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@Gribnit It is the usual trying to run before they can walk. All sorts of advanced architectural stuff was discussed and I was just thinking to myself, can we just get something stable in place first and worry about this later if it becomes a problem.
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@sweaty_gammon said in WTF Bites:
I've been the only person writing unit tests. I was just in skype call where people said to me with a straight face.
We are using this <latest design fad I've seen at a conference> because of X, Y, Z and it also makes unit testing easy.
YOU AREN'T WRITING ANY!!
Doesn't get any easier than that.
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@sweaty_gammon said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit It is the usual trying to run before they can walk. All sorts of advanced architectural stuff was discussed and I was just thinking to myself, can we just get something stable in place first and worry about this later if it becomes a problem.
Ooh, in that case, see if you can get them to declare it a LEAN process as well, bonus points if you can get them to quote "start from working software" before having any.
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@loopback0 Well yes if you look at it that way
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
yoinking dependent
That's just wrong — and possibly illegal, depending on how old your dependents are.
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@sweaty_gammon said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 Well yes if you look at it that way
In seriousness, you may be able to rerail this by saying, "how will we test that" until someone is forced to say something testable or you get fired.
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@Gribnit I tend not to make a fuss anymore. I only worry about my own work these days.
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@sweaty_gammon said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit It is the usual trying to run before they can walk. All sorts of advanced architectural stuff was discussed and I was just thinking to myself, can we just get something stable in place first and worry about this later if it becomes a problem.
As the saying goes…
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After Enlightenment,
BITCH,COMPLAIN!"
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I hate it when my system is unavailable due to {0}. I'd also quite like to place a bloody order!
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@pie_flavor Did you learn more?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I hate it when my system is unavailable due to {0}.
"The system is unavailable due to fewer parameters provided than required by the formatting string."
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@sweaty_gammon It's always easier to make a complex architecture. Simplicity is hard, and requires a thorough understanding of both the domain and tools used to be done correctly.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I hate it when my system is unavailable due to {0}.
Stock in Liège is probably blocked by a strike ...
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Just wasted half a second of my life waiting for this thing to finish loading when I came to this thread.
Filed under: Recaffeination in progress...
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@sweaty_gammon It's always easier to make a complex architecture. Simplicity is hard, and requires a thorough understanding of both the domain and tools used to be done correctly.
Complexity also allows people to spend a lot of time and lines-of-code on architectural busy-work, building abstractions for their abstractions and putting off tackling (or burying) all the complex bits that require some understanding.
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Dear Microsoft Windows 10,
I know that you're suffering from severe amnesia, so please let me kindly remind you that, when I tell you to "shut down", I do, in fact, mean "shut down", not "hibernate". If I want you to hibernate, I'll choose the handy "hibernate" menu item which is right there next to the "shut down" menu item. So could you pretty please, in the future, leave the convenient "lie to me and ignore me" check box you kindly provided in the state I set it to? That would be very much appreciated.
Fuck you very much, too,
ixvedeusi
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@ixvedeusi I was going to make a snide e no repro comment, but then I checked it and it changed mine too. Goddamned.
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I found out, that www.ebay.co.jp runs a version control repository on their production site which was not properly secured. This gave me access to the .git folder in the webroot directory which further allowed me to download the entire source code of www.ebay.co.jp including database passwords and much more.
In order to initially verify the bug, I accessed
www.ebay.co.jp/.git/HEAD
and the following came up:
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Today I idly wondered if there is a convenient GUI to remove some of those useless items listed under "my PC" in the Explorer side bar. You know, these things:
Some quick googling reveals that there actually is.
And we all know and love it...
...though on second thought, maybe scratch the "convenient" part from the above statement.
Now all that remains to be known is which of all these random GUIDs correspond to the items I'd like to hide. And maybe how long any such change of configuration will last (see also my previous post). And what will break in which completely unrelated place if I change any of these. Oh, the fun!
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@dkf
Dude, think of how much i18n work they saved. No worries about what those B*****ns name Documents, it's just {12345678-ABCD-0123-4567-0123456789AB} in every language!
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Now all that remains to be known is which of all these random GUIDs correspond to the items I'd like to hide.
