The real WTF is the colour scheme he'is using. I mean, come on, even the default blue is better than this.
Posts made by DrJokepu
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RE: Minor Solitaire WTF
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RE: I'm considering switching banks
@Kyanar said:
New Zealand. But to be more specific, the online banking is open 24/7, but between 10PM and 6AM no transactions are permitted - they get held for the next business day. It's read only except for inter-suffix transfers (moving money between your own accounts).
I think it probably has to do something with the regulations or the clearing system of your country. Here in the UK transactions were queued until the next workday and then it took about 2-3 workdays while they got processed until recently. About 4 months ago they introduced some changes so all transactions now take place real time 24/7 and get processed in 2-3 hours at most. -
RE: I'm considering switching banks
@Kyanar said:
In this country, ALL banks do that - online banking is out from 10PM to 6AM. Which one should I switch to?
I don't know, where do you live? I live in the UK and have an account at HSBC and their Internet Banking service is open 24/7, except for international payments.
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RE: I'm considering switching banks
@rohypnol said:
What's ATB? Really, I live in Romania,WTF is ATB? Should I know?
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RE: Very Random Numbers
@mallard said:
@superjer said:
Out of curiosity, I used this method in a script to generate 100,000 IDs. Here are the results:
Generated 100000 unique IDs, resulting with 56983 UNIQUE IDs.
Sorted by increasing popularity:
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9cdfa26181dd4af6f5585eae4f57970b x3
e31ba89e87cc2fcc8605c20618b3d5b6 x3
25c23fb3191ef61cba0e9b6b1db8dfff x3
f5b8c2566771a688a65cf97202fb5f0f x3
8f81fa8534d98e0f3bbaf3bda5a1c6c5 x3
244c636d9a0ef0dbe7c373431e41ebdf x3
199723158503538b8a685601d083511f x3
f7c67babedafc73bfd48c1d5fac222a8 x4
9517fd0bf8faa655990a4dffe358e13e x2234
cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da x39982And a quick Google reveals that cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da=md5(0) and 9517fd0bf8faa655990a4dffe358e13e=md5("INF").
FEAR MY AWESOME GDATA SKILLZ!!!!!11cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da = empty string 9517fd0bf8faa655990a4dffe358e13e = INF f7c67babedafc73bfd48c1d5fac222a8 = 81956 199723158503538b8a685601d083511f = 80685 244c636d9a0ef0dbe7c373431e41ebdf = 186534 8f81fa8534d98e0f3bbaf3bda5a1c6c5 = 84252 f5b8c2566771a688a65cf97202fb5f0f = 81384 25c23fb3191ef61cba0e9b6b1db8dfff = 71535 e31ba89e87cc2fcc8605c20618b3d5b6 = 470180 9cdfa26181dd4af6f5585eae4f57970b = 284634
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RE: Grr, WTF Channel 4!
I think Channel 4 On-Demand (4oD) is a great idea but the underlying P2P engine Kontiki should really die in a fire. And the whole Windows Media Player based approach. The BBC iPlayer (not the Flash-based version, but the "classic" one) is using the same technology and it sucks too. They should really make a Flash or Silverlight based version.
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RE: Thanks for the export
@Welbog said:
Now I basically have two choices here: either I admit that I was talking bullshit or go on and edit Wikipedia to show everyone that I Was Right™. I guess I will chose the latter.I am punching you over the Internet with my mind.
tl;dr, an ellipsis glyph looks like three period glyphs close together, but it's still just one ellipsis. You don't call an equality sign "equality signs" because its glyph has parts that don't touch, do you?
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RE: Thanks for the export
@Spectre said:
@DrJokepu said:
... - Ellipsis
FTFY.
Actually, it is ellipses. That is, the plural of the Latin "ellipsis". If you don't like declention, you could say "ellipsises" but that's just weird. I am sure you can figure out yourself why it is in plural form. -
RE: Thanks for the export
@dtech said:
(is that the english word for ; ? It is in dutch)
Quick English Special Character Name Cheat Sheet
. - Dot , - Comma ? - Question Mark ! - Exclamation Mark : - Colon ; - Semicolon ' - Apostrophe " - Quotation Mark $ - Dollar sign £ - Pound sign ... - Ellipses () - Parentheses, or "round brackets" for the mentally challenged [] - Square brackets {} - Curly brackets & - Ampersand ^ - Caret * - Asterisk # - Hash sign / Number sign @ - At sign ~ - Tilde - - Hyphen
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RE: TOAD
@morbiuswilters said:
@belgariontheking said:
While I'm on the subject, though, I have a question. I've always been told that the standard was to capitalize reserved words (SELECT, FROM, AV, COUNT) and lower case your table and field names. Some of my coworkers disagree. Personally, I think that capitalizing table and field names makes it ugly and unreadable. What do you think?
