"Oh no, this is my first time doing this. I'd never do that you, AwesomeIntern!"
Posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: Closed Poll: Testing an intern's mettle part 3
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RE: Apple: not so nice and shiny any more
we hastes it!
Haste is a good mage buff spell. Throw in a Bless from your cleric too :) -
RE: The Best of @MottBott
I guess the timer expired so could finally post
Also, I'm super glad he replied, I was sure I'd instantly broke the awesome toy D:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
You can absolutely still lose tanks to phalanx in Civ 2. Possibly a bit rarer tho! (ie Phalanx in mountain fortress)
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RE: WTF happened to Windows 95?
Typing the first couple of characters in a programs name and getting it suggested for you is
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RE: The Best of @MottBott
This is bloody amazing. I never knew bots could be so awesome
I love you @MottBott !
this blob of shit
This nearly made me spew tea at my monitor. So hilariously, brutally apt! -
RE: WTF happened to Windows 95?
I give it about half an hour before @Intercourse has a heart attack. This is brilliant entertainment
I'm laughing my head off. Half tempted to poke someone with a stick but scared to even peek my head above the wall, in case it gets blown off :)
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RE: Closed Poll: Which language is the least bad?
My main beef with IDEs is people who can't code outside of one, not that they exist. In other words: grabbing an IDE and using it shouldn't be an issue, but you should be able to fall back to using a text editor if your IDE barfs for whatever reason, and your IDE shouldn't get in the way of doing this, or interoperating with whatever-build-tooling-your-project-uses.
I can't code outside an IDE. Well, I probably could, but at a tiny fraction of the speed. Is it so wrong that I never bother memorising method names (for example) and instead rely on a handy popup to list them all for a particular object? I knows what I want when I see it, but in Notepad or emacs or whatever? I'd have to go searching that info up.
I don't see how rote memorisation is a good thing, nor how it would improve my code. Let the IDE do as much work as possible, is my opinion. Let's me focus more on good code... at least, I think that's how I operate :)
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RE: On-Call at the Muse Concert
Do you mean "three chords"?
I'm pretty sure he means strings. Here's a tip, remember 'E', it's a twofer!
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RE: On-Call at the Muse Concert
I actually really enjoyed their last two. Not quite as top tier as you'd like but still really great I thought. I love when bands go all over the place with their style and always try new things.
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RE: On-Call at the Muse Concert
Muse are my favourite band. I'd have ignored the pager for the two hours of the concert :)
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RE: Vending machine wtf
Once when late for a train, no time to get anything smaller, I had to buy a 13 euro (or thereabouts) ticket with a fifty euro note.
Cue 37 clinks as 37 single euro coins poured out of the machine...
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RE: Destiny
That was true of the original game they were remaking which everybody loved. They actually slowed the movement down somewhat between the two.
I thought it was great to be able to walk up walks by just ... walking into them. I'm waiting to see some other game make a more creative use of that concept, but so far I haven't seen any.
Never played the original. Sounds like I'd hate it too
Probably no way to do such complex controls and camera without folks like me feeling sick.
@blakeyrat said:Traitor!
Merely returning to the fold ;) (PS2 -> 360 -> PS4)Oh I guess it's technically third-person. Whatever, it's a fucking shooter, where the camera hovers isn't important.
If it's a fucking shooter, call it a fucking shooter, and if the camera isn't important maybe don't refer to it with a term which is two thirds devoted to describing said camera? First Person Shooter -
RE: Destiny
I'm confused, as we talking about the Aliens vs. Predator remake, or Aliens: Colonial Marines? The latter definitely had bad reviews.
... ugh. It's like a 68 on metacritic. I liked that game.
A v P remake. I hated it. Although to be fair, I only tried playing as the Alien. The controls and camera for walking on walls made me very, very ill.
I just read today that the next EDF game (a upgraded version of 2025 with KAIJU!) is coming to PS4 and not Xbox One. :( Despite the last, like, 3-4 EDF games being Xbox-exclusive or at least Xbox-first.)
That kinda suits me since I'm going 360 to PS4!
@blakeyrat said:So they released 2025 on Xbox 360 after everybody had already unplugged their 360s and moved on to the Xbox One, and now the next-gen port of it is going to Sony? I feel betrayed.
Not quite Final Fantasy defecting to Playstation from Nintendo but pretty sucky!
@blakeyrat said:I guess I should unpack my 360, buy a copy of 2025 for it and play through it while crying, "this might be the last EDF experience I ever get! *sob*" Oh well, the last one didn't really recreate the insanity of 2017 anyway. EDF 2017, a.k.a. the best FPS game for any platform ever made ever in history ever.
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RE: Destiny
Yeah... I just really don't wanna drop the several hundred euros for one game
Aw well. Was gonna happen sooner or later.looks over to preview window
Jesus Christ is there a single emoticon/emoji left that isn't a rape face?
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RE: Destiny
Waiting for a PC-version...
I'm torn. I don't REALLY want a PS4 (yet), pretty sure this game WILL come to PC. But a few buddies are already into it on PS4. And that's kinda the point, isn't it?