If you search for that GUID, there's probably a (more) sanely-named key somewhere that says what it corresponds to. And it probably contains the label, so once you know where to look, it'd probably be easier to find them there than it would be to go through the list of GUIDs guessing.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
GUIDs
Because “naming things is hard; let's
go shoppingreboot!”WTFY
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
If you search for that GUID
The article I linked actually lists the GUIDs for most (or all?) of them; but once I realized I need to hack the registry to do this I decided it would probably be less troublesome to just continue ignoring these space-wasters.
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@ixvedeusi The problem is not the presence of those keys but the mental gymnastics in remembering where the real link to the users folder is.
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@PleegWat
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@pie_flavor Nope, that gets me chrome with a blank tab.
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This is unusual, when I mouse over an exact position on the screen I get:
I do have an X11 forwarded window, but it's not just simply not-top-most but completely minimised to the taskbar.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Because “naming things is hard; let's
go shoppingreboot!”
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I do have an X11 forwarded window, but it's not just simply not top-most but minimised to the taskbar.
Would that window happen to appear in that position would you choose to un-minimise it? Don't know about X11 on Windows, but X11 on Mac does seem to have some peculiar problems with handling tool tips in non-top-most windows.
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So use this web app that allows to build custom reports on it's data set. Great! Let's copy the query of this existing report to a new one and then fiddle with it to get the thing we want ...
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@PleegWat it's
%userprofile%
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@PleegWat it's
%userprofile%
Obvious, concise, easy to remember.
</sarcasm>
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I do have an X11 forwarded window, but it's not just simply not top-most but minimised to the taskbar.
Would that window happen to appear in that position would you choose to un-minimise it? Don't know about X11 on Windows, but X11 on Mac does seem to have some peculiar problems with handling tool tips in non-top-most windows.
No it doesn't, that doesn't even seem to be a tooltip that's normally available by mousing over every part of that window when its visible.
The style does match the window, so it must be that that's doing it though.
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What the fuck, Samsung? (trying to download their SSD manager tool)
And by the way, I've tried 3 days in a row and it's always the same.
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@anonymous234: Samsung love to invent their own kinds of (see also: Tizen).
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
And it probably contains the label
It contains a commercial-at character, the full path to a DLL, a comma, and a negative number. The absolute value of that number is an index into the string table for the resources for your current language in that DLL. That string table entry has the label.
Easy, right?
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@PleegWat Yes?
If that's too long, the Start - Run option automatically defaults to your user profile folder, so entering
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will open it.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
What the fuck, Samsung?
It's Samsung. The number of the software is 666.
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@Zerosquare Thankfully, you can find the installer in third party sites, and it's signed by them so there's no risk (by which I mean no more risk than when downloading it from the Samsung site).
I suspect they might have blacklisted my ISP or something and that's a bullshit message to distract me? Here's the link, someone tell me if it works.
Edit: results conclusive, you can stop testing it now.
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@anonymous234 Nope
Unfortunately, the download limit for the day has been reached, please try again within 24 hours.
If it's a daily limit, why the fuck trying within 24 hours would make a difference
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
someone tell me if it works.
Not from our corporate static-IP here in the UK.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
And by the way, I've tried 3 days in a row and it's always the same.
They should pay their ISP
for more bandwidth.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
someone tell me if it works.
Not from our corporate static-IP here in the UK.
Not in Silly Valley either (at work).
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 Nope
Unfortunately, the download limit for the day has been reached, please try again within 24 hours.
If it's a daily limit, why the fuck trying within 24 hours would make a difference
If you wait a full 24 hours then they've probably hit the download limit again, assuming tomorrow looks like today.
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@anonymous234 probably fucked up reverse proxy...
I get the same error.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
This is unusual, when I mouse over an exact position on the screen I get:
I do have an X11 forwarded window, but it's not just simply not-top-most but completely minimised to the taskbar.
Was going to comment that Chrome does this to me all the time, then noticed you mentioned X11.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@PleegWat Yes?
If that's too long, the Start - Run option automatically defaults to your user profile folder, so entering
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will open it.KEEEEEEEEWL!