Posts made by ahnfelt
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Slickedit ads
My pet pevee needs some venting;
"SlickEdt iz liek cheatzing"
"Top 10 reasons not to use SlickEdit: 1) you're a moron 2) see 1 3) etc."
"dv n suff on 40 dif plfrmz in 967 dif languages no wai"
I am paraphrasing here because the ad system here read my thoughts and decided not to show me any more SlickEdit ads while writing this post. Good call.
Am I the only one who is ready to punch the SlickEdit team in the face?
Why are they marketing to 9 year old 4-chan frequenters? Do they code much?
Gaaaaah. It makes me long for a detergent commercial.
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
My dinosaur example was an anectdote for why I am what the above post calls a "soft" atheist. I won't claim that there is no god(s) is the absolute truth, since we can't ever prove they don't exist. However, I will say that beliving in such things is even less sensible than beliving that there still exists dinosaurs, since we have evidence that they existed once. There is no more reason to belive in dieties than to belive in the tooth fary or santa clause, and I have a hard time understanding why anybody belives in it.
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
You can prove things within systems comprised of axioms of your choice. However, when I was talking about physics, I meant the part that seeks to model nature. We don't know the axioms of that unfortunatly. Exact science (well, math) is bliss. Nothing in nature is so by definition (except to religious people).
On a related note:
How do you know zero dinosaurs are alive today?
You don't. In general you can't ever know things on the form "X does not exist" in nature, because you can never be sure you've examined all candidates for X. There's a funny example of white vs. black swans if you search for it.
But there's plenty of evidence that they are extinct, so I guess you can call it a fact in this sense. In scientific context, I would prefer to call it a theory, since it implies that it has to predict something (I won't find any dinosaurs) to be useful, and the possibility that I may be proven wrong ("No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." - Einstein).
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
Neither physics nor dieties are facts (in the sense that they are or can be proven). The difference is that there is observable evidence supporting the theories in physics, whereas dieties are pure imagination.
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RE: Locked out of the wha..?
I got my new credit card yesterday, and during an online payment, I was asked to set up a "verified by visa" password. And they asked me to give a security question and an answer, in case I forgot the password.
I never got that. It will always be way easier to remember or guess the answer than the password, so why not simply ask the question instead of asking for the password?
For the record, I chose the question "I am not Sarah Palin" and the answer "dbQ!!"!"apoewDfd_Fgøæergznvbm++e132123AADGBMNZgb". Try gyessing that, punk!
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RE: How not to create a PHP downloader script.
No, PHP sucks. That doesn't mean you can't make good stuff in it though, just that it's harder.
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RE: Code snippet
@bjolling said:
In my opinion, a public method called Get<something> should have <something> as the return type. If it can't correctly do what it says on the can, it should throw an exception.
So GetLength should have Length as return type? I'd prefer int :P
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RE: Enter MIAP - With the unique learner number.
@beerful said:
3. Dates are required to be in the format YYYY/DD/MM
No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Oh well, it was fun having a date representation with only one interpretation as long as it lasted.
That said, it sounds like every other piece of software for teaching institutions I've ever run into. The last place I'd want to work is in their IT departments, at least if I'd have to deal with this every day.
On the other hand, maybe somebody is playing a cruel practical joke on you. Yeah, that's a comfortable explanation. Maybe it's TopCod3r?
Edit: Thank you for ignoring my line breaks, oh incredible forum software.
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RE: School mail WTF - one email to rule them all
OK, it's not that big a deal, but still :-)
A few weeks ago, during the summer break, somebody sent yet-another info mail out on the university mailing list (for all of CS). I don't blame them for the following, because nobody could have seen it coming: somebody was on vacation. *gasp*. The automated vacation response was replied back to the mailing list "from" e-mail, which also happens to be the broadcast e-mail. After a few iterations, it looked something like this:
I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>>>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blah blah blah meeting saturday (or whatever).
Then it somehow stopped. Until somebody replied:
Why am I receiving this e-mail? That meeting has already been held!
which was forwared to the entire mailing list..
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RE: Doing it Wrong: Unions
@bstorer said:
@ahnfelt said:
Mother certainly isn't a Baby
Mother is never a Baby. If anything, Baby is a Mother (kids these days!).Whoops, yeah, that's what I meant to say.
