Unfortunately my superpowers of the past are gone :/
Posts made by ammoQ
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RE: "Now about that change request ..." Had a spam post
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RE: I am looking for a program that will do job of stripper
Maybe this is what you need: http://acme.com/software/decss/
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RE: Possibly stupid question
Oracle's RDBMS can do a lot of stuff many/most/all other databases don't.
Features like analytical functions and flashback queries come to my mind. PL/SQL is arguably the most complete and most powerful language for stored procedures to be found in any RDBMS.
That said, if an other database does what you need it to do, there is probably little reason to switch to Oracle.
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RE: The Growth
How about using the, you know, "index" thingy? Last time I checked, Oracle seemed to support that one, too, at least in the Enterprisey Edition.
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RE: Learning Oracle
You should be aware that Oracle's PL/SQL is a powerful programming language in the style of ADA, which can be used to write large parts of applications. For example, one application I'm maintaining consists of ~30K lines of PL/SQL code (mostly business logic) and ~5K of Java Code for the GUI frontend. As a PL/SQL programmer, you should not only know how to write SQL queries and stuff, but also know how to create packages, which standard packages Oracle provides (UTL_FILE etc.), and, as applications grow larger, how to manage the code.
Since your background is .net, at first you will probably be intimidated by the P in PL/SQL - PL/SQL is procedural, not object oriented; there are some language features for (a bit of) OO programming, though.
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RE: No, Microsoft, the US is not the Fourth Reich just yet...
Since the German text is in a pleasing tone, it can't be a reference to the Fouth Reich. That would take something along the lines of "Das Hauptquartier teilt mit, dass die Bestellung für Windows 8 um 0900 eingetroffen ist."
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RE: Ubuntu and TRWTF... this time...
I prefer the Lubuntu flavor, good performance with a user interface I'm used too since '95.
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RE: Is Astah girl hotter than Beanbag girl and Foosball girl or what?
@belgariontheking said:
The server that hosts the Astah Girl photo appears to be down.
What a shame... the image isn't on ChangeVision's website either. I knew it was a bad idea to buy Enterprise Archtitect, even thought it's apparently cheaper and more powerful.
EDIT: She is back!!!!!!
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RE: Prefixes - but at what cost!?
@Qwerty said:
@ammoQ said:
Therefore, we have abandoned this practice.
Leaving the stupid version as the current practice?
Would that be so uncommon?
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RE: Is Astah girl hotter than Beanbag girl and Foosball girl or what?
@R.Flowers said:
I've been gone 3 years, and you guys are still mooning over these *same girls*!?
You know, we are getting old.
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RE: Prefixes - but at what cost!?
In one company, we've used a similar scheme, but it just doesn't make sense. Example:
select ord_number, cus_name from orders, customers where ord_customerid = cus_customerid and cus_code = 'ammoQ';
Now the same, with table aliases instead of the prefix:
select ord.number, cus.name from orders ord, customers cus where ord.customerid = cus.customerid and cus.code = 'ammoQ';
As you can see, the table aliases allow me just as well, and without any doubt, and without writing much more code, to see which column is from which table. But I only need those aliases when I do a join - not for inserts, updates, deletes, single-table selects:
select cus_name from customers where cus_code = 'ammoQ'; update customers set cus_name='Erich' where cus_code='ammoQ'; insert into customers(cus_name, cus_code) values ('Erich', 'ammoQ'); delete from customers where cus_code = 'ammoQ';
vs.
select name from customers where code = 'ammoQ'; update customers set name='Erich' where code='ammoQ'; insert into customers(name, code) values ('Erich', 'ammoQ'); delete from customers where code = 'ammoQ';
Therefore, we have abandoned this practice.
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RE: Do children make you sad?
I have two children myself, and I've just learned to accept that the world isn't perfect; so I try to offer my kids all the opportunities I can, but eventually, it's their life and what they make of it. Sure, commercial is deceiving, that's why I talk about them about the stuff they see in TV and what is exaggerated or plainly wrong. And all that sad stuff - war on terror, war on drugs etc. - people have experienced bad stuff all the time and still many of them had a happy life.