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RE: Destiny
the reviews started out in the 80s-90s, then plummeted 3 weeks after release
O really? That's scummy. I play a lot of games but I'm usually a year or two behind everyone else (apart from the odd "big game") so I never see stuff like that.
Now I think of it, they do have stuff like embargos against bad reviews and such, don't they?
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RE: Destiny
this, but for basically everything.
the last triple A game I bought at full price was Alien vs Predator, the 17 gig one that came out about 4 years ago, and was terrible. I have only bought humble bundles or waited 6+ months to get them at 50-75% off ever since.
I still have loads of games to get through...
That game was horrible though and got trashed in the reviews. Destiny got pretty good reviews, just not universal acclaim.
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RE: Closed Poll: New project, git or svn
I said svn because I've never used git and therefore I fear it.
/expecting people to say I'd fear it more after using it/
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
They're all "walked in on parents getting it on in bedroom" looks now.
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
So yeah, sometimes you do have to drop to the command line and use copy paste (oh the horror! how will people ever figure this one out!) stuff in a terminal to get one-off setup and tweaks done. Does that mean that Linux is incomplete or defective? No. Just paste the command you've been given for free in and be thankful, for Pete's sake.
Separate post for a separate issue...Dude, this attitude is why so many people hate Linux, it's users, it's whole culture. The sarcastic, superior, user mocking tone. "If you have a problem, it's YOUR PROBLEM! Linux WORKS! If you don't like it then GO AWAY!"
There's a reason why Apple (who I am not a fan of at all btw) are the most successful tech company in the world and the whole Linux movement in all it's flavors never ticks past 1 - 2% adoption rate. Apple serves the users first and bends everything else to make their experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. Linux puts the tech first and dismisses users for not jumping through all it's hoops.
You say "be thankful" because it's free? Apple shows that people would much rather pay huge amounts and "be thankful" for a much better end user experience!
(Yeah I get this is a tangent and not really applicable to devs like us. Whatever :P)
(I also liked your post because even though I disagree with it, I do enjoy a big wall 'o text!)
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
You do realize that no one is born an expert on CLI, right?
Yes.
@bp_ said:Most CLI users actually do not hail from Bashistan. Most people that do have learned the hard way after fucking around a little with their Linux live CD.
"Fucking around" doesn't work. You need to learn the commands and arguments by rote and get them 100% correct, every time. There is no way to intuitively discover it by clicking around, no way to gradually learn it through feedback from the program. You simply must get the command and it's arguments perfectly correct, or it fails utterly, sometimes catastrophically and with no feedback whatsoever. Fun! It's the "hard way" indeed.Other people just say "I'm a software developer and what is this shit. Go away from my life forever."
I don't say that. I have to use it for my job. I do hate how unintuitive and opaque it is though.
@bp_ said:Why do people use Google?
Because it's fast, easy, intuitive and corrects mistakes for the user. The command line is fast too, but not the others.Wouldn't it be easier to have a single page that links to every web site ever? Surely you've heard about web directories — from history books, mainly.
No, it wouldn't, it's easier for humans to have their information broken up into small, sensible, digestible chunks. That's why that stuff is gone.
@bp_ said:Google is the quintessential command line interface: you tell it what to do, and it does it for you.
Bullshit. Google does not require exact commands. Never mind typos or phonetic mistakes, Google can correct mangled garbage for you. On the CLI if I get a single letter wrong, or damn it, even a single letter in the wrong case, the entire thing falls over, or worse, can do the complete opposite of what I wanted. That's a million miles away from the ease and helpfulness of Google which "Just Works"(tm), so trying to conflate them is either stupidity, lies or trolling.Also, Google does not hide what it ACTUALLY DOES from me. It has a nice big button labeled "Search". So, it searches. If I'm using a command line to call a program, how do I know what it's doing? Oh yeah, I have to learn it by rote from a manual/colleague, rather than the program just bloody telling me what it's doing.
In short: Google does as much work as possible for me, CLI dumps as much work as possible on me.
No one has trouble using it. Almost everybody who doesn't have much of a clue about the internet knows enough to type "facebook" in Google to get to the Facebook page.
Yeah buddy, if that was a command line argument, it fails. You didn't have a capital "f" for "Facebook". So you get zero results. And no info as to why. See how far away Google is from the CLI and it's strictness and lack of helpfulness?Oh, and that command line does actual commands, too — using voice and an Android device you can use that very same interface to search you can set reminders, create appointments, text people, whatever. There's no button or UI for it. You just issue the command.
That's cool. I didn't know that. I'd be surprised if there's anything you can do that way, that you can't do with a GUI somewhere though.I like the Linux CLI enough to have it installed on Windows. Here's the fish shell in all of its glory. For bonus points, I have the git command line interface installed. Can it get even more heretic than this?
You do whatever you want buddy. Freedom is good. Options are good. I just want the option to use what are, for me, the vastly superior option of GUIs. I don't want to take your CLI option away, why do you want to take my GUI option away?A CLI comes with features that are simply impossible to do on GUI:
- Command autocompletion, so you don't have to use the
-f
/-F
short options that people here like to whine so much about - Recalling and searching past commands, so that once you get the short option right, you don't have to do that again twice
- Aliases: still feel really scared by that short option? Alias it away! Creating
git-reset-and-lose-my-unstaged-changes
to callgit reset --hard
is trivial, and you don't even have to type in all of that every time you want to use it.
