@RiX0R THIS below is how you motivate people
Posts made by GreyWolf1
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Delightful rant about the nature of programming
Not for those of a delicate constitution...(none of those around here, of curse)...
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RE: In your face website design
"gives you the control you need"...I couldn't stand looking at more than a handful of the photos they imply were taken with this lens - none of them were in focus.
Yeah, I can already do out-of-focus pics with the equipment I've already got.
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RE: We should number the firefox-threads or sth.
Since our thread on Firefox Australis [url]http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/30182.aspx[/url]
I have gone over to SeaMonkey [url]http://www.seamonkey-project.org/[/url] which is Firefox but wth the old UI. All my plugins work (AdBlock, Session Manager etc).
Bye bye, Firefox - you've been dumped. No, we can't"just be friends".
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RE: Even Yahoo doesn't like Yahoo mail
>GRAMMAR ENGINE ON...
>.. BEGIN CONJUGATION
TARGET=dogfood, verb, transitive
OUTPUT: Present tense
I dogfood [theobject]
Thou dogfoodest it [theobject]
He, she, it dogfoods [theobject]
We dogfood [theobject]
You dogfood [theobject]
They dogfood [theobject]
OUTPUT: Imperfect tense
I dogfooded [theobject]
......
> END CONJUGATION
> GRAMMAR ENGINE RATES YOUR INPUT: Management gibberish
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RE: Did I miss the thread about the new Firefox redesign?
Thanks for the warning, everybody. So I just tuned off attomatic updating in Firefox options. I will never allow the Atlantis update.
In other news, what non-fucked-up browser should we move to when Atlantis comes out?
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RE: UK government showing they are modern?
Representative line: "The service was designed to work with the following operating systems and browsers. Many of these are no longer available."
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RE: Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Lossy compression is lossy. Film at eleven.
Person who did not read TFA misses whole point. Film at 11.
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RE: Anonymization
Definitely time for a public execution.
And I note that your score is two down, two to go. Darwinian selection implies that the two remaining DBAs will be tougher to kill, leading to even more spectacular stories. We wait with bated breath.
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RE: How to import a SPSS Database into our Web application
@HerrDerSchatten said:
But: last week they called in again: They want to use my other project, which was 99% finished. But because the web application is still unusuable they want to use SPSS for it. They asked if I could finish it - they accepted a rate which is twice my original rate....They are in trouble..so expect it to be difficult to get them to pay...invoice often, get the invoices signed by the manager you are working for, make sure you can take them to Small Claims Court (frequent invoices means amounts under the Small Claims limit).
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RE: The Slowest Most Expensive Route to Failure
I love the smell of Night Batch in the SQL.
Second set of tables with sane layout, batch summarize and insert in wee small hours, good response times next day, Robert's is your avuncular relative.
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RE: Microsoft Surface - WTF?
The Surface is allegedly not possible to jail-break.
Apparently, Microsoft has restricted the Surface from loading non-signed software / binaries by implementing UEFI SecureBoot. Microsoft has loaded on the ARM based tablet its private key instead of the 'Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher' key, which is needed to sign non-Microsoft software like Linux distributions or loaders. So, no publisher key = no signed non-Microsoft binary = no Linux, no BSD, no nothing."
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RE: Project Estimation
They left out the most important bit...there should be a hexagon in the middle, with all arrows leading to and from it...containing the text "A miracle occurs"..
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RE: Clearly I am insane
@AndyCanfield said:
The IBM copy command ("IEBGENER") stopped working in April, then suddenly started working again in June.
Sysprog fucks up, conceals his/her crime, carries out sneaky repair later when no-one is looking, blames IBM. Everyday occurrence in 1972 (and before and after 1972). Nothing to see here, move along now.
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RE: Reply/All
>there would have to be an option to disable it for advanced users<
1. Option should be sent to to disabled by default.
2. Process to get it enabled requires signature in blood on policy document containing rules ofuse.
3. One instance of abuse of "Reply All" causes option to be permanently disabled.
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RE: Job-ad: Just WTF is involved in this job?