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RE: Pure R&D Projects
Sounds like a great chance. Don't worry, have fun. It's not uncommon for a small business to quickly change direction when new business ideas come up.
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RE: Duke Nukem Finally
I would have bought it back then, but unfortunately, I'm too old now. Not too old to play such games, but to old to buy them when the reviews are substellar.
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RE: Morbs
Last time he has been seen here was at Tue, Feb 22 2011. So chances are he hasn't noticed your posts yet. But if you really miss your sexual harrasment that much, I'm sure we can arrange something for you.
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RE: Nobody is talking of Arnold on this forum.
It's always surprising how stupid men can be when their hormones take over. Speaking of hormons, I'm pretty sure that he swallowed lots of them during his bodybuilder career, so maybe this is kind of an excuse?
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RE: Online Poker / Playing Against The Computer
@Lorne Kates said:
First, there is 0 incentive for an online poker house to rig the deals.
What if you play against an opponent which is not a real player like you, but is associated with the online poker house? Just consider all those flirt hotlines which promise to connect you to "single girls looking for men", but in fact connect you to a call center where women are paid to act like such girls, just to keep you on the line so you ramp up charges, without ever having a change to get a date with such a woman. On the same principle, you might be playing poker against employees of the poker house who most of the time have better cards than you, but get a small salary instead of the large amounts of money real players lose to them.
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RE: Still not sure if this is the worst code we have (but it is a good candidate)
@ooblek said:
e->Delete () is called in the scope of
<font><font size="3">CAppException*e both times. If a CMemoryException is thrown, it is a different variable e operated on in the scope of that macro. It is hard to tell if MemoryError(e) returns or re-throws the exception. Assuming it returns, the second e->Delete is called on the e from the original scope that was already deleted.</font></font>
MemoryError might also cry "out of memory" and quit the program, which might be the most sensible thing to do when memory allocation fails.
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RE: Is Astah girl hotter than Beanbag girl and Foosball girl or what?
Beanbag girl.
Foosball girl.
Sorry, can't find the others.
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RE: Nuclear Spam Attack
Holy shit... maybe a new forum software should restrict new users to something like 5 posts/day for a week or so.
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Is Astah girl hotter than Beanbag girl and Foosball girl or what?
We are currently about to buy an UML tool for our team, and I feel so tempted to recommend Astah instead of Enterprise Architect just because of that banner...
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RE: I'm getting bored *and* motivated...
I better keep my mouth shut, since people in general are not fond of my suggestions.
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RE: Oracle and SilverLight
@Forumtroll said:
Procedures and functions requires to be in a package to comply to some absurd oracle standard AFAIK
Bullshit. You can have it either way. Packages are usefull to organise the code and to keep state (i.e. package variables, which are just like static variables in a java class).
I know Oracle has some quirks, but in this case, it seems like the problem exists beween keyboard and chair.
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RE: OpenOffice marketing
Thread moved to "Side Bar WTF". Because those screenshots are WTFs. WTF!
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RE: But we designed it to work...
TBH, some users prefer checkboxes over drag-to-select, but in that case, drag-to-select simply should not be there.
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RE: HiSave / ICICI UK.
I would not keep my money at a bank with no quality assurance whatsoever. Since such an obvious bug goes unnoticed, programmers can obviously introduce any code they like.
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Lazy scammer
The following is a verbatim copy of a spam mail I've received today, comments are not mine, they were already there, I've just highlighted them for your reading pleasure:
CHRISTIAN YEBOHA
ABIDJAN(COTE D'IVOIRE)
ATTN : DIRECTOR
DEAR,
I AM CHRISTIAN YEBOHA,AN IVORIAN (IVORY
COAST)NATIONALITY.THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR AND MRS.
YEBOHA. MY FATHER WAS A VERY RICH COCOA MERCHANT...
yeah, yeah, whatever...
