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I've never posted here but I spend a lot of time lurking and though you might like this solution to a problem I had with sky go recently. I could not beleive that it actually worked for me. I've only spent four years working in tech and done a lot of stupid shit in that time but I have to admit I balk at even thinking about the horrors that lie in the bowels of this application.
Also why does every "helpful" hint here read like its been written by a retard?
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Also why does every "helpful" hint here read like its been written by a retard?
By 'here', do you mean the Sky fora, or WTDWTF?
If you are expecting to get helpful hints on WTDWTF, you have bigger problems to worry about than SkyGo
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he probably means the toasters that new users get. Since they disappear after a while, people tend to forget they existed and hope / wish / expect them to be gone.
Also they have been written by Jeff... so that would answer @DogsB's question...Filed Under: Have yet to see anybody anywhere besides Jeff who likes them
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I intentionally keep my date formats on my dev machines set to some seriously fucked up nonsense shit so specifically to avoid this. Of course, this leads to me looking at the Taskbar clock and going "WTF time is 5813?"
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I'm using a mac and this didn't work for me. Could a mac user possibly screenshot the date format that must be used?
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not sure how to attach screen shot here
Yup, that's about right.
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Filed Under:
Md/dM/sysysysy:mm:hh
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So...
Lemme get this straight.
They congratulate some guy on successfully finding the bug and a (terrible) workaround, pat each other on the back, and say "We're done here"?
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Also why does every "helpful" hint here read like its been written by a retard?
Here? Or on that webpage?
If you mean here, it's because everybody who posts here is a retard.
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he probably means the toasters that new users get.
Oooh!
In that case, it's because they were written by a retard: Jeff Atwood.
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The second one. Does Jeff actually use this site? It looks nice and there are ideas worth robbing but they appear to be buried below several layers of unintuitive ui design that defy rational thought.
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Does Jeff actually use this site?
PFFT
AHAHAAHAHAHe uses this software as a bugtracker + official discussion forum for Discourse itself!
And his blog uses it for the comment system.
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They congratulate some guy on successfully finding the bug and a (terrible) workaround, pat each other on the back, and say "We're done here"?
That's what it looks like. The real reason is that they decided to not support the MM/dd/YYYY format any longer for the benefit of humanity. They can't reveal that because that would upset some freedom-to-do-it-wrong-loving people.
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I know I've been 'd several times over, but I have to ask. What the hell kind of date format is "dddd-MMMM-dd-yyyy" and "dd-MMMM-yy"?
Can someone please give me an example?
Once sanity is regained, can someone also please explain why someone ever considered this to be a good idea for expressing a date?
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"dddd-MMMM-dd-yyyy"
Monday-September-07-2015
"dd-MMMM-yy"
07-September-15
Basically M is, say, 9, MM is 09, MMM is Sep and MMMM is September. Same for days (7-07-Mon-Monday).
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Back before I started using ISO8601-formatted timestamps, I liked to use dd-MMM-yyyy as it was never actually misparsed by anyone else.
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Does Jeff actually use this site?
He did for about 2 months. It almost destroyed this site.
The guy thinks he's some sort of holy savior of Internet discussion. He was an admin on this site purely because the shitty software didn't work and you need to be admin to fix shit, then immediately went about taking control-- changing the header image with no discussion with the site owner or residents, moving and splitting topics like a moderator, etc.
It's actually amazing he didn't cause more people to leave the site. But we lost like 5-6 of the resident posters anyway, and I miss them.
Fuck Jeff Atwood.
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Ah. It was the "four-letters-spell-it-out" bit I missed. Why is not yyyy spelled out properly, then ("two-thousand-fifteen")?
As for why...
Back before I started using ISO8601-formatted timestamps, I liked to use dd-MMM-yyyy as it was never actually misparsed by anyone else.
Ok. Still less than optimal, now that there is an ISO-standard...
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Why is not yyyy spelled out properly, then
Because it can’t be any good if there are no exceptions to rules established earlier.
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Wait, isn't Sky the company that thought Skype's logo was too similar to their logo? I guess that explains the quality of support...
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Why is not yyyy spelled out properly, then ("two-thousand-fifteen")?
That would be YYYY.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Why is not yyyy spelled out properly, then ("two-thousand-fifteen")?
That would be YYYY.
Why?
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I'm going to start a company called Granny Smith and then sue Apple for stealing my logo.
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I'm going to start a company called Granny Smith and then sue Apple for stealing my logo.
Didn't work for The Beatles' Apple Corps, and they were there first and have more money to spend on lawyers than you.
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