The people calling me on the phone must be who they say they are
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Be glad he didn't say "literally infinite"
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Didn't your SO tell you not to interwebs in the armoury?
StackOverflow's advice on dynamite disposal:
- Make sure there are no other people or explosives around your dynamite
- Go get a match
- Light the dynamite
- Move away 5'
Edit by @sloosecannon
Changing 5' to "safe distance, as determined by the amount and type of explosive you are detonating. See safe distance calculator article.Edit rejected by StackOverflow
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's ownerEdit by @sloosecannon
Adding additional steps. If you just check no one's there, then go set up you explosives, someone might wander in after the face. FIRST set up explosives and have equipment on hand (matches). Then set up AN EXCLUSION ZONE. Clear the zone. After that, since there's rope and signs and shit, no one will come in. Sound alarms and warnings anyways, then blow it up.Edit rejected by StackOverflow
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's ownerEdit by @sloosecannon****strong text
Fuck you all.
Filed under: StackOverflow user blows up self, dog and UPS driver...
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AND OF COURSE WE CAN'T MAKE A POST WITHOUT MULTIPLE BUGS
So I copy'd sloosecannon to my clipboard. Came back here, typed @ then pressed CTRL-V to paste. Noticed a user-selection popup out of the corner of my eyes, but had already pressed ENTER since it was the end of the line.The user turns to @boomzilla. What the serious fuck? I had already entered a username. Did it not filter to that? Okay, maybe MAYBE it picked the first user in the system--- no, no wait, there are lots of other users who start with "a". Okay, what's going on then? I'll try again.
Type "@". Press paste. "sloosecannon" pastes in. Press enter. Now I get flabdablet. I-- fucking Discourse. It's hard to be a Not Grumpy Cat when I still have to USE this piece of horsepiss.
EVEN BETTER. I wanted it bold. So ctrl-b. Get *strong text*. Type @. Press paste. press enter. It deletes the last *, so I end up with *@wrongusername
Fucking awesome!
So that's:
- Pasted username is not recognized by autocompete
- Autocomplete is autocompletely random in it's user selection
- Selecting autocompleted username destroys markdown
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Turns out, having your name include a sound that doesn't exist in English can pose problems...
Most non-English speakers can't pronounce my first or last name correctly, though they're both very common English names.
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EDIT EDIT: OH MAN more whining from Cringely:
Nobody makes you read my work. Feel free to protest my idiocy by leaving and not coming back.
So basically, he's saying that we aren't welcome there?
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My old surname was an English word. My new one is a common surname in French. I'm still regretting the change every time I get a call from someone who's seen my name in writing only.
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I'm also pretty sure it's gotten worse recently. I'm certain there used to be ways to make the popup disappear other than selecting one of its suggestions.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I get physical mail spam occasionally at my home address. It's made to look like a warning notice that my domain is expiring, and has an invoice for renewal.
I bought a new car last year, and for the last several months I've been getting urgent letters warning me that my warranty might be expiring soon and that I should totally buy a policy from them.
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So boomzilla is your last name?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
The user turns to @boomzilla. What the serious fuck?
This is a known side effect of discourse, which may also include increased urges to gamble and death.
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Agreed, it is very odd. No idea how people come up with "Henry Takanahara", that's like, double the syllables!
How and where do you come up with those extra letters?!?
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@Maciejasjmj said:
Turns out, having your name include a sound that doesn't exist in English can pose problems...
Most non-English speakers can't pronounce my first or last name correctly, though they're both very common English names.
I have that problem with the French. In the English-speaking world (most of whom speak a language that sounds sort of like English, but isn't), I've had two people mispronounce my name in some way - one was a teenaged American girl reading names at an awards ceremony, who took one look at "Stephen" and then you could hear, during the pause, the gears grinding in her head, and then she said, "Steffen".(1) My last name is only four letters long, and generally native English speakers can pronounce it, even if they can't spell it. The worst offenders can't copy it from one document to another without getting the wrong spelling.The French, on the other hand, can't pronounce my first or last name correctly, and some even try to tell me I'm wrong when I tell them that the "ph" is pronounced like a "v". Worse, they don't even all mispronounce it the same way.
(1) It was at an awards ceremony a few weeks before high school graduation (I lived in the US at the time), and the principal obviously thought it sounded wrong. For ... reasons ... I had an exam conflict at the end of my senior year, and when I was in the school office taking one of the conflicted exams by myself, he showed that he remembered me, and poked his head round the door to ask what the correct pronunciation was.
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Didn't your SO tell you not to interwebs in the armoury?
Armory, livingroom, what's the difference.
Also, what makes you think it wasn't her idea? She's the one who bought me a shotgun for my birthday.
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Didn't your SO tell you not to interwebs in the armoury?
Or the armoire. Hiding from your SO isn't going to work; she'll eventually find out you've been visiting those sites again.
