WTF Bites
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But for the Indian employees it looked like there was no rhyme or reason to whether their given name was first or last in the address
Because the "surname" is actually the father's name, or in case of a married woman, her husband's name.
Long ago, I had a colleague from India. On the postbox at their house, they listed just all three names separated by white space: his wife's name, his name, his father's name.
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I'm not quite sure how things work out with a common name that isn't formally part of one's name
The "Dwayne Johnson" Rock
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Might as well ask if he can make his child's name be in Comic Sans 18 pt bold.
Advantage: It'll stand out in legal documents
Disadvantage: If he makes partner at a law firm, his name won't be visible on the billboard
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Bobby \n Tables
Bobby CRLF Tables
Bobby 0x0D0A Tables
Bobby TablesBobby \a Tables. To read his name, you need to ring a bell, like in this skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ
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@sebastian-galczynski this should be the accepted answer.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
Bobby \a Tables. To read his name, you need to ring a bell
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
and if you’re dealing with parts of Africa or Eastern Europe, you’d be surprised how much this actually comes up…
Or Slavic countries, where not including a patronymic is wrong.
Since we're already at the topic of "horribly wrong misconceptions", I would like to point out that this apply to three or maybe four Slavic countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, maybe Moldova) out of thirteen! So, this statement is 2/3 wrong
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@Kamil-Podlesak so basically just Russia.
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@Kamil-Podlesak I am not sure how much it applies to even Ukraine. I don't remember an Ukrainian ever introducing themselves including the patronymic.
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I guess I just don't understand art. This painting from 1975 just sold for $8,000
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@Gern_Blaanston
: Shit, they stole the painting before the auction.
: Shhh, we'll just sell the frame, nobody will notice!
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I can't remember the name of the exhibition, but one of the works on display was a graffiti on a wall.
I guess it was a success, because the gallery's cleaning crew thought it was vandalism and erased it.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
I can't remember the name of the exhibition, but one of the works on display was a graffiti on a wall.
I guess it was a success, because the gallery's cleaning crew thought it was vandalism and erased it.
There's also the trash on the floor one. Multiple times.
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@Gern_Blaanston I was under the impression that I had zero artistic talent. But if this can be called art, I guess I could be an artist
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No, you were correct. You do have zero artistic talent ; to be a modern artist, you'd have to have negative artistic talent
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston I was under the impression that I had zero artistic talent. But if this can be called art, I guess I could be an artist
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston I was under the impression that I had zero artistic talent. But if this can be called art, I guess I could be an artist
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@dcon in Germany, we have a saying "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?", roughly meaning "Is this art or can it go?". Probably arised from some guy having his art "cleaned up" twice, once a bathtub full with crap (patches, bandages, ...), once literally 5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall.
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in Germany, we have a saying "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?", roughly meaning "Is this art or can it go?".
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
understand art
Achtung:
Pollock was really a sad case. Wow, and they confused Pollock with Picasso in the URI -
what would I expect from an LCD venue. There's a difference tho - Pollock had less talent in the one dick he was sticking in Peggy Guggenheim than Picasso did in his entire body that he wasn't.
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once literally 5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall.
Throw
shitfat at the wall and call it art.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
once literally 5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall.
Throw
shitfat at the wall and call it art.Parents. Wooden spoons. Belts. Shoes. Tenderized ass.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
once literally 5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall.
Throw
shitfat at the wall and call it art.Parents. Wooden spoons. Belts. Shoes. Tenderized ass.
Wrong Window My Dude.
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5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall
How much fat can you buy for £5 ?
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@dcon in Germany, we have a saying "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?", roughly meaning "Is this art or can it go?". Probably arised from some guy having his art "cleaned up" twice, once a bathtub full with crap (patches, bandages, ...), once literally 5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall.
Beuys will be Beuys
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall
How much fat can you buy for £5 ?
A five pound package.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
5 pounds of fat smeared on the corner of a wall
How much fat can you buy for £5 ?
A five pound package.
A guy from Texas goes to England and is playing poker. One of the players says "I'll bet 100 pounds".
The Texan says "I'm not sure how much that is, but I'll see your 100 pounds and raise a ton."
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
I guess I just don't understand art. This painting from 1975 just sold for $8,000
You are right, but in a different way than you thought.
They'd better change that physical item of art into an NFT, then they'd receive some $800,000 for it.
Just missed 10,000% profit.
How bad.
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Awesome laptop model from Asus:
I've always wanted a CPU-less laptop!
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@Atazhaia thin-client is back
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You have achieved senior developer: writing jury-rig CSV transformer to convert one CSV to another CSV format to fudge requirements neither the source nor destination systems know how to cope with.
