Just about everything Oracle has been involved in is a joke, except for their database.
The database is top-notch... SQL Server proponents like to think they're trading a little bit of performance for a lot of usability, but the reality is that the GUI used to administer SQL Server sucks.
Take the backup/restore dialog, for example. Until recently, it exhibited only garden variety stupidity. It was, like, the one Microsoft dialog that apparently had no concept of filename extensions, and was just generally clunky. In the most recent versions, though, Microsoft has redesigned the dialog to be far, far worse.
My favorite part: restoring a backup file defaults to putting the restored file over the location from which it was backed up, even if you change the name of the database you're restoring to. Imagine a scenario where you have a copy of the data that you restore/trash/restore repeatedly during development... better remember to change that target data file name every fucking time, or you'll trash the database (production?) from which the image backup was originally taken.
Oh, and the fancy GUI that's used to maintain your schema? A lot of the time it pussies out, forces the table edit window closed, and saves the fucking name of the object you were trying to edit (and nothing else) to a text file. What the fuck does that accomplish? And I'm talking about ordinary changes where the corresponding ALTER TABLE command goes right through, e.g. making a column NOT NULL in an empty table.
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RE: To all the oracle haters
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RE: A Modest Proposal
@locallunatic said:
@Nagesh said:
I think Jeff Atwood wrote that on his blog.
@mikeTheLiar said:
I don't care to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
It is a famous quote (that often goes without attribution).I think it was said by W.C. Fields, or, someone from that era.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@Nagesh said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
@bridget99 said:
It's still possible to grab substantive control over a CPU core by setting thread priority to the highest setting and then doing something CPU-intensive.
When my app is running nothing else matters to me. I'll have to check setting the thread priority UP. In reviewing fast forward and rewind video speeds on various forums, it seems that other apps can cause poor performance and video freezing.
In the past I couldn't see the need for FF or RW but now I can. My next screen reshoot will be of the cloaked one. FastForward and Rewind will show the Cloakie like never before.&nmbsp; I'm excited.
Are you reading the holy book?
"He to whom I have granted resources in abundance... dares to ask for even more."
You hear that SpectateSwamp? The Prophet, may his name be forever honored, saw your multiprocessing strategy even through the fog of the millennia.
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
I found this on one of my phone's file servers:
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@joe.edwards said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
This option disables all "DoEvent" calls from within SSDS; no more Yielding time to the Operating System so doohickey distractions can run.
I'm pretty sure Windows 3.1 was the last edition of Windows to use cooperative multitasking. The only events you're not yielding to are the messages being sent to your application to update itself.It's still possible to grab substantive control over a CPU core by setting thread priority to the highest setting and then doing something CPU-intensive.
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RE: No thank you, Box.
@morbiuswilters said:
@dkf said:
@Maciejasjmj said:
Ayn Rand fanfiction
People write that sort of thing? How on earth do they manage to be more turgid than the original? Or are we talking Ayn Rand slash fiction, in which case I really don't want to know…Here's a serious question: have you actually read any of her work, and if so which and how much? I only ask because Rand is one of those authors that everybody has an opinion on but almost nobody has actually read, which tells you a lot about people.
I thought everyone read Ayn Rand. Typically, this happens between semester 2 at college (in which the protagonist almost flunks out) and semester 3 (in which the protagonist loses 15 pounds, gets laid, and becomes COO of a cross-country railroad).
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
@bstorer said:
@bridget99 said:
I doubt any of these cars truly have a reliability problem. People tend to drive them hard, and they generally start up and run well anyway.This doesn't make sense. I'm not suggesting any of them is a Yugo, likely to have the rear fender fall off during the test drive (which actually happened to my father). Pretty much any car will give you a solid first 40,000 (except, of course, for my TDI Jetta about 8 years ago, which required a team of techs to be flown in from Germany to see if they could fix it, before it was even out of the bumper-to-bumper warranty). But there are clearly cars that last longer and have fewer issues than others, and American cars are unquestionably not near the top of that list. There's a reason American cars tend to lose value on the used market far sooner than their Japanese counterparts. There are sixty billion Camrys out there because they're fucking bulletproof.
And the entire Chrysler family of brands is routinely at the bottom of reliability lists. The fact that they merged with Fiat, a company known for their own utterly unreliable cars, is just hilarious.
The last Mustang I bought brand new survived something like 90 passes down the dragstrip... never needed so much as a clutch or even a brake pad. It's anecdotal, of course, but I doubt a Toyota Corolla or whatever would have acquitted itself quite so well. It gets back to that old saying about "different horses for different courses." And Camrys aren't all that bulletproof... they had an engine sludge problem a few years ago, and they've had head gasket issues like anything else. You're really just reiterating a stereotype in your comments.
That said, I drive a Subaru at the moment and it does come pretty damned close to the "bulletproof" ideal.
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RE: Please Just Listen...
@bstorer said:
So are these forums just a place to post the letters you write that are full of things you're apparently too timid to say in real life? When did this website become the diary of a twelve-year-old girl?
