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Minos
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RE: Your opinion requested
The credit card may not be as reckless as it sounds. When I was in high school, my father gave me a card that looked and worked like a credit card, but was only usable for buying gas at one particular chain of stations. It's still possible to abuse it, but not through casual use (e.g. "Hey everyone, gas is on me!").
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RE: Music's gonna get'ya (not spam I promiss)
Anything interesting when you right click on it and choose "About musicsgonnagetya"? Or "Visit Home Page"? Although, if it is malware, that last may not be a good idea.
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RE: Schrodinger's NULL?
@bannedfromcoding said:
@derula said:
@torp said:
Maybe it was Schrödinger's umlaut?Schrodinger's NULL?
It's Schrödinger. Other than that, nice code snippet.You've coined a potentially useful term here. I'm going to use "Schrödinger's umlaut" to describe words that may or may not have diacriticals, depending on laziness or keyboard layout.
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RE: The subtle signs of a scam...
@Master Chief said:
Really makes you wonder why any company still thinks annoying the shit out of your customers is a good marketing strategy.
If I'm not mistaken, the ubiquitous cookie-cutter acai/teeth whitening/colon cleansing/weight loss ads are from a Multi-Level Marketing scheme. The similar ones you see touting "make money from home" instead of the products are recruitment, I believe. The end result is, pages like this one are often not run by a company, but an individual who may be barely computer literate and almost certainly not a marketing professional.
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RE: Comcast verses Mother Nature.
Not so long ago, I had repeated visits from Comcast Technicians because of a problem that was clearly at their local node (neighbors were having the same troubles), but they insisted on going over everything from the pole on into my house just to have done something. There was one exception which was nice. I met him at the door, he says "It looks like there's a problem with the local node, there's not much I can do here." I said, "I know." He told me they had techs searching for the source of the noise and went on his merry way. It took months of reports from multiple people in my neighborhood for them to finally start investigating the real problem.
On another visit, I made the mistake of sitting in the next room while the tech was fiddling with my cable modem. He power cycled my router (running OpenWRT), which was a little annoying since it was at 500+ days of uptime. Even more annoying, when he asked me to test it, the router couldn't get an IP. I asked if he did anything with the router, he tells me that he power cycled it because "you have to do that when you power cycle the modem". I'm pretty sure that even the default firmware on most consumer routers has a DHCP release/renew. I tell him the router's not getting an IP, and he responds "Oh, we don't support routers". Unfortunately, I was too polite to respond how I really wanted to: "Then don't fucking touch it!"
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RE: More New Math
Shouldn't be necessary in C, but I've seen the "subtract 0" idiom in other languages to coerce numbers to another type. My initial suspicion would be that fValueOfInterest isn't actually a float, or maybe that it wasn't in the past before some refactoring, and that you've got a quirky compiler for your embedded platform.
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RE: Fixing Stack Overflow
My favorite part is how the comments template actually includes a heckler, just to make it slightly more believable.
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RE: Goose Typing
@Howi said:
@rohypnol said:
Are you trying to imply that Microsoft software might contain bugs?
Is that meant to be a dig at microsoft? Most software contains bugs, I have found that (established) MS products generally contain less bugs per feature than many alternatives. The problem is that they don't keep upgrading the same thing, they release new versions with sweeping changes so it just takes a little time to baton it down. Previous comments still stands, though, as most re-implementations of OSS seem to suck for a while as well.
I think you meant "button it down", but I like the idea of beating my code into submission with a stick.