Wow, two curse words in the title. That's how you know the person writing the post is super cool and awesome!
Posts made by DeLos
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RE: GitHub is fucking broken fucking again
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RE: My company is so cheap ...
@AndyCanfield said:
Every month the office manager would issue every employee two rolls of toilet paper. That's all you got. Store it in your desk, take it with you when you go in, bring it with you when you go out. Crap a lot and you had to go buy your own.
This seems illegal to me. Or at least very easily sueable. First the embarrassment of people knowing where you were headed and for what. And what about if you had a stomach bug and needed the facilities more often than usual?
It's just not right.
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RE: Technical knowledege fail
Reminds me of the first time I heard someone refer to a .gif file as a Jiff and not the Giff I had always used.
Of course my assumptions have usually been wrong. I called warez WARez and not where's like I've head some use.
I also call .png Pee-En-Gee and not Ping.
When in doubt don't listen to me!
---my sisters mother-in-law referred to wi-fi as wee-fee when asking a store to reciever her free wee-fee as the ad said!
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RE: While walking through the office...
@snoofle said:
Personally, I hate when they don't simply use the IP of the machine it's replacing because all the URLs, links and scripts break, but whatever.
Rather than just change his secure shell entry to use the new IP address, he was arguing with the help desk guy to change the IP of the machine.
wow
The problem is between the chair and the keyboard
So you agree with him yet think the problem is him?
I kind of understand that he was looking for a bigger solution to a simple problem but still.
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RE: Should you 'like' an obituary?
@Nagesh said:
I am yet to sign up for facebook. Reason being it tracks your posts, your behaviour and everythign you do online.
And yet you probably LOVE google...
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RE: "Loading..." gifs that are a WTF
@dr spock said:
WTF 1: Rotates anticlockwise
Could be worse, could be going counter-clockwise!Why would that be a wtf?
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RE: From the washing machine's instruction manual
@Zecc said:
But most importantly, I learned that if I want to throw away an old washing machine, I should unplug it from the mains. Too bad I didn't know that before I bought this 200m extension chord.
You don't want people moving and otherwise jostling the machine while it is still plugged in.
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RE: Facebook cant count...
@Master Chief said:
Well, its not a difficult calculation to make.
If we had a dime for everytime a project manager said that.
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RE: Real Life WTF - Badly Engineered Sink.
I'd say the bigger WTF is the large number of spoons... but no forks... Soups only?
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RE: Who the f*ck came up with this idea?
Has anybody mentioned the sweet Firefox skin?
Black is the new ... black?
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RE: Naive spellcheck in Open Office Writer
@Evo said:
@Spectre said:
@OzPeter said:
@Spectre said:
TRWTF is spelling naive as naïve. This is English; there is no ï letter in English.
Correct .. there is no letter ï in the English language. Thats because ï is a combination of the letter i and a diaeresis mark. Which is a perfectly valid glyph in the English language.So I suppose I should say "Epic fail" or some such at this point.
Meh. I think there's no diaeresis in English, either. 8=]
Now that, I think, is quite naïve of you...
Why do you guys feel the need to dot your i's twice? That might be an early sign of OCD/
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RE: A very funny interview
So the TRWTF is that you can't handle a little off the cuff thinking? A chance to improvise? Show that you are unbending in your beliefs that interviews should stick to a technical side? People should not interview personalities and only stick to technical merits and not consider whether the person would be easy/fun/acceptable to work with?
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RE: Seriously, Austin High School
The best part of the site? Based on a design by Tom Jacobs that links to http://www.jacobstom.net/ which is a parking spot domain for sale.
also why have each sports team have their own domain??
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RE: Minor T-mobile WTFs
I hate sites that feel the need to push me to the next text field when they have determined I am done. Going back to edit these fields is a pain as they keep bumping me out to the next field.
That is one common practice I would like to see gone.
As far as the format issue I agree. Is it too tough to make it check for (xxx) xxx-xxxx, xxx-xxx-xxxx or xxx555xxxx? Otherwise explicityly tell me what format you want it in. Don't make me guess.
