yeah i thought the belgariad was a pretty good series, it was a while ago now that i read it but it was one of those fantasy series that i just couldn't put down, a bit like the "wheel of time" but i got to the end before he'd written the end of the series, although that was a while ago now he might have finished the last few books
Posts made by element_0
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RE: Copying the Copyright
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RE: Copying the Copyright
TRWTF is that this post about copyright turned into a post about religion,
i do not apologise for what i said in my previous posts but i do apologise for my original post which was obvious flame bait.
You know sometimes you do it just to see who gets narky.
we could spend hours dicussing all the WTFs in religion but everyones been doing that for thousands of years and it's gotten nowhere so it's pointless and this isn't really the appropriate forum.
So my bad, i won't post any additional comments on this thread, feel free to have the last word.
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RE: Copying the Copyright
@belgariontheking said:
How about I've taken a decent amount of study at the university level. I minored in Comparative Religion in college. One of the classes was nothing but Catholic Church.
I spent six years at a christian school
@belgariontheking said:
How about the millions of people who were able to eat last night because of relief efforts by the Catholic Church.
Think about the thousands of native cultures which have been destroyed at the hands of missionaries
@belgariontheking said:
How about tens of thousands of youth groups across the world, giving teens something to be excited about.
Excited about the church? Sounds like you had some pretty boring teen years. I don't know where you grew up but man it must have been boring
(i have actually attended christian youth groups on several occasions and i wouldn't recommend it)
@belgariontheking said:
How about kids growing up with a sense of morality.
You can be a nice person and not christian you arrogant prick, and what are the morals you're talking about, the hating homosexuals and athiests one, or the tampering with little kids and covering it up ones?
@belgariontheking said:
How about a 2000 year old organization that has survived longer and is larger than any existing nation.
I think you'll find china is older
@belgariontheking said:
The priests not marrying is an issue, and one that I believe will be dealt with in our lifetime. This issue leads directly to the mentioned catholic priest sex abuse. I believe that nothing could teach one how to lead a church than learning how to lead a family. Furthermore, the "actions" are ones that has been condemned by the Church worldwide, no matter what you saw on South Park.
Only after the pubilic found out, they knew for a lot longer
@belgariontheking said:
The opposition to condoms, seriously, you can't say that the entire church is bunk because of that. I don't know much about this issue, but it seems pretty simple. Church opposes condoms. Condoms prevent AIDS. Lots of Catholics in Africa. Person A acquired HIV previous to marrying person B. I should point out that the primary way for person A to acquire AIDS before marriage (sex outside of matrimony) is condemned by the Church too. Many other ways, but that's the primary way.
Enough for ya?
trying to force your own irrational superstitions on people in direct contradiction to all current scientific evidence issn't a very cool thing to do
Enough for ya?
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RE: Copying the Copyright
@belgariontheking said:
@element[0] said:
lol,
Just as well too, otherwise given the repeated stupidity perpetrated by the catholic church they would just win every year.
You insensitive prick. Let's just go ahead and ignore the great efforts that the Catholic church has put forth, probably in your own neighborhood. Furthermore, let's call them stupid. Furthermore, let's go ahead and say that everything they do is stupid.
The point was made about Catholic priests, not the Catholic church. The Catholic church has done nothing to remove themselves from the gene pool.
Every day, the Church is winning (and growing) hearts. What are you doing? You want to argue the existence of God, we had a thread for that. Don't go around saying things are stupid when you know nothing of them. You FAIL
I'm not even Catholic, I just have great respect for the Church.
Get off my case you prick, you know absolutely nothing of my experience with the catholic church. I find the catholic church's discrimination against homosexuals and women incredibly offensive as well as their constant interference in federal politics which seeks to enforce their own misguided "morals" onto me. There are also the constant lies told about the effectiveness of condoms which costs thousands of lives, i know they do some good stuff too but they also do a whole lot of bad, very destructive things as well which could easily be avoided by a change in their completely abhorrent world view. And don't even get me started on protecting known paedophiles. Maybe do some research and think of things from someone else's point of view(maybe one of the groups the catholic church actively discriminates against) before you shoot your mouth off like a dickhead.
P.S. if the catholic church had it's way it would probably ban the Belgariad(which i'm assuming your screen name is a reference to) series as promoting witch craft just as they do in catholic schools with harry potter
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RE: Page Division WTF
@purge said:
The people who have been pointing out the declining quality of the non-Side Bar WTF posts are correct. Granted, the site relies on user submissions and I've never offered anything, but I''m considering some. I know, gimme a focking A for effort, but I've always gotten my jollies from the comments. Judging by the reaction to some of my sarcastic posts (all caps included), this forum is quite flame-retardant, which is nice.
