Java -- write once, run nowhere.
We are stuck with Oracle Java 1.6 anyways because one app we use, written in Oracle Forms as an applet, does not work with Oracle Java 1.7. (OK, maybe it's messed up by developers of that app, but still...)
Java -- write once, run nowhere.
We are stuck with Oracle Java 1.6 anyways because one app we use, written in Oracle Forms as an applet, does not work with Oracle Java 1.7. (OK, maybe it's messed up by developers of that app, but still...)
One of our users really loves to print to papers which are already printed on one side or even on both sides if there is enough room on the page left. I've already once spent an hour or so removing narrow piece of paper from his printer which was left between used paper. But now he had even better idea: print to a paper from Ikea with instructions. The printer absorbed the whole paper and it stopped working. The paper was nowhere to be found. After something like half an hour I finally found the paper:
This is already partly removed but originally the whole paper was completely wrapped around the drum in several layers and completely covered with black toner. Suprisingly, after removing the paper from the drum, the drum looks working fine.
The worst part? I've just send my working coat to cleaning so I wrapped myself into some plastic to protect me against toner. No photo of that :-)
I still don't understand how can be that popular CSS framework which doesn't respect user set font size in browser. Isn't that against all of the rules the webdesigners community learnt in last decade?
@Cassidy said:
Someone mentioned that to me also, showing me that Excel allows you to specify the field delimiter when importing CSV but defaults to a comma.
Sadly Excel defaults to whatever is set in Windows' regional settings (also true for decimal mark), which make it lot of more fun in multilanguage environments.
I don't get it.
<font face="Lucida Console" size="2">#define NULL 0</font>
is pretty standard in C++ (in plain C it is typically (void*)0).
@Gurth said:
@Spectre said:Pascal uses
**
, as well.This convinces me even more that the guy teaching me computer stuff in college (a long time ago, and no, it wasn't a computer sciences course :)) didn't know his a$ from his elbow … He had us writing programs in Pascal, and when I (having experience almost exclusively with BASIC at that point) used a^2 in one of them, found it didn't work and asked him about it, did he tell me a**2 would work? No … In the end I went for a*a (which IIRC was not remarked upon by said teacher, incidentally) and wondered to myself if I'd have to do a loop for higher powers.
This was one of the things that put me off Pascal for good :)
Except that the reality is that Pascal does not have power operator. Maybe some implementations do (e.g. freepascal has operator** defined in the math unit), but definitely not all of them (especially not Turbo/Borland Pascal and Delphi).
@spamcourt said:
Through various magics*, I've determined that the original image was this one:
I would recommend this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-browser/ (Having to use addon for something like this is of course wtf. Sadly not the last one in FireFox.)
@derula said:
I admit I don't have much of a clue about Java, but what in the world is this good for?
catch (Exception ex) { throw new Error(ex); }
Normal Java apps don't catch Errors; this code basically turns standard Exceptions into something-really-bad-happened-internally-dont-try-to-catch-us Errors.