I was seriously tempted to buy a pair of safety boots just to be able to apply for this job.Pure curiousity.
Unfortunately, the contract is only 2 days long, and the cheapest pair of boots I can find costs the equivalent of one day's take-home pay. And I'd never use them again.
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Job-ad: Just WTF is involved in this job?
"Assistant Desktop Engineer - Xville We are currently recruiting for a assistant desktop engineer's to be involved in a Windows 7 upgrade. You will ideally have some experience within a IT desktop environment. Any rollout experience would be advantageous. You must be well presented with excellent communication skills. Have your own car and tools. This role is to start 29.02.12 for 2 days. Must have your own Steele top capped boots."
Steel-capped boots? The mind boggles as to why.
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RE: Thrashing...
@DOA said:
Paying for an ungodly amount of consultant hours is cheaper than luxury items such as HDDs.
Clearly you don't understand economics.
You're new here, aren't you?
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RE: Ubuntu's Amazing New Invention
@El_Heffe said:
@From the Article said:
Instead of hunting through drop-down menus to find application commands, Ubuntu’s Head-Up Display (HUD) lets users type what they want to do into a search box. The system suggests possible commands as the user begins typing – entering “Rad” would bring up the Radial blur command in the GIMP art package, for example.
Apart from the (probably stupid) suggestions, that's a command line with tab completion. Which officially, the End User Will Never Understand or Tolerate.
So I'm confused, is this a serious idea, a joke, or some ignorant marketeer's froth?
Or just the latest demonstration that Ubuntu has been hijacked by fools? See Unity etc
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RE: A Long Overdue Pound of Flesh
I'm not thinking front page category for "Best of Snoofle", I'm thinking a book. The royalties will mean he'll never have to work again (oh wait...the supply of stories will dry up...).
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RE: Linux is SO MUCH MORE superior!
I've had the same (or a closely similar) prob with Ubuntu 10.04 - though in my case, I have no external drive to blame (I do use thumb drives, so there might be a connection). Suddenly it went from a 30-sec shutdown to 5+ minutes. The thing that had happened most recently before was that I had run some Recommended Updates. I tried Googling, and there was very little being reported. The reports that existed were quite old, babbled about ACPI (which was deffo Not The Problem, because I disabled it at boot without any change in behaviour resulting). No fixes being reported.
After several weeks, and applying every fix that came through, with no results, I added up all the stuff about Ubuntu that I don't like (being forced on to Unity or Gnome 3), and installed Mint 11 (that s, Ubuntu done properly) instead. Since my /home is on its own partition, that was a painless 20 mins.
All the probs went away, and I am much happier.
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RE: Damn! I missed it!
@hspp said:
I find it amusing that your post is kind of a complaint on the ignorance of Amricans on the subject of "European" date formats, while displaying just as much ignorance yourself. There is no such thing as a standard "European" date format. In Sweden, for example, the standard date format is YY-MM-DD. So not only are there no dots, which you claim "European" date formats have, but it's also in a completely reversed order (though in this particular case the interpretation is the same anyway)!
I realise others have made the same point before, but I couldn't help myself.
YY-MM-DD is one of the permitted forms of ISO date, so it is actually An International Standard (TM).<BR><BR>
The joke about Sweden is that that's the only place in the world that implements all the international standards.
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RE: It needs to be configurable
Looking after 1920 config files? Now that's what I call job security! And after I've written my little shell script, it's five mins of work every so often, and the rest of the time looking busy and collecting a salary for nothing. [Practices furrowed brow and doom-laden speech-to-boss "we could change things, but the world would come to a end 30 seconds later"]
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RE: Upside-down job ads
@MascarponeRun said:
Actually, on that note, does anyone know of any half-useful slave-traders in the UK that they'd recommend?
Hays. They are slave-traders, in the UK, and [considerably less than] half-useful. Last time I was with them was also the only time. Wouldn't sign with them again unless the alternative was starvation. Not only were they incapable of processing anything correctly, be it timesheets or expenses, but they overloaded their own people beyond all reason. My pimpette was looking after 220 people.
