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@PSWorx said:
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@belgariontheking said:
@PSWorx said:
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@sootzoo said:
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]what I really meant to send you was this link about a link about this 2 foot long model of Nabucodonosor, Morpheus ship in the Matrix trilogy
So TRWTF is that he/you can't spell Nebuchadnezzar?
[/quote]No, the real WTF is that people take offense of things like that without imagining that the spelling in their language is not universal.
The OP is from Brazil, if I'm not mistaken, which might well explain the spelling he used (French uses the same by the way).
Thanks for playing and please stop being a spelling nazi.
Ho. My. God.
Just looking at the headers makes my head spin.
@asuffield said:
@henke37 said:
Well, you are not the only one to find a bug in a supposedly "working" piece of code that you have been using for a long time.That's nothing. On several occasions I have found bugs in large, widely used pieces of software (including glibc and perl) which clearly meant that it could not possiby have ever worked, yet it had been working for years.
My working theory is gremlins.
And usually, you find them while looking for something else.
And, starting the day you find about it, it starts breaking up.
That's what we call a Heisenbug at work.
Yep, I disabled AdBlock, and here we are. Books about Windows Presentation Foundation programming. Might be because I just bought one from amazon...
So it's definitely tracking what you bought on associate sites.
Let's kick AdBlock back in now...
@Random832 said:
@iwpg said:@Martin said:Alternatively, since gConnection is public and shared, whenever some dumbass junior sets it to nothing outside of the function!
It's been a long time since I did anything with VB, and if this is .NET it might have changed, but IIRC if a variable is declared "As New (something)", the compiler will insert a check for Nothingness before every access, and automatically assign a new object if necessary.
From what I've read, this changed in .NET - "As New (something)" is now syntactic sugar for "As (something) = New (something)"
It is. In VB.Net gone are the days of object being magically instantiated whenever you look at them (as it was in VB6. We tend to call bugs coming from that particular "feature" heisenbugs here).
Dim b as New MyClass is indeed just syntactic sugar for Dim b as MyClass = New MyClass
@VGR said:
I sympathize with your situation and I'm sorry you were put through it. However, because misery loves company, I find myself a little gratified (and saddened) to learn that myopic, socially malformed drivers are not unique to the United States.
The copious and indiscriminate granting of driver's licenses to everyone who applies is its own WTF. (And I have a feeling this is destined to become a very long thread.)
Unfortunately, having a proper examination does not prevent that :(
In France we do have one, but we still end up with people
- Not using their turn lights (blinkers ? whatever the name is in English)
- Changing lanes without looking into their mirrors, let alone looking back into their dead spot
- Who do not know how to use a rondabout
- Who cannot help getting in the middle of an intersection even if their is no hpe to exit it before the light changes
...
I guess having a mandatory inspection & refresh every now and then would really annoying, but it might be the only way to keep people from taking on bad habits.
Visual Studio 2002 was a WTF in and of itself.
On the C++ side, one of my friend told me that whatever version (2003, 2005) is terrible regarding syntax highlighting and code completion. I don't know about C#, but on the VB side of things it is, as far as I can tell, quite good (meaning it works, and when something is not highlighted correctly, it's a pretty strong indication of an error in your code).
I can imagine parsing C++ is quite a bit more complicated than parsing VB or C# though (pre-processor, templates...), although I'm sure there are IDEs out there that actually manage to do that much better.
On the minus side, it sometimes crawls with a big solution (updates to the highlighting can take forever) and is a real hog on resources when debugging. Sometimes the compiler will just give up and crash, and syntax highlighting will be dead. That does not happen to me near enough to be a nuisance, though.
@TGV said:
There is something else going on, since the word "class" does appear somewhere on the page (4th line from below). So the substitution algorithm is even weirder than you might have thought. Perhaps (PERHAPS!) they have a blacklist of all FORBIDDEN words plus a regexp-scanner for use of these words in compounds and they do not operate in the same way. Just a guess.
I did not see that one when I posted it. It really does seem like it's filtering according to some god-only-knows awful algorithm (or godawful monstruous side-effect infected regex nobody could ever maintain).
String.Replace (or whatever your preferred language offers for that) just doesn't cut it to obatin that kind of result.
Another option is that the poster wanted to have fun, or to give the "bleeping" effect TV networks are so fond of these days (particularly annoying on something like South Park, since it bleeps like there's no tomorrow) . That would explain the definitively random-looking effect like forgetting one in the middle.
I did a quick search and found other episodes where the word "classroom" is not affected. Might be that this is actually not a tech-WTF... So sad, it seemed like a nice candidate.
Apparently, TV.com has a sub-par swearword filter on its articles. It seems to be supposed to replace forbidden words with... FORBIDDEN. Check it out at:
http://www.tv.com/south-park/lice-capades/episode/1000646/recap.html
As you can see, the algorithm seems to be affiliated with the highly efficient... String.Replace (or whatever passes for that in the language back-end of the site).
What I don't understand is of the hell this is supposed to work. I can understand what part of "classroom" might trigger the filter, but then why is it replaced by FORBIDDENoom ???? (or do I miss somehting ?)