Good idea! 7-bit ASCII will make it platform agnostic!
Best posts made by faoileag
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RE: FileNotFoundStorage.com Design Document
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RE: Benefits website
Also, Google. Even though I set it to English, the fucking thing keeps redirecting me to
google.hr
Don't use google.com - use google.co.uk. Similar language but google.co.uk doesn't try to impose your national version on you.Filed under: yes, google.com redirects to google.de when queried from within germany
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RE: FileNotFoundStorage.com Design Document
For Science!
Ok, looks like Discourse has a problem with lengthy urls...Edit: confirm, it's Discourse. The url itself triggers a 404 as expected.
Filed under: yes, could look better, but I don't have the time right now
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RE: Brazil is out!
Your postings have always been hard to read. TRWTF is that I am not always successful in ignoring them.
@Matches is about to develop this new cloud storage service, filenotfound.com (I'm on mobile right now, excuse me for not linking to the topic). I think that would be the perfect place to store @Nagesh's posts for posterity. -
RE: Brazil is out!
The hubby hobby lobby?
No hubby usually doesn't get involved with wife's hobby, and neither does the lobby. But perhaps her hobby is called bobby? -
RE: How not to save money in a laboratory
Reminds me of the "Swinging Blue Genes" and their smash hit
"ACAAGATGCCATTGTCCCCCGGCCTCCTGCTGCTGCTGCTCT" -
RE: Science!
Only recently is also the protection of animals plays a role. There are such successful approaches."
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RE: "Just supply a PR"
Mind-boggling that he seriously thinks that only a human could ever spam his JS via the UI?
From the looks of it they don't have automated tests over at Discourse (apart from unit tests). One reason might be that over there indeed no one has heard of watir/watin. -
RE: "Just supply a PR"
I can't tell you what a "Pull Request" is, since nobody's explained that to me and the GitHub website is about as clear as mud on the subject.
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RE: "Just supply a PR"
Quoting Jeff:
(psst.. but they don't, because spammers are idiots. The ones that aren't are rarer than hen's teeth.)
And that from the man that claimed Discourse instances with 10k posts in a topic a rarer than unicorns. Hen's teeths must be quite common then... -
RE: Well, *how* senior?
Do you really want to consider someone for that job who needs to be walked through opening a link?
This would be a wtf if the company searching did post that job advert. But they are not:"Our client, an innovative and entrepreneurial Software Development Company..."
So this job advert has been compiled and placed by a recruiter. Who will have used a template. And probably doesn't know too much about web development anyway.
So, again, not really a wtf.
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RE: "Just supply a PR"
Of course, if you ever wondered how would sado-mazo relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape (with jealous Draco Malfoy jumping in) play out, you can get that too.
Can't say you make me curious.Anyway, I wrote my own version of book 7 with lots of sex & hate & violence just to see what it would be like but never put it online.
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RE: Javascript gotchas thread
Yup. A subtle gotcha of loosely typed languages in general. I'm certainly keeping this in mind from now on.
I regularly use the patternreturn (something_truthy) ? true : false;
(orreturn (something_truthy) ? 1 : 0;
in Perl).Looks like unnecessary redundancy but it communicates the type of the return value rather well.
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RE: Sexy Shibboleths
paging @faoileag and @kuro
Worcestershire is tricky if you don't know it, but what's the deal with squirrel mirror?The one I like best though is Woolfardisworthy in Devon.
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RE: Sexy Shibboleths
"pass me the woo, worch., screw it, pass the A-1 steak sauce.:"
"How do I get toAberaistwaithAberyüstwüththis-place-here?" (person points at Aberystwyth on a map) -
RE: "Shell Shock", the bash complement to heartbleed (AS IF)
From what I understand, the problem is with (crappy?) CGIs and the likes, and systems where
/bin/sh
is a link to/bin/bash
. Calls tosystem()
(and apparentlypopen()
) actually run/bin/sh
before the actual command they were supposed to execute.