Oh, I say it face-to-face. I didn't title this post "Please Just Read My Mind."
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Groaner said:
I've heard a lot of criticism of the Shelby's suspension. There's always the supercharged Saleen to consider; I know they make an automatic. And the Roush with the ridiculously-named Aluminator engine is supposed to be a beast.Cheap plastic interior, crappy handling... it quickly becomes obvious why it's the cheapest.
Yeah, although the Shelby is nicer (albeit pricey.) And they don't offer an auto, which is just pathetic.
I tend to agree that the interior of the current generation of Mustangs is just not attractive. I can deal with plain old hard plastic, but it needs to be tasteful. Today's Mustang just tries too hard to look like a 1960s Mustang, and that applies to both the interior and the exterior. I'm not interested in "retro."
The previous generation of Mustang was better, in my opinion, even though it had less power at every trim level. It was more of what a Mustang should be: cheap, and as fast as possible in the quarter mile. People bitched about the 5-speed transmission, and lusted after the Borg-Warner T-56... the nice thing about the transmission Ford actually used was that it only required you to shift twice in the quarter mile, and was also a lot lighter then the T-56. That's good Mustang thinking.
My feelings about the current Camaros are similar. I don't like the way the back looks. It's just not very creative or contemporary-looking. I liked the prior generation more. It was contemporary, and fast, in a cheap way.
The Dodge musclecars seem pretty decent to me, other than being Chryslers. They didn't really have a prior generation.
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Please Just Listen...
I don't have the time or energy to explain to you why we need a database script or why we have to wear underwear outside. I'm not tall, dark, or handsome, so you probably wouldn't listen even if I tried. I can't explain why "code first" is better, or why "model first" is better. And I have no desire to confirm or deny your long chains of deductive reasoning; I almost always find (eventually) that such exercises in linear thinking end up being flawed somewhere down the line.
I do go by intuition a lot of the time, for that reason, and also because I just don't have time for all that arguing at the whiteboard. I'm going to tell you the right answer, tell you the right answer again, and then give up. I've never been good at the uniquely American art of exuding supreme confidence (probably because most things turn to shit eventually), nor do I buy into the "meritocracy of ideas" that most of my colleagues seem to strive for. One can prove anything on paper. Experience and gut feel do a far better job of getting to the right answer.
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
@morbiuswilters said:
@bridget99 said:
People from my generation grew up lusting after 5.0 Mustangs and TPI Camaros.
I can't believe I missed this the first time, but you have to be shitting me, right? (..right? ..right?) The 80s were hell for cool cars. The 5.0 churned out 200-ish horsepower. Oh, it's got a good aftermarket and the torque numbers aren't too bad, but goddamn. And it may just be subjective, but it looks like crap, too.
The Camaro at least looks baller, and towards the end of the run they finally got it to put out slightly better performance than the Mustang, but it's 0-60 was still around 6. C'mon, man; I lust after cars from the 60s and 70s but as far as the 80s and 90s are concerned you might as well saved your money.
And compared to today? Look, I fuckin' hate ricers, but I'd rather have a Civic with an absurdly large spoiler than a 5.0 Mustang. Then there's stuff like the M3, the C7 and C5 to really get your juices flowing. Hell, even the current Mustangs aren't so awful, although I'm tired of seeing them.
Edit: And bro, I'm not trying to put you down or anything. It's just that those cars are objectively bad. I mean, I've got a soft spot in my heart for the 2.0L Ford Probe because I got a blowjob while driving one, but I realize to outsiders that it's an objectively bad car.
But I get you, I really do: you were looking at at fold-outs of the 5.0 or Camaro while a Duran Duran music video (the one for Rio where they drink dyed champagne underwater) played in the background on the MTV and you looked up at the poster over your bed (no, not the Skeletor one, the Cheryl Tiegs one) and thought "If I had that car, then she'd be all over me like Argentinian Marines on the Falklands." But sometimes it takes a friend to tell you "No, she wouldn't. She was out of your league and would have laughed at your car, even if you did install that sweet C.B. Anyway, Cheryl Tiegs died of HIV in 1983 and was replaced with a nipple-exposing robot by the Reagan Administration to keep morale high during the Cold War."
I didn't say that those cars were great. I said we lusted after them, and the women that wanted to ride in them, and that I respect that more than lusting after Naruto or Rainbow Dash.
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
@MorbiusWilters said:
@bridget99 said:
It's probably immaterial, though, since President Obama and his cohorts at the Federal Reserve have made some very good monetary decisions over the last few years, and if we can just avoid undoing them, I think everything will turn out OK for me.
Yes, making the dollar worthless is a good way to pretend to honor obligations while not actually honoring them.
Where I live, gas is still about $3.00 per gallon, just like it was in 2008. My housing expenses are exactly the same, to the dollar, even though I've moved. In fact, I'm not aware of anything that really costs significantly more or less now than when Mr. Obama took office, or even 5 years before that (with the possible exception of gold, and that's driven by irrational demand coming from people like you).