If you want someone rather better, I've been as happy as one can be when being sold down the river with IDPP and Open Spaces.
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RE: BlackArmor NAS Install FAIL
Synology. Several models, apparently with the same interface on all. I have the single drive model, and I'm using it for both WinXp and Linux backups (several different distros).
I'm VERY pleased with it - good UI, lots of built-in apps (secure remote admin, secure remote FTP, etc), and a solid look and feel.
Key point for me: As far as I can tell, it uses a standard file system, so if this device gets fried, I can take the drive out and use it elsewhere (I have a Netgear SC101 where that is not possible because of a retarded proprietary file system.).
The Synology devices come out "Recommended" in every review I've seen of NAS devices.
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Oh how we laughed in those golden days, before ...
It's not often that an HLD document makes you laugh out loud. Today was my first time.
A little background - the HLD is for the systems that will support a new product being launched. It of course includes a CRM system. This diagram shows the supported systems required for this CRM system, to be launched this autumn, 2011.
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainofspray/5905810614/][img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/5905810614_cbeec70295_o.png[/img][/url]
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RE: The UK's Super-Secret-Extra-Double Injunctions
Have Twitter now censored the original tweets? Last I heard, they had just blocked the footballer's name in the trending lists? However, you can work out who it is by comparing the trending list and the subject volumes (apparently - sorry, I've lost rtack of the site where I read that)
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RE: The UK's Super-Secret-Extra-Double Injunctions
@blakeyrat said:
1. does this injunction exist for everybody, not just the media?
2. If I'm in the UK, not in the media, and thus wasn't informed about the secret injunction, am I committing a crime by talking about the event?
3. I mean I know that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" but surely that doesn't apply to laws you can't look up in a public library.
4. Does the UK government just assume if it's not in the media, nobody can ever know about it?
5. Even though the foreign media is allowed to report it?
6. And how does Twitter, a US company, fit in to any of this? Did they just wuss-out and voluntarily censor the name, or did the UK government compel them to?
1. Yes
2. Yes - contempt of court
3. You're right - that's part of why there's a big response from the UK public (30,000 people posting the name on Twitter, plus hundreds of fans at a football match yelling at the guy)
4. Not the government - it's the courts - this is a civil matter about private injunctions - in fact judges trying to interpret crappy statute law
5. Not a question of "allowed" - the foreign media cannot be done for contempt of court
6. Twitter didn't censor the name of the man who is the subject of the injunction- that's the other point of this fuss - that the existence of Twitter and similar blows the whole superinjunction thing out of the water. Twitter will likely refuse to reveal any details they have on who posted the original tweet (and good on 'em, I say).
Three more thoughts:
- it must be trivially easy to post onTwitter both anonymously and untraceably
- I am ashamed of the level of ignorance shown by public legal figures in UK saying "we're going hunt down the bastard who released this info and jail him". Er, how? (assuming the poster had two brain cells to rub together).
- the man who is the subject of the injunction has told his lawyers to sue Twitter to force them to reveal the identity of the poster. Has he never heard of the Streisand Effect?
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RE: Seen in our codebase...
@Smitty said:
This code wasn't written to support localization.
Perhaps it was written for the time, surely not too far ahead, when the US currency is no longer the dollar, but the renminbi.
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RE: I would like to have a word with whoever wrote this query...
This is not the time for an inferior brand of baseball bat. You'll want to use the very best, otherwise you may get splinters in your hand when a cheap brand breaks on his thick skull.
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RE: Minor Geography WTF
Tsunami and landslide with impressive wave previously recorded in the general area:
Tsunami slams B.C. coast March 31, 1964
http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/03/27/
1958: Lituya Bay, Alaska, USA
On 9 July 1958, a giant landslide at the head of Lituya Bay in Alaska, caused by an earthquake, generated a wave with an initial amplitude of 524 meters (1,720 ft).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#1958:_Lituya_Bay.2C_Alaska.2C_USA -
RE: But setup ate my memory!