@bstorer said:
I entirely agree with you here: C is not an object-oriented programming language. Saying that it "supports" OOP is to make the word meaningless. But, by the same token, it's unfair to claim it can't do OOP at all.
Agreed.
@bstorer said:
Still, if you want C and OOP, I say use Objective C.
Except then you're no longer using C. Maybe that's your point: if you want to use C and OOP, don't ;-)
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RE: Doing it Wrong: Unions
@morbiuswilters said:
@ahnfelt said:
But it never had any support for OOP what so ever, at least none that machine code doesn't have. What are you thinking of?
Yes it did. Read the rest of the thread before you reply.
Uh, I read the thread before replying. And I just reread it. And no indication of any support for OOP magically appeared. Should I read it again?
For example:
Mother* isn't a Baby* (and Mother certainly isn't a Baby). The only way to get around it is by bypassing the type system with an unchecked cast.
With casts, you can obtain polymorphism by creating a custom vtable, but you still have to pass "this" explicitly. And the syntax for private methods and methods that shouldn't be in the vtable will be different.
Maybe we just disagree on what constitutes capabilities for a concept. Sure it's possible to program object oriented in C, as it is in any turing complete language. But to say it supports object oriented programming has no meaning if you define it to be true for all such languages.
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RE: Doing it Wrong: Unions
C still exists, no need for past tense. But it never had any support for OOP what so ever, at least none that machine code doesn't have. What are you thinking of?
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RE: Facebook wtf
You don't seem to know what Facebook has become. It's no longer limited to college friends, it's for everybody, and half the world seems to be on it. It's can be an incredible time waster, but it doesn't have to be - just ignore all those quizzes, vampire bites, or whatever. If you take those out of the equation, you're left with a pretty decent online contact list that doesn't disappear when your phone gets stolen.
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RE: Would you like a longer URL?
@Quicksilver said:
try getting a shorter url ... they are all taken!
LOL! That is so true.
But the really weird thing here is how they managed to travel into the future to put up this website. Their clothes reveals that it's 1840 where they come from.
EDIT: Ah... some of it is actually Amish. That explains it :)
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RE: 0 = -3,1E-15?
We say ...
We say "three comma fourteen", except not in English ;-) Imagine the pain of writing a tuple of real numbers:
(1,2, 3,4, 7, 8,9) "One comma two comma three comma four comma seven comma eight comma nine". Good luck figuring out which are decimal separators and which are element separators!
It's so unbelievably stupid to have two different notations for something this common. I promise we'll ditch the comma as soon as you people discover the metric system.
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RE: Interesting image names
Just because it's common practice, it isn't less of a WTF to shorten names to save 1-3 letters. There's simply no point in reducing readability to save a few keystrokes.
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RE: Departing to... End program
Now <b>there's</b> <i>The Real WTF</i> ;-)
Edit: Interpret the html yourself, I can't be bothered with wysiwyg!
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RE: Exit please
Except for the punctuation and capitalization, there's nothing wrong with that question (except that google has the answer readily available). The answer isn't obvious - the whole idea of using a number to indicate a program-specific error is probably the only WTF here ;-)
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RE: Secret Windows settings Microsoft doesn't want you to know about...
@wonkoTheSane said:
@Thief^ said:
I have linux dual-booting with XP on my pc at home, and I regularly use both. It's just a pity that wine isn't yet finished enough to run most Windows-only games. Though for software (and console) development, it's hard to beat Visual Studio.
Oh dear... Im sure that " it's hard to beat Visual Studio" will do noting but turn this thread into a giant flame war (like the great cold fusion debate of 06).
In case this happens (And possibly to help it along) I agree completly with Thief^ VS is great and everything else sucks ass... (I'm paraphrasing)I would be rude to prove you wrong, so here goes :P
I'm regularly using both Netbeans (for Java) and Visual Studio (Pro) (for C#), both the most recent versions, and nb easily beats vs, especially when it comes to refactoring (go try renaming a class in both, and you'll see what I mean).
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RE: Is this monomorphism?
Must our designed languages inherit the flaws of the evolved ones?