That's the problem, that if you invoke system calls from e.g. Perl the shell is invoked. You could perhaps make /bin/sh point to another shell, but I'm sure you will find out then how many utilities are not shell agnostic and assume /bin/sh to have bash behaviour. -
RE: Sexy Shibboleths
I'm sorry, Jeeves, I misspelled your name before, what a bounder and a cad I am!
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Today is Friday, the 13th
Just for the fun of it: today is friday the 13th.
On my way to work my exhaust pipe broke, so my car now has some interesting sound characteristics.
Did anybody else experience some "bad luck" today?
(that today's article has Discourse as comment system doesn't count ;-))
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What was your first computer?
Continuing the discussion from Where did your user name come from?:
Oh! Memory Lane! Used my paper route money to order this nice piece of kit from some magazine back in the early 80's, got the DIY version. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
Reading this I thought: now that would make a nice new topic - on what machines did this community start their adventures in computing land?My first computer was a EG2000 Colour Genie by EACA, bought shortly after its arrival on the german market in August 1982.
Although the machine itself was great, the manual was crap - I didn't mind too much that it was in English (or at least some sort of translation-in-a-hurry English), but it was rather flimsy and the information it offerend about the internals was sparse and sometimes just plain wrong.
Nevertheless the Genie provided hours and hours of fun and late-night programming :-)
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
@faoileag said:
Dunno, do you like a vicious community?
You mean, worse the dailywtf forums?
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
Fuck you guys.
Fuck you right in the ear.
Well, that answers one question:
@Keith said:I wonder if @mikeTheLiar gets a separate notification for each of these mentions...
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
@mikeTheLiar said:
mikeTheLiar said:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/category/article-discussionWe really, really, really, really, really, really, really need sarcasm tags.
Interesting:
@mikeTheLiar said:(post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged)
Since you post directly below @mkieTheLiar (pun intended), this is a nice wtf: you can delete your posts. Just pray nobody quoted them before you deleted them :evil_grin:Bug: emoji for :evil:grin: still missing
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
Worse, I got involved with open source development where apparently developers are no more important to the project than anyone else. With a team of 20-odd people including 3 developers, developing a piece of software, you'd think the developers would be more important than some of the others... but nooooooooo...
That sounds like 17 managers for three developers...On the risk of getting slapped with a large trout for posting yet again a picture in tongues, you can buy a wonderful postcard for this situation [here][1]
Explanation: all of the people standing around the hole are labeled with some managerial role, whereas the guy doing the actual work has just an ordinary name like "John".
[1]: http://www.amazon.de/Modern-Times-Postkarte-Horst/dp/B005H9MG3S -
RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
But in OSS ... When you enter into it with the belief in wanting to do something good and improve the software you use and you end up feeling battle scarred out of it, there's something wrong.
Sadly enough, the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was codinghorror's reaction to a code submit from ben_lubar regarding nested quotes... :-( -
RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
or a meme waiting to happen.
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
I know a lot of our India based companies get bad press, but truth is each time there is some wrong management decision involved.
From the point of view of the company offshoring development, it doesn't matter if the offshore manager is to blame, or the offshore developer(s). What counts is the ROI.And I have held a job a while ago where I was hired because software development was brought back from India after a couple of years because it was considered to cause more problems than it solved.
Filed under: I didn't say it got better afterwards
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RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
Also, warning me I've posted more than 20% of the replies? That's... interesting.
Just wait until you post the most posts in a topic. That fact well be visible on the topics page for all to see at a mere mouseover! -
RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
I think that @codinghorror forgot that users don't read.
Now you've done it. You've invited him. That was the first @cdnghrrr on this page (thank goodness, Edit->Find still works in Firefox, as Ctrl-F has been shanghaied by Discourse). A lolcats pic might now be a realistic event in the near future... it's still 13:50PDT. -
RE: Today is Friday, the 13th
I know, and already I feel guilty about it! I don't like being the person with the biggest e-peen. It is merely ironic that I am unfortunately in that situation elsewhere.
