I love the inherent WTFiness about the phrase "one concurrent user" ;-)
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RE: The registration system - Part 1
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RE: Yet another Microsoft vs Apple
[quote user="Iago"]
Yeah, so, wake me up when Apple releases a tablet product, or when you can run OS X on embedded devices. Apple have a better desktop OS, but that's basically all they have (ignoring the iPod, which is just a media player), while Microsoft's product line is really quite diverse.
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Ah, "never mind the quality, feel the width"? I don't think anyone here cares how many versions of Windows or Office have been released. The fact that gets in everyone's craw is that Microsoft manage to dominate many markets with second-rate products.
You are the only one who brought Apple back into the discussion. Personally I don't think they're much better.
[quote user="Iago"]
Funny how the Apple fanatics seem to gloss over that. Seems some people just aren't interested in evaluating the competition fairly.
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Some of us have evaluated the competition and come to the conclusion that it's all shite. Take your corporate apologetics and get out of here. Come back when you're willing to talk about the technology.
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RE: Non-WTF job is really WTF!
[quote user="Alex Papadimoulis"]
While I appreciate your concern, all of the points you’ve made are highly opinionated and have little factual basis. Couldn’t a Linux zealot say similarly subjective things about Microsoft (“convicted monopolist”)? Or an Oracle-Hater (like myself) say bad things about Oracle (“they’re fricken’ Oracle!”)?
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I get the distinct impression you haven't been reading any of the extensive literature on the matter.
- Diebold motherboards crash when user clicks "vote".
- Security analysis of Diebold voting machine.
- Diebold responds to analysis and completely misses the point of all accusations.
- Key from VAX computer cabinet opens Diebold voting machines.
This is just a small list, gleaned from only one security analyst's website, on the subject of only Diebold's voting machines. I ignored all the other electronic voting machine manufacturers not because they're any better but because, quite frankly, no more fuel is needed on this fire.
From what I have read about Diebold's software, it should have been on the front page long before now. Hard-coded secret keys released on public FTP servers. Using DES (not even 3DES) as their "ultra-secure" encryption algorithm. Using pseudorandom number generators which have been specifically cited as unsuitable for use in cryptography for exactly that purpose. The list of flaws is long and disgraceful.
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RE: Hugs error messages
I've never had any problems decoding GHC(i)'s error messages. You might want to try that instead.
Using GHCi to create a similar error I get:
<font face="Courier New"><font face="Arial">Prelude> let f = (head . map (\x -> xx)
<interactive>:1:31 parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)
Prelude> let f = (head . map (\x -> xx))
Prelude></font>
</font>
It's not completely obvious from the message that it's a ')' that's missing, but at least it doesn't have you searching away for a semi-colon that isn't even there!
What I find more annoying is that, because I write my code in literate Haskell, the parser always gives me line numbers that are 1 out from the line it's referring to. You get used to it after a while (especially if you're searching for a problem in the context of a whole function) but it's alarming at first. -
RE: Car repair "specialist" WTF
@Iago said:
And a quick note for American readers: an Imperial pint is 20 oz, not 16 oz like an American pint.
Let's hope that an Imperial fluid ounce is the same as an American one, or we will be here all night.
(Seriously though, 16oz? Surely your pint glasses must be tiny? Or do you not have pint glasses? I've only been to the States when I was decidedly under age.)
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RE: Car repair "specialist" WTF
@tster said:
that's silly. are you guys trying to switch to metric?
Even better - officially we already have! :-) It's just that there is so much 'legacy' that no-one can be bothered with the expense. Speed limit signs are in miles per hour, not kilometres, but we weigh everything in kilos and measure distances in metres. Except for road distances.
Don't try to wrap your head around it: it's not worth it. The rule of thumbe seems to be that if it involves motor vehicles then it's Imperial, else Metric.
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RE: We don't need no stinking abs.
These posts appear all the time here. The 'Classic' WTFs, you might call them. They seem to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the task at hand:
- What a random number generator is, and how it differs from a pseudo-RNG;
- Sub-classing of built-in objects to "add" functionality;
- Graceful degradation, using a software pRNG if /dev/random isn't available
And yet at the very bottom level, the level of line-by-line implementation, something really bloomin' funny happens. But can anyone explain why it happens? Is it a case of separation of architecture and implementation? Is it just that someone who knows (something about) what they're doing designs the skeleton, and then the idiots fill in the blanks?
Or is there something subtler than that? I'm not a professional coder and I've never worked on any multi-person projects with any scope. Can someone who's met these things first hand explain how it happens?
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RE: The amazing error trap
@dhromed said:
You know how simple things sometimes elude comprehension by the human brain?
Vroomfondel: Now that's what I call thinking. How come we can't think like Majikthise?
Majikthise: Maybe our minds are... too highly trained.
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RE: Dev server? We don't need no stinkin' dev server!
I'm guessing it's a trick question. There is no dev file, just like there's no spoon. You guys do all your dev work in public... the engineering equivalent of designing the upstairs as soon as you've finished building the ground level :-)
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RE: What The Flib
@stannius said:
What's a flib?
I think it's pronounced WTF lib - as in, a library of WTF functions. That's how I read it anyway.