Don't knock that site... It has some nice handy dandy links to facebook,, myspace, and twitter. How else will you remember how to get to them?
chrismcb
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RE: Real Informative Website
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RE: Tell me if this is acceptable or if I'm overly sensitive
I would say you are MORE than overly sensitive. That is hilarious. It would have been hilarious when I was 8, and it better still be hilarious when I'm 80.
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RE: Consultant woes
People are dumb.
I used to travel to universities and hire potential candidates. Most of them were about ready to graduate, and most had decent grades.
We were told not to ask the same question, because they talked. Well I RARELY got people who could answer the simple question I asked correctly, so I didn't really care if they talked.My simple question was "Write StrCmp" When I first started interviewing things like Java were rare. As more people were learning VB and Java and the like, fewer people could really answer the question.
But what really surprised me was how many people didn't understand "dictionary order." Really? You don't know if "dog" comes before or after "cat" in a dictionary?
Of course many of these people eventually graduated and moved on into the real world. Somehow getting jobs, and writing some of the crappy software we have (and probably many of the WTFs here)
Lately I've been interviewing people with more experience. And I am still always surprised how poor of a job they do in the interview. How do they manage to write code at their existing company?
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RE: But the tables are more efficient this way
@jasmine2501 said:
I have seen it in a lot of places though. Sometimes it's because you would be over the row size limit with a single table, and that's the only legitimate reason why you would ever do this.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding something. But if there is a 1 to 1 relationship, won't there be a row in Table1 for every row in the Main table? If that is the case how will this keep you from going over the row size limit?
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RE: "The church was fined $100 per branch cut for excessive pruning, bringing the violation to $4,000."
@emurphy said:
@dcardani said:
Edit, update: Oh, so now if enough people complain, you'll be allowed to violate any ordinance you want? Good to know! THERE'S the WTF!
To be fair, they seem to be aiming for basically the same standard "replace the tree and we'll drop the fine" policy that was mentioned in the original article.
From the second article:
The city no longer allows crape myrtles to be counted among required trees, mostly because of the popularity of topping them off, Johnson said.
If it decides to replant, Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church would have to plant a different species.
I like the "cut down a perfectly good, mature tree that might 'weaken the trees and make them susceptible to pests and diseases' and replace it with a sapling" law.
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RE: Going round in circles
What is the problem? It got shipped, was taken to the sorter. It got sorted, and just so happened to go back to the place it pretty much started.
The people who pick the packages up don't have time to look at the packages to figure out where they go. Thats the sorters job.
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RE: Online Poker / Playing Against The Computer
@RTapeLoadingError said:
Do people here think that there will always be an element of doubt (or paranoia) when playing computer controlled games of chance?
To answer the last question, YES people will ALWAYS haven the element of doubt. ALWAYS.MOST people don't understand odds. Probability is a difficult concept and not intuitive for most people (just look at the amount of debate the Monty Hall problem has caused.)
About poker in general, what most people don't understand is that there aren't THAT many starting hands. 1326. Online poker is played fairly quickly, and many people play several tables at once. You will see a LOT of the possible starting hands. While the number of permutations is large, it really isn't astronomical. By playing more hands than you normally play in a casino you will see a lot of "odd" hands. KKs beat AAs 20% of the time. When you see AA vs KK a dozen times, a couple of them should be KKs beating AAs but people don't remember the times KK lost (or got mucked maybe) They just remember the 3 times KK beats AA.
Pretty much every ODD thing I've seen at a poker site I've also seen in a live poker room. Sure maybe the dealer didn't shuffle the cards as well as he could have, but I wouldn't say the dealer was cheating.
As for the sites to cheat, they would be idiotic to do that. They amount of money they make IS astronomical. IF anyone ever discovered the site was cheating, they would lose most of that income. It is in their best interest to NOT cheat. Someone have argued the rake being higher. Well the rake is typically capped, and will hit that cap fairly quickly. Its been a while since I've played but the rake used to be %10 or $2. In a $1/$2 game It only takes one raise and one caller to hit $20. You usually max the rake out before the flop. Limit games can take a bit longer. But when a site is playing several thousands tables at a time I don't think they really care to make that extra $.50 a hand. It isn't worth losing their whole business over.
What are the odds that someone at the table gets AA? Its about 1/20 (assuming 10 players) What are the odds that someone gets KK? 1/20. So 1/400 times someone gets AA vs KK. Now if the site is running several thousand tables a minute. That means there are a handful of tables that have AA/KK.
Are sites rigged? I seriously doubt it. It would be easy to figure it out. And they would lose money. Have employees at sites cheated? Yes, by "knowing" their opponents cards. Can YOU cheat. Sure you and a buddy or two can collude. But you can still be beaten.
The thing to remember is a casino always makes money. They make more money if they have more players. It is in their best interest to play fair and keep more players.
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RE: How to not use column-count
IE8 and Chrome generates a single column.
What I like is the title "web style Sheets CSS tips and tricks" is centered in the browser. Yet the column is left justified.
I am guessing this is NOT what was intended.Yes the title is centered, but it shouldn't be.
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RE: "You can scroll up, too"
@Genius101 said:
I had to explain that Microsoft Word users can't read .wpd's.
Are you sure about that?
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RE: How many times has code like this appeared on the DailyWTF
So let me get this straight.
You discovered that you had a string, that didn't have a dash in it.
So you wrote some code to take a string and add a dash.
Later, you discovered a case where the string didn't have a dash in it.
So you decided to...
CALL the function you write to the dash?
you da man!