Agreed, about the forums and the FPP has gone massively down hill, can we conclude that there are less WTFs happening or that the small % of people who submit front page stories have run out of good ones? Maybe us sidebar posters should start trying to make some front page submissions
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RE: Microsoft Word WTF
@purge said:
STOP YOUR WHINING B*TCH AND JUST USE CRLF LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. THATS WHY LINUX WILL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS WINDOWS
wow, purge, having a bad day or something? Is it because your caps lock key is stuck on?
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RE: Page Division WTF
@purge said:
NO ITS NOT EXECUTABLE ITS DUMB FOR SOMEONE TO DO THAT
wow, purge, having a bad day or something? Is it because your caps lock key is stuck on?
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RE: Copying the Copyright
@m0ffx said:
Lifestyle choices do NOT count - the Catholic priesthood cannot win a Darwin Award.
lol,
Just as well too, otherwise given the repeated stupidity perpetrated by the catholic church they would just win every year.
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RE: Tv, so last century
lol, i saw another one last night, it was "Top 20 songs that get stuck in your head" hosted by Bert Newton, apparently they do one every week with a different top twenty. This one consisted of playing a minute or so of the film clip and then interviewing some minor(and i mean really minor) celebrites about what they thought of the song.
The sad thing was that all the people they were interviewing were clearly(for the most part) sitting at their desks, so they'd obviously just got a camera crew and walked round the channel nine offices and just asked people who happened to have been on tv before and were sitting at their desks.
It's almost like they've completely stopped trying, the sad thing is when i asked my sister why she was watching it she said she new it was crap but there was "nothing else on" so she'll just watch it anyway. I guess that's why they can get away with it, as long as none of the stations try then there is no incentive to do anything good.
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RE: Tv, so last century
@tster said:
@element[0] said:
@tster said:
where is all this content that you are downloading coming from?
mostly the US and the UK, sorry i should have mentioned that here in australia we get shows a year or so late(if at all) so if i want to watch stuff i have to get it from sources other than tv. Most of the stuff can be purchased on dvd even though it's not actually broadcast, but dvds are a pretty lame medium and expensive and again a lot later to come out than on the net. Stations are required to broadcast a minimum amount of locally produced content but judging by the quality this is where they save money to spend on US produced crime dramas.
for example HBO's Rome was cancelled here after two or three episodes(they put it in time prime on a brain dead commercial channel) and because the rights to the whole season were sold to the station that stopped airing it you can't see it here now. This is just one exapmle but there are many.I was trying to point out that you are bashing television shows as all shitty and worthless when all the stuff that you are download on the internet are actually TV shows.
Obviously i wasn't saying that because what would i download?
Not all shows are shitty but i'd have to say about 99% of them are pretty shitty, it's probably more an australian thing, even that 1% of good content (from the us or uk) doesn't make it here in preference to cheap, mindless drivel. Whether this is because the owners of the content are charging too much or the stations don't try any harder because they know that most people are too lazy to make a choice. It's more that people would spend(at a guess) maybe two hours a day watching tv when they get home but rather than watching stuff they want to watch they just watch "whatever is on" regardless of whether they actually like it, when they could easily watch whatever they want. There are a lot of good tv shows it's just here most of them aren't actually on tv or if they are they are quite often in a completely innappropriate timeslot. ie. eleven in the morning for stuff like spaced, scrubs or family guy(not the best shows in the world i'll admit but certainly better thatn most of the shite on here)
The latest abomination i saw that passes for "local content" just takes the most popular clips off youtube for the week and has a couple of minor big brother celbrities introduce them, i mean bravo
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RE: Tv, so last century
@tster said:
where is all this content that you are downloading coming from?
mostly the US and the UK, sorry i should have mentioned that here in australia we get shows a year or so late(if at all) so if i want to watch stuff i have to get it from sources other than tv. Most of the stuff can be purchased on dvd even though it's not actually broadcast, but dvds are a pretty lame medium and expensive and again a lot later to come out than on the net. Stations are required to broadcast a minimum amount of locally produced content but judging by the quality this is where they save money to spend on US produced crime dramas.
for example HBO's Rome was cancelled here after two or three episodes(they put it in time prime on a brain dead commercial channel) and because the rights to the whole season were sold to the station that stopped airing it you can't see it here now. This is just one exapmle but there are many. -
Tv, so last century
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I've found myself in the awkward position of living with my parents for a few weeks, in between the end of my lease and an overseas trip. They have a really shitty internet connection so downloading stuff is out of the question so i've been forced to watch tv. And wow what an absolute steaming pile of shit, it must be about two or three years since i've actaully watched something on tv and absolute crap that they wheel out and expect people to watch is just terrible.