Absolutely. All caps looks horrible and is a pain to read. Better is all lowercase but best is capitalizing built-in words and lowercasing user-defined names.
IN IBM DB2 WORLD, EVERYTHING IS UPPERCASE. USE REAL DATABASES, N00BS -
RE: Inventive use of Select Case
Possibly the remains of some refactoring. On the side note, my bet is that the language is dutch.
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RE: Yet Another Hack by Google
That's why I always browse the web with the user agent "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)". Saves a surprising amount of time.
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RE: "Creative" coding
@savar said:
I think most people are referring to PCRE's when they talk about regexes. (Regices?)
Regexes. Regex is an abbreviation of REGular EXpressions. It is not a proper Latin word, hence it does not need to be declented. -
RE: Ubuntu in C
@morbiuswilters said:
<font color="#cc0000">Bush^3 vs. /O(s|b)ama Bi(n La)?den/ -- YOU DECIDE!</font>
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RE: We only accept Originals.
@morbiuswilters said:
Wall of text
Well, I guess you're right. I mean, you have totally valid points and stuff. -
RE: We only accept Originals.
@bjolling said:
@tdittmar said:
Well, luckily German beer's better than yours :-D
And Belgian beer is even better!
Unfortunately for you, neither German nor Belgian lager is match for Czech beer. This is a fact. It is proven by mathematicians. -
RE: We only accept Originals.
@DOA said:
Really? I hadn't noticed the British didn't have IDs on them. I live in a country where you're obliged by law to carry one. Not that anyone's gonna stop you on the street and ask to see it, but if say you're involved in a car accident, they'll ask you for it. Still some people carry them along and others don't. Worst thing that can happen is the cops will drive you to the station to establish your identity. In any case if I lived in the UK and was worried the goverment would track me I'd be far more worried about the CCTV cameras on virtually every corner than carrying an ID.
How do the British identify themselves anyway? Driver's license?
You are very rarely required to identify yourself with a photo ID, usually that only happens of you want to buy alcohol or cigarette or something like that so your age can be checked. Motorist are required to have a driving licence, but as it was mentioned in an earlier thread, they are not required to carry it on themselves while driving. The police cannot ask you to identify yourself. When you are dealing with the government, you might need a government-issued photo ID, like a driving licence, a passport or something similar. Keep in mind that in this country people seldom deal directly with the government; things are usually sorted out in mail, or recently, on the internet and you only need to arrange an interview or a meeting with a government official if it is absolutely required. Other businesses, like banks, usually only ask for a proof of address, which is basically any sort of official letter addressed to you.
About the CCTV issue: All CCTV recording are subject to the Data Protection Act. You can find a public notice board around these cameras informing you about the basic details, like if the camera actually records things, for how long the recordings are kept, and where you can get them. However, making video footages of people in public is hardly a breach of privacy. CCTV cameras cannot do anything that a police officer cannot do. -
RE: We only accept Originals.
@Juifeng said:
I also don't have a passport, as it's only needed to travel out of the "Schengen" countries. Those "Schenge" countries accept the German Personalausweis as ID, and Germany accepts their ID documents.
I think you are a bit confused here. Schengen is a border control / visa agreement and has nothing to do with accepting National ID cards at international borders. Schengen abolished border control between member states and introduced a common visa policy. I think you was thinking about the European Economic Area, which is basically the European Union and the EFTA together. Indeed there is a EEA treaty which enables EEA citizens to travel to other EEA countries with just a National ID card only. Some examples: The United Kingdom is not a member of the Schengen Agreement, but the Immigration Service officers will accept your National ID card with a funny name at London Heathrow airport, since the UK is a member of the EU, hence it is a member of the EEA. Other example: Norwegian border control officers will accept your National ID as well, even though Norway is not a member state of the European Union. That's because Norway is a member of EFTA, hence it is a member of EEA.