At the same time, unemployment has been cut in a major way. It would seem to me that my strategy (printing more money) is working, while your strategy (reneging on societal obligations) is thankfully just a fantasy.
And why are you so hung up on that strategy? I can only imagine a few possible reasons. If you've paid nothing into Social Security, then I can see where you might selfishly want to confiscate the balances of those of us who have, to your own benefit. But that strikes me as legislated theft, and if you haven't paid anything into Social Security, you're either a bum or a thief (or maybe a schoolteacher, but I doubt that). If you have paid something into Social Security, and you're willing to forfeit it just to prove some kind of point, then you're an idiot.
I suppose another possibility is that you're a practitioner of what I would call "folk economics." Way back when, you asked an elder (or maybe just asked yourself) why the government wouldn't just print an endless supply of money for us to all party with. And eventually, you arrived at an answer, in the form of a narrative in which money gets printed to a point of worthlessness.
My advice is to lay off the folk economics. Or, alternatively, learn a little bit more of it. Just about any activity conforms to the law of diminishing returns. One hamburger feeds you. Ten make you ill. Printing money is no different. It yields a benefit up to a certain point, and every indicator is that we're short of that point. That's what I was getting at in my first paragraph. We need to at the very least print enough money to keep prices and wages from falling, and we're barely doing that.
When we fall short in this regard, and constrict the money supply too much, then government debt does tend to increase. Borrowing money and printing money are alternatives to each other for the government. The fact that we've failed to do the latter means that we've done too much of the former... it has nothing to do with profligacy or moral degeneracy or big government.
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RE: I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
@morbiuswilters said:
As a 29 year old, I hate people 20-30 with a fierce passion, too. However, I hate the boomers (which I believe to be your age cohort) more. You wrecked the fucking country and now expect to retire with full Social Security benefits, working off the backs of others. Guess what: it's not gonna happen. Nobody is going to pay for you. In twenty years I fully expect there to be a political movement in this country to liquidate the Boomers once and for all.
I'm far too young to be a "baby boomer." My parents fall into that category. And I'm pretty sure I'll be paying for their retirement. So you better not touch my Social Security (which has grown into quite a pile of imaginary money) because I earned it and I'll need it.
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RE: Sql Constants!
@morbiuswilters said:
@HardwareGeek said:
@DrakeSmith said:
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that maybe there is a deeper meaning here. A 'meta' reason if you will, that carries another meaning that somewhat relates. Hmmm... what's Greek for carry? Maybe we can invent some academic sounding word to describe this property...
Google Translate strikes (out) again.The word you seek, μεταφέρω, is the first alternative translation given for "carry." However, if you try to outsmart Google Translate's penchant for sub-optimal results by forcing it to give you the dictionary form of the word (1st-person singular present active indicative - "I carry"), it presents an apparently random quasi-synonym, κουβαλώ ("I transport in a cart"), with no alternative translations offered.
I don't know how you did it, but you people sucked the fun out of translating Greek..
Where once there was fun / And now there is none / Something's been crunching / zeroes and ones
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
Blast through those wedding videos!
Are you implying that you sit around and watch wedding videos in fast forward? That's pretty wack even by the standards of this thread.
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I Hate People Aged 20-30 Right Now
- They're dorks. In my time, if someone spent too much time playing around with computers, they were shunned. And this was quite rational; screwing around with computers all day and night turns one into a nearsighted social retard with poor muscle tone.
- They don't like (and can't properly operate) cars. People from my generation grew up lusting after 5.0 Mustangs and TPI Camaros. People under 30 spend their time riding public transportation (or walking) to hip little boutiques. I used to admire that, but what I've found is that as these "under 30s" do reach the point where a car becomes unavoidable, they're learning to drive, but doing so with the timid, myopic techniques of a grandmother. And they all live in crowded downtown areas, so the results are predictably tragic.
- They have no culture of their own. The beard is from Captain Ahab, the T-Shirt is from He-Man, the beer is from some awful Detroit dive circa 1970, and the music is the most stale and derivative thing of all. I'm shocked that people still go off to college and "discover" Pink Floyd. Has nothing decent been made in the last 20 years? (Answer: no, nothing has.)
- They're perverts. If I were to meet a member of the same sex and fall head-over-heels in love, I like to think that I'd embrace that, and that my family and friends would as well. However, this tolerance should not extend to embracing the declarations of an adolescent who spent all night on an Adderall - fueled masturbation binge and jas that he's a bisexual male wolf who's trapped in a female wolf's body. That kid needs to be slapped. Pure fantasy is not a sexual preference.
- They suck at software development. They don't have the attention span to do the things that really allow one to understand computing (e.g. hours and hours of assembly language or C development, followed by hours and hours of lambda calculus). So they glue together abominable .JS libraries and declare themselves hip.