No, it isn't something you should feel guilty about. It's something the people behind Discourse should think about.You see, Discourse is meant to change the world so that people have more civilsed discourse. And the idea behind it is that it is on topic discourse.
This, however, has turned into a fun chat with the few of us who are still partaking in it - you, Nagesh, @chubertdev and me. Like on the old IRC channels.
Measuring who posts the most posts in such a fun chat does not make sense.
I would even go so far as to say that a development like this is perhaps tolerated by the idea behind Discourse, but it is definitely stroking against the fur of Discourse.
I wouldn't even be surprised if most of tonights chat would be moderated away into an off-topic topic.
So yes, one of us might come out of this as having posted the most posts on the "Today is Friday, the 13th" topic. Even if most if not all of them were completely irrelevant to the topic.
And that is why I think that the idea behind Discourse will fail.
Unless they manage to write some code that rejects posts that are off-topic.
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RE: Poll: Physical Exercise!!!
File under: We need to come up with a way to create urgency and neurosis in our readers to amp up the eyeballs on our nonsensical website pages! How do we do that?
"Vote now! Only 4 hours left in the voting window!! (New polls will arrive soon)"
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RE: Poll: Physical Exercise!!!
I found one forum called myfitnesspal.com
It is forum of ... No judgment passingfolksahes like me.
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RE: Poll: Physical Exercise!!!
Also, you're trying to take my job of "that guy from the weirdest country on the planet" on these forums. Tsk, tsk.
Take comfort in the fact that you probably are "that guy with the weirdest name on this forum". Until you told that you are from Poland, I was wondering what the acronym might stand for. -
RE: Poll: Physical Exercise!!!
I'll try to keep the story short as some steaks are in the pan right now.
1996 I started on AOL which was a decent ISP at that time. They wanted a nick to register. I wanted something unusual, so I thumped a small gaelic dictionary (no, I don't speak gaelic), found the gaelic word for seagull, and there you are. It first became my standard nick on AOL, then, by and by, my standard nick on pretty much everything.
Filed under: Someone beat me on twitter, though.
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RE: Poll: What's your least favourite phobia?
Nice! But it's not Infinni-Poll™. You should talk to @chubertdev.
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RE: Poll: What's your least favourite phobia?
TRADEMARK VIOLATION!
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/poll-discourse-feature-request-on-polls/944/36?u=keith
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RE: What is your browser's score?
Infinni-Poll™ should be created using Haskell: 3
yum install haskell
Loaded plugins: langpacks
No package haskell available.
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RE: Poll: In how many forums are you an active member?
How did I do that? How did I make post 19 its own reply??
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RE: Another attempt at social engineering
I think it's multiple mentions in a row from the same user
So you mean
@mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar @mikeTheLiar
will only result in one notification? -
RE: Another attempt at social engineering
Discourse never ceases to disappoint me :-)
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RE: Another attempt at social engineering
@GOG: my faith in the community to try to win one internet by mentioning @mikeTheLiar has not been disappointed.
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RE: Another attempt at social engineering
I'm sure @mikeTheLiar will agree.
Are you trying to win the contest you yourself has started by mentioning @mikeTheLiar in that reply?? -
RE: Another attempt at social engineering
@mikeTheLiar: I just liked and unliked one of your posts a couple of times... does that result in multiple notifications or just a single one?
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RE: I am TRWTF
The RWTF there was that I wrote it in HTML in a text editor because that was more reliable than using Word while still preserving the formatting I wanted to use.
Funny that you should say that. I wrote letters in vi with html as markup for a while and printed them from the browser. I had even created a <table> structure that fitted a window envelope. -
RE: I am TRWTF
I'm dealing with a Perl/CGI web app right this second, haha.
Same here, although some parts of it are AJAX-driven by now.But I don't mind too much. I quite like Perl. Apart from the fact that Perl related job offers seem to be on the decline which means that if I want to improve my skill set, I have to do it in my spare time.