What, you missed the 2 Snoracle racks in Tony's lair? And the purple rack in the news van?
It really was Iron Man 3 : Brought to you by Sunoracle, speedtest.net, Verizon Fios (which, hey, does that even cover BFE, tennessee, as it's not a population center?), and Audi
What really made me cringe : "Go up there and get me some more ISDNs." Who was that guy, TelcoMan? Able to conjure up dark fiber in a single roof-climb? Able to renegotiate satellite protocols with a handwave?
This is the problem with the gui-centric whatever he logged into. Speedtest.net said he was getting 2mbps down (or so, iirc). I know, I know, it's less visually interesting if he's poking about using ssh and unix commands.
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RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
@bighusker said:
At one point, she actually said "this always confuses me...I understand the if part, but I don't get how the 'then' part works"
Not a native english speaker, perhaps? Were you to say to her "If you get an A in this class, then I will give you $100", would she understand that? Even normal people can use [url=https://ifttt.com/wtf]If This Then That[/url] to do things they shouldn't.
@bighusker said:
Supposedly, she has taken classes in Java and C++ before
...and passed? Without understanding an if statement? Is this why it's taken her 3-4 years to get a 2 year degree, or is it just night school?
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RE: Another representative line
@zelmak said:
ugh ... so much "odd" boolean logic used:
if (origFile == null || !test.equals(origFile) { . . .
There's no else branch.
Well, that should never fail, why write an else for a condition that won't fail?
Then again, why test a condition that you think is guaranteed to be true?
My brain hurts now. The lack of logic using logic is frustrating.
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RE: Oh goodie, more Gmail UI changes
@PJH said:
@tweek said:
I swapped AdBlock for noScript,
Why? They're not mutually exclusive. (I have both plus Ghostery. - and have only come across a couple of sites that have serious problems.)Chrome + AdBlock would, very often (at least twice a day, but usually more often), lock up my entire machine while a page was loading. Yes, I blame my shitty hardware for this, as well, but without it, I've had a much better time actually getting things done while tabs load.
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RE: Oh goodie, more Gmail UI changes
@Zecc said:
Hahaha, who am I kidding? All the pages on the internet would break when they wouldn't load their Analytics scripts.
I swapped AdBlock for noScript, and have been irritated at how many sites I've had to whitelist to make websites work. The most annoying thing is that some sites load literally nothing without javascript. As in, a white screen.
At home, the New Tab page has "Google" plastered across it, with a search bar underneath, although the combo-box is only 2" above it (grr), and then tiny site photos underneath. At work, I think because I don't use google as my primary search provider, I just have tiny site photos.
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RE: Apple innovating again
@mikeTheLiar said:
@boomzilla said:
@gu3st said:
Looking at Android is a nauseating experience. My HP Touchpad running Android just reeks of vomit because of that.
Could your fanboi trolling at least have some wit? If you're not capable of that, you can substitute abuse and capital letters. With the departure of blakeyrat, we're horribly deficient in those things.
Hold on, let me take a shot a this.... ahem....
Are you fucking KIDDING ME? How any semi-intelligent person with any MODICUM OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY could even THINK such an asinine statement had ANY MERIT is completely FUCKING BEYOND MY POWERS OF COMPREHENSION. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? GODDAM I hate you. My Kindle runs Android and that thing will shit all over you. Talk about a nauseating experience.
Eh, needs some work.
7/10, good effort, but you forgot to include a polarizing argument, which makes people want to rip your arm off and beat you with it.
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RE: My Pet Peeve: Maximum Length Passwords
@flabdablet said:
@Faxmachinen said:
At work we're not allowed to install password managers
How do they stop you running Portable KeePass off a USB drive?
With domain policies against loading usb drives and other forms of portable storage, I'd assume.
It doesn't happen where I work, but I've seen that done as a ward against viruses and company secrets going walkabout. Especially close to launch/release/sale.
My irritation is when a website RESTRICTS the characters in a password. "Oh, only [a-z][A-Z][0-9]." Why not post "Dictionary Attacks Welcome Here!" on your front page? What? I can make a password 6 characters long? Why not use the same one as on my luggage?
Users are dumb because they're uninformed (and/or lazy). They're uninformed because they don't seek out the information. They don't seek out the information because their job is to put widgets in a box, not think about security.
Our IT group gives out the same password over and over if you've forgotten yours and you call in. With sequential usernames. Yay security!
and, skotl : double-tap the shift key, it should turn blue, giving you a capslock. I have saved you 62 shift-taps. -
RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
@morbiuswilters said:
(Shut up about this, nerds. Do you think the medical or legal shit you see on TV is any less ludicrous? For example: you do realize there is no such thing as a "surprise witness", right?* Both parties in a case have access to each other's witness lists before the trial even begins. They're even allowed to question the opposing witnesses, at length, before the trial begins. Otherwise trials would just be a random clusterfuck of surprise evidence and witnesses, and it would be nearly impossible to build a coherent case because you'd have no idea what's going on.)
I'm aware the medical bullshit is bullshit, and the legal bullshit is bullshit. That irritates me as well, but I'm not a doctor or lawyer. The thing that irritates me is when it's not something complex, like building an operating system on the fly while falling out of the sky, but when it's easily look-up-able facts. Like ISDN == copper. I'd prefer they'd have made up an acronym.
Some handwaving is perfectly fine, and if he had just said "Get me some more bps, or get me more bandwidth", I'd be ok. The gui thing just irritates me because it does. Blah blah, don't want to have to pay microsoft to show their gui or have to teach an actor how to navigate gnome or some form of bastardized CDE that still looks like it's from the 80's. (I assume all screens are either put in afterwards, or videos playing for the actors to react to on localhost.)
It's all well and good until it's your boss going to see the movie and wondering why the product you work on can't behave that way. "Because it's make believe" is my stock answer, but he's tiring of that.
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RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
What, you missed the 2 Snoracle racks in Tony's lair? And the purple rack in the news van?
It really was Iron Man 3 : Brought to you by Sunoracle, speedtest.net, Verizon Fios (which, hey, does that even cover BFE, tennessee, as it's not a population center?), and Audi
What really made me cringe : "Go up there and get me some more ISDNs." Who was that guy, TelcoMan? Able to conjure up dark fiber in a single roof-climb? Able to renegotiate satellite protocols with a handwave?
This is the problem with the gui-centric whatever he logged into. Speedtest.net said he was getting 2mbps down (or so, iirc). I know, I know, it's less visually interesting if he's poking about using ssh and unix commands. -
RE: Becoming *that* vendor
@Ben L. said:
@Ben L. said:
Browsing at a zoom level other than 100% is TRWTF.
Unless you're interacting with your web browser from across the room, your use case is not a WTF.Or visually impaired?
Many use cases for browsing at > 100%. Not all are obvious (although that one should be)
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RE: Enough Thread to hang yourself
@Ben L. said:
@joe.edwards said:
@Ben L. said:
20130411 is pretty unambiguous and can be sorted ASCIIbetically.Why was the date input not a date selector?
Who would enter a date with no unit delimiters? 010101, seriously?
I spend about 1/3 of my day cursing the devs of one of the systems I manage because of this. I have one table which contains fields representing datetime stamps as YYYYMMDD HHss, as well as MM/DD/YYYY HHss, and occasionally MMDDYY HHss. You know, instead of using the database's native DATETIME field type, let's use a varchar(20) field. Makes reporting exciting. This is probably one of the reasons that the vendor manages most other installs, so they can hide the horror of ONE GIANT TABLE and DATETIME FIELDS OF TEXT.
Yes, unambiguous, and yes, asciibetical sort. But painful to do any sort of datediff computation.