Was tv always this bad or has this happened since i stopped watching it? Completely inane reality tv sandwiched in between even more inane ads, it's like everything on tv is aimed at the absolute lowest common denominator and done as cheaply as possible, what gets me though is the amazing amount of cross promotion i see these days, like channel ten basically putting advertisements for their shows into news stories. This is the state of tv in australia at the moment, is it like this everywhere? It amazes me that with all the choice in media people have (bittorrent especially) that they are still content to sit there and be spoon fed the absolute crap that the tv company was able to buy for the cheapest price.
The problem is people seem to be resistant to plugging their computers into their tv's, everyone has tv out on their pc's these days but i find it's only IT people who actually use it. These days using your pc to watch shows is just as easy as setting up a DVD player(although i still meet people who can't even do that). Do other readers have a similar experience? I'm assuming most readers of this site would get the majority of your content off the net?
It may just be an australian thing, we only have 5 channels and only two of them might ever have something good on(rarely), pay tv is expensive and not much better. Is this dumbing down and cheapening of tv the channels response to competition from other media sources? Is this the same in most countries or unique to australia?
Sorry for the rant but after a few years of not seeing tv i was genuinely shocked by what it has become.
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RE: Worse than failure ad wtf
@vt_mruhlin said:
@element[0] said:
@purge said:
I happen to think this is a good idea. There are plenty of people who have no idea what information about them is on the Internet and how easy it is to access via search engines like Google. At the very least, knowing what's out there fosters awareness. But you can take it a step further and attempt to remove that information, and try to regain some measure of privacy. Google's drive to consume all the information it can is quite troubling.
You would actually spend money on a book to find this stuff out? This may be a little ironic but a quick google will find you all that information without needlessly buying a book, i mean, where do you think the guy did the research for his book? I have thought about this before though, i've noticed a lot of older programmers/professionals tend to buy books about stuff rather than just looking it up, there would be money in just going round and slapping together a bunch of information that's readily available online and selling it as a book.
I've noticed that when looking for stuff online, I tend to read only the part that I'm looking for, which can often overlook something valuable. This is only worsened by the fact that a lot of the information you find while googling only answers one specific question. With a book, I'm more likely to read the whole thing (to get my money's worth) and learn something new.Good point, i hadn't really thought of that, a book probably is a better way to get a good overall view of a topic in a considered way. Not really my style of research, i don't mind reading of a screen for long periods but i know a lot of people that don't like it so i guess that's where a physical book is quite handy.
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RE: Clueless, awful XML API
Yep, i've seen stuff like this a lot, it's usually when the API has been written by people who don't quite get what xml is for. Especially the whole csv data inside an xml node, way too common for my liking, it's funny too because you wonder what the guy was thinking when he wrote it
"Gee i wish there were someway i could store this list of values in xml....hmmmmmm...i know csv!!!"
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RE: Worse than failure ad wtf
@purge said:
I happen to think this is a good idea. There are plenty of people who have no idea what information about them is on the Internet and how easy it is to access via search engines like Google. At the very least, knowing what's out there fosters awareness. But you can take it a step further and attempt to remove that information, and try to regain some measure of privacy. Google's drive to consume all the information it can is quite troubling.
You would actually spend money on a book to find this stuff out? This may be a little ironic but a quick google will find you all that information without needlessly buying a book, i mean, where do you think the guy did the research for his book? I have thought about this before though, i've noticed a lot of older programmers/professionals tend to buy books about stuff rather than just looking it up, there would be money in just going round and slapping together a bunch of information that's readily available online and selling it as a book.
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C# PDF library
I just had a question about people's thoughts on rendering PDF docs in c#. We're dynamically generating reports for our client from a db into pdf docs. At the moment we're using SharpPdfLib it's ok but has a pretty limited set of features. The script started off nice and neat but after months of change requests and a few variations of reports hacked in(ie some types of reports have extra coversheet information etc.) it has devolved into a several thousand line piece of crap. The client now wnats newer more complex reports.
We're going to do a rewrite(the cost now more than justifies the money saved in ease of maintenace in the future). I was thinking rewrite it to be a bit more OO(and dare i say enterprisey). My general design would be having a base class which generates the parts of the report common to all reports and then sub class it for the different types of reports which would do the required db lookups and add in the extra rows etc. The problem is that sharpPdf is pretty limited, it can't insert rows in the middle of tables easily, no auto pagination etc.
I've had a look around at some other pdf libraries and some look ok but i just wanted to see what the general consensus is. So i gues my question is two parts.
1. Is there a .net pdf API out there that you would recommend
2. Is the OO approach outlined above a good idea or would i be better off essentially writing a script again but more broken up and better though out.
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RE: Way to turn BSOD off..
lol, i like it, i wonder if the guys trying to turn off crashing in his car too.
Yeah i agree with the poster that thinks it's ram, i've had problems like this before, seemingly random BSODs even after reinstalls. My guess would be that it's the stick in his second slot that's stuffed because he manages to install windows wothout it crashing.
