Forget "Star-man" bringing me presents, I want someone to bring me a Starman as a present. Then all the jerks around here can kiss my shiny invincible ass.
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Posts made by Dragnslcr
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RE: Polish alternatives to Santa
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
Its offensive if you ask me (Which you should)
Okay, I'll ask. What is "it", and what does it posses that's offensive?
"IQ of over 150" my ass.
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RE: WTDWTF Chat! [now working]
I have an old factoid bot that I started writing in C#. The previous version was in PHP, and the original version that someone else wrote was in Perl. Did I mention that it was old?
Anyway, I can probably find the code somewhere if you want to see it. I think I had everything for handling the connection to the IRC server working correctly.
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RE: Which RCS is the best James Blunt?
I think I'll vote for Root Mean Square.
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RE: Are all service centers worth :shit: if I use Win98?
Better stick your finger in that hole boy!
That's what she said!
Hey, it's been 15 minutes. Somebody had to say it, so it might as well be me.
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RE: I haven't touched a thing. Honestly....
He's a fancy set of rooms in a "love hotel."
Don't forget about the tape recorder.
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RE: I haven't touched a thing. Honestly....
I'm fairly certain that @boomzilla is a suite of amour with tape recorder in it.
I can't... I just... I... uh...
Edit: Damn,
'ed by one minute.
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RE: SQL Update Question
I can't even connect to the database unless the application that uses it is turned off.
This sounds like a bad system in which to be using SQLite.
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RE: I am Accalia, ask me anything
We were going to do a northeast WTDWTFUG gathering, weren't we?
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RE: I am Accalia, ask me anything
that depends, are you going to at least buy a girl lunch?
Of course I will. Does it have to be you?
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RE: I am Accalia, ask me anything
Next time I'm in town, I'll do some
stalkingspyingscouting and report back to the group.Wait, that isn't a question.
Accalia, next time I'm in town, can I do some
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RE: I'm glad they fixed THAT problem
To be fair, it does help with a problem that I've seen here and in other threads on this topic. Everyone has been assuming at first that the announcement is about the browser plugin, Flash Player, and not the development tool.
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RE: I am Accalia, ask me anything
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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RE: I am Accalia, ask me anything
because shaving it off is time consuming and it's a lot of effort to keep it neatly shaved, and waxing hurts too damn much to be viable
That's what she said!
C'mon, someone was going to say it.
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RE: Wikipedia's liberal bias
Am I the only one who thinks that ,regardless of whatever silly name its given, we're actually looking at a potential extinction event and should actually plan a contingency for it?
No, a lot of people think that, but my own uneducated guess is that they're wrong. It's definitely going to suck for a lot of people, and it will probably cost more to fix a few civilizations than it would cost to fix the problems now. I don't think it will destroy the entire human species, though. Humans are too adaptable to be completely wiped out by what will be relatively minor (geologically speaking) climate shifts.
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RE: Wikipedia's liberal bias
The dinosaurs who are just beginning to realise that they can't stamp on all those little rodents.
The dinosaurs are all getting dumped into our gas tanks. They have no say in the matter.
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RE: Trigger question (PHP warning)
Like every other programming language RTFM. Rightly or wrongly, it does exactly what it says on the tin.
That's true, but your reasoning is incorrect. The key being optional only applies to creating arrays or adding elements to an array.
$string[] = "a";
is a fatal error.As others have explained, accessing a string as if it were an array only allows integer keys, so PHP coerces the string to an integer. Since the string doesn't begin with anything that could be a number, PHP coerces it to the integer 0.
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RE: What... how... you made PDF text selection even more broken?
I've always assumed it's because of messed up Postscript. Something like each word being its own element and not being in the right order.
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RE: Trigger question (PHP warning)
The PHP devs actually did try fixing this once. Using
$string[3]
to access a single character was deprecated in favor of$string{3}
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RE: Senile Argyle Architect
@David_C said:
The only problem was that I couldn't think of what it would do if you did push it again.