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RE: Excel Doc Title
I've been using GIMP on linux, and frankly, it's a pain. Having one application take up an entire workspace in order to work comfortably is a bad design decision in my opinion.
Of course on Windows, GIMP is neither stable nor cooperating with the windowing environment. It's sad since it's such a nice tool when it works.
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RE: Went WTF on exception handle...(java)
@VGR said:
I'm not sure which way is more "correct," but I've seen many JDBC drivers throw their own subclasses of SQLException. You do, however, give a good example of why they probably should avoid doing so. (I wonder if this is the reason for the addition of so many specific subclasses of SQLException in Java 1.6.)
So you can handle them appropriately in a uniform, type safe way?
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RE: Went WTF on exception handle...(java)
The WTF at hand is that you send detailed server exceptions to the client. You could be relaying more information to the (presumably untrusted) client than you want to. My advice is to do the logging at serverside and send a simple string or nothing as the cause. I don't even see why you're sending a SQLException back. Does the client need to know that your server is using sql?
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RE: Fun with interfaces.
"Interfaces marked with I is a good practice, as they are not really classes." - pitchingchris
In C# that you mention, methods and classes are named the same way. For that reason, I don't think the C# coding standard is very well designed. Wouldn't it be less bad to confuse classes and interfaces (ie. types) than classes and methods?
(In any case though, as long as people follow it, it's a whole lot better than C++-esque no standards (or "a thousand standards"), and I'll follow it any day)
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RE: ...words fail me.
I think the worst part is the naming convention for constants (or are they instance variables? doesn't matter, it's still wrong), that doesn't follow the standard naming convention (SCREEN_WIDTH or screenWidth const/instance).
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RE: MSXML WTF & lot's of head banging against wall
Of course Microsoft is wrong...
Microsoft apparently has no clue on what XHTML is. Check out their "XTHML-Strict" search page www.live.com. It's rare to see a page declared XHTML with this many validation errors.
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RE: Yet more questionable info on W3Schools.
Who writes these things? Neither C++ nor Java can ever create standard components that can run on all
computers? But .NET can? Is w3schools run by Microsoft? -
RE: Flickr Javascript Gems
So let me get this straight...
In the beginning we wrote machine code.
Then we wrote in a middle level language and compiled to machine code.
Then we wrote in a high level language and compiled to bytecode that executed in an environment developped in a middle level language.
Are we now writing code in a high level language and compiling to a super high level language?
Hmm... so in a few years...
Perfect! I'm going to revolutionize software development with a compiler that translates machine code to english!
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RE: Windows Live Search - almost XHTML?
[quote user="Benanov"]
HTML Tidy broke my meta tags. Can I use that icon until I fix them?
:)
[/quote]
Lol. I think w3c holds more of the IP to that than I do ;-)
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Windows Live Search - almost XHTML?
You'd think that a company like Microsoft would at least run their pages through a validator before claiming that their pages are Strict XHTML. Or would you? Afterall, it was a weird feeling in my gut that told me to look at the source code - the kind of feeling associated with not being able to open any links on the page in a new tab without browsing to it in the original tab too. And sure enough, it doesn't validate.
Now, I don't know about the Web name space, but there are plenty of other things wrong. In an act of charity, I've made a nice button for them to put on their page:
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RE: How many spaces?
[quote user="HeroreV"]
This reminds me of CSS like this:
.blue-arial {
color: gray;
font-family: serif;
}The real WTF is the naming convention. What kind of freak uses all lowercase and no underscores?
[/quote]
Err... you're joking right? Replying to the wrong post? I don't get it...
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RE: School WTF
[quote user="Manni"]
But I think we can all agree that Java sucks.JAVA IS FOR IDIOTS LOL, U CALL TAHT A LANGAUGE!? [/quote]
(mind pointing out why you think that?)
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RE: "URL" link
Although many (but not all) of my teachers are clueless when it comes to technical stuff, they're pretty good with what they're actually teaching. Somehow they just really belive that computer science has nothign to do with computers.
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RE: "URL" link
Woha. That's got to be a joke. Although with the bold-on-hover links I doubt it...
Why are some computer science teachers so clueless when it comes to non-theoretical computer stuff?