- They're relentlessly orthodox. This is the generation that decided that, instead of having civil discourse in person and flame wars on the Internet, we'd have no discourse in person, and turn the Internet into an over-moderated echo chamber. "Just make sure you wear a jimmy hat and act tolerant and everything will be OK... right... right??" <Crickets chirping>
- They hate kids (even though they are kids). Babies are soooo 1990, right? Right? I know, right? (Have I mentioned that these fools end every sentence with "right"? I'm thinking that affirmation is just a bit too important to this generation... see #6).
- They're materialistic. This is backed up by studies, but any trip to a "cool" bar will betray this fact as well. Everyone under 30 seems to have some goddamned business idea to pitch. There's no plan for like there beyond being the next Jobs or Zuckerberg. The question I ask is this: how does Zuckerberg feel about the fact that he'll never know if anyone actually loves him or not? I'd feel pretty shitty, but I'm 41.
- They're poorly groomed. The beards... ugh. A beard doesn't make you a man. Functioning testicles do. I've got a pair I'll let you kiss if it makes you feel better. (Shave first, please.)
- They're cheaters. Upcoming test? Big meeting? Have some amphetamines (as long as your one of those rare, clinically deformed people who perform better on amphetamines... a doctor can tell you if you are. Hint: if you're human, you are).
- They're too serious. "Ethiopian food" is ironic. I understand it's a real place, and people have their own cuisine there. It's still ironic.
- They're gullible. Just got a new code base from the team lead? Make sure to upgrade every dependency to the latest version, because that never, ever breaks anything. Heard me complain about some difficult task? Go find some fly-by-night .JS library using "ButtNugget Package Manger" and add it into the project without even asking. That should definitely improve things.
The day when I slap someones iPhone across the room and end up in jail is coming, and it's going to feel GREAT.
- They're dorks. In my time, if someone spent too much time playing around with computers, they were shunned. And this was quite rational; screwing around with computers all day and night turns one into a nearsighted social retard with poor muscle tone.
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RE: No, Microsoft, this information was not helpful.
@Sir Twist said:
1. It's not useful? I would think that the fact that the document failed to save is actually useful information
2. Once again, some dumbfuck failed to use GetLastError() properly.
It's too bad Microsoft didn't include GetSecondToLastError() as well. That's really what the public seems to be demanding.
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RE: Is that even possible o_O
@dkf said:
@bridget99 said:
I don't think anyone should use Unicode without specific reason to do so, e.g. some sort of specific multi-language requirement. It's a mess. I've already thoroughly deconstructed it in another post on this site. The adoption of the UTF-8 encoding basically represented Eunuch-code proponents surrendering to the 90%+ of us who just want to use ASCII.
The alternatives mostly suck worse. UTF-8 has the advantage of being ASCII-friendly and yet letting you pass around moonrunes if you need them. Outside the English-speaking bits of North America (and the parts of Australia and New Zealand that aren't sheep and kangaroos, but who cares about them?) non-ASCII is very useful. UTF-8 is so much better than the crap with code page diddling that we used to put up with.Yeah, that codepage crap was bad... what I'm suggesting, though, is that internationalization is a quagmire that developers should avoid unless there's a very compelling reason. And "users of our company web site who are in Albania will feel more comfortable if 'Log In', 'Home', etc. are rendered in Albanian" is not a very compelling reason, in my experience. You should use Unicode if you're a philologist working with Albanian text, perhaps, but end users in Albania are fine with seeing (and would even prefer to see) the plain old English field labels we all see. The only real exception I can think of is that some government-related work requires certain languages to be supported. If you're working in that sort of millieu, though, then my attempt to invoke reason here is probably unwelcome. You've already crossed through a magic mirror that I refuse to step through myself.
I've seen this over-internationalization antipattern in practice several times. A young, enthusiastic web developer goes to heroic lengths to insert internationalization into some otherwise-trivial task, and it turns into a mess / wastes resources / annoys the shit out of people. Many other languages just don't have widely agreed upon terminology for computer-related objects and tasks. And even for those that do, do you really want to expend resources figuring out this terminology, for all the languages you would have to support? After all, if you support Serbocroatian but not Albanian, you may end up being perceived as some sort of Albanophobe zealot. Better to just stick to English and avoid all sorts of controversy (as people have been finding out for all sorts of things since well before people started using computers).
Many problem domains (e.g. aviation, marine navigation, etc.) are purely English-driven in practice. You don't want to internationalize the software that runs a boat or airplane. English is also the language of the Internet... if you've ever stumbled onto a single post in a comments thread that was stubbornly written in some other language and thought "what a dumbass; no one here is going to understand that" then you know what I mean. This is not xenophobia on my part; frankly, I think English grammar is a mess, English phonology sounds bad, and English orthography is utter stupidity. But it doesn't matter. English is the best and only language appropriate for >90% of software development.