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RE: Bloggies, wtf?
It is a bit annoying. Why would they decide to switch the medium to horizontal? How it doesn't catch on.
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RE: "URL" on a dinner check
@Spectre said:
Maybe it's only accessible by bears.
@slimey_limey said:
Hi, I'm new on the forums, but not to the site.
Shouldn't this've been the first line?
What is this talk radio? First time, long time?
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RE: Navigation expectations
To kill the suspense of others: It uses history.back which in the steps above would take you back to google results.
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RE: Sure blame the thumb drives....
@dubbreak said:
I can not believe
that they would do that
or insist on such asinine policies
but who am I to advise the government
I guess the lesson here is to use less line breaks
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RE: High-tech building + no smoking = ...
People can still smoke in their cars right? sounds like a perfect compromise to me.
How come smokers are allowed to wander out of work for smoke breaks but I don't get 10 - 20 minute breaks every hour to stand around and gossip?
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RE: Shittiest Boss Email Ever?
@morbiuswilters said:
Ha ha ha! I love your boss.
From the sound of it, your boss owns the company and is deeply in debt and working her ass off to try to make the company work. She's obviously put herself much more on the line than you and your two coworkers combined. For you to openly deride and question the decisions she has made in an endeavor that she is far, far more invested in than you is simply moronic and immature. It's one thing to simply provide your opinion if it seems warranted, but you clearly don't even have the interests of the company at heart since you aren't concerned with productivity. Some people have pointed out that the tone is a bit rude and unprofessional and I agree that replying to a subordinate that way will stress the relationship. However, if an employee asked a question like that of me I would probably be looking to ditch the little fucker as soon as possible and venting some steam in an email is a good way to drop a hint.
This definitely sounds like a company owner who already feels pretty shitty that he had to make these cuts in the first place.
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RE: Hey, Verizon, 1995 called and they want their information security level back.
I believe the real WTF is being afraid of someone stealing your CC.
Run up my bill, go nuts. I'm not paying a dime!
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RE: Happy Thanksgiving
@halcyon1234 said:
4) Worse of all-- wtf is the dude on the left doing that would a) put that look on his face, and b) put that look on her face?
A thumb in the bum usual does the trick.
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RE: Email Booby Trap
I think we all got off track here.
This guy forwarded EVERY mail to his boss. That is the WTF.
How about a filter or alias?
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RE: Bad memories...
At least no one names their kid anything stupid anymore: Apple, Audio Science, Kal-el, Pilot Inspektor, Brooklyn, Romeo or Cruz.
Wow I almost forgot Moon Unit and Dweezil
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RE: Inventive use of Select Case
@sfmans said:
So, was there a WTF other than the fact that, tee hee, the vars had typed names, guffaw, even though the language doesn't supported typed vars?
Isn't it the fact that the select case does nothing and has comments that say nothing?
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RE: Virgin Mobile Registration
@lrucker said:
Not sure how to parse "Use your credit card, auto payments and more." - Use your credit card to pay, right, but that implies "use your auto payments to pay".
I read it two ways.
you can pay using (credit cards) | (auto payment) | (other source)
We offer (pay by credit card), (auto payments), (other helpful options).
I do believe you can use your auto payments to pay.
Your automatic payments do pay your bill. Some are by credit cards others can be funded from a bank account.
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RE: Breathing on a hornet nest
@havokk said:
I think we should be encouraging people to blow on hornet nests and use gas pumps as combs and all the other things printed on warning stickers.The resulting deaths should increas the average IQ of the population. Let's make Darwinism work for us…
I love being the one who does this. You insult the general population for not being smart and in the midst of your insult you make a spelling mistake. Not as good as a grammar mistake but still...
DEATH!!!
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RE: The "Anonymous" proxy.
So, first off, I don't agree with danix's analogy. However, if you were using an alternate e-mail for official business it would be perceived that you were going around the normal methods to avoid detection.
Your analogy of his analogy is good though.