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RE: FileMaker Pro exports a string field as a number
@Brendan Kidwell said:
I have a database and application in FileMaker Pro 9 that I'm trying to recreate using ColdFusion and Oracle, and I'm having some weird trouble exporting the raw data:
I have this one table (well, actually several tables in the source, named 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', etc... but that's not the real WTF) with a string field--we'll call it "bananas"--that, for most records, happens to be null.
I think from just the first two sentences that you have a whole lot more wtf's in store for you before the project is out, good luck
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RE: Is it too late to make money off of old people who are confused by the internet?
If you are not joking then you are a massive arsehole. Yes, there are people that stupid, but if you are going to scam someone please don't do it to someone who really needs the money
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RE: The Incompetence Theory applied to Project liasons
@asuffield said:
@vt_mruhlin said:
The last company I worked for took this up a notch by putting morons on our end as well. Nothing better than having two idiots serving as a proxy between developers.
Consider it a challenge: invent a communications protocol that preserves message integrity over an extremely stupid transport layer.
It should be called stupidity enveloping
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RE: Telstra... Getting more useless every day
@asuffield said:
Which is a pretty unimpressive plan to start with.
I'm not sure where you're from but here in australia we have some spectacularly unimpressive internet plans, it's a bit of a joke compared to the rest of the developed world
Check out these deals from telstra
see that, you can get a whole 200MB downloads a month for only $30!!1! what an age we live in
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RE: Using clipboard for application communication
Sadly enough i've met and had to work with people like this. It's your classic old vb programmer, no formal education in programming at all and got into it about twenty years ago, and stopped learning anything new about ten years ago. Usually these guys have code that is little more than a bunch of cut, pasted adn hacked together code snippets. One guy i had to work with was showing me his solution one day and it was as follows, this is true, happened in 2006 and was for a commercial product.
The application needed the user to enter newline delimited data into a textbox.
in vb the default for textboxes is that they don't accept new lines, so rather than find out how to do it he figured he'd hack the following solution together out of existing bits of code he already had thus avoiding the need to actually learn anything new(this guy had an absolute fear of learning anything new)
On the text field when a user right clicks a messagebox appears informing them that notepad is about to open, they should type the newline delimited list in notepad then cut and paste it into the textfield and then close notepad without saving.
The sad thing was this guy was actually proud of it and thought it was a good solution, i almost blew his mind when i showed him the multiline property, the irony is he has 20 years more programming experience than me and i've never written anything in vb but about 15 seconds on google and i had him the answer. These sorts of guys can't tell the difference between something that works and something that works well.
Also in his list of annoying habits was printing out source code, a lot of source code, and then sitting there with a highlighter looking at it for hours?WTF!?!1 And i don't think i ever saw him find out anything for himself, he'd ALWAYS post in a forum and he'd be totally stuck until someone answered his question and posted the code to solve it, when it was the kind of question google would tell you in the first three hits, and always using stuff from ten years ago like really old cumbersome interfaces for talking to databases when there were a myriad of better, newer easier to use ones around.
One more quick example before this turns into a huge rant is i was helping him do some interaction with a db, he'd never really seen this "new fangled SQL thing" and didn't really want to but he did master the "SELECT * from <tablename>" but unfortunately never got the concept of a where clause(despite me repeatedly showing him) and Joins? Forget it. So everywhere he would select * from the table and then iterate through it in a loop with if stements to build up an array of the results he wanted. When i pulled him up on it he got really defensive and said this was the way he knew how to do it and it worked so he wouldn't change it, and even tried to argue it was better than using a where clause.
Shit and the time i had to help him with parsing and writing an xml file, shit i reckon that needs a whole thread of its own
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RE: Instant Message WTF
Someone i know worked at a hospital where the IT department installed a word filter on their emailing system. All of a sudden any email sent in the hospital with words like breast, penis, etc. were blocked, i guess someone in IT didn't really think that through before their deployment.
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RE: Telstra... Getting more useless every day
@merreborn said:
@element[0] said:
It doesn't surprise me, telstra are one of the most annoying companies i've ever had to deal with, i've been trying to get onto their mobile support line for three days and keep getting disconnected or getting put on hold for half an hour before i hang up, i bet if i ring the sales enquiries line i'll get straight through though. Also WTF is the go with their internet deals, ADSL 2 with a 1 gig a month download limit(i think there might even still be a 500MB one too). Honestly what are you going to do with 1 gig a month at that speed, you could reach you monthly limit in a couple of hours.
To be a little more precise, you should be able to download a gig in about 45 minutes 3 megabit/sec, or roughly 91 at 1.5 megabit/sec.
And only for the price of a 40GB plan at another ISP, what a bargain!
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RE: WTF WTF?
@Brendan Kidwell said:
Stop blocking ads. It's not fair to web site operators. If you don't like animated ads, follow my instructions for killing the animation. Then if you allow static, non-moving ads, it's pretty easy to ignore them or maybe even occasionally read them, but they don't interfere with your enjoyment of the site, and everybody wins.