There are also some functional problems with Unicode that, I believe, tend to relegate it to exactly the sort of niche applications I suggest. You don't want to use it for URLs, for example, because there are myriad characters that look the same but are not, e.g. Angstrom sign vs. "A"-with-circle-above-it. There's no damned reason those should be distinct "code points", but they are, and the result is that Unicode-based URLs are very easy to spoof. -
RE: Possibly stupid question
@Ben L. said:
@skotl said:
If you need it, then nothing else touches multi-node Real Application Clusters (RAC) for distributed, fault-tolerant, load-balanced database (for the price).
I say "for the price" cos there are (believe it or not) even more expensive options than Oracle RAC but I don't think they're for the likes of us.
But, if you don't need RAC, then almost *anything* is better than Oracle and their let's-keep-it-at-1970s-computer-scientist-level-of-complexity approach to install, config and maintenance.
That looks truly awful.
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RE: Is that even possible o_O
@anonymous234 said:
@anotherusername said:
The SSID doesn't have any specific encoding type, so you might think that the default encoding would be ASCII
Why would you think that? Nothing made after 1995 should use ASCII as a default.I don't think anyone should use Unicode without specific reason to do so, e.g. some sort of specific multi-language requirement. It's a mess. I've already thoroughly deconstructed it in another post on this site. The adoption of the UTF-8 encoding basically represented Eunuch-code proponents surrendering to the 90%+ of us who just want to use ASCII.
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RE: The Next Generation of Boxes - 720p vs 1080p
@El_Heffe said:
I always find it annoying when people say "box" instead of "computer". Finally, here's the final word on the next generation of boxes .
Yeah, that annoys the shit out of me, too. Really, just about everything peculiar to server tech / network admin types pisses me off. It all just seems so masturbatory.
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RE: Artistic Trolling
Is the last one named "Fiat"? I've heard of women named "Mercedes", "Lexus", etc. but how on earth could this attractive young lady have come to be known as "Fiat"?
Incidentally, I can tell you where they came up with the name "Fiat". They call them that because they do whatever the hell they want, without respect to your own attempt to start / stop / control them.
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RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
@dkf said:
@bridget99 said:
Get into an issue with NuGet, and you'll wish that cleaning your solution output was all it took to get things going again.
I'll see that and raise you Maven in Eclipse. Mostly it works, but when it doesn't, it's entirely mysterious and understanding Maven outside Eclipse doesn't help. (Well, not much. The consequences of the weirdness of the way the classloaders vary inside Eclipse are profound and very hard to predict ahead of time.)If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're very lucky.
Yeah, in fairness to Microsoft, NuGet really does remind me of basically every *Nix package installer. NuGet's less excusable, though, in that Visual Studio had a perfectly fine system of reusable libraries before NuGet was foisted upon us. Microsoft had every ability to do something better, and blew it, likely in service of some corporate goal that will be abandoned with the changing of seasons
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RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
@Maciejasjmj said:
@bridget99 said:
I'm more focused on delivering code, and they're more concerned with "skill set" and specifically in developing narrow but deep expertise in .NET (and in the .NET party line, as articulated by people like Rockford Lhotka, Jon Skeet, etc.); personally, I'm not really interested in that.
Bringing you the code, no matter how bad it hurts!
Also, having a skill set related to writing readable and maintainable .NET code helps in writing readable and maintainable .NET code. It doesn't mean that you suddenly forget everything about Java once you've learned where to use lambdas in C# (though I wish it was so).
Sure, "as long as it compiles" way is also a way, but woe be upon those who inherit code like that.
I'm not advocating a return to the garage hacker ethos of the Eighties. I do think there's a time and place for studying the practices others find useful, and a time and place for actually producing salable code, and there's less overlap between the two than many developers seem to realize. I see a lot of developers work in ways that basically guarantee that everything they do will be an uninterrupted learning experience (e.g. always selecting the very newest version of everything) and I think these people suffer from a certain lack of perspective. If you're using Resharper for this reason, you're basically misappropriating project resources to advance your own career. I also disagree with the notion that because, say, Jon Skeet invented much of C# Jon Skeet therefore has oodles and oodles of relevant things to tell me about how I should apply C#. My feelings are almost diametrically opposed to that view, and history tells us that many good programmers agree with me; game programmers certainly did not use the VIC-20 display hardware in this way, for example, or even the IBM VGA. The whole concept of a RESTful web app is basically an abuse of the original vision of the people who designed HTTP. Applying C# strictly in the manner Microsoft originally envisioned would be a grave mistake.
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RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
@Maciejasjmj said:
@bridget99 said:
1) Resharper
1. It's not something that comes with Visual Studio.
2. It's one of the best tools I've ever used.
3. It's usually more right than you are, once you disable a few stupidities (such as "use var everywhere you can")
I don't disagree with most of the "advice" given out by Resharper, I just hate what it does to Intellisense, and to the overall experience of using Visual Studio. It really goes haywire if you start renaming variables outside of its own magical renaming facility, for example. I think there's a philosophical difference between me and people who use Resharper, too. I'm more focused on delivering code, and they're more concerned with "skill set" and specifically in developing narrow but deep expertise in .NET (and in the .NET party line, as articulated by people like Rockford Lhotka, Jon Skeet, etc.); personally, I'm not really interested in that.