BEFORE THE DEATH
OF MY FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 26,2001 IN PRIVATE HOSPITAL
WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED,HE CALLED ME SECRETLY TO HIS BED
SIDE AND TOLD ME THAT HE KEPT SUM OF US $16,500,000.00
uh huh...
N.B: SIR, I WILL LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR DIRECT
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY OF THIS MY
PROPOSAL AND PLEASE CALL ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE
THIS MY CONFIDENTIAL LETTER.MY DIRECT CONTACT IS christianyeboha@in.com.
HOWEVER,MAY ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS YOU AS
YOU DO CARE FOR AN ORPHAN LIKE ME.PLEASE READ HEBREWS
CHAPTER 13,VERSES I-3 & PSALM 86 FOR GOD SO LOVED US
AND GIVES EVERYONE OF US HIS BLESSINGS.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU,AMEN.
BEST REGARDS
CHRISTIAN YEBOHA.Looks like a scammer copied the text from a scam warning or something similar.
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RE: ORA-04068: existing state of packages has been discarded
This only happens when you have package-scoped variable in your package.
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RE: Simple question: Should I be bothered by...
@XIU said:
Except for the people that program in Notepad we only have 3 IDE's for .NET development: Visual Studio, MonoDevelop and SharpDevelop. All three have this feature, what IDE are you using then?
I think that most people in C#-Land use VisualStudio, but I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that some people out there seriously use powerful editors like VIM, SlickEdit, UltraEdit etc. for C# development; masochists with bad taste might even choose Emacs for the task.
It's easy to imagine that such editors might be smart enough to understand normal type declarations, but not the var keyword.
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RE: Simple question: Should I be bothered by...
@TheCPUWizard said:
Now replace the Factory to return a nuclear bomb....the code will still compile, but it would have significantly different ramifications.
Your example is very extreme and also unlikely; on the other hand, this behaviour could be desired. Consider:
class FooBar { public int getPrimaryKey(); public static bool doSomething(int pimaryKey); }
In such a case, the following code just needs to be recompiled when, for whatever reason, the type of primaryKey is changed to string:
var key = fooBar.getPrimaryKey();
FooBar.doSomething(key);
BTW, since this thread is a serious discussion about coding, I'm moving it to "Coding related help& questions"
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RE: Simple question: Should I be bothered by...
IMO this is just a matter of habit. Nothing bad happens if you use var whenever possible. Since I'm currently rather using script languages like JavaScript and Groovy, where you use var resp. def all the time, I took me some time to figure out what exactly annoys you about that innocent looking line.
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RE: Have fun with Google Scribe
spectate swamped by the waves of the sea and the sky is completly gray and white.
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RE: Have fun with Google Scribe
@tOmcOlins said:
Strangely, nothing comes up when I type "Viagra".
Google Scribe seems to have a blacklist, Viagra is probably on that list.
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RE: Have fun with Google Scribe
@pink said:
Err! And my posts from google scribe were deleted why? Oh they made so much sense they looked like spam. Sheesh. did no-one try putting in "The" and "The Freaky" and whatever the hell the third one I put in was. Or is this another CS WTF? Hmm check my email I guess cos they should all be in there. Yep there they are.
Surely a mistake by one of the mods. I don't know who it was, but I'll post a warning about that in the mods section. Obviously we do not want to discourage people from using this forum, except for those people who try to sell viagra, cheap shoes, wow gold etc.
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RE: Oracle's Android lawsuit - another sign of things to come
@Scarlet Manuka said:
@MarkJ said:
If you think Oracle is difficult to compete with, try buying something from them.
And once you've passed that hurdle, try to install some of their software.
And after that, things are getting ugly.
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RE: The Nazis are running MS! They're taking over our minds!
@Tiel08 said:
It is only the narrow minded that associate this symbol with nazism.
Like, say, 99.9% of world's population.
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Have fun with Google Scribe
Write a few words, then always pick the first suggestion until something like a real sentence is done.
