adjust their tools accordingly.
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I'd answer you but you never let me finish.
Filed under: Because what we are doing now is clearly verbal communication
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<img src="/uploads/default/5165/67af8db6b553ec46.png" width="690" height="124">
We clearly need a way to interrupt other people's posts to prevent them from posting all the time!
Filed under: I left the quote in its useless original state, because when in rome etc etc
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Today's article is a pretty good example of how not to comment.
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That hurts my eyes. Also, doth I detect a hint of which company foisted said crap in the first place?
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>Wood shrinks when it is dried, so lumber mills adjust their tools accordingly.
While true, this is not the full explanation. The reason finished lumber is smaller that its nominal size is due both to shrinkage and surfacing. Green (undried) lumber is cut to its nominal size*, leaving a rough surface. Both drying and smoothing the surface reduce its dimensions to less than the nominal size.
It is also inaccurate, or at least somewhat misleading, to say "the actual height and width of a 2x4 is really somewhere close to 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" depending on dryness of the material and milling methods." Lumber dimensions are regulated by the American Standard Lumber Committee of the Department of Commerce, and the final product must be 1.5" x 3.5" (± some tolerance, of course, but not merely "somewhere close").
* In modern practice, it is actually cut to somewhat less than nominal size, allowing for more efficient use of logs.
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Some guy at IBM said that if after reading all your comments you can't understand what a code does, you should throw the whole thing away.
I can visualize geriatric IBM coders at work and the results...
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Wood shrinks when it is dried, so lumber mills adjust their tools accordingly
While true, this is not the full explanation. The reason finished lumber is smaller that its nominal size is due both to shrinkage and surfacing. Green (undried) lumber is cut to its nominal size*, leaving a rough surface. Both drying and smoothing the surface reduce its dimensions to less than the nominal size.
It is also inaccurate, or at least somewhat misleading, to say "the actual height and width of a 2x4 is really somewhere close to 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" depending on dryness of the material and milling methods." Lumber dimensions are regulated by the American Standard Lumber Committee of the Department of Commerce, and the final product must be 1.5" x 3.5" (± some tolerance, of course, but not merely "somewhere close").
I just popped into this thread and spent a few minutes trying to figure out sexual metaphors you were throwing around, before I realized you are literaly talking about dead trees...
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Nah the sex mensurations I would have understood, whereas I had absolutely no idea what they meant with 2×4!
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A Guide to Understanding Wood Sizes
As any female will tell you, 1 inch claimed means about 0.5 actual inches.
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As any female will tell you, 1 inch claimed means about 0.5 actual inches.
Which is why they're so bad at parallel parking...
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First thing I see when I open up a PHP file this morning.
$success = @mail($recipient_mn, $subject, $mail_body, $header); // DELETE ON LIVE SERVER $success = true; if ($success) { //var_dump($emailStr); $email_success = true; $GLOBALS['lib_CART']->clearCart(); }
Of course, I had just downloaded this from the live server, where apparently the previous developer did not follow his own advice.
From the other lines, you can get a good idea of the shitfest that is the rest of the code.
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My sympathies.
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As any female will tell you, 1 inch claimed means about 0.5 actual inches.
She's going to be disappointed either way.
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What does the "mn" stand for?
"Mail N ...umber?"
The recipient is obviously in Minnesota.
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If he meant kibibytes, he should have put KiB
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Fucking kibibytes.
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Or… mongolia, which would make more sense!…
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did the author mean kilobytes or kibibytes?
Nobody[1] means kibibytes. Except assholes.
[1] that word should be a link to one of Raymond Chen's blog posts where he links to his post that nobody uses kibibytes.
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Bad! No celebration cupcakes for you!
Sure it doesn't mean either Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones turning up?
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fuck you and your kibibytes!
QFT.
Also, fuck Discurse for making me necro a thread again.
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orientated
I would love to know why this (and "commentate") are even words when you can elide a syllable and have the same meaning.
I'd like to find the person who started that shit and kick 'em in the jimmy.
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"You selfish bastard," it neglected to say. But you knew the thought was there.
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Well thank you all the same. You've allowed me to provide adequate time for other people to share their points of view by necroing the thread!
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I would love to know why this (and "commentate") are even words when you can elide a syllable and have the same meaning.
Because America?
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Nope--Brits seem to love it even more, AFAICT
I don't know anyone here that does that except when they've been infected by Americanisms.
Everyone I know says 'orientated' nor 'oriented' because this little island that is my home doesn't suck.
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aluminium - not aluminum.
thats ahl yew min nee um!
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I'm convinced this happened because an american didnt notice the second I, then refused to acknowledge his mistake and it was permanently renamed accross the entire country to help him save face.
that guy was a dick even I would steer well clear of.
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"commenting" on something is offering a short opinion about it.
"commentating" something is doing a play-by-play summary of the entire event, generally in real-time. Yes, it's a stupid awkward word that everybody hates, but we don't have anything else that describes that function.
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aluminium - not aluminum.
thats ahl yew min nee um!
Yes, there's a fucking i in it.
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"commenting" on something is offering a short opinion about it.
"commentating" something is doing a play-by-play summary of the entire event, generally in real-time. Yes, it's a stupid awkward word that everybody hates, but we don't have anything else that describes that function.
I am well aware of the difference, I was more observing the difference between orienting and orientating.
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I am well aware of the difference, I was more observing the difference between orienting and orientating.
And somewhere around here is "orienteering"...
Also: pirating, privateering and privatizing...
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nd somewhere around here is "orienteering"...
Well, that's a different complaint. I don't like that word either but I'm not sure what's a better one.
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Not quite the same, but I'm reminded of my favourite[1] non-word; Productionizing
Just waiting for it to be adjectivified to productuinization
[1]least favourite
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I worked on the tail end of a productization/productionization project at a former company. it was a project aimed at turning a bespoke piece of software for one or 2 customers into a generalized software package that many customers might be interested in.
It didn't go particularly well, but they might have turned things around in my absence, assuming they found someone else who understood the build process after I left...
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it was a project aimed at turning a bespoke piece of software for one or 2 customers into a generalized software package that many customers might be interested in.
The omens for such endeavours are usually poor. Producing something that many people will want tends to require that you do your market research (i.e., talking to potential users) pretty early in the product cycle.