The real WTF is the amount of people on this forum who get butt-hurt over a language they don't even use and don't have to use.
Go devs have a sense of humor, awesome! I love this language even more now.
Posts made by JamesKilton
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RE: Compiler easter egg
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RE: EA is for awesome!
Not a WTF, more of a "people will complain about EVERYTHING. SHUT UP ALREADY"
First, you're buying a box copy of the game, but pre-ordering will allow you an early digital download and ability to get into the servers before the non pre-order folk. So your complaint about "unlimited quantities" is just plain wrong.
Second, the note about the pre-order queue is EA learning from the past (damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh?). EA knows that SWTOR is got a huge following right now, and they are prepared for a massive push of people to hit the pre-order site. Thus, the disconnected pre-order request / pre-order accepted process.
So quit complaining about something you obviously know nothing about. The only WTF here is the OP. -
RE: Bad news, everyone
@da Doctah said:
@Weng said:
Okay. So the last time I read Revelations, there was a whole bunch of shit that totally had to happen before judgement day.
I wanted to check what Revelation (singular!) had to say about The Beast, he whose number is 666. Instead of hearing it from a bunch of latter-day nutjobs, I read up the original description and came away with the following points:
- he has golden skin
- he has horns
- he can call down fire from the sky
- people will worship him for his ability to call down fire from the sky
- and there was something about him speaking in unearthly language
Behold, ye unbelievers, the Beast of the Apocalypse!
BRILLANT!
And about the book of Revelation, there's also the theory that everything in that book, up to chapter 19, has already been fulfilled, and that it's all a symbolical description the horrible reign of Nero. For example, "calling fire from the sky, being worshiped", Nero was called the Sun God, and he would light his parties by burning Christians on stakes.
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RE: Gawker's new layout
It's quite appalling. At least there's /classic and you can ignore the side bar, but lets count the ways this fails:
- It took me a full minute to realize I had to scroll the right side bar to see more content
- Reimplemented scrolling on the right side bar, sluggish with a mouse
- Hover tooltips that stick around when scrolling the right side bar, impossible to see what's there.
- Clicking on the right side bar requires that you wait a minimum of 5 seconds for the "content" to show up in the left main pane
- 50% of the time for me, the content never actually shows up.
- The system now hides more comments than ever
In short, it's horrible. I loved the simplistic old look, could see at a glance what stories I want to read and which ones I didn't. I can't do that anymore.
So a layout update that was supposed to make the site faster and easier to navigate made it slower, harder to navigate, and sometimes flat out broken. Great job.
Edit: The real WTF is this forum software. How the hell do I get bullet points showing up properly???
- It took me a full minute to realize I had to scroll the right side bar to see more content
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RE: Vent thread #63254
@Weng said:
@nexekho said:
Sure there's a middle ground, games dev!
Goddamned unicorn industry, that. Of course, apparently all you need these days is one pretty good idea and to shit out an utterly incomplete product to become a millionaire. Hence Minecrapft. Those of us with... Grander vision and more respect for our ideas are still hunting unicorns..I must say, it's [b]hilarious[/b] watching what jealousy does to people. Those who are incapable of doing get super pissed off at those who do. If you think Notch built Minecraft to be a millionaire then you're the WTF here.
Those of us with... Grander vision and more respect for our ideas are still hunting unicorns.
The more I read this one statement the more it makes me laugh. "respect for ones ideas", this entire thread is turning into the main topic of discussion, an ego-trip dick-waving contest.
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RE: Credit card number autocompletion
Why the hell would you even [b]think[/b] of putting in private information like CC into a public PC in the first place? Form caching in the browser is the last thing you have to worry about, those PCs are usually so rife with spyware that you're guaranteed to be sharing anything you're doing to who knows who.
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RE: Sold Out
No, this is definitely the Blizzard store, but it makes sense when you know how the system works. Basically, every item in the Blizzard store has to have a quantity set. They usually just set a super high number and keep bumping that up, as there's no way of saying "infinite" for some reason.
You just got unlucky in that they forgot to bump the count back up. It should be fixed shortly.
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RE: Representative line
The Real WTF is CakePHP. It could be a fantasic library if the devs would do ONE thing: DROP PHP 4 SUPPORT!
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RE: NBC French Open LIVE!
What happened is simple, Federer won the match and the championship in 3 straight sets. NBC had over an hour's worth of alloted time for the event, so they had to fill it with *something*, so they started showing last year's Wimbleton.
The Real WTF here is morons who feel it's their right, nay, their perogative, to bash sports, people who like them or people who play them.