EDIT: It seems that the UK has partially joined the Schengen Agreement in the meantime and that Norway has apparently signed the Schengen Agreement even though it is not a EU Member State. That doesn't change the fact that the Schengen Agreement has nothing to do with accepting National ID cards at international borders though. -
RE: We only accept Originals.
@Juifeng said:
Sorry, could've checked wikipedia before asking. Alright, so a Non-Driver License seems
to be an identity document for anyone who's not allowed to drive a car
(yet?), since there is no "official" identity document in the US
(besides "SS" card, which comes without a photo?). That seems like "a
dirty hack" to me. I actually prefer (for example) the german system,
where every citizen needs to have either a Personalausweis or passport
as soon as they are 16.Maybe it is just me but I prefer the British system where it is none of the government's business who I am so they cannot issue or ask for an identification card. If you need to identify yourself there are a couple of options and government-issued documents are not the only ones. Maybe this system is not that effective in preventing fraud, but it gives you a sense of freedom you could never feel if you were living in a country where the government thinks it is its duty to track its citizens.
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RE: Why users only make things worse
@bstorer said:
People only notice when something goes wrong, not the numerous mundane successes. It's very likely the user didn't even realize that it only happens the second time. He could have assumed it was a new bug that popped up. You can't expect a user to know everything that's important about reproducing a bug, because they don't know the underlying system. Just be happy you got as much information as you did.
Pesto, you should be like, the president, or something. I mean, that was exactly my point, but I am afraid I failed to make it clear like you did. -
RE: Why users only make things worse
Maybe because he was not a programmer and had no fucking clue what is relevant in a bug report and what is not? For example, if I crashed my car, I would be quite puzzled about what details to include and what to not include on the insurance report form. Maybe it was not the best bug report ever but you really can't blame your users for not being able to write a 100% sorted bug report. They are not trained to do so. They are users, not testers. They are your clients. They are pretty much annoyed that they need to spend their time on writing bug reports on the software that supposed to work and make their life easier. Fortunately, these days we have a couple of options for communicating with users: you could have like, written him an email or called on or something in order to make things clear (I am sure that's what you did btw).
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RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@alegr said:
And FTP is pretty much forgotten anyway. Though Microsoft is still keeping ftp.microsoft.com for those backward customers.
Off topic, but I still use FTP/SCP to upload stuff to my servers. Is that a WTF? Are there any better solutions out there? -
RE: Curious PHP error
@morbiuswilters said:
Anti-anti-semitism? WTF?
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RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@ZPedro said:
OK, you've done it. You have sucessfully triggered my full-blown extension hating mode. I'll be clear: I think filename extensions are the worst mistake that has been made in computing, ever. I hate them. No, HATE them. PUNY HUMANS STOP USING FILENAME EXTENSIONS!
Thank you for your rant. Unfortunately, I didn't quite get the details of the solution you are advocating as a replacement for file extensions while conserving simplicity, precious backwards compatibility and not needing to rewrite eleventy billion existing standards. Could you explain it in a little bit more detailed way please, I am sure we have enough space left in the forums so don't worry about that. While you are polishing the final tiny details of your solution, I hope you will forgive me keeping using file extensions as my preferred way to store basic file metadata. -
RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@TooWhiteAndNerdy said:
If you have file1.txt, file2,txt, all the way to file100.txt, ls will sort them alphabetically, with 10 coming between 1 and 11. Windows Explorer will order them by the number, basically assuming a preceding 00 or 0.
Windows Explorer using natural sorting instead of strict alphabetical sorting for filenames is actually a feature. Most users expect a natural order since they don't give a shit about how computers work. Most users are not programmers. -
RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@Monomelodies said:
QED :)
Huh? Quod erat demonstrandum? That doesn't make any sense in this context
@Monomelodies said:My favourite part is that they're supposed to be important, but Windows hides them by default.
Windows displays icons, which are (partially) based on the extension. The action triggered by doubleclicking on the icon, the contents of the context menu, and the million ways the shell interacts with a file all depend on the extension. The technical decision to have extensions in CP/M was made decades ago and it might or might not be relevant today. Personally, I think it provides a simple way to store basic metadata about a file: the type. It certainly made sense 20-30 years ago, when the available resources of computers were of much less extent. -
RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@Monomelodies said:
TRWTF of course being that extensions are considered important - they're just an indication at best.