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RE: "We have never employed a developer I actually respected..."
@Maciejasjmj said:
@bridget99 said:
my keyboard, which, having been passed from programmer to programmer for a couple years, is missing its painted-on "C", "V" and "Z".
Aah, good programming practices, I see.
Copy/paste is a poor reuse mechanism by itself, but I don't think that means that it's not an acceptable tool to use in entering one's code. The end result should respect DRY, not impose any parallel maintenance burdens, etc., but I don't perceive that avoiding Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V helps attain those goals.
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RE: "We have never employed a developer I actually respected..."
@TwoScoopsOfHot said:
Sounds like the CTO we had here a while back who said: "And software development is nothing, it's just typing."
I know a guy who's called CTO who can't type. He was trying to use my keyboard, which, having been passed from programmer to programmer for a couple years, is missing its painted-on "C", "V" and "Z". CTO found this impossible to deal with... at one point in this episode, he asked me to show him where the "K" key was, even though that wasn't one of the letters that was rubbed off.
"'K' is the one with the letter 'K' painted on it."
Supposedly I was discourteous with this dude. I'm not sure how you can avoid it when the guy who wants to drive the airplane doesn't even know what wings are.
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
I agree with the OP's premise.
Incidentally, what's the deal with everyone moving shit (e.g. the address bar) to the bottom of the screen? Is that what's supposed to pass for innovation these days... just relocating things arbitrarily? Pretty damned pathetic IMO.
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RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
You had to clean your output to fix some kind of build issue? Wow, that never happens with Visual Studio. And who would have ever thought to try that? That's some Wozniak-level shit right there. /sarcasm
Seriously, as a longtime user of Visual Studio who more recently picked up Eclipse for Android development, I can tell you that Eclipse is pretty damned good. When I started with it, I'd heard a lot of complaints and was quite wary. I was pleasantly surprised; Eclipse seems to me to be very stable, rational, etc.
I'm sure Eclipse has its issues like everything else, but in my opinion the biggest tool-related WTFs out there are 1) Resharper and 2) NuGet package manager. Get into an issue with NuGet, and you'll wish that cleaning your solution output was all it took to get things going again.
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RE: C.S. class WTF
@blakeyrat said:
My school was all Borland C++ Builder. That was like a year before they discontinued the product. Me coming from CodeWarrior, it was like stepping back in time.
Borland was top dog from about 1985-1995. They just destroyed their competition over and over again: Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ for Windows, Borland C++ 5.0, etc. were groundbreaking products that really showed what was possible on the hardware of the time. I actually saved up to buy some of those products as a kid... they were just such ridiculous displays of development prowess that I had to have them.
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RE: We kissed at midnight
@Ben L. said:
Translation: I'm a middle-aged man with intractable hemorrhoids and multiple DWI arrests. I spend my days skulking around coffee shops and drug stores, hectoring suburban housewives about flatulence and then fantasizing about it later. I'm probably impotent with plain ol' women, but if you share this fetish and want to try to flog some life back into my AAAA battery-sized penis, email me (yeah, right).
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RE: C.S. class WTF
@Clueless_Luser said:
I've just had a professor tell me that he needs to have all work handed in in a Visual Studio 2012 project because his grader doesn't know what to do with makefiles; it should be noted that the class is an introductory data structure class, rather than something that is Windows-centric or actually needs Visual Studio to be taught.
Maybe I have this all wrong, but I count at least three WTFs here:
- Why is this person allowed to help grade computer-science homework without knowing how to use the standard command line tools (hint: this person is an upperclassman, and I know for a fact that this topic is gone over extensively in a required introductory Unix class)?
- Not every student has Windows at home (I, for example, switch between Ubuntu and OpenIndiana).
- Requiring not only Visual Studio, but a specific version of it (we were explicitly requested not to use VS 2013, because the grader apparently doesn't have it).
I am starting to remember why I hated university so much the first time round.
At my school, we ping-ponged back and forth between standard toolsets almost every semester. It was a politically charged issue, negotiated b/w various instructors and University IT.
I remember being required to use Borland Turbo C++ (MS-DOS) for a couple of semesters... many a programming career died on that altar. You could work in whatever compiler you wanted, of course, but it was Turbo C++ at the lab, running on MS-DOS. There was no protection against subtly overwriting the compiler, OS, or runtime libraries in memory, nor was there any warning if your program accidentally did this. And it did. To their credit, the university ended that experiment pretty quickly, in favor of GCC running on something called a TI Eagle. Toward the end, instructors even began to explain the issue and suggest ways around it. It was too late for many.
This was in the mid-late 1990s. I have little doubt that the level of brutality you're enduring now is much lower.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
Cleared that right up, didn't he, Mike?