@fatbull said:
Am I TRWTF for recycling old hardware?
No. But trying to do it with Ubuntu, yes you are. I am running Zenwalk (good developer environment) on a 10-year-old Thinkpad, and it works OK (for work purposes - surfing, docs, email). Mind you, it's a big brutal machine compared to yours (500 MHz and 256 MB). So try Damn Small, Crunchbang, Puppy, or MiniNo.
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RE: But we have 98% coverage...
Pardon my ignorant old-fashioned ideas, but I believed it was one of the Noble Truths of Programming, that 20% of the code does $USEFUL_STUFF, and the other 80% does error checking? How can anybody believe in 98% coverage (unless of course they fervently want to tell their boss that "nothing can possibly go wrong, go wrong, go wrong...."). What would 98% coverage mean, if it was true?
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RE: Another report from wtf workplace
@DOA said:
The "developer" next to me is currently laughing. She laughed at something earlier on (as she does every 6-7 minutes) and apparently just kept on going by herself. By now I think she's laughing at herself laughing. Everyone else is working, she's just going at it by herself.
Am I the only one who works with mental patients?
She has a pair of Ben-Wa balls inside. They are clearly working very well.
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RE: Career advice (AKA am I being a dick?)
What was your reason for you giving your management, who are clearly just as big idiots as your client, any choice in the matter?
In general, issuing an ultimatum like this is a waste of time and energy, because it's usually impossible afterwards, no matter what, to create a happy working atmosphere. There's really no point to going on working at a place that makes you miserable.
My personal inclination (which I have actually carried out occasionally) is to fix myself up with something else to go to, then tell my team why I'm going, and then enjoy telling my boss that he's been dumped.
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RE: Storing bitmasks in SQL
@dhromed said:
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
And yes, they're noisy, but that's part of the fun! We want keyboards to make a lot of noise
What?! WE DO NOT. Like women, keyboards should be seen and not heard.
When your PHB thinks you do nothing all day because you work quietly, a loud keyboard is a definite asset, saves you from a lot of nagging/interruptions/other grief.
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RE: Storing bitmasks in SQL
Hey blakey,
This is nothing to do with how IBM does business and everything to do with typical data centre ignorance creating operational WTFs. And I am not trying to defend IBM, just trying to inject some actual facts into the discussion.
Does it occur to you that backup is a process that needs some planning and forethought? In any OS or HW? Making a backup process that works out-of-the-box is guaranteed to be a bloated, wasteful, slow, wrongly-timed, disruptive process - that quite likely backs up too much and at the wrong time, therefore cannot do a worthwhile restore. The backup process has to be designed by the customer and integrated into their apps, or it's pointless.
In 1982 IBM was teaching customers Europe-wide to do the actual backup in the app (so it could backup what was actually needed) to disk so it could run unattended, and was not dependent on the tape or tape-drive We would do a file copy to tape at some other time, so as to not slow the app, and to create a backup that was actually restorable. There has been no need to stop the app to do backups since the early 90's. Customer who had a clue never paid IBM to do stuff for them, only the poorly-managed ones did.
It occurs to me that you in the US had different economic circumstances and wage structure and therefore did not automate until much later than Europe did. In our neck of the woods, it became cheaper to use disk space than mount a tape in 1980. By 1984, one of my customers only manned the data centre during day shift and then only to answer phones.Everything was automated.
@Jaime said:
The guys on the IBM side know that the system can do an on-line backup, but they think it's better to bring it down.
Ignorant oafs. Presumably young squirts recruited since the people who actually knew stuff were made redundant in the early 90's.
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RE: Storing bitmasks in SQL
@blakeyrat said:
every night, while preparing for backups, the entire system was down for about 20 minutes. *20 minutes of downtime a DAY* And everybody there in their IBM brain-haze thought that was perfectly acceptable and normal. This was in 2002.