(Note: it's true that if you follow my instructions, Flash ads are effectively blocked, but that's just too bad. I've never seen a Flash ad I could tolerate, but pages are welcome to try to detect the fact that Flash didn't load and put an image or text block in its place.)
lol
<sarcasm>yeah, i'll get right on that</sarcasm>
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RE: Telstra... Getting more useless every day
It doesn't surprise me, telstra are one of the most annoying companies i've ever had to deal with, i've been trying to get onto their mobile support line for three days and keep getting disconnected or getting put on hold for half an hour before i hang up, i bet if i ring the sales enquiries line i'll get straight through though. Also WTF is the go with their internet deals, ADSL 2 with a 1 gig a month download limit(i think there might even still be a 500MB one too). Honestly what are you going to do with 1 gig a month at that speed, you could reach you monthly limit in a couple of hours.
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RE: Job Ad WTF - "Progressive Politics Manager"
@Rootbeer said:
Gee, TunnelRat, maybe you shouldn't apply for this job.
Think of the blog material though, i think it would be worth it, it'd be like the odd couple
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WTF Front page down
lol, this is all i get on the front page of wtf at the moment
"
An Error Occured
Not sure what it was, but it was logged. A human will eventually look at it. If the problem persists, please Contact Us. If the problem is on the contact form, then ... well ... that pretty much sucks. You can email instead: alexp-at-WorseThanFailure.com."
forums are still up though obviously
</div><p> </p>
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RE: Job Ad WTF - "Progressive Politics Manager"
Maybe Cpound should apply, i think he's still unemployed
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RE: Direct URL Disk Access: Not just for PHP!
@death said:
JFC! I did not believe this kind of stupid security hole possible....
I beleived it possible i just didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to actually do it.
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RE: The Incompetence Theory applied to Project liasons
I know exactly what you mean, i've had this same experience at at quite large companies with hunreds of employees and they pick a completely computer illiterate office drone to manage their side of the project. I once had an exerience where in a meeting, about six months into the project, the company's "i.t project manager" made it clear that she thought each questionnaire(which is unique for each one of their thousands of customers) was a separate page rather than being read from a database, six months into a project she was supposedly managing!!! And she'd been present in numerous meetings about the databases design and functionality, smiling and nodding away. The thing is this software wasn't a small part of the companies business structure it was their whole client facing software + integration with their existing systems and they put someone in charge who's total computer knowledge amounted to a very basic understanding of microsoft office. This lead to so many wtf's including absolutely terrible bug reports(despite us making and repeatedly emailing them a bug report template)
A typical bug report from this project manager would go something like this.
pm "I was filling out a question this morning and i got an error"
me "what did the error say?"
pm "i can't remember, i just clicked ok"
me "who were you logged in as?"
pm "I'm not sure"
me "Can you remember what question you were answering?"
pm "I think it was in the <some questionnaire that contains thousands of questions> questionaire"
me "did you get the bug report template i sent you?"
pm "yeah but i thought i'd just ring you instead"(she hated email for some reason)
me "ummmmm.....ok......I'll look into it"
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RE: JavaScript WTF
@TunnelRat said:
Does anybody here actually believe that we will be writing Javascript in 5 years? Isn't all this hackish, user-hostile scripting going to go away and be replaced by server-side controls or client-side libraries?
Lol, do you actually understand how server side controls work? they usually have tons of javascript. and client side libraries? Seriously? How are these going to be accessed? Maybe some kind of client side scripting language....hmmmm.... i know we could call it javascript!!!
I must admit i don't get to work with javascript that often these days, i'm usually doing backend systems and winform apps but i must say when i do get to use it i quite like it(except for the browser compatibility issues). The XmlHttpRequest + JSON is actually pretty powerful and can give your web apps that more applicationy feel which seems to be all the rage in the worlld of web 2.0.So in short if people aren't using javascript in five years they'll be using something pretty damn similar
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RE: Coworker WTF
lol, i think that's two of the things on my list in the latest CPound post
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RE: Congratulations you sound like a 12-year old.
@tster said:
I guess everyone that hates people is a Republican now...
Except people that hate republicans i guess
no it's just that the republican are the more right wing of the major u.s. parties, right wing people usually don't like foreigners, just the way it is.@tster said:
Also,
a lot of your guesses are pretty freaking boring. OMFG, you think they
are white?!?!?! That's really going out on the limb to guess that they
are probably part of the majority. Hint: most people are part of the
majority.
They weren't meant to be interesting, just observations, and i think it's worth noting that neither of them has actually ever said they are white but you seem to find it ridiculous that they would be anything else. I think that in itself is worthy of considering. Also saying that whites are the majority i assume you're talking about the site rather than the world. I suppose you may be right, i'd never really considered it but the site's in english and most english speaking countries are mostly white so it's probably a fair call. Hint: doing the "Hint:" thing is really lame
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RE: Congratulations you sound like a 12-year old.