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RE: BSD's Shutdown Module
I take it you're not at all familiar with pointers and manual memory management.
@PJH said:
What's that cast doing there? <font color="#ffffff"><stdlib.h> makes it redundant</font>
malloc returns a void*.
Why are they using <font face="courier new,courier">sizeof(double)</font> instead of <font face="courier new,courier">sizeof *b1</font>? <font color="#ffffff">What happens if b1 is declared float?</font>
Um, because *b1 is an undefined memory location? This is the [b]whole point of malloc[/b]: to allocate a block of memory at a given size, and pass you the location of said memory. How else are you going to tell it what size you want if you don't specify the size of the TYPE you want (in this case, sizeof(double) ) ?
I highly recommend a basic C programming book. Go read about and learn how memory allocation and pointers work.
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RE: Dell WTF
Not a WTF. Go read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. He has an entire chapter on how computers from Dell are built and it's quite an incredible machine.
The short of it: it's like quantum mechanics. It's impossible to know both the current inventory and the requested part count of a given peice at the same time.
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RE: Big Time WTF job ad
Hahaha.
Good luck finding even a *single* person that fits all of that.
Wow. Some manager got a little to Buzz-word happy me thinks.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@Jeff S said:
What are people's opinions on what the software industry should do to curb pirating? It is an issue for them -- games are pirated, they do lose money, and it can take huge investments of time and money to create these games... So, what should they do about it? If DRM isn't the answer, or activation limits don't work, what actions should they take to protect their products from pirates? None at all? What's a better way for them to handle this?
Just curious.
The system is already in place for Spore for a perfect anti-piracy that has been in use for many years now: online registration. Spore is already an online game! Most of the vaunted replayability is playing with the creations that other people have made. Spore registers itself with EAs servers, transmits it's CD Key, and bam, only legit purchasers of the game can play the full Spore model. This is what makes Spore's DRM even worse is that a perfectly valid solution is already in place, but EA refuses to go the customer friendly route, do a little extra work, and help curb piracy of the game without alienating many possible buyers (me included).
It is impossible to completely prevent piracy. Once software is one someone's computer, it's theirs and they can do what they want. It IS however easily possible to prevent people from getting the full benefit of the game when it's multiplayer, like WoW and anything on Bnet.
What's the most secure, and least pirated family of games? Anything on Steam of course. Yes the argument can be made about shutting down the servers, but as it stands Steam games never get in your way and Valve never has to worry about pirating hurting anywhere near a significant portion of revenue.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bstorer said:
So EA is bad because you have shitty record-keeping? That's the lamest argument yet.
And you're honestly suggesting that we keep EVERY game box, EVERY sales receipt for EVERY game we buy JUST IN CASE we have to prove to THEM that we did buy said game and that THEY should let US play the game WE purchased X days / months / years ago?
Sorry, but if "shitty record-keeping" is a lame argument, then yours is the most retarded I've heard this year.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bstorer said:
What you've just described is an uncommon occurance that might be a problem for some in 3 to 7 years. Again, I'm not supporting DRM as a concept, but this seems like a really lame time to be taking such a huge stand.
Another side of this that people havne't mentioned: SecuROM treats some hardware upgrades as new computers, and thus new installs. So a much more common case:
Install on your computer - Good. 1 install, down to 2
Change out video card - Good. 1 install, down 1
Change out RAM - Good. 1 install, down 0
New RAM fails, bad. Swtich out to old RAM - FAIL! No more installs left, go call EA and pray they let you install again.
If you still can't see how DRM treats paying customers like criminals and is a blight on the video game / music / movie industries, then please, just stop posting.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
ALSO, when EA decides to shut down their servers (which they do) then what? All legal Spore games are now completely worthless while all the pirated and cracked versions are still chugging along just happily.
It's this "it's not an issue for most people" bull shit that gives the morons at EA legitimacy and keep shoving DRM down our throat, treating legal purchasing customers like criminals, while the pirates get a BETTER game that lasts as long as THEY want to play it.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bstorer said:
I'm not in love with DRM by any means, but I think people are going way too far here. So you can only install 3 times without calling EA support? Most people aren't going to be inconvenienced by it. Who really gives a shit?
It's people like you that cause problems farther down the road. If we don't say something NOW, then it will only get WORSE.
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RE: Flash on CNN
@morbiuswilters said:
Yes, being a troll is something to be proud of.
If answering a question is being a troll then I guess everyone on the Internet is a troll.Seeing a thread spiral out of control and get locked because of said answer, that's worth remembering.