I am sure you know that in the CP/M - DOS - WINDOWS environment, extensions are important. I mean, they are meant to be important. -
RE: Acronym WTF
@Jeff S said:
@bstorer said:
The French are extremely protective of their language because they've got an outdated view of their importance at the global level.
ruijoel -- I apologize for missing that flamebait post earlier on ... please ignore his ignorance or his "joke", or whatever it is supposed to be, and let's get back to more acronym talk!
That's not a flamebait actually in my opinion. I had the chance to live in France for quite a while and I think they indeed have an outdated view of their global importance. I think the best way to measure how globally important a nation's citizens think they are is the weather report in major national TV networks. Most European countries only report the weather in the country itself and possibly the regions of neighbouring countries close to the border. Now the French usually report the weather of the whole world with an accent on their former colonies. There is no way anybody in Australia or New Zealand or Mongolia is ever watching TF1 for weather updates. -
RE: Acronym WTF
@bstorer said:
This is the all too familiar path of the moderation Internet Drama. We all know them. Forking is inevitable.- You've taken it upon yourself to declare things said in jest as automatically being flamebait or trolling. I think you go about this the wrong way. You're moderating preemptively instead of culling only those posts that create flamewars. I think the forums is worse for it. You disagree, and there's nothing I can do about it, other than continue to post and let the chips fall where they may.
- I don't know why you've opted to call me out on this, except that apparently I'm Public Enemy #1 or #2. Is that Jeff S's opinion, or is that the opinion of the moderators in general? I find the transparency of the moderation process here fairly weak. The only time anything on the inner workings are revealed is when it suits your goal of discrediting certain posters in the eyes of the community.
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RE: Acronym WTF
@campkev said:
CERN is obviously from one of the romance languages, probably something like Center European Research Nuclear.
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RE: Acronym WTF
@Jeff S said:
It is interesting, however, that just the other day you reported a post violation, claiming it was a flame and you actually requested that it should be moderated ....
So your point is .... ?
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RE: Acronym WTF
@bstorer said:
@Monkios said:
I never quite understood why in all langange, AIDS is called AIDS but in french it is called SIDA ...
The French are extremely protective of their language because they've got an outdated view of their importance at the global level.
See also: NATO - OTAN, EU - UE, UN - NU. I speak quite a few languages but French is the only one having its own word for 'digital' (numerique), 'e-mail' (courriel) etc. Most of these things are pushed by the Canadian French (Quebecois) because they fear that their language is endangered. -
RE: Acronym WTF
@ammoQ said:
Because some of you have recently complained about over-moderation, I'll handle this thread through a completey democratic poll:
Should this thread be...
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<font size="-2">[ ]</font> cleaned up (offensive posts removed)
<font size="-2">[ ]</font> locked
<font size="-2">[x ]</font> left unmoderated
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RE: What impresses you?
I guess the thread locking feature is somewhat buggy in CS.
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RE: Woman Driver WTF
@DOA said:
You can't brand all blondes idiots, but that wont stop us from having our fun.
Not all black people are criminal/retarded but that wont stop me having fun and telling racist jokes.
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RE: Woman Driver WTF
I personally find the hypocrisy in this thread quite entertaining: "We are hypertolerant, hyperpolitcallycorrect, hypersociallyresponsible europeans, but yeah, women cannot drive properly etc. etc."
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RE: Shitty little web site
That totally reminds me to an earlier thread. Wait, I can't find the link...
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RE: Ten Web Design Trends to Avoid
@Rootbeer said:
Pls email me the codes.
(Translation: I don't believe you that a decent rounded corners treatment can be done in 8 lines of CSS and HTML.)
.bt {height:10px;margin:0 0 0 11px;background:url(teh_gif_with_corners.gif) no-repeat 100% 0;}
.bt div {position:relative;left:-11px;width:11px;height:10px;background:url(teh_gif_with_corners.gif) no-repeat 0 0; font-size:0;line-height:0;}
.bb {height:10px;margin:0 0 0 9px;background:url(teh_gif_with_corners.gif) no-repeat 100% 100%;}
.bb div {position:relative;left:-9px;width:9px;height:10px;background:url(teh_gif_with_corners.gif) no-repeat 0 100%; font-size:0;line-height:0;}That's the CSS part. I'm sure you will be able to figure out the HTML part yourself.
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RE: Ten Web Design Trends to Avoid
@danixdefcon5 said:
Requiring us to do "rounded corners" back in 2004 was one of many WTFs we had: apparently some guy in Photoshop made the "design" with total disregard of HTML/CSS limitations. The result was a site made with ugly hacks into an existing CMS's templates, just to give them their stupid "rounded corners".