My vote is definitely for CPound, his amusing stories brighten my day when i take a breaks from the thuggery and violence i perpetrate in my office on a daily basis(i swear it's the piercings that make me do it). Although i think some kind of mutant lovechild of CPound and TunnelRat would be amusing. TunnelPound which combines Cpounds neurotic delusions with TunnelRat's racism and tendency towards violence.
"I hope you're reading this and I hope you take offense by it. Maybe you'll think twice about cussing on the job again." -CPound
Wow you sure showed him. And he misses out on getting to work with you, double zinger, are you sure you're not being too hard on the guy?
Seriously though, imagine TunnelPounds response, it may have even lead to physical violence, Awesome.
If a CIO at a company wants to swear though, it's his company and he can say what he likes, assuming it's not racist/sexist i suppose. If the guy is swearing in front of clients at meeting etc. i guess that would be a bit weird but in the office with just the employees it's hardly going to be a problem. I think CPound is too easily offended and may need to get himself some of those things men have....ummm balls yeah that's it balls. I guess we'll have to add swearing to the list of things that offends CPounds delicate sensibilities. Anyone else get the impression CPound has had a very sheltered life. Although i do realise there are a some cultural differences with swearing in the au not taking a job solely based on the fact you might have to soil your ears with a few swear words would be considered a bit pissweak.
By way of comparison i've compiled some properties of each:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess(based on this and previous posts) that CPound is the following,
White - was there ever any doubt
Christian - you know with a tude like that he's gotta be close to the big man
Middle Class - i'm guessing he isn't a billionaire
American - duh
Republican - 'cos they don't like people that don't mea the previously listed criteria
Homophobic - why can't they just be straight?
Racist but wouldn't admit it - 'cos he's too worried about someone hearing
Totally scared of the world - we all know it
Has neurotic delusions - and lots of them
Just a guess but i reckon it will be pretty close to the mark, 'cos i think it shows.
Where as TunnelRat isWhite - was there ever any doubt
Christian - I'm guessing he isn't a bhuddist
Middle Class - this guy can't keep a job it would seem, so i reckon he just scrapes into this category
American - and way too proud of it
Republican - 'cos the KKK is technically illegal
Homophobic - fear of his own repressed sexuality
Racist and would admit it - and at every opportunity
Totally hates the world - Why is he always right and the world always wrong
Loves Violent Movies - way too much
Has violent fantasies - way too much
On paper i think TunnelRat wins but i think i'll always have a soft spot for CPound, his meekness, impotence and inneffectualness seem to make him just that little bit more likeable than TunnelRat
Long Live CPound
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RE: "Expert" Security
I just had a thought, maybe they need RightClick Revenue.
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"Expert" Security
I think this may have been metioned on the forums before but that was a while ago and i'm amazed it's still live. I am of course talking about experts-exchange's "security". I don't often frequent experts exchange especially in the last few years since you have to signup/pay. What happens now is that you can't view the answers without a login which is pretty anoying, you can see where the answers are in the page but they are scrambled. The hilarious thing is though that if you view the source of the page the answers are there encrypted with ROT 13(yes that's right ROT 13, lol) but they then also appear agin in plain text further down the page(lol^2). The thing that makes this security so ludicrous is the target market of their site are exactly the kind of people who view the source and can spot their ROT 13 encryption at a glance, it would still be lame but it might be acceptable on a site not specifically aimed at programmers.
Although on the other hand it does make it convenient as i find sometimes experts-exchange does have the exact answer i'm looking for. It seems to me that this coding might have been done by some pissed of devs in the last week before they started their new job or something.
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RE: If you loved "third class programmer", you'll love "Life of an IT Grunt"
Wow, pretty funny, while the blog is amusing the guy is a total fucking wanker. Really racist. The ex marine thing doesn't surprise me, he strikes me as the kind of dick that would join the army.
I never realised everyone in the world was so incompetent until this guy pointed it out to me.
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RE: How do you not notice that?
@PSWorx said:
And as always when the Fight or Flight program is activated, rational thinking as well as learning processes are suppressed in favor of reflex actions. One of the most spectacular examples of those reflex actions is IMO the famous "OK reflex": When a program pops up an error message, or even just a dialog, those people immediately start to panic. "Oh god what does it do now? What should I do?? No time to think! Quick, or the wolf gets me!". In that reflex they do what seems as the quickest way to make the evil box go away: Hit OK. They never realized that, maybe, you could actually read a dialog because they didn't think at all during the process.
