TRWTF is that you can't post an amusing little tidbit like this in the Sidebar without spawning a hate-fest.
The half-mugs were cool, though.
TRWTF is that you can't post an amusing little tidbit like this in the Sidebar without spawning a hate-fest.
The half-mugs were cool, though.
Returning the prior ELEMENT is ridiculous and silly. Returning a pointer to the 'next' field of the previous element (or the head item in the list), on the other hand, would make perfect sense. Pointers-to-pointers for the win once more!
@snoofle said:
The manager just looks at me with this dumbfounded look on his face. I couldn't help but say: Did you really not see that coming?
Thoughts. If the employee has mentioned this before then the manager does seem a little oblivious; still, I'd have expected him to say something like "I am getting tired of this abuse, please give me your plan to transfer someone else to this project before I go out there and have to put up with this again."
Don't wait until it's a do-or-die "I can't take it anymore" situation and something has to be done right now.
Alternative thought: Mr. Employee has gotten tired of this, raised the issue before, got no useful feedback that this task will be likely to end, and so went out for an interview with someone else on the side, got an offer he was okay with, and decided to make this last-bid attempt at this company and will officially accept the offer later next afternoon. In which case this was mostly for show.
(Not that the manager is miraculously blameless, but an employee should be prepared to deal with him in the case he's not.)
Real AI is when you throw a bunch of data at something to teach it, and then ask it questions based on what it knows. e.g. "here are the spectroscopic signatures of a bunch of satellites and space debris, crossreferenced with what materials they are constructed out of. Now use approximate nonnegative matrix factorization to break that down and, given new spectrograms of unknown space debris objects, determine what materials said space debris is composed of." Or, more commonly, "hey, these users have visited alllll these websites, and they have interacted with some of our advertisements. now try to decide what advertisements to show them in the future!"
(Other things may also be real AI, but this is some of it. Some century we'll be throwing serious stuff at it, like, principles of philosophy. and expecting insight back. But not today.)
And hey, even if-statement-level artificial intelligence doesn't need to be smarter than human intelligence to succeed: it can also succeed by being cheaper, or faster, or more readily available and scalable, or capable of surviving in the vacuum of space, or any number of things, depending on the mission.
@Ronald said:
On one of my laptops I have mistakenly agreed to use the new Google Maps. Not only is this new version slow as shit, things that were pretty convenient are now either hidden or broken (like: search nearby). My theory is that Google is dumbing down everything so they can easily convert Apple users.
So... I can find the bicycle map overlay for new-Maps.
And I can ask for bicycle directions.
Can I get bicycle directions on the bicycle map proper?
I can display the transit overlay on new-Maps. I can search for a street address on new-Maps. Any chance I could get a location marker on top of the transit map?
So Facebook has some notion of where I've been, which I think is mostly from Instagram federation. Sure, whatever. It has an interesting idea of the geography, though.
(Postscript. Before anyone starts making fun of the neighborhood being the real WTF, that icon with the house is not where I live. :P)
@Angstrom said:
TheVicar - the fun part is when he takes our incessant mocking as a sign that we too are under the influence of greenpeace's "secret" internet censors.
To the OP: please take fewer drugs before posting. Or drink less. Or something. Your post makes no sense. First you say they're "secret" censors, then you name them (greenpeace, "some official").
While I'm plenty skeptical of Greenpeace (and I understand one of the former founders refers to them as "a band of scientific illiterates who use Gestapo tactics to silence people" and there is plenty of scope for calling them a WTF, this actually sounds like one of their most eminently reasonable or even commendable sorts of activities.
But in any event... this entire thread is a most excellent WTF. :)
In Virginia, there's a sign on I-95 for something like "Def Sup Ctr - Def Ctr" or something like that.
No pictures, since I don't have a passanger.
Billboard A - an ad for AAA. "A driver without AAA? That's like a car without gas."
Billboard B - an ad for the third-generation Toyota Prius. With optional solar-power roof. "Seats 5 Optimists." Located about 1 mile earlier.
