I assume it will be a ceremony in General halls of Discourse, followed by the party in The Lounge...
Is it sad that my first thought was "they could go to a NICE forum software for the honeymoon?"
I assume it will be a ceremony in General halls of Discourse, followed by the party in The Lounge...
Is it sad that my first thought was "they could go to a NICE forum software for the honeymoon?"
Yes, followed by...I'm not sure how to type the sound a wood chipper makes.
I sense closure, and I feel like we all learned something from this topic.
Well, closures ARE used fairly frequently in javascript. They were bound to turn up eventually.
@lucas said:You may not of noticed that we are on an island off of mainland europe.
So is Galveston, Texas. We still consider it part of North America.
I certainly know what you really meant, but I did have a good chuckle at the idea of Galveston, Texas being an island off of mainland Europe that we consider part of North America.
I personally would prefer that if I've selected "Excel Add-In" and click save, it show me a prompt saying "Hey, those only work if you put them over here. Would you like me to switch to that directory and let you review and click save again, or are you sure you want this where you told me?"
However, I already know my preferences about UX are sometimes pretty unusual (heck, most people I know seem perfectly happy with their start bars at the bottom of the primary monitor, so clearly I'm not the usual sort there), so...
ZFSC still sounds like a step up from having:
Fortunately we have stopped doing that now. Except for where we haven't. I think. The actual programming department definitely has.
@coldandtired said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move
This one probably would have had me spelling it "Rhyhm" on a regular basis.
@Onyx said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
@Jaloopa said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Yeah, I just remember the names and positions instead of converting it from a silly phrase!
...I once tried that, and ended up with "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Acts, and the Letter to the Romans" for some reason.
I love that the name of the company is DEMONISE backwards.
Warning: Did not read whole thread, may be repeating stuff
Fun story: I tried to use an iMac recently. I literally sat in front of it for two minutes before I could figure out how to turn it on.I talked to other people and they all had the same experience. The power button is fucking hidden in the back. Why would you hide the power button?!?
I was trying to figure out how to do something once on one of those old translucent colorful integrated-CRT iMacs that was set up as a kiosk at my university.
I managed to reboot the thing because I pushed what appeared to be a "play" button, wondering what media player it would start.
the entire philosophy was (and still is) "I know better than you about what you want and need" which is a huge turn-off to me.The designs I see in Apple products always give me that same impression: they look nice, but they really want to control your experience. Computers are supposed to put me in control, not the other way around.
I think that means you are not in Apple's target market. If you think you know better than they do what kind of experience you want from using a device, then...well, they'd still be perfectly happy to sell to you, but you're paying a premium for access to a user experience that you don't want...
I gotta agree with Blakey somewhat here. A lot of the edge cases mentioned make at least some level of sense, but while having DROP or ALTER without SELECT seems to have some perfectly reasonable uses, having DROP or ALTER without VIEW DEFINITION seems pretty darn irrational. And that was what I thought he was saying wasn't sane.
@pydsigner said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Gurth And I want to know how to foretell eclipses!
Note to self: too many pendants around, do not use jokes that are intentionally getting the point wrong.
No, just keep in mind you might hang yourself in the process.
Get it...pendant...hang...I'll be over here.
Here's one I saw recently:
I can certainly understand driving 10-15 miles per hour under the speed limit on the interstate when it's dark and raining.
I can even understand, although I disapprove, doing so with one's hazard lights flashing in hopes that people will be more likely to notice they're coming up on a slow-moving vehicle. (I should look that up though, I think in this state driving with your hazard lights on might actually be a moving violation.)
I can even handle people doing this in something other than the farthest outside lane, or maybe the next one over to avoid having to deal with merging traffic.
But if you are driving with your hazard lights going and you try to CHANGE LANES with anyone remotely nearby, you are asking for trouble.
"How much books do you have?"
See, that's the kind of thing I would answer "Probably several hundred pounds and at least a few megabytes."
This would be true 30-50 years ago, at least to some degree. You're describing a libertarian conservatism that still exists -- it's Ron and Rand's good side -- but has been thrown to the curb by a toxic mix of religious nutjobbery and power-drunkenness that has hijacked the term "conservative".
And that is, I believe, one of the things that makes it difficult for political discussion in some public fora to remain rational and civil...the people who assume the term to refer to the hijackers clash with the people who hold the old-fashioned views and still try to resist the hijacking (and therefore apply to themselves terms that the opposing side takes to mean they are claiming to be crackpots).
I've read the explanations of why Markdown is preferable to Textile, including a little commentary from Atwood. They convinced me that Textile is generally better but that Markdown is winning the popularity contest (possibly primarily due to Github).
I resent the implication that there are no REAL pretenders.
Also, I just installed some wererabbit thing today on my smartwatch that supports automatically saving the last few versions of updated apps, because Exozet Games released a new version of Carcassonne and it is no longer among the precious few games playable on a 1.5" screen.
I'm going to contact them later and ask where I can get an old version...since I didn't have that before I updated.
