The best is when you go into a gas station and the cashier tells you to swipe your own card through the machine thats facing you, then the machine tells you to hand your card to the cashier who proceeds to type in the expiration date or whatever it is he's doing... Why swipe the card yourself in the first place? Can't the cashier handle the responsibility?
Posts made by AustinW
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RE: So I was sitting in my cubicle ...
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RE: Millions of records...
The site looks nice. But anybody try actually using it? Everytime you do anything it takes forever to load
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RE: DriveCleaner 2006
Haha. look at picture #16. It shows the cookie from its own web site as a potential threat...
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RE: TDWTF Job Boad - another WTF!
This was probably the most ridiculous user post I've ever read. Thank you. You've just perfectly illustrated the concept of WTF. You must be a contractor...
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RE: A New Person Programming
i hear lots of people like Boo . I havent used it so I cant say personally, but like i said, its getting popular
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RE: Vistamnesia (aka vistaphrenia)
this isn't a wtf, this is your own snobbishness and prebuilt opinion that vista was going to suck. I have a 3 year old laptop and i have had the final version of vista on it since the day it got posted to msdn. I have had no problems with it other than a couple drivers for things i dont use anyways that will be fixed when Vista is actually publicly released at the end of this month. Visual Studio works great without a single problem so far.
User Account Control can be turned off, and if Microsoft hadn't included it, then people like you would be here bitching about how its a wtf that vista didnt have any kind of protection and any program could do whatever it wanted.
And instead of actually taking more than five minutes to learn how to actually use vista, you ran onto here and started bitching. You should save everybody the cliche complaints and switch to java. Then you could work on a mac. Haha.
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RE: Code research made fun
My Favorite. Maybe.
559: # by calling $self->type in a void context (which reblesses the object)
# and then calling $self->script again. I think this sucks, but then
# again this code shouldn't be called that often. Maybe. -
Ernest Hemingway WTF
Remember when you were in high school and your teacher blew so much smoke up your ass about what each book meant and if you didn't get the smallest details correct on the test then you got a bad grade? Heres even a few links about The Old Man and the Sea:
Ernest Hemingway himself proved all that was a load of BS when in a letter to Bernard Berenson, in 1952 he wrote:
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Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm. The sea is a sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolysm that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
</quote>
This is the kind of thing people should be taught. To think for themselves and get out of a story what you see in it, rather than what some teacher or critic tells you you should see...
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Great Receptionist Resume...
This is from an actual resume that we got for a Receptionist position...
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RE: WTF was I doing?
injection vulnerability
complete lack of comments
use of single letters for variables
about half of the code is unnecessary
among other things...
I went back to fix an issue and I couldnt figure out what I had done for a good while... -
WTF was I doing?
After graduating college with a history major, and having never programmed before, my job required that someone teach themselves how to program, and I was chosen to be that person. Many WTF's were the result of the first few months, including this wonderful bit of code...
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public void CheckErrors()
{
errorProvider1.Clear();
string org = textBox3.Text.Trim();
string email = textBox4.Text.Trim();
string first = textBox5.Text.Trim();
string last = textBox6.Text.Trim();
bool o = false;
bool e = false;
bool f = false;
bool l = false;
if (org != null && org != string.Empty) o = true;
if (email != null && email != string.Empty) e = true;
if (first != null && first != string.Empty) f = true;
if (last != null && last != string.Empty) l = true;
if (o == true && e == true && f == true && l == true)
{
bool ex = false;
ex = nData.Exists("Select * From aztec_Customers Where Organization='" + org + "'");
if (ex == true) errorProvider1.SetError(textBox3, "That Organization already exists. Please provide a unique Organization.");
else
{
panel2.Visible = false;
panel3.Visible = true;
SaveCustomer();
}
}
else
{
if (o == false) errorProvider1.SetError(textBox3, "Please provide an Organization.");
if (e == false) errorProvider1.SetError(textBox4, "Please provide an Email.");
if (f == false) errorProvider1.SetError(textBox5, "Please provide a First Name.");
if (l == false) errorProvider1.SetError(textBox6, "Please provide a Last Name.");
}
}
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RE: Google is a developer of AJAX??
That line is broken, here is the full link:
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/work/soa/Sun_and_Google_shake_hands/0,39024650,39212301,00.htm -
Google is a developer of AJAX??
It's always interesting when someone with no actual knowledge of computers writes articles about them...
<a href="http://www.builderau.com.au/program/work/soa/Sun_and_Google_shake_hands/0,39024650,39212301,00.htm:>Sun and Google Shake Hands
I especially loved this line toward the end:
In addition, Google is a developer of AJAX, which gives Web browsers a more sophisticated user interface.
and this one as well:
"Schwartz said he has no regrets: "Is AJAX or a browser an appropriate vehicle for heavyweight office productivity software? Absolutely not," he said."
Makes it sound as if AJAX is a program that Google is actively developing...