So, you're saying a driver without AAA is..... possibly more fuel-efficient? environmentally friendly? trendy? politically expedient? subsidized? hmm.....
This gem, freshly posted to Slashdot. 'nuff said.
Makes Community Server look good. WTF?
@morbiuswilters said:
@fennec said:As a tangential follow-up, I just noticed this part. Google's new-maps may be a WTF in the UI, but this is scarily accurate:
True, but you could say that about every BART station.
Naah, the only ones that are really useful for getting to Pier 39 are Powell (for the cable car transfer) and Embarcadero (for the F).
As a tangential follow-up, I just noticed this part. Google's new-maps may be a WTF in the UI, but this is scarily accurate:
It's Ulaxi! It's a site to help you compare your options for getting somewhere: Uber, Lyft, or taxi. Leaving aside the obvious WTFs (like the name), we see this software is in beta and limited to San Francisco only. Okay, let's try an easy query: Market and Powell to SFO. Notwithstanding that this would usually be a BART trip.
That's ... interesting, I guess. Maybe I can poke it a little, make it work better.
@delta534 said:
Rule one with java, always get the installer from this page get the installer from this page.(by the way, that magnificent job of overlaying white background labels on top of a grey dialog is Oracle's all the way - it's not an artefact of the screen-grab) It looks like you have your DPI set larger than normal. It's amazing how many companies don't bother testing for that. Or do it in a half-assed way (like Chrome's "we only do 100% or 200% DPI, so if you set it to 150% we'll make it fucking huge!"*) Or go out of their way to break it entirely, like Steam used to do. (You still can't fucking change the font size in Steam IM windows!!!!! It's been a DECADE NOW!) *) To be fair to Chrome, they did fix it in a reasonable amount of time once 13" 1080p laptops like mine hit the market. It still brings out the, "you mean you didn't have DPI scaling at all from fucking version ONE!?!?!" shock and surprise, though. Do people writing software even USE computers? How could you be a web browser programmer and not know that the DPI can change? Fuck, CSS pretty much RELIES on that! /rantI cannot agree more with this rant with the addition of buttons and options getting cut off because my DPI is at 125%.
I see what you did there. (I wonder what that says about my own DPI settings...)
@boomzilla said:
@dhromed said:@blakeyrat said:Is there a name for the mental illness displayed here, i.e. "the website for a thing is bad, therefore the thing itself is bad?" The most obvious example being Obamacare in the US, but here's another one.It's more a misplaced case of doogfooding, I believe.
I don't think ebay is required or expected to host their tech blog on the same server system they use for the products and users.
Indeed. I'd go with illiteracy, since that's not what fennec's saying. In fact, just the opposite, which was, why don't they use their apparently useful product to prevent the website about the tech behind the website from sucking? I'd agree that it's probably not as suitable for their blog as for their main business, but it's a good enough fit to earn a chuckle. Isn't this supposed to be some sort of humor site? Why do people go and try to ruin that?
Ah. That would be on account of a mental illness named "Blakeyrat", which is a specific type of the illness "know-it-all anti-social jerk". In a non-WTF community, he would have been kicked out and banned months ago. :P
Right, so, this was on Hacker News today.
Apparently they don't use equivalent software on their blog.....
@blakeyrat said:
@joe.edwards said:Intellisense is a convenience (a damn nice one, but a convenience still). If you're completely unable to develop without it, perhaps you should work on your core competencies as a developer.Bullshit. The resource that limits development productivity is memory. ANY memory aid is a huge boost to productivity.
BTW, this OP is how you gripe about Microsoft.
It's not just a memory-aid, it's a typing aid. Even a simple "tab complete strings which are already present in files loaded into memory" is a wonderful thing to have.
@blakeyrat said:
@joe.edwards said:That is a correct assumption; though, by this point, I'm thinking Blakeyrat was right and it's not worth the headache.Blakeyrat is always right.
Aha. So Blakeyrat is Wikipedia.