Funny, i had an experience with the same user where they were testing the new spell checker we'd integrated into the program. She said the spell check was finding her spelling mistakes but not correcting them, when i went over to her to see what was happening i noticed she was just clicking the add button everytime it found a misspelling. She just wanted to make the dialogue go away and hadn't acually bothered to read any of the buttons, add just seemed to be the one that git rid of the dialogue quickest so that's what she pressed, so when the words weren't being corrected this was considered by her an error. It did not even occur to her to stop, slow down and read what was on the screen, she just wanted the dialogue gone as quickly as possible.
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RE: WTF Hacked? WTF?
@n3txpert said:
It's lame, the cheapest kind of deface injecting js scripts to comments. He won't be able to do anything with the main site though.
Yeah it is lame but i'm guessing the guy was being ironic. Therefore more funny than lame, IMHO
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RE: Self-Destructing Websites
I've noticed this as well, not quite sure what it is, i find it usually seems to happen when you're surfing the seedier side of the internet, torrent sites, serial sites, porn etc. I just assumed it was something attempting some sort of exploit, not quite sure what though, hasn't happened to me since the latest firefox update though
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How do you not notice that?
Hey,
I don't want this to be a rant but i have a few issues with some clients of ours and thought some of you out there may have had similar experiences. The particular subject of this post are users who do not notice things on their computer even though they use it every day. I mean the office people that sit in front of their computers all day(not IT professionals) working away but failing to notice things about how their computer behaves, here is a case in point,
We had one of the end users of the system in to test a prototype of the system we were building(a windows application) about twenty minutes into the testing she came over with a rather worried look, I need to send an email but the program is taking up the whole screen, it's really important that i can always check my email even during an assessment". Well i thought to myself she must have hit Alt+Enter or fullscreen or something, so i go over and nope, just sitting there like a normal window. I show her the minimize box and she exclaims "oh i see like you can do with word"
Now i know she's not an it professional but she does sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day the same as i do, i can't imagine how you could fail to notice basically all programs have this feature, and i certainly don't recall any lectures at university about how to minimise programs. Another thing that mystifies me with these users is that things that they encounter in one area thay don't seem to realise could be applied to another area, ie, when we had to deploy a patch, a small exe written with innoSetup. If you tell them to go to http://some-address/somedoc.doc for our training manuals that will be fine but ask them to download an exe file and all of a sudden it becomes a huge issue and we spend the whole day fielding calls about how to get the file and then double click it. Despite the fact there are completely clear instructions which you must read and click a "i have read and understand these instructions" button before you can download the file(yes i know it seems a bit over the top but we get sick of phone calls). Or the number of times i have had to explain to the same people the difference between their login to the administration side of the web site and their login to the client part of the website.
Also office level data entry types who have no idea of what the tab key does, they spend all day entering data into fields and use their mouse to move from each one to the next one.
I know everyone is thinking "but these guys aren't it professionals" and that's true but these are people that use a computer all day at work, they should at least have a minimum level of computer literacy, these are really, really basic concepts regardless of your education level. I guess the organisation should ensure all staff have some computer training but i know in the real world this rarely happens. they don't have to be experts but if i say "Open your browser " or "download xyz" i don't want to be met with baffled silence and confused looks, not what i had in mind when i became a programmer.
I don't want this to be a rant and be "that guy" i'm genuinely interested in whether this is a common experience and what people's thoughts are on how these sorts of issues can be tackled. I believe the companies and organisations need to spend on basic it training for their employees, and not that sort of learn by wrote "click here, then here, then type..." but actually teach them what a file is, what a program is, the basics of their file system that sort of useful generic knowledge you can apply in many situations.
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RE: Interview Advice
@Todd1 said:
@newguy said:
Er, sorry. If I were the interviewer I would have marked that one wrong too. It's a bit more complicated than that.
Er, no it's not. Let me stop you right there before you make a fool of yourself. I am not some newbie ignoramus who just fell off the turnip truck. Even though my professional experience is minimal, I have read quite a lot and have engaged in many high-level discussions with university professors.
I thought I might be able to have a serious discussion about my interview on this forum, but I see where it's heading already. I've been a reader of thedailywtf for some time and it always ends up being "I say yes, you say no. I say left, you say right. I say up, you say down." Etc. Etc.
I'm not even going to check back to see your responses to this, but I can bet it will involve bashing me as some stupid user who doesn't know how to program. That's the way it usually goes. Disagree with the post, then bash away at the individual. If I were a hiring manager, I wouldn't hire a single one of you. Your attitudes suck.
Sorry todd1 but i'd have to agree with newguy on this one, if that's what you answered then it's a very simplistic interpretation of polymorphism, you need to mention interfaces and inheritance as well. What you were saying was more of a RESULT of polymorphism not actually what polymorphism is. The guy should have asked you to expand on your answer, if he did and you didn't then you are certainly wrong or partial marks at best.