So, as I predicted, I'm now tasked with writing yet another version of The Importer. This time it has to also update existing records in complicated ways using some guesswork.
Also the front-end for entering the data (which the importer bypasses) actually doesn't work. You can click 'save', but it doesn't save some of the data, and it's been like this since the beginning. Nobody even filed a bug.In other news, the front-end now has 800+ MB of node_modules, and obvious spelling errors in both Polish and English versions. This guy is really getting on my nerves. Mind you, he has a CS diploma and 8+ years of experience, we're not even scraping the bottom here.
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We got a bizarre request:
"Differentiate the response between expired token and bad credentials"Why would they do that? The credentials are provided to a different service than the token. In fact, you obtain the token by posting the credentials. Both can return "401 unauthorized", but why would anyone confuse it?
After some brainstorming we decided that they must have worded it badly and they mean "between expired and otherwise invalid token". But why would they need that? Can't they decode the JWT and check whether it's expired? Is their clock wrong? Changing the responses would probably mean some brittle hacks in a library, so we decided to ask the client's developer on the weekly meeting.After presenting our doubts concerning the latest request, the "developer" replied (in a Pakled-like manner, with thick eastern accent)
We don't know. We have a Service.
The Service shows an error, and it's always 401.
We don't know if it's credentials or token.At this point some non-technical manager realized they're making fools of themselves and shut him down and withdrawn the task.
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I don't think it was a particularly complicated request
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
obvious spelling errors in both Polish and English versions. ... he has a CS diploma and 8+ years of experience
He has a CS diploma, not an Orthography diploma!
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
He has a CS diploma, not an Orthography diploma!
You see, this is what bothers me. He really is like that. The type of guy who can't figure anything out on his own and always needs specific instructions. He'll ask some question on the company chat, and then it goes like this:
'I don't know, check whether there's a constraint in the database'
'How do I check in the database?'
'\d table name'
'which table?'And so on, until I drop what I'm doing and check myself.
I think there's something really wrong with all the education and hiring system. At this point I genuinely believe I could replace a guy like that with a car mechanic from the nearest shop, because the mechanic at least has some ability to figure things out, despite lack of knowledge.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
I genuinely believe I could replace a guy like that with a car mechanic from the nearest shop
I checked the database and it was in need of an oil change. It's good to go now.
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@TimeBandit
: Whoo-ee, those were some thin wires and a weird looking distributor. No wonder you weren't getting any spark! All changed out now.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
He has a CS diploma, not an Orthography diploma!
You see, this is what bothers me. He really is like that. The type of guy who can't figure anything out on his own and always needs specific instructions. He'll ask some question on the company chat, and then it goes like this:
'I don't know, check whether there's a constraint in the database'
'How do I check in the database?'
'\d table name'
'which table?'And so on, until I drop what I'm doing and check myself.
I think there's something really wrong with all the education and hiring system. At this point I genuinely believe I could replace a guy like that with a car mechanic from the nearest shop, because the mechanic at least has some ability to figure things out, despite lack of knowledge.
My solution to cow-orkers like that (especially if they’re junior to me but under a different boss and/or formerly under my tutelage but now beyond their training period and expected to pull their own weight)…
OK, I can help you this task, but the next time you ask me for help I will report it to your supervisor.
(Granted, it helps when said supervisor actually cares that they’re fobbing off their work… )
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Weeee... Addressing some SonarQube code smells (or my PR won't pass)
if (something == other && boolVar)
Looks good, right?
BZZZZT
"Add parentheses around complex operands"
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I am ignoring some of the things it wants me to do - like move all constructor initialization into the header. But that then means I'll have initializing happening in 2 places (because you can't do complex initialization in the header). So , all my initialization is done in the ctor body.
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@dcon to be fair, what is the operator precedence of == vs &&?
Because that could potentially be if (something == other) && boolVar, or it could be if something == (other && boolVar)...
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@dcon to be fair, what is the operator precedence of == vs &&?
Because that could potentially be if (something == other) && boolVar, or it could be if something == (other && boolVar)...
==
is higher.
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==
is higher.
And && is higher than ||.
Which is apparently not known to some people, and the explanation that "one is like addition, the other like multiplication" is met with bafflement.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
And && is higher than ||.
I always forget that (I do at least remember they're not that same). But then I also always parenthesize expressions that combine the 2. If I can't remember, odds are fairly high that others can't either.
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@dcon I always remember (exatly because "one is like addition, the other like multiplication"), but I frequently add parantheses anyway for clarity.
And I always parenthesize the condition of a ternary unless it's just a boolean variable.
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And I always parenthesize the condition of a ternary
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