Saw the article, immediately had to think of The Daily WTF:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/10/30/starpath-glow-in-the-dark-roads-provide-energy-free-illumination
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Brilliant pebbles, literally...
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RE: Need some1 to help with mathmatics.
To store them in one integer, you add the different values. Say:
A/C (1) + Roof rack (32) = 33To decode them:
33 && 1 = true (A/C)
33 && 32 = true (Roof rack)The same is/was done for Windows mouse button events. All buttons would be encoded in one byte, and you simply AND the byte with the different button constants (left button = 1, right button = 2, middle button = 3 etc) to find out which combination of buttons was being pressed.
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RE: API from hell
@rudraigh said:
I actually need to know. We are in the process of checking out a bunch of ERP solutions and one of my least favorite, so far, is SAP. Oracle Financials also has a stench around it. We already have relationships with CGI and SunGard. Please tell me it's not CGI. I had high hopes for them.
If you're in manufacturing, give Epicor a chance to demo their software. They aren't built with accounting in mind as their first goal, but with manufacturing in mind. We chose Epicor because of their demos, their documentation, their user base and their price. In a few months I'll know more about the actual software but they seemed to be the best for a business our size.
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RE: Epicor - is this the ERP system we want?
Also, I found Gartner's Magic Quadrant report for "ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies" of 2010. Looks like I have some more reading to do.
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RE: Epicor - is this the ERP system we want?
Epicor is big, but Sage is bigger (I think). They tailor to different sized businesses, and SAP is marketed towards the largest businesses out there. I know it's all Oracle based, and the implementation takes years.
I was told we are a $10M business with $100M problems, so (and I know from experience) a $5-25M business solution won't cut it. We currently have a system that doesn't support half of what we do. Major growing pains!
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Epicor - is this the ERP system we want?
I'm in the process of finding a suitable ERP system for our company - apparel, 100 employees, from manufacturing + import all the way through retail + ecommerce / 10M sales/yr. Since we're doing everything ourselves except for some of the production, we need basically everything that any ERP system can offer us, and hence, we can't get stuck with the wrong one or we're screwed.
Epicor gave us a demo, and as demos go when done well, they can be pretty impressive. The system seemed very competent, well designed and support a very good workflow. But is what we saw real? Or is it all lies (which I doubt)?
Now I don't know if any of you guys have experience with ERP systems, but if you do: please respond. We're looking at a 100-200k expense here and I'd like to know about oddball systems, rollout experiences, Epicor-related experiences and SAP horror stories.
Since ERP systems are not the main theme here on The Daily WTF, I feel that they are under-exposed. Why that is, I don't know since almost every 5+-employee business should have at least a small ERP system and I would expect more WTF stories from that corner of the business software world (other than Oracle stuff)...
What we liked about Epicor was the way parts and inventory were handled and tracked, the warehousing, project and purchasing planning, accounting, the knowledge base/issue tracking, and the search feature. Oh and the web interface.
We don't like the price tag.Anyway: if you have anything that could potentially be interesting to hear about, say it here.
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Some people... (web design/customers)
I got the following forwarded to me from CS:
"Hi, I placed an order online. But I may have made a mistake. It was like ordering in the dark, since your pages show up as gray on black, they are unreadable on this laptop in the sun."How do you deal with that as a web designer/IT person?
I'm seriously considering calling Kenmore asking them why my fridge is empty... it should be full of beer! Something's wrong!
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RE: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
For the record, every page I save gets a little makeover. But I'm not going to rebuild every page by hand. Eventually the site will be replaced anyway so for now I'll just deal with it.
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RE: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
@derula said:
It's "only" five tables and one paragraph, after all.
True, that doesn't make it right though... it further proves why tables don't work for layout purposes :) Tables are just a big pain because browsers will always try to control them which makes the programmer jump through hoops to take control again (hence millions of spacer .gif's) and the net result is that the universe weeps. Separating content from formatting is not a new concept... 50 kB of HTML is just too damn much!
Oh, and that paragraph was entirely accidental too. No paragraphs for me! Nooooo, <span class="dealerheader"> is all I get. No semantic HTML whatsoever. Anywhere. On the whole site, all 50 3-year-old pages. Blegh. -
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Best browser in the world? Check.
Best HTML "debugger"? Check.
Agonizing pain behind the eyes caused by years of built-up frustration with bad HTML? Check.Incompetent web designers. Is it legal to shoot them? After all, bad HTML is life threatening to whomever maintains the website.