@kilroo said:I think using the Dillo engine covers (and surpasses) that.
From the dillo changelog:dillo-3.0.5 [June 30, 2015]
They're still working on it!
Yes, they are. Since version 2.1 they even support a subset of CSS! And support for things like javascript and thead/tfoot elements are apparently on the radar at a low priority. Someone even did a Javascript support proof of concept in 2009. Apparently I was mistaken in thinking that they were deliberately planning not to support Javascript at all.
@Helix said:
@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:ÂI read somewhere that a bit keeper user can terminal in on the BK port and from a text menu, request a clone of the repository. As far as I understand it Tridge then pulled data out of the local repository file stream.Yes, but that's still using BitKeeper because the server is BitKeeper. He's either pulling some Bill Clinton shit and trying to redefine the word "use", or he's a liar.
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That's what i thought too - maybe he got a friend to pull it off for him?
Kinky.
Using the left lane to pass someone who's in the in middle lane, only to immediately shoot over to the right lane and go slower than the car they just passed.
It's not unheard of to see me do that, but it almost invariably means that I was previously driving in the middle lane at about the speed limit, and either the other car or a car that got between them and me just passed me on the right when they had plenty of room to pass on the left instead. And I don't react that way nearly as much now as I did in my early 20s.
Turning into the incorrect lane (especially followed by changing lanes shortly thereafter), running with brights on with no good reason, and passing someone on the right when you could have passed on the left instead are probably my biggest pet peeves.
Slowing down for a turn enough that the car behind you also has to slow down before using a signal is also irritating.
But considering the stories my brother-in-law has told me about driving in Connecticut and seeing people pull into the oncoming traffic lane in order to go around someone stopped in the left-turn lane and execute a left turn on red...I kinda feel like I get off easy around here.
And then it's gonna turn out that the versions are incompatible between each other
They already are, from what I could tell, in terms of extension support. And I consider Firefox without Tab Utilities almost as intolerable as Chrome.
QFT. I propose building a massive fleet of earthworking equipment, reshaping the planet into a flat pancake-like disc, and forcing everyone to live on the same side.
Back up north, in really severe weather, most people put their hazard lights on, because in, say, a blizzard, it might be the only way you can see another car.Turns out it varies by state, and is actually perfectly legal in my state but NOT legal in Florida.And I said "up north" but I've seen it done in Florida in hurricanes as well, but like I said, I only see it in really heavy downpours or near-blizzard conditions. If a cop stopped me for that in those circumstances I'd ask who else he was going to ticket and threaten to fight it on "you're singling me out" grounds.
So far I have never driven in conditions such that another car having its hazard lights flashing (instead of just its lights on) made them any easier for me to see, but as with any driving behavior that makes me assume another driver is more likely than average to do something stupid without my having any warning (specifically, change lanes inadvisably...because their turn signals are at best harder to notice, and at worst disabled while the flashers are on), it does make me focus on that vehicle more than on the others in the vicinity...sometimes to the detriment of my awareness of the rest of the road, and almost always with a goal of getting past them as soon as (hopefully safely) possible so that I can stop worrying about them.
It's hard to get a handle on a question like this. I think F# might have the lowest ratio I've seen of how often it's complained about to how often it's mentioned, at least above the threshold of languages I've heard of outside of "hey, here's a language you may never have heard of."
creating exceptions in advance is a bad programming style in general
How about methods with a return type of Exception? And when they're called, the return value is checked to see whether anything went wrong.
There was a time when I was a big fan of Bazaar because
unlike most DVCS, Bazaar treated a centralized repository workflow as a first-class citizen. I do not remember offhand what it was about the way they handled it that looked better or easier than using any old DVCS and saying "this clone over here is the blessed one." I do, however, remember that there was something that looked like an advantage over that approach, albeit possibly a minor one.
at one point there were certain edge cases involving file or directory renames that could make a mess in Mercurial or Git repositories but not in Bazaar. Or to be more accurate, I think it pretty much boiled down to bazaar noticing it had happened and letting you know immediately so you could make sure it had done the right thing with it, whereas in git or hg you might not notice immediately and might need somewhat rarely-used commands in order to figure out exactly what you'd done and how to fix it. I'm not sure, partly because I think both git and hg made that situation easier to deal with later.
At one time, it looked like Bazaar would end up with the strongest all-around foreign repository support. There were projects of various levels of maturity to let you use bazaar against subversion, mercurial, and git repos. The bridge to subversion, unlike the ones for Mercurial and (I think, at the time) Git, could push local merge commits back to the subversion upstream...although it did so by abusing svn metadata.
Also, for what it's worth, I believe the Eclipse plugin for Bazaar reached the point of being at least as good as tabbing away from eclipse to use another tool before the plugins for mercurial or git did.
Unfortunately, all of those projects eventually stagnated, as far as I can tell. Bazaar itself isn't even under development anymore last I checked. Not that this means it's unusable, but it's not progressing and the plugins I had high hopes for aren't either. And Bazaar, despite Canonical favoring it for a while, never got even the market share Mercurial did, let alone Git.
