If you see the girl turning clockwise then you are a logical person. Or was the other way around?
Independent
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Are you artistic or logic?
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RE: Really dynamic webpages
@ObiWayneKenobi said:
That looks... ugh... lovely. Why on earth would you output Javascript from VBScript??
Reminds me of why I dislike Classic ASP - I can work with it if I have to, but I like it about as much as a visit to the dentist.
I would take a visit to my dentist over that *thing* any time
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RE: Join the I hate Oracle ODT Club!!
@Welbog said:
@Independent said:
@Welbog said:
Now that I see it's a Harry Potter reference, I throw into question why you remember such a small detail from such an old book.Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
Don't you read real books? How about THE BOOK of the last 10 years? Geez!"The sleeping dragon is never to be tickled" What?
Note to self: use the sarcasm tags next time.
Really, that's one of the highlights in HP. I even used it as a signature at some point.
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RE: Join the I hate Oracle ODT Club!!
@ammoQ said:
@Independent said:
Don't you read real books? How about THE BOOK of the last 10 years? Geez!
"The Pragamatic Programmer"?
Hehe, that one should be #2...
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RE: Join the I hate Oracle ODT Club!!
@Welbog said:
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
"The sleeping dragon is never to be tickled" What?
Don't you read real books? How about THE BOOK of the last 10 years? Geez!
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RE: Another really bad translator used - WTF
@Cursorkeys said:
@Independent said:
60 dollars for a pasta dish?! That's the real WTF
The hotel was in Russia so the price would be in Rubles, works out to be about 2 Dollars, can't fault the value there.
The price in the menu was about 1500 (I assume russian rubles), that makes over 60 US dollars if I'm any good at math....
Thank you, but no, thank you
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RE: Another really bad translator used - WTF
60 dollars for a pasta dish?! That's the real WTF
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RE: I guess I am not a geek...
Naaah, that one is pretty obvious... Haven't you heard before the phrase
"It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE!"
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RE: A generic coworker WTF
@jetcitywoman said:
I think what puzzles me more than anything is not just how these people get hired when they obviously don't have the skills, but how they KEEP their jobs. For example, the backup situation was about 6 or 7 years ago and he STILL works for us, STILL as a programmer/engineer and STILL with onsite customer assignments.
Look at it from the bright side: it is thanks to such people that the more intelligent of us progress in our carreer.
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RE: WTF transforms into hate and pain..
@GuntherVB said:
10 Stages during employment at a WTF company.
1) You discover this immense disaster of a website
2) You think maybe there's a reason behind all this, better check the code again to see if you didn't miss the real beauty inside the code.
3) You realise the website is a complete WTF'ery and get depressed at the mere thought of having to edit/maintain it, or even come close to it.
4) You try to find people that also think that the whole system is a WTF, you find noone, in fact, they all think it's implemented properly. You are simply a nit-picker.
5) You start divising a plan on nullifying the WTF'ery - refactoring the whole thing until you at least have some hope of salvation and pride in your job, even if it has to be done in your spare time.
6) After starting to refactor a few basic things, you realise that everything is intertwined up to a stage that there's no way you can remove the WTF'ery.
7) You're getting deperate and start writing spaghetti too, only it breaks your heart to do so.
9) You're getting immensely disgruntled
10) You quit
I suggest you simply fast-forward to stage 10 :)
You may laugh at me, but a month ago I started a new project - a long-term contract for a HUGE insurance company. At first I was terribly excited - at last something more meaningful than building MSIs for someone else's application. I spent the first week waiting for all the software I would eventually need, the second week - analyzing the current state of the system. It was during that second week that I went through stages 1 to 5. Currently I'm at #9. Extrapolating - it wouldn't take much longer to reach #10.