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RE: Flash on CNN
Hahahahaha! I forgot to get back to that other thread. Look what I started!!!
I'm so proud of myself right now :P
Yes, it's been a long day.
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RE: Really, what version of Flash player should I be using?
Um, because it's an American News Source, and by definition can't be trusted to report any real news.
Thank god for the BBC!
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RE: Double WTF with Orangelabel!
Why the hell did you post this on the sidebar? There's a perfectly good discussion on the actual main-page post to follow.
You, sir, fail.
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RE: Cuil?
Cuil is pronounced "Cool" which makes the name even stupider. Yes it's Irish for knowledge, but who the fuck cares?
I'm baffled that people still haven't learned what happens when you slate yourself as [Big X Name] Killer: you destine yourself for failure.
Cuil will now never be more than Yet Another Search Engine that's Not Google, so good job destroying your own product before it even got off the ground, guys!
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RE: "Time.now" is not enough
@bstorer said:
]#days and #from_now are both part of Facets.
Maybe so, but for Rails they are defined in ActiveSupport: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Numeric/Time.html#M000420
@bstorer said:
In Facets, #days and #from_now are both defined as part of Numeric, so it works just fine. (1.5).days.from_now is equivalent to Time.now + (1.5 * 24 * 60 * 60).
Heh, teach me to not try it before posting. Thanks for the correction.
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RE: "Time.now" is not enough
@AccessGuru said:
Wow! Just think of the overhead associated with extending every number with time methods!
Um, none at all. It's called Open Classes, and is an integral part of the Ruby language. It's quite simple, really:
class Fixnum; def days; ... end; end
Run that code, you've just added the #days method to every integer you use in your code.
Out of curiosity, what does 1.5.days.from_now return? or 1/3.days.from_now?
(1.5).days.from_now gives you a NoMethodError. As you see above #days is defined in Fixnum, while 1.5 is a Float.
(1/3).days.from_now == 0.days.from_now, which is easy to see when you know that Ruby doesn't coerce anything. If you have to Fixnums, you get a Fixnum. If one or more of the numbers is a Float, THEN you'll get a Float back.
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RE: "Time.now" is not enough
Meh, it's interesting, and possibly redundant, but not really a WTF.
Who knows, maybe it's a side effect from a feature change. "Able to make [insert thing here] from x number of days in the future" => "Only do it from the day the [item] was made"
So,
num_days.days.from_now => 0.days.from_now
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RE: WebCrappx
Is it bad that www.webbrix.net shows me a blank page, and yet looking at the source shows me thousands of lines of javascript?
Pwned.
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RE: The Office of 1,000 WTFs (or "Hot Water costs money!")
You know, if it weren't for the length of the post and the detail of what you experienced, I'd say this is made up.
Unfortunately, I've heard enough true horror stories like this to know, this actually does happen.
Good luck finding another job, being unemployed is better than being in that hell hole.
Wow.
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RE: The oldies are the goodies
@gms8994 said:
Why exactly is this a WTF? Maybe I don't get it, but they're checking to make sure it's a valid number, simple as that.
You might want to actually read the post before replying, it's quite obvious what the WTF is.
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RE: A short thread, a big wtf
Ouch, wow. None of them actually read the OP. What I read was duplicate*values*, not *keys*, of which everyone else was assuming he meant. Having duplicate values in a hash table is perfectly valid, though yeah there are probably better structures out for what he's doing.
Who in their right mind reads the java forums anyway? It's so much cesspool it's depressing.
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RE: Media Madness
The real WTF is the show "How Its Made" in the first place. They must take pride in really being a completely useless show. There's no discussion of why, what or where, just "this happens, then this happens, then they do this, then this happens..." SNORE!
Give me Modern Marvels any day, geez.
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RE: Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
Woo! Click "Printer Neighborhood" and you can browse and control printers from all over campus!
hahaha, wow
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RE: Things we didn't know we needed - thanks, CNN!
Those jerks, you used to be able to change the URL and make shirts say what you wanted. You couldn't buy said shirts (mismatch with the hash parameter is thought).
But now they're just redirecting you back, and it doesn't even work on half of the links currently there!
But the Real WTF: Who the fuck would seriously buy a t-shirt with a news headline on it? What an amazingly terrible waste of resources.
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RE: Lets count the WTF's here.
@AbbydonKrafts said:
@ArieLex said:
Alas, there seems to be no real IQ threshold on reproduction
Actually.. those with lower IQs tend to reproduce more. Maybe it's to counter the Darwin effect.
And thus the plot of Idiocracy. If you guys haven't seen this movie yet, you're in for a treat.
