Nope, I didn't.
Kerin
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WTF Singularity (AJAX edition)
Seriously, count the things wrong with this code plucked from a public student management suite:
if(!notEmpty(child_dob,'Please enter Date of Birth')) { return false; } if(!notEmpty(nickname, 'Please enter only letters for your Nick Name')) { return false; } if(!notEmpty(age,'Please enter Number in Age')) { return false; }
I need to go bleach my soul. Or maybe I'll scrub it clean with some AJAX.
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RE: Best Tag Cloud Ever
Check out what happens if you actually CLICK the "null" tag like I did: http://community.tvguide.com/tags.jspa?tag=null
Layout explodes completely. Er, I mean:The REAL WTF is what happens when you click null.
There, that's better! ;]
Edit: Fennec, sit the hell back down. No need to get on this upstanding young man's case.
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RE: Who needs a database?
@Albatross said:
That Bastard! He is using a database!
It's my good friend, the filesystem. Ever heard of him?
I think someone already commented to that effect on his blog.
That said, I think that both of you are missing the point.
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RE: Why Google's Docs and Spreadsheets will never work
@Goplat said:
My theory about this bizarre antipathy toward the desktop computer is that it's being pushed by media companies, who are coming to realize that all their DRM schemes are ultimately futile as long as you can play a DVD on a computer you have physical access to. Any program can be cracked, but only as long as you actually have the program.
Mmn, you may have hit the nail on the head here, Goplat.
That said, I quite like Google Docs for working on a couple projects (I'm an aspiring novelist, among other things) and taking down quick notes so I can access them elsewhere. I wouldn't dream of storing sensitive data there, of course - that'd just be foolhardy.
Personally, I like the GDocs solution way better than using a keydrive (or whatever - ) as I have this horrid habit of losing the things. Although Google Docs is liable to go down temporarily, I'm pretty sure my documents are [i]coming back[/i] - unlike the two years worth of AIM logs and art which are lost to the ages along with my pendrive.
I think an important distinction which has yet to be made (to my knowledge) is that there are degrees of need for both privacy [i]and[/i] innovation - and in the case of Google Docs, it finds my niche need for easily-accessible and quickly-editable text resources quite nicely. I don't really care if somewhere along the line someone sees it - I mean, yeah, it's certainly not [i]desirable[/i] to have some jerk perusing my unpublished literary hoard o' nazi gold, but it's not really gonna bother me.
I realize that the "I don't care, so it works for me" policy is intellectually bankrupt, and I'm sorry. ;]
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RE: Who needs a database?
@Monkeyget said:
Of course, databases are useless! That's just a newfangled overhyped buzzword marketing machine. All you need are flat files! put records one after another in a file. Problem solved! Why bother with a database?
Of course to make it work you would need to use one of the value in the records as an unique identifier. A kind of keyword which allows you to uniquely access a record. Something I call "Primary Keyword".
You could also use one or multiple values of the records to create an "indexing" allowing fast access to records alleviating the need to browse the whole file.
Since the creation of those files and the code associated to access them is repetitive and boring we could create some kind of 'engine' to create, maintain and access the files automatically. A DSL(Domain Specific Language) could also be created to communicate with that 'engine' and make things even easier. Write a few lines in that language and *poof* a new file is created with the format you want. In just a few lines you could specify that you want to retrieve the records of one or more files with a set of filters applied. I'd call it "Structural Request Language".
Powerful data storage without the need of any kind of database whatsoever. How cool would that be?
Why I say, sir - thou art a genius! Mayhap you could make an open-sourced distribution for us to use until Oracle makes a better version. ;]
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RE: WTFCC - Because community college isn't always great value
If anyone's interested, I might be able to resurrect my WTF-log from the period. I'm certainly going to get into some of my other technology courses at WTFCC at some point - Database Design I was also pretty questionable, although nowhere near as amusing as Larry's class.
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RE: WTFCC - Because community college isn't always great value
@merreborn said:
I don't know what exactly a Quad Dual Xeon is (eight
processors?) but I did check with Dell; At that point (2004) they had
never produced even a dual-core system.I'm sure they were selling multi-processor workstation class machines at that point though. Those were popular from '96 - '04 at least. My best guess would be that he meant that the system had two P4 Xeons.
If they did, Dell's site had nothing to say about them. I checked everywhere - I was very thorough.
Edit: Assuming I'm wrong, he's still retarded for not knowing the difference (and an obvious liar, as a college technology professor has no excuse not knowing what his computer is.) I'm 99% sure I was right, though.
Edit Edit: http://news.com.com/Intels+dual-core+Xeon+makes+Dell+debut/2100-1010_3-5879468.html I was right all along. A relief!