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
The play list is 30 groups of (text video and pictures) which
run 24X7 in the storefront window. Every 5th item is a random selection
from their movie trailer (15 seconds). Every 3rd one is a random sporting
event; in this case local drag races.So what is the 15th item?
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RE: "We have never employed a developer I actually respected..."
@Mcoder said:
@Ben L. said:
True, but A ∩ R ≠ Ø
Of course. But is P(R | A) > P(R)?
ASD, how can I explain it?
Lend me your ears and I'll frame-by-frame it
You speak out of turn
And count match sticks
You scare off the girls
And love the number six
The doctors say that you're not dumb
But you're 40 years old and you suck your thumb
(REFRAIN)
Are you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know me
Are you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know me
Are you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know me
You're an excellent driver
Or so you sayYou're not quite straight and
You're not quite gayYour mommy tries to blame a vaccine
The names that we call you are just plain mean(REFRAIN)
Are you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know meAre you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know meAre you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know meYou can do square roots to 54 digits
Your daily schedule is oh-so-rigidWapner time is half past eight
At 9:15, you masturbateWatch Dr. Phil, and then Judge Judy
Your Uncle Roy put stuff in your booty
(REFRAIN)Are you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know meAre you Downs with ASD?
Yeah, you know meAre you Downs with ASD?
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RE: Why I Like My Current Job
I've seen this whole drama unfold already. If you take the job, you will get paid. Mr. Entrepreneur will crash and burn and blame you. But if you've got a thick skin and the ability to hide contempt, this could be a rewarding opportunity.
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RE: All babies are ugly
I like her better before. Pretty faces are overrated. It's all about the body.
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RE: Multi-level marketing and multi-level clips
@joe.edwards said:
@DaveK said:
@joe.edwards said:
Noted.@Ronald said:
Not me! I'm part of a generic ethnic group!@Anonymouse said:
Isn't everybody, technically, part of a specific ethnic group?@Ronald said:
Here is how MLM works. [...]
That's way more info about MLM than I ever wanted to know.Are you part of a specific ethnic group? Just sayin'.
Thank you for making my banner. I have been waiting for something like this my whole life. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Lisa makes friends on vacation, and they decorate Homer's car with shells and starfish for her. It is perhaps even more touching than that.
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RE: Ambiguity in Namespaces? No way!
@El_Heffe said:
@joe.edwards said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
Yes.The scene's over, so you can stop bitching, but are you seriously trying to say that copy/pasting Monty Python is more annoying than blakeyrat?
I think he's saying that annoying blakeyrat is more amusing than copy/pasting Monty Python.And just about anything is more amusing than copy/pasting Monty Python.
I think he's pretty funny. I like Fawlty Towers a lot.
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RE: The other side of Excel advocacy
@El_Heffe said:
@TDWTF123 said:
a particularly gruesome spreadsheet
What could make a spreadsheet "gruesome"? Weird colors? I don't get it.This is a fantastically stupid question. Microsoft Office has one of the most flicker-prone user interfaces in the history of computing. This problem is only exacerbated by giving users the ability to script the process using a slow, hacked-up version of Visual Basic. The "human factors" problems associated with this disjointed rendering are real; the fact that it can trigger epileptic seizures is but one small manifestation of the dysfunction inherent to these programs. In fact, this has been a consistent problem with Windows for as long as I can remember. Microsoft has, of course, thrown the blame onto application programmers and their supposed failure to "pump messages", but this is fallacious. Basically any call into Kernel32.dll or GDI32.dll (i.e. about 95% of the stuff a Windows program does) has some chance of locking the GUI, and you can't really put [i]everything[/i] into a worker thread.
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RE: This dude...
This is exactly the sort of douchenozzle who was buying those "ZIP drive" things 15 years ago.
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RE: Making QR-Codes usefull
QR codes aren't completely useless. After all, if you overhear someone talking about them or see someone scanning one (a 45-second-long "nerd's chorea"), you then know that this person is a pedantic tardnozzle who is in love with technology for its own sake. QR codes are to dweebs what Ed Hardy shirts are to limp-dicked idiots.
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RE: Fun with Google
@morbiuswilters said:
I don't geddit..
Typical Ben L post... makes you think.
Anyhow, I'm over Google. They're just Microsoft 2.0. "Jellybean" is at least as much of a dog as Windows 8, and if I read one more article about how Google thinks it can roboticly wipe my ass / water my lawn / toss my salad /make my horse jump obstacles / discipline my kids / do my taxes / whatever, I think I'm just going to cut off my dick and feed it to wild dogs. It's pretty clear Google thinks I don't need it. -
RE: KosherSwitch
@MiffTheFox said:
@bridget99 said:
I'm not sure I agree with categorical statements like that. But it is weird how so many people are willing to be against things because of the ambiguous pronouncements of a powerful alien who may or may not have walked the Earth 2,000 years ago, while so few people are willing to say things like "I'm against abortion because I like babies." I think I would sympathize more with the latter sort of argument than with the former, space alien-based one.
