⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
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You almost go in flame mode when reading the title of certain tickets
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The Wario Belgiums a librarian with guacamole (or whatever) thread is
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you reply to a collague that the problem is caused by a 'tri state boolean' ...
Only to check later and see that is one of the top results for that term
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There appear to be Belgians with a troublesome transfile ... maybe they should try switching format?
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But do they still want the file if it's in the new format?
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you reply to a collague that the problem is caused by a 'tri state boolean' ...
You see that so frequently in Java is should be an anti pattern at this stage. The outsourced code is littered withOnly to check later and see that is one of the top results for that term
if(b != null && b == Boolean.TRUE){
// fuck not this bull shit again
} else{
return null;
}
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How else can it be a transfile? They are requesting a transfile ... we sure need to change the format of the file somehow.
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you reply to a collague that the problem is caused by a 'tri state boolean' ...
What? It's at least clearly marked as an anti-pattern.Only to check later and see that is one of the top results for that term
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I'm waiting for the transfile to change state from 'undefined' to 'Y'
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But that is what databases store as boolean. It can be true, false, or NULL.
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Unless you're using MySQL which doesn't have a boolean type as such - the nearest it has is a BIT(1) field which will consume a full byte (or 9 bits if the field is allowed to be null)
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That's a 512-state boolean, disk-wise
TRUE
FALSE
YES
NO
E_FILE_NOT_FOUND
NULL
SIM (pt_br version)
NÃO (pt_br)
MAYBE
WHATEVER
TRUE_BUT_SHOULD_REALLY_BE_FALSE
FALSE_BUT_SHOULD_REALLY_BE_TRUE
REALLY_TRUE
REALLY_FALSE
REALLY_REALLY_TRUE
REALLY_REALLY_FALSE
ALMOST_TRUE
ALMOST_FALSE
01%_TRUE .. 99%_TRUE
SOMETIMES_TRUE
FREQUENTLY_TRUE
THAT_DEPENDS
CALL_US_FOR_THIS_BOOLEAN_VALUE
...
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MIGHT_BE_TRUE
MAY_BE_TRUE
SHOULD_BE_TRUE
MUST_BE_TRUE
MIGHT_NOT_BE_TRUE
MAY_NOT_BE_TRUE
SHOULD_NOT_BE_TRUE
MUST_NOT_BE_TRUE<a body is descriptive
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This MUST be called a RFC 2119 BOOLEAN.
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I was in doubt whether or not I should include FALSE variants.
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Implementations MAY include additional words after "BOOLEAN", but they MAY NOT adjust either the first 3 words or the values of the boolean.
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Just tried to like an email.
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... After two weeks of frustration you realize that you're TRWTF, and seriously consider posting some of the fail you yourself contributed to.
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YKYBSTMTATDWTFW
Found whilst proof reading a Word® document authoured by myself:
..and are the *only* occurrences...
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He he. I've had a couple business e-mails that almost went down with MarkDown formatting.
No purple dildo references yet, though.
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I repeatedly find myself trying to trigger Skype for business' emoji by typing :something:
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Communicator regularly disappoints me by not having
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You're still using Communicator? That's TR
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We've been "moving to Cisco Jabber" for at least a year. Hasn't happened yet. I'll believe it when I see it.
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All your "new" indicators are cleared by you reading the threads, rather than Discourse doing it for you.
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Hell, I'll use those in some messages (Not formal ones, obviously...)
RE: Some Subject
Yeah, I agree, although we *should* be working on option B as well. We can talk more tomorrow
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Has anybody asked about "your weird" notation, or do you just get "funny" looks ?
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No-one questions me doing it, presumably because it's one of the auto-formatting things in Word and Outlook.
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Has anybody asked about your weird use of quotes?
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Hell, I'll use those in some messages (Not formal ones, obviously...)
I'll use
*this*
in emails, even where it is pretty formal. Have done for at least 15 years (I can't be bothered to search, but I've got software of that age configured to format documents that way and email them to me…)
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Yes, at least once.
Edit: It occurs to me that my use of * in the example provided in my post may be considered as a failed attempt at quoting. Just to make it clear: the intent was to italicize the selected word. It would seem that my habit of using 'ctrl-b' has been replaced with 'shift-8'
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Opps, ctrl-b is bold, I meant ctrl-i. What was I thinking
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Opps, ctrl-b is bold, I meant ctrl-i.
That's something about every markup language gets wrong:
*...*
should be *bold*,/.../
should be /italic/,_..._
should be _underlined_.
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That's something about every markup language gets wrong: ... should be bold, /.../ should be /italic/, ... should be underlined.
And what should
**_*\**)**
be?
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@OffByOne said:
That's something about every markup language gets wrong: ... should be bold, /.../ should be /italic/, ... should be underlined.
And what should
**_*\**)**
be?An MD5 hash of your credit card details that eats the rest of your sentence. Or something like that; I'm not a Discodev, so I don't know for sure.
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Can you raise new CSRs for ourdomain.com?
Almost replied with:
ourdomain.co.uk, Shirley?
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Can you raise new CSRs for ourdomain.com?
Acronym Finder has 205 expansions for CSR, including 36 applicable to IT, and some general business ones that might fit, too. I'm not going to go all @blakeyrat on you, but it would be helpful if you indicated which of the expansions you had in mind. I'm reasonably sure I figured out which one you mean, but it's definitely not the first one I thought of.
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Y14W you keep refreshing the forum tab in mobile Safari, getting a screen full of black and conclude Discourse bug long before you consider it might be a Safari bug and the tab should be closed/reopened.
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I'm reasonably sure I figured out which one you mean, but it's definitely not the first one I thought of.
The mention of a domain made me think of certificate signing request. What did you think of?
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Certificate Signing Request, but as it wasn't the part of the post that was relevant to this topic, I figured CSR was fine.
I figured wrong, evidently.
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it wasn't the part of the post that was relevant
True, but the ambiguity distracted me from the relevant part.
The mention of a domain made me think of certificate signing request. What did you think of?
That's what I decided was the probable meaning, but as a hardware guy, 99% of the times I use CSR, it has the #5 meaning on Acronym Finder's list of IT-related meanings, control/status register, so of course that's the first, but obviously wrong, thing I thought of. Customer service request was the next possibility I thought of. Google was not particularly helpful, as the only results it returned were Corporate Social Responsibility and a few companies named CSR.
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The mention of a domain made me think of certificate signing request. What did you think of?
I doubt I've ever put those three words together. I had no clue what CSR meant.
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I would have assumed Customer Service Request.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what went through my head, but it seemed like gibberish in context.