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RE: The "Anonymous" proxy.
@morbiuswilters said:
@danixdefcon5 said:
Actually, some people think that this "breach" had the potential of being the next Watergate, if the e-mail addy had been used for official stuff (or even better, unofficial stuff like in the original Watergate affair.)
It seems to me you don't know what the Watergate Scandal actually entailed.
Wouldn't the slush fund and the plumbers qualify as unofficial? It would be as if he was using yahoo! mail to coordinate waht the plumbers' actions were adn how to direct the slush funds.
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RE: From the "we didn't think that URL through" department
@icklemichael said:
Q. What's worse than a baby in a bag?
A. A baby in two bags!
If you really want a baby in a bag check the dumpster after prom!
(Too soon?)
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RE: Why users only make things worse
@belzebot said:
lerning disability.
I don't usually pick on minor spelling and/or grammar mistakes but when you are attempting to insult a class of people (many of who overcome their problems to be quite successfull) for no good reason besides ignorance, than I must point out that your attempted insult includes a spelling mistake. Perhaps you are the one with a learning disability ...
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RE: "I need the codez, sir" guy posts a project in Guru.com
@trwww said:
I think this is a little different than the "I will pay $200.00 for a myspace clone" type of posts.
Facebook has infrastructure where you can basically integrate your site in to facebook.
$112 - I want a website that works basically like ebay.com you should be able to buy and sell and bid on things. I think this should be done in a 5-7 day time frame. Plz send the codez!
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RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
So I guess the question we really need to ask is: how does LINDOWS deal with extensions?
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RE: StackOverflow WTF
@Nelle said:
there are enough holly wars in the technological department as well ...
I hate when plants fight!
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RE: Woman Driver WTF
@snoofle said:
@Sunstorm said:
If you want to pass someone, you do it on the left. If you want to let someone pass, you move to the right.
The law is the same here too. That's why her attempting to move left is a wtf, why her attempting to move left into a concrete wall is a wtf, and her slamming on the brakes when she could have just moved right is a wtf as well. The thing is that it all happened pretty quickly, so in the moment that she (and the ambulance) slowed down suddenly, I caught up, and had to stop short so the ambulance driver had some place to go (my lane) to avoid killing the woman. I dunno - maybe I should have let him thin the herd...
It was Sunday. It was a woman. Gaaa - a Sunday Woman Driver!
Leave her alone guys, if she wasn't on her cellphone (what are the odds?) than she was most likely, applying her makeup. This would clearly cause a state of shock.
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RE: Binary is . . . difficult
@The General said:
@joemck said:
So what are the 3 LEDs on the top row?
They're for the 'read left-to-right' mode, in which the displayed time here doesn't make sense. In that mode, all three would all be lit up at (for example) 19:19:19. FWIW, in neither mode is there a time where every single LED is lit. 17:57:57 comes joint-closest in L-R mode and 23:31:31 in T-B.
I've got a very similar clock at home, an Xmas gift from a couple of years ago. It defaults to left-to-right mode, and indeed to the 12-hour clock (WTF), when you plug it in (mains power only, no battery - double WTF).
Well that is why I was getting the wrong numbers, I was attempting to read left-to-right. Why wouldn't they use that format rather than right-to-left by default?
I'm still not sure how the 3 top LEDs are used. Why would they be lit up at 19:19:19? is it because of the 1 missing LED in the top row?
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RE: Para-meterized pronunciation
So I should be writing random posts so that everyone can see how glorious I am simply by looking at my post count?
When did quantity pass quality?
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RE: Nice Truck! or the Where's Waldo of WTFs
@ender said:
@syntaxeater said:
TRWTF is that the van is driving with his parking lights on.
There are some countries that require you to drive withyour lights always on. Many car models sold in such countries don't have lights on/off anymore - the lights turn on automatically when you turn the car on.In New York state you are required to use headlights whenever your windshield wipers are engaged.
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RE: Something called candy
I agree, post it and you will find out.