That was one incompetent shop, blakey. In 1982, when I was teaching best practice in IBM mainframe IT, I was teaching my students that IBM systems then were capable of multi-year non-stop operation with 100% availability (no service interruptions of any kind). IBM's own internal systems were doing it, and we were teaching our customers how to do it. However, as my then boss put it, "you spend a day with some customers and they move a mile, others move an inch". I was tasked with assessing my customers, and spending my time with those who would move farthest. Obviously yours was one of the ones still living in the 70's, thrirty years in the past. I congratulate you on your escape from their dead hands.
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RE: Storing bitmasks in SQL
I'm not arguing, just asking...
1. What's the path length for a SELECT? In, for sake of argument , MySQL. 400,000 instructions approx at a guess? What's the path length for looking up in an in-memory table? 2? 3? Which method has a better chance of maintaining frame rate?
2. I know Bill didn't say that, and I apologise to him for misquoting. I was trying to show a contrast in memory efficiency of the in-memory table compared to the SQL method for this case only.
3. Windows 7 does not do 5000 times as much stuff as a mainframe, because so much of it is neither necessary nor useful.
4. IBM didn't write Lotus Notes. The clue is in the name. If you want to say that IBM should have strangled Lotus Notes within minutes of acquiring it, and buried it in a crossroads at midnight with a stake through its heart, I would agree totally.
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RE: Storing bitmasks in SQL
Stating the bleeding obvious, which unfortunately nobody in either this forum or the other has pointed out, is to ask why the flying WTF we need SQL during the game?
Yes, we'll use an SQL DB to save the user's characteristics, and restore when he/she logs on, but during the game? No. We use an in-memory lookup table.
1. How many simultaneous users will there will be? (Say) 1024.(for convenient calculation)
2. For each one, we need (say) 8 capabilities, so one byte of bitflags, plus (say) an int for player_id (unless we can use table position.)
3. Total space req'd 1024 x 2 bytes= 2k of RAM
Conclusion: Bill was right, 640K should be enough for anyone (who knows what they are doing, which is why Windows 7 needs more memory for one user than an IBM mainframe needs for 5,000)
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RE: Code Request WTF
@Pascal said:
Looks to me like they are asking for hardware requirements, not code.
-Pascal
If one is on the "getting screwed" end of a merger, the correct reply is "640K of RAM should be enough for anybody ".
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RE: Thanks for the help but how does that help me?
@TheThing said:
I love how the answer was chosen as the best answer even when it had nothing to do with the original problem.
This is because in YA the answerer is allowed to vote his/her own answer as Best Answer. If no-one else bothers to vote, that answer wins (and the answerer gets ten points). I doubt that anyone on DWTF cares, but this is how you get onto the leader boards at YA.
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RE: Really Shallow Cloning
@Someone You Know said:
@zelmak said:
@Someone You Know said:
Does ItemType implement Cloneable? I'm trying to ascertain the depth of the dumbness there.
Yep. But, honestly, which would be dumber? Not implementing Cloneable and always getting back null OR implementing Cloneable and not actually using it?
Yeah, now that I think about it, the check against Cloneable is useless either way. Unless ItemType didn't implement Cloneable, but cachedItem were actually of some subbclass of ItemType that did, but it's late and I don't really want to think about that.
To be honest, though, Cloneable and Object.clone() are a pretty big WTF on their own. I'm guessing this code originally actually used Cloneable for something, but the original coder ran into all the difficulties associated with actually making Cloneable work correctly and gave up, forgetting to remove this.
The number of nested levels of abstraction here is TRWTF.
Does OOP actually help? Or is it an infective meme designed by Satan to make everybody's head hurt?
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RE: Quarternary Boolean
@da Doctah said:
So it's not only a Quaternary Boolean as described in the thread title, it's a Proprietary Quaternary Boolean! No sirree, we can't have $competing_company thinking they can use Our enum values on Their own booleans!
Post of the Thread
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RE: Apple is very sensitive
@b_redeker said:
Plus Sussex, Wessex and Essex (in the North they have no sex, apparently).
And Middlesex, for those who can't make their minds up.
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RE: Apple is very sensitive
I imagine most of you will have seen this "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names".
The comments below the piece are just as enlightening/depressing as TFA.