I have to plead guilty here. I used the clipboard once a long time ago to move data from word to excel (or something- I don't remember the precise details any more). In my defense, it's was the first of only three VBA scripts I've ever written, and it was to fix a problem with some files that had to be done that day, no time to go learn the right way to do it.
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RE: Using clipboard for application communication
Latest posts made by jcoehoorn
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RE: Document search
WTF #1: Allowing employers to filter by age. That is seriously illegal most of the time in the US.
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RE: Planned server move!
No all nighter or 11 drive hour here. They're outsourcing the shipping portion to a 'specialist', which probably includes secure overnight storage.
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RE: Best f**king censorship ever
In the company's defense, I can see the merits in putting a system like this in place for outgoing email. For many business it just wouldn't do to allow that kind of thing accidently go out to clients. But incoming? When the message is obviously part of a conversation thread where previous messages have passed?
That gives me an idea... I wonder if you could improve spam filter performance noticabley by identifying messages that are part of conversation threads in the which the recipient has already partipated, and giving them a much lighter spam check. It certainly wouldn't matter for one inbox unless you could also use it to improve accuracy (which I guess at least in this case it would have), but say you're running a large system that checks a few million messages per day?
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RE: You fail
I nominate for most appropriately titled post of the year award. ;)
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RE: Swatting flies with Jackhammers
@vt_mruhlin said:
I was going to comment on how arias326&iodizing isn't "memorable" in my book, but then I typed this response without having to look, so I guess maybe it is.
If you look closely, you see that he was able to select the difficulty. That's pretty memorable for 17 characters at a reasonably high quality setting. -
RE: Unexpected Error Handling
@Pendi said:
At least they don't show you the exception.
Actually, if you look at the Microsoft error more closely you'll see they don't show you the exception either:
"Error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely."
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RE: Order of operations
@H|B said:
Reminds me of the many if (something.Test() && something != null) I see once in a while...
That reminds me of an old VB6 WTF:In the debug environment, function arguments where evaluated right to left. In the release environment, they are evaluated left to right. Or vice versa, I'm not sure which anymore. The issue was mitigated somewhat since VB didn't do short-circuit evaluation, but it was still possible to get erroneous results if you had something like this:
If FunctionThatCanThrowError() And FunctionThatUpdatesDatabase() ThenEnd If
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RE: Verizon bad math
@belgariontheking said:
On the other hand, what prompted this guy to record this particular phone conversation?
IIRC, this is a real event where the customer had purchased the service based on the cents quote, then went overseas for over a long trip and used the service based on the quoted rate. Then he got home and saw his bill was 100 times bigger than he expected. If I were expecting a $40 bill and it was $4,000 instead I'd think about recording my conversation too.
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RE: DreamHost $7.5 Million Billing System Error
@medialint said:
I see a parade ...
Of attorneys ...
In clown suits ...
Drooling ...
Almost a haiku:
I see a parade
Of attorney in clown suits
Drooling rabidly
-- f'lar
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RE: Calc.exe is apparently cutting edge technology
Or you could ask someone over at DevShed ;)