Back on topic: wow, that's mind-bogglingly terrible. It's not encryption at all!
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RE: Genius Web Programming (NIU)
WTF?!
Is there not a SINGLE space in the entire code? It's ALL transparent gifs!?
Holy Crap
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@Bifi said:
Before he takes the personality test, don't you think it is beter to let him first take the turing test to make sure that he is really a human (or a AI which can pass the turing test but given his grammar I doubt that)?
It's just that I can help but think that he will even fail the turing test.
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
Personality test for SpectateSwamp:
Are you Male, Female or Other?
I can't wait to see the answer to this question. Probably something about how he can use SSDS to query his own DNA to find out the answer, and give us a step-by-step command reference on how he did it.
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RE: Yet more VBScript Fun: Subroutines and By Reference
Slightly OT. I went looking around at Comersus to see what you're talking about. Google search for "Comersus code", this thread is hit #5.
Google works fast!
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
Being one who has followed and read lots of what Spectate has put up, or caused, on the Internet as a whole, I do have one question:
SpectateSwamp: You say that your "Desktop Search" is Open Source. Where can I get the source code for this program?
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RE: Blizzard Entertainment WTFs
Sorry, I misread the article about the "pwned".
As for IGE vs IGN, no I am not mixing those up. Thottbot and Allakhazam are owned by the same company that also owns IGE, the gold selling company. IGN is not anywhere in this mix last I checked.
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RE: Blizzard Entertainment WTFs
This post is wrong on so many levels it's sickening.
1) "Forced" to use thottbot. I'm assuming that you were at Blizzard some time ago, there is Allakhazam (before it was also bought to be under IGE's parent). If this is a new thing, then there's also WoWHead, which I'm pretty sure is *not* under that company, and of course the WoW Armory now, so yeah, no-one was "forcing" you to use thottbot. You obviously didn't really care.
2) Complete lack of understanding of "customer service". We we'll give it that Blizzard in general sucks at Customer Service, but telling a guy he got "pwned" is BAD customer service in all senses of the term. You were a gamer on a power trip, and deserved to get fired.
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RE: Need help with getHelp
I'm gonna have to say Not a WTF on this one. It's obviously minified code, and definitely looks like Javascript. Many people offer minified versions of javascript libraries (look at Google's script files) to save on bandwidth and speed up page rendering.
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RE: Web scraping wtf
Holy Cow. The search actually forwards TO GOOGLE!
What is it with Chinese and only being able to copy other's ideas? This, the Vii, the PS3 knockoff (can't think of name right off hand). For a country that has nigh 1/4 the world's population, there are NO new ideas coming out of that country.
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RE: For your amusement, brought to you by std::vector
@shadowman said:
I think there's a problem with something like:
std::vector<int> *a = new VEC<int>;
delete a; // doesn't work correctly now since std::vector doesn't have a virtual destructor
Excuse me if I've got the syntax wrong, I'm a bit rusty on C++ these days. I guess the real question is, what would one expect to gain from this?
And I do believe the opposite would also fail:
VEC<int> *a = new std::vector<int>;
The only reason I can think of that someone would do something this hideous is to make sure that all code looks like their code and not using a 3rd party library (granted, STL would be a 1st party, it comes with the language in use). The pain!
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RE: Hey, how important is this "3D" stuff anyway?
Wow, I really missed that. Yes, this is definitely a WTF.
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RE: Hey, how important is this "3D" stuff anyway?
So, where is the WTF?
I really don't see it. I believe JME chose this method of implementing a Matrix for speed and memory purposes (this instead of double nested loops). Even so, this method makes perfect sense.
(3x3 matrix for simplicity sake. 4x4 is a lot to type)
| m00 m01 m02 |
| m10 m11 m12 |
| m20 m21 m22 |
transpose is (by definition):
| m00 m10 m20 |
| m01 m11 m21 |
| m02 m12 m22 |
Thus, there are only 6 changes for 9 elements. Much speedier to do than transpose everything, as this method can get called many, many times a frame.
Jason
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RE: Keeping it Simple
SCRUM is Agile development methodologies translated into the management space.
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RE: Timing loop
Wow. I'll admit that I did stuff like that a LONG time ago, on the TI-89 calculator, in C, where there was no sleep() function.
Today, any compiler worth it's salt will immediately recognize such a loop that doesn't modify any memory outside of what's created in that block and cut it out altogether.
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RE: Any ReSharper users out there?
Depending on how I felt at the time of opening, It would either put a dent in my attitude or even make me break down and cry. I guess fix a few of them at a time, otherwise you will go stark raving mad.