P.S., talk about going off unnecessarily, i think you're going to need to handle critiscism a bit better than that in future, but then i guess you'll never heed this advice becuase you're never going to check this thread again ;)
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RE: No Loitering! Or else, there will be...trouble!
Sounds like pretty standard procedure to me, if the guy is rude that's a little wtfey but would you rather work at a company where people can just wander in off the street and into your office? I've had this happen to me a couple of times and i've done it to people too, i usually like to be a bit more subtle with something like "Can i help you find someone/something", if they reply "Can i see your server room to use my 1337 h4x0r skillz to steal sensitive data" then i know something is up.
I get the feeling from this story that CPound just doesn't like being questioned by someone younger than him, 'cos i reckon he thinks he's pretty awesome. Plus CPound strikes me as the kind of guy that would be into pissy little company policies like "No visitors beyond this point" etc. and follow them ruthlessly to the letter, maybe i'm wrong and CPound is some sort of crazy company policy ignoring maverick but somehow i don't think so.
Wow, the badge idea is funny, but i reckon some sort of helmet would be heaps better, maybe something like "WARNING!!!! Web Developer" written on it
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RE: IE hack magic
@boolean said:
@element[0] said:
I was using JSON to serailise some xml on the server into JSON objects...
Out of curiosity, do you have access to the server-side code that creates the XML? You could possibly just route the database result sets into a JSON object and send from there.
The server side code is c# using the newtonsoft JSON parser. At the moment the api objects we are using will serialise to xml so the xml is being generated by the .net xml serialiser. It ended up becoming a non issue, i was only serialising from xml because the api already serialised to xml and didn't have all the necesary [JSONIgnore] attributes above the variables that cause circular refernces and then we have to release a new version of the api etc. but we realised we needed to do an update release soon anyway so i just went through and did it. works perfeclty now in all browsers.
BTW, on a side note i've eally enjoyed working with JSON as a method of transfering objects from the server to the browser, i'd recommend checking it out if you are getting into complex javascript stuff
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RE: MSN blank dialog box
@boolean said:
Kind of like selling teapots on ebay in the nude...
lol, that was a great post, i wonder how many shots there are like that out there on the eBay.
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IE hack magic
I had a rather amusing experience the other day using IE + xmlhttp requests + JSON.
I was using JSON to serailise some xml on the server into JSON objects and writing them out to the page. When JSON parses xml it prefixes variable names that were attributes in the xml with an @ symbol, presumably so on deserialisation it knows whicha variables are attributes, etc. All checked and working fine in opera and firefox but in ie i get an error from the javascript, i forget the exact error it was something like "conditional compile is not turned on" after some googling i find that this little gem is possible in ie.
If i am writing some javascript and inside a comments block add the line @cc_on @ followed by JScript it will run client side.
for example putting this inside a javascript function.
/*@cc_on @*/
/*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5)
try {
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e) {
try {
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
} catch (E) {
xmlhttp = false;
}
}
@end @*/I can kind of see why they did this and it has its uses but does anyone else here smell hack, plus its really annoying because @prefixed variables are legal in javascript it would seem, at least it works in ff and opera.
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RE: Adventures at My New Company - Story #3
Re: Adventures at My New Company - Story #3
What's worse, saying something stupid or saying something is stupid?
Sounds like a bit of an over reaction from the boss, he needs to grow a bit of a sense of humour. I try not to critiscise my seniors (depending on my relationship with them) but i can understand the guys position, someone has just said something really dumb and you can't explain why it's dumb without getting into a detailed explanation of the subject, in this case ip addressing, so you just say "Oh OK" with no intention of ever thinking about it again. Maybe the guy miscalculated the tone he used for the comment and didn't mean to sound so condescending but then again maybe he did. If a boss decided to write me up for "insubordination" for something so small i'd pretty much be looking for a new job that afternoon
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RE: Adventures at My New Company - Story #4
Re: Adventures at My New Company - Story #4
Maybe the guy hated you because he had read your posts in the forums? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this isn't the full story and that it has been selectively told by CPound but he still looks like a fool. I mean yeah sure if your boss is not going to do something about it quitting might be fair enough(although i'm guessing your boss thinks you're a wanker and just thought you getting all huffy was funny). But slinking out to your car and driving off makes you look really unprofessional (and also sound like a complete sissy). Although if you are as offensive in real life as you are in forums i'm sure they were all glad to see you go.
I'd say good luck finding a job but that's unfair to the next group of people who have to work with you.
I think it will be interesting for you to be on the other side of the interview table. Will you be wearing a suit?
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RE: More Network Admin Gold
Nice one Jeff, that's exactly what i'm talking about. Good blog post. I know that "glazed over" look a user gets in their eyes when you attempt to explain how to solve future problems and you just know they're thinking "why do i need to know how to solve a problem that hasn't happened yet when i can just come and ask you to fix it when it does?"