- initiate self destruct
Thank you for pressing the self destruct button. This ship will self destruct in three minutes.
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RE: Senile Argyle Architect
Really good QA is good for mimicing eratic user behaviour and trying to use it in all the ways the system is never designed for.
I always admire their creativity. /bittersmile
I once worked with a QA guy who would try things like entering "cat" for a time limit. We really wanted to make the error message for that to be "You can't do that, Bob."
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RE: Senile Argyle Architect
Unit tests are good for verifying that the code does what the developers think the code should do.
QA is good for verifying that what the developers think the code should do matches what the system is supposed to do.
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Here's our chance: Ask Discourse Why Jeff Broke Bad
Slashdot is doing an interview with Jeff Atwood. This could get amusing.
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RE: PhpGit
My initial thought was that it would be slightly easier to maintain, since you wouldn't have to constantly merge from master to every one of those branches. Instead, you'd only have to update the patches when something changes that interferes with applying the patch. I guess you could have a script do all of the merges as long as there aren't any conflicts.
I never said it wouldn't be a WTF, I'm only guessing that it might be a slightly less annoying WTF than having a full branch for every customer. I would still avoid having any kind of separate code for different customers if at all possible.
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RE: PhpGit
As has been mentioned, storing options in a database (or configuration file) is probably the best way to do it. If that isn't possible for some reason, you could try storing customer-specific changes as diffs that you can apply to the base source code. That would still be WTFy, but it might be somewhat less WTFy than trying to maintain complete branches for each customer.
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RE: Interesting subtle bug write-up
It's Rails. You aren't supposed to be doing anything complex enough that you would need exceptions.
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RE: Ultra-Edit's history in the words of its founder
Success is always attributed to God, but failures never are.
I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'
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RE: Buh?
Yeah, the only people who took the English language and did unspeakable things to it are the Americans. And Liverpool
Oi mate. I don't know what you're talking aboot.
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RE: Misogyny even exists in animal testing
English is a bastard language. We tend to adopt and commandeer anything we find amusing.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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RE: WTF Java? That's not how radio buttons work.
That's why Oracle has its own category on this forum.
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RE: This forum doesn't want me here
Don't forget Release!
Hehe, I did think of that, too. I have the original Kickstarter version, and I still haven't played it yet.
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RE: This forum doesn't want me here
@Dragnslcr said:
We should do a Maine TDWTFUG thing.
might be interesting.
i've been looking for an excuse to get the CaH expansion packs for a while now....
I'm not sure if I'm that brave. I have picked up a few good games lately though. I can't wait to play Shootin' Ladders again.
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RE: This forum doesn't want me here
We should do a Maine TDWTFUG thing.
With blackjack. And hookers.
In fact, forget the UG thing.
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RE: Straight up trivial
Whose number is that? Googling indicates nothing particularly interesting.
It's the Big-ass Time and Temp Clock.
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RE: This forum doesn't want me here
I was in the deep north, still had G routers.
Yeah, but you still didn't have any electricity to power them.
Making fun of The County never gets old.
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RE: Invalid Packet Lenght
... it doesn't tell me anything about what I could be doing incorrectly.
My guess is that you aren't paying for $500/hour consultants to do tasks that should be simple.
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RE: This forum doesn't want me here
@loopback0 said:
Are your neighbours so old that they'd throw @boomzilla off their lawn?
either that or swap stories of the good old times when gas was five cents a gallon.
Gee, I can't imagine people up there ever doing that...
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RE: Straight up trivial
"Trivial" he says?
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/010/692/19789999.jpg
You keep on using that line. I do not think it goes how you think it goes.
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RE: Who needs trigger warnings anyway? (Trigger Warning: trigger warnings)
Right, that's what I meant by "explicit global declaration". And I consider it a Bad Thing (TM).
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RE: Who needs trigger warnings anyway? (Trigger Warning: trigger warnings)
http://crystal-lang.org/
Ruby-inspired syntax.