Oh come on, rounded corners are like 4 lines of CSS and an other 4 lines of HTML, you don't even need Javascript to have rounded corners. Besides, the graphic designer is paid to come up with a nice UI design and you are paid to figure out how to implement that. If both of you do your jobs properly, the end result will be a nice, user-friendly, functional, professional UI, and I don't know about your company's clients, but ours expect nothing less.
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RE: Nice Truck! or the Where's Waldo of WTFs
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Why would the country foot the bill if you crash with no seatbelt on?
Remember that we Euretards actually need to cover the costs of the healthcare of all diving-without-seatbelt, mountain-climbing etc. idiots from our taxes because they *deserve* it.
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RE: Linux in public
@ActionMan said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Then again, I don't live in an impoverished European country.
Yeeeaaaasss.... Germany is impoverished *nods slowly*12% of Americans live in poverty compared to 11% of Germans.
Clearly morbiuswilters wasn't talking about economic poverty. He was talking about the poor in spirit. He was talking about the fact that us, Europeans have lost our most valuable financial asset long time ago: Jesus.
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RE: Linux in public
@morbiuswilters said:
TRWTF is public telephones. Most public telephones in the US are being disposed of as quickly as the telcos can rip them out. I've had my own cell phone for a long, long time. Then again, I don't live in an impoverished European country.
I had a cell phone for 12 years but I still use public payphones every now and then. for example when my battery is drained. You rarely need them but when you need them they are very useful.
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RE: WTF manager: Bob
@taylonr said:
First, it's a woman in IT. Second, it's well written, and the number of IT people who can actually write, seem to be statistically insignificant.
Actually I see some correlation here.
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RE: US DMV WTF
@dcardani said:
Really? When I went to England when I was younger, my father rented a car and drove it without any problems. I assume they asked him for a license. Is this a recent change? When I went to a UK territory as an adult, I rented a car and drove it (on the left-hand side of the road) and was only asked for my US license. That was less than 10 years ago. I'm just curious as I've never heard of that before, and didn't run into it myself.
Sorry I am full of shit, you're right.
Visitors can drive with a US driving licence, but after 12 months you need to get an UK licence. Normally they accept your previous foreign licence and exchange it to an UK one, but they cannot accept US ones because of the aforementionned reasons.
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RE: A fantastic career awaits in a dead-end unsupport langage :P
@bjolling said:
I'm in the middle of a 'request for proposal' for a client that wants to upgrade a working ASP/VB6/COM+ application to .NET. Their motives:
- Business risk: VB6 not supported by MS anymore. For any problem involving a non-supported application you pay a big fee before MS even considers to investigate
- Consolidation: their VB6 framework has been migrated to VB.NET. Several mandatory features have been added to their .NET framework but not anymore to the frozen VB6 framework.
- Features: Take advantage of new built-in features like garbage collection, regular expressions, generics, ...
- IDE: Visual Studio IDE is more productive than the VB6 for developing new features and bugfixing
- Staff Turnover: hard to find motivated developers for VB6.
I'm sure MPS can find many more
Just an other few:
Portability (mono), stability, maintainability, speed, scalability, access to thousands of third party components, etc.If you hesitate to upgrade your systems to the latest shiny stuff, you will soon find that your competitors already did so and they were actually smart enough (opposed to you) to see how the new shiny stuff could leverage their business, and by then you've lost because it is too late.
- Business risk: VB6 not supported by MS anymore. For any problem involving a non-supported application you pay a big fee before MS even considers to investigate
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RE: US DMV WTF
@mrJoe said:
that the US of A, oldest and most powerful alliance of states in the world still requires you to get a driving license from your state of residence. This really should be a federal gov issued document
Actually, this is exactly why you can't drive a motor vehicle in the United Kingdom with an American driving licence:
- Driving licences in America are issued by the states, not the Federal Government, so individual states need to sign treaties with HM Government about accepting each other's driving licences.
- The American Constitution forbids states to sign treaties with foreign countries.
- You cannot drive in the United Kingdom with an American driving licence
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RE: 999 WTF
@DOA said:
Shouldn't be a problem. How much does a minute of your life cost? 0.001 cents?
I don't know which particular third world country you live in but professional software developers in the developed world rarely cost less than 40-50 USD cents a minute