I'm sure people were amused that some people had larger expense accounts than others. Or maybe some people would get new ideas on what they shoudl've been expensing the entire time to suck every dime out of the country.
How come Jim gets the expensive rental car and I have to take a bus?
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RE: MSN Live WTF
@TheDude said:
You forgot the pw to your dev3@hotmail.com account?
Wait! It could be dev3@live.com too!
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RE: WTF License plates replaced for crappier ones for free
@danixdefcon5 said:
Given that most internet acronyms have 3 letters,
AFAIK you are wrong so I am lmao and rofl.
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RE: A new concept of e-mail
@First google result searching for ctrl+enter said:
- Ctrl + Enter - Auto-complete *.com address
- Shift + Enter - Auto-complete *.net address
- Ctrl + Shift + Enter - Auto-complete *.org address
If you add Alt to any of those key combinations, it will auto-complete and open the new address in a new tab as well. Alt+Ctrl+Enter will auto-complete a *.com address in a new tab, for instance.
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RE: A new concept of e-mail
@DrJokepu said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@DrJokepu said:
Does it append .net for me? or .co.uk?
PROTIP: You could just try it.
That was a rhetoric question. Obviously it does not.
not sure if localization reaches this far (is there a regional version for UK of windows/ie?) but I believe there is a .net shortcut. there is a .org as well.Valid point on the .co.uk but many times there is an overlap on .com and .co.uk.
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RE: A new concept of e-mail
@DrJokepu said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Exactly. URLs never should have been visible to end-users, but it looks like we are stuck with it now. Things are getting better with "pretty" URLs, but only slightly. I also fucking hate when some company is too lazy to set up a vhost for their domain name so going to http://blah.com gives you a connection error but http://www.blah.com works. I don't have the time or patience to type those 4 extra characters.
Actually most peope, including me, are even more impatient, they just google the website even if they know the url, e.g. google facebook instead of entering facebook.com
Thus the beauty of ctrl+enter to append the .com (and prepend http://www.). I use that all the time. much easier than googling a domain name.
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RE: Electrical Genius
Am I the only one who believes there is 4 wires in the first picture? The green and yellow are twisted together?
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RE: As opposed to what kind?
@bstorer said:
@ammoQ said:
Based on the Frostys I've had, I'd wager that they said "real" because they couldn't say "natural". They're counting on people to read into it the same thing you did: that "real" means "natural". Seems like a subtle dodge to avoid false advertising.real as opposed to ... fake?
They obviously meant "natural" as opposed to "artificial". Like... reals strawberrys instead of red color and artificial aroma.
#5 from dictionary.com: genuine; not counterfeit, artificial, or imitation; authentic:
I would think it would be of the genuine ingrediates (nothing added to the fruit, etc) but odds are it is a "legal" issue where they can't use natural as you said and hope real will convey that message to the customer.
More importantly I am intruiged with the concept that wendy's is doing shakes now instead of the boring frosty!
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RE: It's Comcastic!
@wrprice said:
Did I say 'no' immediately? No. I asked a question. And she could've responded to my question of how sending a signal to a box in this situation would help. Is the customer asking a question considered "push[ing] her right around" and not cooperating? Instead of addressing my question, she went directly to the next card. This would lead to a technician coming out to my residence and a charge on my account because he wouldn't find anything. (The service managed to be restored w/out such a visit, FYI.) That Kathleen was trained to go to the next card isn't the point. I was at the mercy of the script and had to address the "step" I was on.
At that point, yeah, I was resistive as a result of my immediate experience with Comcast's customer service policies. That makes me an asshole? Fine, I acknowlege receiving your opinion.
Ever heard of tracert? That's fairly similar to what she was asking to do.
Also your assumption that everyone in the building, let alone the region, were suffering an outage was very presumptuous. You have no idea if it is out. All you know is the one line running to your location is dead.
Bottom line is these people are provided a script to handle most of the usual problems in a polite timely manner. The reason they ask you to power cycle all the time? A polite way to check to see if your power cables are plugged in.