:nope.mdb:
If the syntax in Crystal is inspired by Ruby the same way that the syntax in Ruby is inspired by Perl, then I expect alphanumeric characters to be completely disallowed.
:do_not_want:
PS: How can there not be a :do_not_want:
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RE: Who needs trigger warnings anyway? (Trigger Warning: trigger warnings)
@LB_ said:
In certain other languages, this just declares a outright. That's extremely dangerous: a simple typo is all it takes to make your code wrong and yet it compiles without errors, or in some cases it even compiles without warnings!
Wanna hear something funny?
In Python,
def f(): print(a) a = 3 f()
works as you might expect (prints 3), but this
def f(): print(a) a = 5 a = 3 f()
just throws
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'a' referenced before assignment
.Because by assigning to
a
anywhere in the function, you are defining a local variable named "a". So now you can't access the global variablea
in that function.As much as everyone here hates PHP, this is one of things that I think PHP got right. When you're inside a function (including class/instance methods), you have exactly one scope. If you want access to a variable in the global scope, you have to have an explicit global declaration or use the GLOBALS array (i.e. a strong indicator that you might be doing something wrong). There's never a need to try to figure out which scope your $a is coming from.
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RE: Someone who sees that PHP is TRWTF
People need to read all the way to the end. The punchline is probably the most epically epic part of the whole thing.
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Someone who sees that PHP is TRWTF
Epic troll is epic.
Hi to all of you,
first I want to apologize for may bad English,
.. . .
I write because I feel that that the way how you see your own product PHP
is totally wrong. I do not mean with it that the construction of the
language is wrong.Your basic aproach is wrong.
PHP is a server side programming language. That means that the most work
what PHP have to do is to be the boss of the data servers and handle the
data.Create database or tables or records, edit, delete and read and write
them.And where is your fantastic programming language so incredible lousy that
me, I am since 35 years a database programmer, just shake my head???Exact in this operations!!!
I know that it is for free and I can not tell you how much I value your
work on it, but all of you, WAKE UP!!!!You sent the handling of records from modern handling via recordsets back
to computer stone age. It is a torture to use PHP without tools (and they
are lousy too) for database operations.I can give you a example:
It is in PHP a lot of work to just read the next record in a table.
With ADO is it just nextrecord().
The PHP way is a insult to the modern world of programming.
Maybe you should consider to write internal functions for the record
handling which do take all the sql waste of time away from the programmer
and create just short command words that the developer can use them.This would be a "small step for you but a huge leap for mankind!".
And you would finally win the race in the language battle.
I am sorry that I write it so harsh, but PHP is for me the definition of
server data handling and exact there you fail in a big way.All the programmers around the world reinvent every time the wheel new?
Have this really to be?
In my opinion should exist commands like:
recordnew(table)
recordread(id, table)
recordwrite(id, table)
recorddelete(id, table)
recordprev(currentrecord, table)
recordnext(currentrecord, table)This is the minimum what I expect from a program language in the year 2015.
This should include already the ajax handling and all the other actions
that are needed to get or view or write the data.It should also be included table locking and record locking, if needed.
And special commands for reading multiple records for paginations.
And also for a easy way to edit a record in this paginations set (page,
count) and write this back to the MySQL database or whatever database is
used... . .
You are so focused to make PHP better and better that you just forgot to
upgrade the basic commands.A programmer in the year 2015 should not need to fetch records and do this
with program code line by line. This was in the year 1982 the case
.. . .It reminds me on hotels which always renovate the lobby but never the rooms
for the guests... . .
I am sorry to be so critical, but this was cooking me since long time.
I am database programmer for international police organizations.
Please keep my name confident.
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RE: The ironic ideas thread
I think it's quite similar to the definition of ironic, which as we all know is "Rain on your wedding day and 1000 spoons when all you want is a knife"
I just had this conversation the other day. I remember reading about the theory that that song was completely meta. The song has the title "Ironic", but none of the scenarios described in the song are actually ironic. That is in itself ironic.