Opinions on Git and Mercurial are a lot easier to come by, so as far as those go I will just say that when I was becoming familiar with Mercurial, the tooling available for it was in my opinion a valid point in its favor over Git. Now I wish I were less lazy about getting familiar with Git because I would prefer to be familiar with both but think Git would be more valuable.
In terms of personal interest, the other one I'd like to explore some is darcs.
Wait, this thing is companion mode only? That's...sad?
(I'm one of the suckers who backed the TrueSmart. I'm actually not that displeased with it.)
Also, meh to your TIs.
Goes back to programming music on his HP-48GX
the_real_wtf:
new look looks like LGBT pride rainbow bullshitTold ya. We're rainbows
I went through the whole thread looking for @cartman82 to have posted something about hating how rainbows crawl up and bite the inside of your ass...
Same here. It's amazing how much of my allegiance to Chrome is owed to the FUCKING STUPID design decision of the competition. Like the aforementioned curved corners in Firefox.
I use addons in firefox that mostly de-australize it. It is the way the tabs look in CHROME that I think is a stupid design decision...especially the fact that at least the last time I tried to look into it, making the tabs' edges be vertical instead of angled requires recompiling the damn thing.
I also get grumpy over browser developer tools, because frankly I still prefer Dragonfly over any of the current offerings.
Not exactly the same kind of terminology. A functional language is based on lambda calculus and built on the idea that every function operates by taking some arguments, performing operations that do not change those arguments, and giving back one of more return values. Data is immutable, side effects are verboten, and they have these special cases (I think they're called monads?) that are used where side effects are necessary, like for actual output.
At least that's as well as I've understood it so far. I've used languages with first-class functions but not pure functional languages, so I am basing my interpretation largely off of reading blogs.
Edit P.S.: And then there's T-SQL, where functions have return values and (except in very screwy cases) cannot have side effects, while procedures can have side effects, and have very restricted return values but can give back information in output variables or result sets...
Because usually fat owls with monocles, their names? Those make good names for cars. Almost always. This particular fat own is such an outlier.
QFC(omedy)
www.caniuse.com/apng
As a "how did I tolerate everything else before I tried this" level Opera 11/12 fan, I am highly entertained by the Opera column. Despite the fact that switching browser engines isn't really why I'm still on old Opera (where I can get away with it); I'd rather have Dragonfly than Chrome dev tools (mostly because I know my way around it better) but I admit the engine switch was probably a good move.
Oh... shit...Tab... tab stacking... it works... I... I can stack tabs again...
*bites lip*
No, this is wrong! I will not use a browser written in Node! No! NO! NOOOOOOO!!!
<small>Tab stacking works...</small>
I...darn it now I have to try it...
(although the tab stacking in the Firefox Tab Utilities extension is good enough that it would need something else I like in order to keep me)
that might've been just the launchpad UI
Yeah, Launchpad never really seemed as friendly to work with as even Bitbucket, much less Github.
Which is kinda funny, given that at one time I'd've said the reverse of the VCSes they each supported, at least for Subversion converts.
I never used Launchpad except for following updates on bzr-related projects, so I don't know what it was like to work with directly, but I remember finding information being confusing because there were too many places for it--a main page, possibly a link to a home page, possibly a wiki, an issues list, and a separate Q&A. I am a fan of their overview page design, though.
As I said, I don't like "workspaces" - I'd like to have multiple projects open at once even if they aren't even remotely related to each other, and not in an 'all or nothing' fashion.
For what it's worth, that would be "Working Sets" in Eclipsese.
What if I want to unplug my flash drive and only some of the projects are on it? Is there an easy way to 'close' projects?
Yep. Select projects, right click, "close projects." (edit: someone beat me to that...)
While you can do it that way, it's no different than adding a bunch of unrelated projects to an ad hoc Visual Studio Solution
I can kinda see where you're coming from; I hadn't really thought about that before. Actually I hadn't thought about making a solution containing unrelated projects before.
conceptually you could have two projects that don't share any dependencies or code, but still belong in the same (what Visual Studio would call) solution.
Also sounds like a job for a Working Set.
I thought I remembered reading an article recently recommending the single-workspace, multiple-working-set approach, but I can't find it again. Due to how they work, workspaces are really better suited to different Eclipse configurations than to grouping projects, in my opinion. It kinda seems to me like working sets have gone unnoticed by some people because the classic solution to the problems they solve was either multiple workspaces, or...um...a bigger hassle.
@kilroo said:Let's take it a step farther and go for Chrome's look and feel with the Dillo rendering engine and IE 4's extension gallery!And Opera 12's supportedness?
I think using the Dillo engine covers (and surpasses) that. I actually had been going to suggest the Presto engine instead and changed my mind because there was a time when (aside from some blind spots like onbeforeunload) the Presto engine was actually pretty well up to date, perhaps even ahead of the game, and I didn't want that to distract from the ,d.