And what about booleans? They only need a single bit!
Best posts made by Anketam
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RE: Old Computer Challenge
@DOA said:
DOA's Law: The age of the oldest hardware you own is proportional to the amount of time that has passed since you last moved.
You need more than DOA's Law. You need an of clause to go with it. I recommend DOA's Law of Old Hardware until you can come up with a cheecky or clever name for the law.There, my legacy is secure.
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RE: Yet another sleep
Hmm... depending on the language, there should be a class that lets you update the system time. So what you can do, is if you get a message that is later than your system time, update your system's time to be 1 millisecond ahead of it. So you now have a ninja way of syncing the clocks and a perfect wtf surprise for the next programmer that inherits your code after you leave.
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RE: Old Computer Challenge
@DOA said:
@Anketam said:
Well dhromed should have no problem now coming up with a creative name for your law.You need more than DOA's Law. You need an of clause to go with it. I recommend DOA's Law of Old Hardware until you can come up with a cheecky or clever name for the law.
I'm a software developer, you expect me to come up with a good name for anything?@db2 said:Funny enough, I just moved three years ago, but I've still got the Vic-20 my family owned way back in 1984 or so.
Keep ruining it with your edge case and I'll change it to "The age of the oldest hardware you own is proportional to the amount of time that has passed since you last moved divided by the size of your penis". -
RE: Lotus Notes: Spearheading the social/mobile web revolution!
@FrostCat said:
@blakeyrat said:
As some one who never used Lotus Notes I had to look up what you were refering to, and luckily Code Horror had a wonderful topic on it, for those interested:@Cassidy said:
OMG there's 5 more pages of this? Well, apologies if someone else already brought this up, but that's not true: the heiroglyphics it used to display when you typed in your password were mildly amusing the first time.Okay, so Notes is universally reviled. Does it have any redeeming features? Other than those that are.. erm.. found in other products?
No.http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/the-dramatic-password-reveal.html
All I could think when reading it was wtf?!
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RE: I Hate I Hate Lotus Notes Helpdesk
Outlook handles attempts at multiline subject lines neatly. You hit enter in the subject line and boom it moves the cursor to the body. The whole idea of allowing multiple lines in the subject line just contradicts its name.
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RE: Tell me if this is acceptable or if I'm overly sensitive
Workers pulling pranks on fellow workers and leaders is acceptable under the correct culture
Leaders should never pull pranks on their workers.
My company we are a very serious company, but we have a few characters who loved to do pranks. There was one ongoing prank on the test team, where if you left your computer unlocked and unattended a fellow tester would send an email from your computer to the test team saying: "Home made pizza in the lab!" It was a very good prank since it had the added benefit of encouraging people to lock their computers which complies with corporate policy.
One minor prank was done on one of the team leads, who is a hunt and peck typer, and they switched the 'm and 'n' keys around on his keyboard. Took him 30 minutes to figure out what was wrong.
This other prank occured before I started working, one of our managers was on vacation for a week and had a small office. Her team decided to fill her office with balloons. Once they filled it as much as they could they closed the door (which opened into the office), and started to fill it up the rest of the way by lifting the ceiling tiles and pushing the balloons over the wall. When the manager got in she had a lot of trouble even opening the door to her office, and once she finally got it open enough she was greeted by an avalanch of balloons.