Best posts made by dse
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Hawking called Trump “a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,”
Later in the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, “Trump bad man. Real bad man.”
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RE: WTF Bites
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Guess who's apparently getting a lot of tech support calls?
True Story: One time I spent about $70 because I loaded up on apples and Cherry Butter for the winter. By the time my credit card bill came a month later I'd forgotten all about it, so I was startled to see a charge for the Apple Store and immediately called Visa figuring somebody had ordered computer equipment with my number online. Visa verified the charge was made at the Apple Store on Mason St in Green Bay and right as I argued "But we don't HAVE an Apple Store in Green Bay!" I realized...DOH!
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Just for @HardwareGeek and @Luhmann, now with extra 😽🐈
US has the strongest protection for the freedom of speech.
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RE: Mozilla's Blinding Fast and Super Useful Bug Report Turnaround time
@Lorne-Kates said in Mozilla's Blinding Fast and Super Useful Bug Report Turnaround time:
I just got a slew of "request for more information" emails from Bugzilla for bugs I had submitted for Firefox.
In 2012.
Most of them were "oh hi is this still happen in current?"
Keep in mind these were filed against FF17.
To which I reply:
I don't know. I haven't upgraded past FF22 due to all the anti-features and adware.
And then my favorite:
Of note in the bug report:
FF17, jQuery 1.8.3, jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 final. Same code was working fine in FF16, still works in IE, Chrome, etc.
Could you attach a minimal testcase, please.
Uh, sure, 4 years after the fact I'll get right on installing FF17, an old jQuery and an effectively deprecated mobile framework. Seriously?
You were asked 4 years ago to:
Could you attach a minimal testcase, please.
Had you done your civil duty to attach a test case all those years ago, FF would not be in as shitty as it is now! IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!
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GNU gettext trolling Windows developers
If you have not had the misfortune of trying to compile crappy GNU code count yourself lucky.
What does Woe32 mean?
“Woe32” denotes the Windows 32-bit operating systems for x86: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 95/98/ME. Microsoft uses the term “Win32” to denote these; this is a psychological trick in order to make everyone believe that these OSes are a “win” for the user. However, for most users and developers, they are a source of woes, which is why I call them “Woe32”.
The only reason I had to even look up what the actual fuck Woe32 means is that I was compiling this piece of crap as dependency for a build environment and something was broken pointing to Woe32.
Here is the source of woes in just one of the directories:
aclocal.m4 757 lines configure configure.ac Makefile.am Makefile.in 886 lines autogen.sh 476 lines libtool 11960 lines
All that fucking cruft (plus setting environment variables, ...) to create a single
Makefile
to compile their software. Now try to debug why something in this arcane thousands-of-lines of bash-jaculation-lisp-emacs is broken. Each time it takes like 20 minutes for the crap to get into the Makefile.
Then you say, hmm I wonder what Woe32 is! Fucking FSF s.
Latest posts made by dse
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RE: Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?
@blakeyrat said in Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?:
@pleegwat said in Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?:
Pure agile is just as bollocks as pure waterfall. Most companies will be somewhere along the spectrum.
Pure Agile is just "agility". Doing regular retrospectives and making changes based on those.
You're probably calling either Scrum or Kanban "Agile". You can be Scrum without being Agile. (I've been on a team like that. Scrum was dictated from above, there were no retrospectives.) You can be Waterfall while being Agile.
Huh? I think you are dangerously close to be a manager. Now I know where managers come from.
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RE: What the fuck, Apple?
@remi said in What the fuck, Apple?:
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Apple?:
Also, the UI is extremely shitty, so each time you select a file, the whole selection app slows down exponentially.
Oh yeah, that also happens in the default mail app and is painful as hell.
I've got one email account that is essentially for spammy sites that insist on getting a valid email, and which therefore gets flooded with spam (even with a filter, some always gets through). I check maybe once per year, and deleting 100 or so messages in one go is impossible with their shitty UI. Batches of 10-20 is the max that is bearable.
Apple is using a cart and 2 donkeys to move your files, with 10-20 of them you are bound to break their back! You should wait for Apple to invent the truck for 20-50 files
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RE: Internet of shit
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Well, hey, at least they didn't turn the TVs into self-actualized bombs...
Did their TV start displaying some odd porn that involved SPANK SPANK!!! BAD CUSTOMER DON'T BITCH!!! ?
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RE: Internet of shit
@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
If I were to get a Chromecast, I would need to get a TV with a USB port that isn't a smart TV. I'd also need to get a Chromecast.
TV with hdmi
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RE: What the fuck, Apple?
@tsaukpaetra said in What the fuck, Apple?:
@blakeyrat said in What the fuck, Apple?:
@lorne-kates Children must have video blasted at them at all times.
Based on our bandwidth usage and tablet stats for my five year old, this is 137 percent true.
Is 137 a little 1337?
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RE: What the fuck, Apple?
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Apple?:
Oh, but it's okay, Apple's got you covered with a Real Official Solution (fyi: I added air quotes around Solution, but they were so supermassive with sarcasm that they collapsed into a singularity and vanished from the post).
Apple TV? Why do you use iPad in place of iTV? Do you have no respect for The Right Thing an Apple fanboy would use to maximize Apple profits?
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RE: I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?
@captain said in I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?:
@blakeyrat Pretty sure you solicited the advice.
We should have been able to read his mind! After all his advice to the contrary and the category this topic started in. Well, it is blakey so I just accept that he is right, as always
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RE: I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?
@yamikuronue said in I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?:
@boomzilla said in I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?:
Some people need more
It seems like nobody approaches 10 without a neurological problem tho... like, I thought I was an exception, but I have a chronic disorder turns out.
I had a roommate who sometimes would sleep for 2 days straight. I heard after graduation he saw some doctors, diet and medication for fat cells in the blood, and now he has lost weight and is healthy with normal sleep.
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RE: Apparently, contributing to OSS will make you a great developer
@cartman82 said in Apparently, contributing to OSS will make you a great developer:
You can replace the entire article with "do stuff related to programming". Which is true enough.
"do stuff" is not satisfying. It helps to "contribute" to something however, makes it more fun. Programming without fun only creates more blakeys who hate this industry.
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RE: Goodbye
@boomzilla It may appear nonsensical to you but he probably has work to do.