Whatever you're doing, try to set aside some time to buy a fucking dictionary. I hate this new crop of internet kids that thinks "irony" is some kind of make believe funnyword. Those 5 letters clearly do not mean what you think they mean. Stop hurting them.
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RE: Google Referrals WTF
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RE: Sharp OSA, the idea makes me cry.
@asuffield said:
@Sunstorm said:
So it's a computer with an integrated printer.
Running an operating system that makes Windows look like a work of pure genius. Printer software is stunningly bad compared to the kind of things we usually see on the desktop.
Some of the Ricoh (and therefore Savin) printers are running NetBSD, so they don't all run crap. As for what's running on top of it, I can't really say.
Now the construction quality, well, nobody's perfect. (Where did this loose piece come from?!?) -
RE: What has the UK ever done for you?
@Martin said:
@ammoQ said:
Were are getting very philosophical here. Is a programmable computer that eventually has never been build really a programmable computer?
I do believe that Babbage's Analytical Engine was finally built by one of the British colleges (I forget which one) to be displayed in the Science Museum in London - and it worked. I also seem to remember that they actually built it using Meccano.
Absolutely not.
The Difference Engine without it's printer was eventually constructed for the science museum. Later an MS exec (Paul Allen maybe? I don't have my book handy) commissioned a second Difference Engine and was able to convince them to do it by also paying for them to make 2 of it's printing units, one for him and one for the museum to keep. There are hobbyists and tinkerers who've used Meccano or Erector sets (even Lego in one case) to make a few columns of a Difference Engine similar to the small desktop sized example that Babbage would use to amuse guests, but it's been said that the Analytical Engine was so complex and it's drawings incomplete enough that it can't be built without practically starting over using the original plans for ideas if at all.
Even the Difference Engine plans had some serious problems that had to be solved when it was built.
The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer is a great book about it.
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RE: Interesting image names
@ShadowWolf said:
@bitpirate said:
@broekage said:
C'mon guys, just two more characters to avoid the WTF
It's not really a WTF.... I think the guys writing the site probably had a mental age higher than about six and just read 'butt_' as button, it's extremely common to shorten resource names (even if it does only save a few chars)
Hell the win32 api is full of such stuff... hwind anybody? Also only saving two characters...Changing the folder to btns instead of buttons, removing the underscore, and spelling out "button" instead of "butt" saves more characters and is more readable. I think they were just being lazy.
buttons/butt_ok = 15 characters
vs.
btns/buttonOk = 14 characters
If you're going to change the name of the folder to btns or buttons, why repeat it in the filename? buttons/ok.png is the way to go.
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RE: Excel says: 850 * 77.1 is 100000
Subject du jour
All of the actual math is fine. It's the function that translates from the binary values (which are correct, check it out with VBA) to strings to display in the cells. Apparently there are only 6 values between between 65534.99999999995 and 65535, and 6 between 65535.99999999995 and 65536 that cause it to display 100000 or 100001. Think of it as a broken ftoi() but I really can't figure out how screwed up it would have to be for this to happen.
The Excel and Excel Services team blog explains it in a little more detail.
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RE: Wash hands after handling
@IHateEverybody said:
It gets even better. The last time I bought a Toslink cable (optical audio), it too had the silly California lead sticker. Never mind that an optical cable is a clear plastic strand with an opaque plastic cover. No metal of any sort, so uhm, where's the lead? I want my damn lead! It says right here this product contains it...
I think it may be used in the casing. I think I saw a toaster with the same warning, and they referred specifically to the power cable. I can't imagine there's that much lead on a power cable (certainly not much inside it).
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RE: Captcha's gone wild!
@DOA said:
Just had a flash of genius... we need a stereogram captcha! Let's see those pesky bots try and read it >:-)
But what if you can't see the sailboat?
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RE: Buffer huh?
BASIC brain damage possibly (which can be overcome with time, but not without making an effort) or a really shitty embedded toolchain (which generally isn't as easy to overcome).
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RE: What would you have done in this situation?
I'd start with double the normal consultant rate, because Fuck Them. I do agree with your ideas on resignation though, it's only polite to help out if you decided it was time to go. If you're employed one hour and unemployed the next, you knife them* when they ask for help.
*Figuratively speaking, in case anyone is an idiot and needs a footnote.
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RE: Meeting Fun
@RaspenJho said:
That happened to us once... We gave a recruiting company a list of questions (and acceptable answers) to ask candidates in order to pre-screen them for us.
The company gave each candidate a copy of our list in order to prepare them for our interview.
If I understand correctly, the recruiter gets some kind of compensation for "delivering" an acceptable candidate, it would follow from there that they no longer have your best interests at heart, and if you're handing them a treasure map, they're going to use it at every available opportunity. It's unfortunate, but it's probably pretty common.