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Armory, livingroom, what's the difference.
Significant Other, Superior Officer, Stack Overflow, what's the difference?
Who's on first?
Filed under: Lol.
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Significant Other, Superior Officer, Stack Overflow, what's the difference?
Who's on first?
Seems kinda whooshy to me.
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@Gaska said:
infinite money and infinite computing power
He's using this word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
In the non-geek world, I think that's what they call "forgivable exaggeration". Or so I've heard.
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@FrostCat said:
Armory, livingroom, what's the difference.
Significant Other, Superior Officer, Stack Overflow, what's the difference?
Who's on first?
Filed under: Lol.
Couldn't have been Stack Overflow, because the most upvoted answer would have been how to do it anyway with a variety of flaws in the execution, and the second most upvoted answer would have been an alternative and slightly less retarded way to do something that isn't supposed to be done.
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Seems kinda whooshy to me.
I was referring to Superior Officer, and it hadn't occurred to me that Stack Overflow and Significant Other were suitable translations of the acronym.
The "Who's on first" reference is because it's another hilarious wordplay-related misunderstanding.
Couldn't have been Stack Overflow, because the most upvoted answer would have been how to do it anyway with a variety of flaws in the execution, and the second most upvoted answer would have been an alternative and slightly less retarded way to do something that isn't supposed to be done.
Here's a fun question: how would one fix it?
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How would one fix Stack Overflow? Mercilessly reject 95% of its content for being incorrect and discourage gamification of the rest.
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Mercilessly reject 95% of its content for being incorrect
The easiest way would be to delete every post tagged with some of the common things (e.g.,
c++
,php
) and ban anyone from using those tags in new questions.Failing that, if you see a question that is egregiously wrong, flag it for moderator attention, and they'll sort it out when they get off @boomzilla's lawn. That only takes 15 rep to do, and if you can't get that inside a few minutes of answering questions — or by using one of the official ways to game the system — then you're an idiot. Protip: it's easier to answer questions in a rep-gaining way in more specialist areas. (Evil Idea: let the popularity of a tag be a guide to how replaceable you are in your employment…)
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worst offenders can't copy it from one document to another without getting the wrong spelling
I have a French name that I pronounce like the English equivalent. People who have only read it either give the French pronunciation a bash or use a different English equivalent (one I couldn't use because it's my Dad's name).
When writing it, people often misspell it, because the French like to put superfluous Cs in words. People who know how I pronounce it will often write the Anglicised version. Some people, even when replying to an email with the actual spelling right there, just use the other Anglicised name.
I gave up correcting people on my name a long time ago. Whatever they want to call me is fine by me
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How would one fix Stack Overflow? Mercilessly reject 95% of its content for being incorrect and discourage gamification of the rest.
Instead, fire all the admins/moderators etc. I find the best answers on questions which are "Closed because ...".
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I have a French name that I pronounce like the English equivalent.
For example, like Louis ("louee") / Louis ("lewis") ?
When writing it, people often misspell it, because the French like to put superfluous Cs in words.
Like "Clouis" or something?
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Wait until the thick Indian accent fake Microsoft support guys call him.
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I almost did that once. I did try to run their thing in WINE once. Didn't work.
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Those guys are fun.
Enjoyed reading that. One of the "Related Question" sounds like it would be good for @ben_lubar: I need to make my parents' computer father-proof.
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Problem is that the official MS tech drones who call us back at work have the exact same accent. Except for the sales drones, those have a heavy Dutch accent.
Wow, I'm tired.
those last few words read to me as "...those have a heavy Detroit accent." I had to do a double-take!
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The Too Tired/Boozed Thread is... wait, wtf we don't have one?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Luweewu
That occurred to me, but actually Louis was just the first name that came to mind with radically different pronunciations in English and French.
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Citation needed, maybe we're able to consider the 5th element universe as an elaboration or extension on the Known Space universe. I mean, there's a protecting race, right? Mutatis mutandis? Maybe?
Maybe the knight was originally invested with power by an Arisian.
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Yes, now I need a cite proving that we can't consider 5th Element part of Known Space.
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Yes, now I need a cite proving that we can't consider 5th Element part of Known Space.
That's now how it works. You have to provide data suggesting they are part of the same universe.
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data suggesting they are part of the same universe
The Universe is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Given something so big, the default position is that two small things are more likely in it than in different copies of it, unless there is evidence that they must be in different instances
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@FrostCat - See above. While I was ecstatically pouring gasoline on something I lost sight of how I was going to make this point... but, kindness of strangers;
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The Universe is big.
Clever, but not really responsive. For all you know, there's two or more really big universes, which may or may not be next to each other.
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I happen to know that there are exactly 125, each of which had their own Jet Li.
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But is it turtles all the way down?
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lahw-ees
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I feel the need to nominate this for a woosh …