E.g.
the daily wtf is this crap about the people who are not in the same way as the first step to doing all this and more on Facebook.
bold=my words
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RE: Oracle's Android lawsuit - another sign of things to come
@Medezark said:
Like the recent bug with Eclipse/Java, where changing the vendor name for Java from Sun to Oracle causes eclipse to get all confused and stuff and just CRASH. yay!!
That was not a bug, it just had to happen when Eclipse got intelligence, self-awareness and a sense of honor at the same time.
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RE: Oracle's Android lawsuit - another sign of things to come
@belgariontheking said:
@ammoQ said:
It's scary when you think about how difficult it is to avoid Microsoft completely and not wind up in the realms of Oracle or IBM.
FTFYIf you put it like this, it's even more scary.
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RE: Clbuttic, Firefox, clbuttic...
A quick poll: Since the FF team seams to think that "tit" is a swear word, how many of you actually use it this way, as in "TIT, I've burned my hand on a handle of a frying pan!"
Personally, I prefer to say FUCK instead in such situations.
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RE: Why is TDWTF a spamfest and noone is doing anything about it?
@veggen said:
The topic says it. TDWTF comment space is second to none when it comes to the amount of spam. Why isn't anyone doing anything? Why are anonymous comments still allowed? That is the TRWTF of all times.
The forum here is relatively clear, I guess; the front page is a different kind of beast, though. To be honest, I think that no moderator wants to go through the comments on the front page, since more often than not, they are not worthwile (to say it politely). So much stupidity, so little time. Anyway, if a qualified user* reading this thinks "I'd absolutely LOVE to become a moderator for the frontpage", send me a message.
* regular visitor, member for several months, some 100 posts, not an author of a desktop seach engine that can randomly play videos too, not (too often) involved in flamewars etc.
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RE: Foreign Key Fail
@dhromed said:
I'm open to alternatives, though. I'm just not sure what kind of features email really needs that TB doesn't provide.
Instead of looking for an alternative to Thunderbird, look for an alternative to email. As a whole, email sucks. I find myself using it less and less.
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RE: Oracle's Android lawsuit - another sign of things to come
It's scary when you think about how difficult it is to avoid Oracle completely and not wind up in the realms of Microsoft.
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RE: What, nothing about Dry Erase Girl yet?
Who needs Dry Erase Girl? Beanbag Girl forever.
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RE: We won't need to know
@Xyro said:
Fascinating! Why are they so adamant about not having the audit fields updated?
E.g. your product table has a (redundant) field "average sales quantity" that is updated daily by a batch job running at night.Updating this field is, technically, an update to the product table, but some people might argue that the information "the nightly batch has updated the avg_sales field" is relatively unimportant and unnecessarily overwrites more important changes, like changing the product description.
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RE: One field table
"Flexible" database designs lead to a lot of problems. Queries like 'List all Nike shirts in red or blue, size XL' require a lot of joining, making the program slow and the development process tedious. You cannot create an index on more than one attribute, so queries become even slower. It's almost impossible to enforce any kind of constraint, so together with the tedious development process, you have to expect a lot of inconsistent data caused by bugs.
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RE: We need to make source code more english so non-engineers will understand it
I really love it when highly detailed design documents are treated as god-given commands that must be tenaciously followed into the least detail. You see, when we programmers write, say, 10000 lines of code, there will be several bugs in it (maybe 100 or so). But those analysts and designers, they write 200 pages of technical specifications, at nearly the same level of detail like source code, without the ability to use tests, debuggers etc., and still there is not a single error in the whole document. They must be real geniuses.
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RE: Bad practices that have their roots back to VB - code review
@dhromed said:
Excellent. Thanks. Good feature, that. I use its equivalent all the time in JS when I have a function with 3+ arguments most of which are optional: it's more explicit to the code reader, and more flexible => more better good.
ExtJS , a framework for making GUI-like web applications in JavaScript, uses parameter objects everywhere.