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Cantabrigian
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RE: Apocalyptically Bad
@PhillS said:
@Someone You Know said:
Our web designer is giving some clients a presentation today about best practices in web design. He intends to show off this as an example of what not to do:
That is almost physically painful to look at.
My badly designed site example is this one, and as far as I know it's not intentional and / or "revelling in poor design". Not nearly as bad as Haven works, but still an affront to my eyes.
Even if it's not intentionally bad, someone has presumably seen that page and said, "yes, that's exactly how we want our web site to look!". *Weeps*
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RE: Blog comment
@TGV said:
.. It wasn't the spam filter that caught it, it was the grammar checker. When an email has too many spelling errors, incomplete sentences, and incoherent paragraphs it is marked spam ...
If I had a spam filter like that I would never see any emails from my boss, or several of my colleagues.
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RE: The Grey Knight
@Cassidy said:
@MathNerdCNU said:
We have a mostly new to the project team.
I think you a word?That's what I thought at first, but after a couple of tries I realised it can be made parsable by hyphenation: "We have a mostly-new-to-the-project team"
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RE: I intentionally the whole Internet
@Buffalo said:
... To work around this he got his neighbor's wifi password,
First time through I read that as ""neighbour's wife password". Sounds more fun than reading your email..
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RE: Job posting buzzword generator
@fennec said:
@D-Coder said:
Why? Anyone with a Google can find out you're talking about CSC, probably something very similar to this job posting.Just found this on Monster (name of company modified).
The contrast on that page is WAY too low. But then since one of the "requred skills " is" 2-8 years experience in software development" (er, explain to me how that's a "skill") they're presumably not looking for anyone over the age of 30 (or even 25)
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RE: Try-ing code
@frits said:
@zelmak said:
// prepared statement is all set up!
Can we all agree that exclaimation points in code comments is a major red flag?
Not as bad (IMHO) as using them in error messages, where they are the equivalent of writing "you idiot!" at the end of the message:
- Date must be in dd/mm/yy format!
- No matching records found!
Worse still in success message, e.g. testing an ODBC SQL datasource:
- TESTS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY!
So are we supposed to be impressed? Surprised? (Extra points for ALL CAPS)
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RE: Holy mother of CSS
@tOmcOlins said:
TRWTF is css?
Or web designers who call themselves web developers?
...and vice versa
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RE: Stories of inappropriate visuals...
"your browsing to inappropriate websites will stop immeadately or your termination will be imminent."
Wow, I'm glad I don't work at a place where the IT management spells that badly.
Oh wait, actually I do :(
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RE: Confusing label
> the usual "easy-peal" backing.
I broke out in peels of laughter at that.
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RE: Apocalyptically Bad
@PhillS said:
@Someone You Know said:
Our web designer is giving some clients a presentation today about best practices in web design. He intends to show off this as an example of what not to do:
That is almost physically painful to look at.
My badly designed site example is this one, and as far as I know it's not intentional and / or "revelling in poor design". Not nearly as bad as Haven works, but still an affront to my eyes.
Even if it's not intentionally bad, someone has presumably seen that page and said, "yes, that's exactly how we want our web site to look!". *Weeps*