Wait, is it about that stupid dress?
Posts made by dstopia
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RE: FREAK on a leash
I understand the bug is on the client implementation, but shouldn't the onus be on the centralized servers to stop offering export-grade RSA keys?
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
East Asian languages traditionally did not make a distinction between blue and green until very recently. Maybe that's what he was confused about? It happens in other languages as well.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
I think the point is that it's far easier to abuse a manual transmission by just @CodingHorrorBot
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RE: Discobooleans and other False Tales of True Type Safety
So is it kinda like overriding Object.equals() in Java? Speaking off complete ignorance here.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
I wouldn't say it has to be regularly replaced, but it's a part that can get worn out if you're not careful with it thus an extra expense in case it does wear out.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
Once you get the feeling of when you need to step on the throttle for a smooth start hill starting is almost never different from a regular start. Granted, I live in a flat country so I don't encounter that situation a lot, but I've never had issues once I got the feel for depressing the clutch.
I did, however, skid the wheels on an incline on one occasion while in a hurry -- I hadn't let go of the clutch enough to engage the gear and the throttle was too high.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Sounds like sorta what I was doing without the letting go of the clutch in neutral, so I guess I should give it a try.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
I know, but it doesn't help being a novice driver and making all sorts of mistakes like riding the clutch and not pushing down on the clutch pedal enough. The fact that it broke so fast taught me quite quickly though.
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RE: Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
I started driving very recently and I already broke the 2nd gear shift synchro on the very old car I'm driving. It sucks because now if I need to downshift from 3rd I need to match the revs almost aggressively, so I mostly punish the car by forcing 3rd in situations where I should downshift because fuck breaking almost to a standstill just to pull 2nd.
Next time if I'm buying a car I'm looking for an automatic for sure. They're not very common here and driving manual is fun, but it gets dumb in city traffic.
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RE: Unreal Engine 4 is now free, 100%
This is pretty fucking awesome news. Unity's pricing scheme sucks balls for anything remotely big and the lack of custom shaders for the non-pro version is awful (last time I looked at it though, maybe things changed in the meantime).
I've toyed around enough with Unity to see the seams bursting apart in different spots, so I've always fiddled with the idea of paying up the $20 to get the UE4 download (and then cancel out of the subscription) so I could play around with it, but now I'm happy I've held back.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
It is pretty insane. The app in itself is a WTF of UX and general design principles. It's getting worse as it slowly becomes this jack of all trades bullshit app for whatever purpose Mr. Manager wants the app to behave in order to fill up some stupid presentation for Mr. Chief Manager prior to budgeting meetings starting.
Fuck corporations.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
Oh believe me, he wasn't talking about that. He literally thought malloc() memory doesn't get deallocated by Unix. He didn't even know what SIGTERM and SIGKILL are.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
Hey, at least that's Java and seems to be using a rather sane variable naming scheme. You haven't felt pain until you need to deal with JD Edwards C functions with their stupid Hungarian notation, cryptic API you can only look up in 800 pages long Oracle PDFs plus its special preprocessor functions.
Fuck Oracle.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
Ugh, it's kind of a long story.
I recently started working for a Big Local Telcoâ„¢. Said telco bought a billion different Expensive Billing Enterprise Software Packagesâ„¢ in the 90s, and over time, as it usually happens around these parts, the IT department started suffering budget cuts after budget cuts, and the whole thing fell into a mess of different systems interacting in weird ways with one another.
My whole team is dedicated to solving the various errors that crop up from the interaction between these different billing systems. As soon as I joined, about a month and a half ago, I got put in charge of a Java EE application that is basically a frontend that allows a subset of IT users to visualize the gazillion different errors that arise every day from the whole thing's regular operation.
One of the things the users of this application do is solve issues by way of executing SQL queries, except they don't actually have the privileges to execute queries on the production DB, so there's this whole complicated chain of change requests they have to go through. The brillant idea some random fuckwad of a manager had is to automate the process of going through this bureaucracy by having our application upload SQL query files to be executed by a batch daemon running on a Unix server (the idea being that only a subset of approved queries would be allowed). This last bit was the idea of my predecessor, who wanted multithreaded access to the DB written in an ancient Oracle C preprocessor language called Pro-C. The phrase in the OP was just uttered this morning by the guy who was assigned the task of writing the Unix daemon.
I can't even begin to count the number of WTFs there are here. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Sadly, this is only my second gig as a programmer (I worked for six years for a consulting agency for an Oracle ERP and that's its own set of WTFs) and I'm still learning a lot here, so I'm not ready to leave yet. But holy shit am I dreading my future here.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
Oh, believe me, you don't want to know what this project is about. That's probably TRWTF.
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RE: What colour is this dress?
I can't see it as white but I can see how a shitty smartphone camera in the wrong angle can make it appear as white.
I thought it was light blue / turquoise and brown at first. Now I can sorta tell the color is gold? Only if I look at the top part where the light hits the dress.
It's still a dumb trick that got popular for god knows what reason.
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RE: 💩 Shit I just heard in my office
Doing it in Java has valid reasons of its own, I'm just amazed at the thought process behind what the GC does in the JVM.
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💩 Shit I just heard in my office
"I can't deallocate memory from a C process if you kill it from the OS, we should do this in Java since it has a garbage collector".
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RE: Firefox Asinine Grinning Balloon Crap
What browser isn't garbage these days?
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RE: How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life (article)
'Course they are. But pray tell, what kind of "justice" did they actually enact other than screaming a lot? You're saying it as if the "mob" fired her from the job, or actually did anything at all, when all they did was give the stupid joke lots of attention, because well, that's how a gossip works, on the Internet or otherwise.
They screamed enough to make the company look bad. The company has to please the mob or their finances will be impacted (probably not that much, but that's what drives marketing types anyways). It's not that hard to connect the dots, even for you.
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RE: How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life (article)
Not even in a democracy you get mob justice. There's actual people appointed to judge others, and they're usually trusted to be exemplary people who study a lot. You know why? Because mobs are fucking dumb.
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RE: Pronunciation
Which meaning? What was he planning to do in the startup? Did it have some other meaning to him (or other French speakers)?
I'm not French nor an English native speaker, but I meant the uh... pubic sense of the word.
It just sounded cool to him. It means nothing in my native language and he asummed it just meant "more than one crab" in English.
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RE: Pronunciation
Default is probably a french word so it makes sense for it to be stressed in the final syllable.
As an addendum to funny things non-native English speakers come up with in English, yesterday an associate of mine told me he had come up with a name for his new startup: CrabsTech.
Imagine his face when I told him what "crabs" actually means in English.