"Impossible"? All of that is simply techniques to make the CLI less horrible. None of that applies to GUIs. It'd be like me saying "you can't use CSS to style buttons on a CLI!" Well, uh, CLI doesn't even have buttons, so that makes no sense.
@bp_ said:* Robust homogeneous automation. This is huge. If you find yourself issuing the same commands over and over, you can just stick them in a file and call that instead.
That's great for sure. No reason it couldn't be done in a GUI though. Click a "Create Repeated Task" button, click through your GUI screens and buttons, click your "Finished Repeated Task" button. Then call that from a menu whenever you need it. Boom[...etc...]
Of course there's tons of amazing stuff that can be done on the CLI. It's usefulness and functionality is not in question. Just it's usability, friendliness and ease of use. - Command autocompletion, so you don't have to use the
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
Sorry, I guess you missed an earlier post of mine; I was referring to SalesForce.com Apex, a proprietary language which is superficially like Java but is in actuality a hobbled, mangled example of vendor lock-in at its worst.
Hey, I used that too! My first job out of college involved it. Had a spiel from a manager who's pitch to me was basically "Java, but better!"The other devs weren't as enthused about it
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RE: CTRL+Enter posts replies
Gmail sends a mail with CRTL Enter as well.
I'd guess this is as designed?
Our replies aren't single line IMs flying back and forth, more like longer, less frequent email type communications...?
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
Because the people developing those programs are all already experts on CLI and see no reason why they should move away? Users should "just learn".
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RE: Bot Duel!
Mine is I'm Irish and ye forced tea on us at gunpoint
the new emoji tea looks weird. At least it's better than the old one ...
The cup is almost invisible against the white background and the liquid within looks like slime. Slightly worried what the old one was like, if this is an improvement! -
RE: Smiley-Images and previews do not look alike
The new ones look too weird to me... More like "On Pills" than "Happy". Maybe appropriate for here though!
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RE: Bot Duel!
A bot that could successfully find the tea would be much more welcome! Can't code without tea.
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RE: Bot Duel!
I love this thread. I love these bots. A bit more work and ye can replace everyone with bots. Can you make a BlakeyRantBot and a MorbsBrutalInsultBot?
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RE: Overly excited "new" icon...
Totally a bug, but a minor one that very few forums apart from this one would ever see :)
Thought it was just happening for no reason, that's my default assumption here
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Overly excited "new" icon...
Thanks for letting me know it's a new topic, but couldn't you wait until you'd finished rendering the topic title before yelling NEW...?
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RE: Stack Overflow
Oh my god, a thousand times yes to "Work from home. If you are a dog." I can never see that ad without my brain cursing my humanity!
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RE: Discourse DMZ
I think the whole "We're ready for 1.0!" thing was a lot of people's problem.
The whole thing is still packed with bugs, trying your best would be a lot more appreciated if this wasn't being touted as a ready to go product...
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RE: Recommend To Me A New Avatar
We need a shot of the zombie monkey from
the first Pirates of the Caribbean movieBraindead!
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RE: Comcast not-at-all an abusive monopoly with not-at-all deceptive business practices!!!
I'm actually on Vodafone (I think. My roommate sorted it)
UPC is definitely the leader, forcing the others to compete at least somewhat!
I've friends with different providers, the consensus seems to be stay the hell away from Eircom and you're laughing.
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RE: The Home Stretch
Yay, and Friday is the perfect day for that!
Friday, 3 o' clock. The witching hour for software. Where even the most heavily tested code happily breaks upon deployment! -
RE: The Home Stretch
Which is a step back I think. "You were granted" is undoubtedly true; "you earned", not so much.
As a general rule, they should rewrite all the text on Discourse to be as non committal as possible.
"You got a badge, for some reason, unless it's not showing up, or it breaks the site, in which case you didn't. Well done! Or not."
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RE: Comcast not-at-all an abusive monopoly with not-at-all deceptive business practices!!!
32 euros a month, 70Mbps, shared between me and my roommate... and I thought Ireland had pretty bad Internet in general!
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RE: Javascript gotchas thread
Just define your own UNDEFINED constant, and initialise every variable to that constant
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RE: Javascript gotchas thread
Writing Javascript is like trying to make up with a pissed off girl.
You try something, doing your best, and ask "Everything ok?"
Girl/Javascript: "Fine."
And then you just have to hope "Fine" means fine and not "I'mma cut you while you sleep".
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RE: 📹 Blakeyrat's Videos Thread (Robots in the News et al.)
Maybe. My ones tended to just live in one spot but I'm sure I moved them the odd time.
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RE: 📹 Blakeyrat's Videos Thread (Robots in the News et al.)
Yeah what's up with that?
My secondary PC from 2007 has a main and backup drive, both completely fine, but I've lost multiple externals. I use that main drive a lot too, not like it's sitting empty. Strange...
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RE: Which language is the least bad?
I don't love it, but I prefer it to the majority of code I see here :P