Except nobody's oging to come out and say "I'm against homosexuals getting married because I believe marriage is about a man dominating women" or "I'm adamant you join my religion because that's how it propagates".
I might not use the exact same verbiage, but I think that first statement could be reformulated into something far more rational than what the hetero marriage kooks actually say.
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RE: KosherSwitch
@bgodot said:
Religious people have no morals, they only have fear of punishment.
Atheists do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. not because they are afraid of an old man - father figure in the sky, be he Santa Clause, Jehova, or some other diety that you obey like a child afraid of a spanking.
Atheists are far better people, acting out of love, trust and understanding for their fellow man, instead of the fear, suspicion, and hate caused by the mental illnesses known as religion.
The only differance between Religions, Cults, and Insanity is how many people share your delusions.
In response to a bit of the last post, I believe Viruses can carry snippets of DNA between animals, hence 'swine flu', 'bird flu' etc. But I am not a molecular biologist. I just think the glow-in-the-dark bunnys with jellyfish DNA are interesting.
I'm not sure I agree with categorical statements like that. But it is weird how so many people are willing to be against things because of the ambiguous pronouncements of a powerful alien who may or may not have walked the Earth 2,000 years ago, while so few people are willing to say things like "I'm against abortion because I like babies." I think I would sympathize more with the latter sort of argument than with the former, space alien-based one. I actually agree with many of the behavioral specifications made by the Roman Catholic Church, but their (mandatory) beliefs about past events and the nature of the universe are absurd. (Is it really that effing hard to just say "I don't know"?) On the other hand, there are many, many self-proclaimed Catholics who say they believe in the Resurrection, and Transubstantiation, etc., but have much more liberal codes of behavior than I do. Who's crazy? You... make... the call!
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RE: KosherSwitch
@jcsalomon said:
@Zmaster said:
As an practicing orthodox Jew myself, let me weigh in on this.
xaade summarized the technicalities pretty well; the issue most of you seem to be havng is the matter of hiding behind technicalities. And that’s not wrong. The vast majority of their target market (i.e. observant Jews) will see things the same way and not use this product, no matter how persuasive the manufacturer’s blurbs are. However—
There are times when “hiding behind technicalities” is appropriate: situations of hardship where most of you would be saying, “God couldn’t have meant for you to leave the lights off now, could He?” Probably not, but the Rules don’t tend to have complex exception clauses; they just say, “Don’t.”
It’s a different way of approaching rules and exceptions. You can have exceptions that need to be updated as technology develops, or you can set up eternal rules, but with loopholes—and depend on human judgement to decide when the use of the loophole is appropriate. Some religions take the first route; orthodox Judaism believes God treats us as responsible adults. (Some people’s behavior makes me wonder, though.)
What about Heaven? Can you confirm that Jews don't really believe in it?
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RE: KosherSwitch
@Lorne Kates said:
@Ben L. said:
@blakeyrat said:
cutting off bits of your body due to your beliefs
I AM MISSING PART OF MY DICK
DO YOU THINK I WOULD CUT PART OF MY DICK OFF
Well, you do voluntarily use Go...
Our IT Director seems to think it's only mere inertia / stupidity that keeps me doing things using .NET instead of Go (and a whole host of other technologies).
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RE: KosherSwitch
@anonymous_guy said:
@bridget99 said:
I'm not sure the Jews actually buy into that heaven/hell crap... I've always associated it mostly with Protestantism. Even Catholic theology hedges and dithers quite a bit on this ("yes, these places exist, but you're probably going somewhere else").
Knowing both the Lutheran and the Catholic church quite well, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I think you're confusing Protestantism with Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism.
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RE: KosherSwitch
@JBotAlan said:
@bridget99 said:
I'm not sure the Jews actually buy into that heaven/hell crap... I've always associated it mostly with Protestantism. Even Catholic theology hedges and dithers quite a bit on this ("yes, these places exist, but you're probably going somewhere else").
Yeah....no. As a Catholic, hell is very real and is a strong possibility for any human. It's the reason for the sacrament of reconciliation (confession).
I'm curious to know where you got the impression you got here. As I understand it (I'm too young to have witnessed it firsthand), we (as the Church) had sort of an explosion of Kumbaya and felt banners and lukewarm homilies and bad theology, seemingly surrounding Vatican II, but actual solid Catholic theology was never iffy on this point.
Well, Catholic theology does abandon the idea of anyone just dying and walking right into Heaven. They have Purgatory instead. And I don't think the Catholic vision of Heaven is quite so simplistic as the Protestant vision. It's basically a distinction between getting to be with God (Heaven) and having to yearn for Him for all eternity (Hell). If you listen to a lot of Protestant clergy, they really do have this belief system where good people die and go straight to some community of saints that resembles a gated community of McMansions. It amazes me that anyone beyond the age of 5 believes this. The Jewish view ("God says do these things, but you're worm food either way") seems more rational.