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.
That might work out better than what Swatch came up with...
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.
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.
@cartman82 said:Have they now finally became the uglier, more bloated version of Chrome?
Personally I think they've been that for a long time now...
Chrome is too ugly for me to use. Firefox (so far, with the right plugins) isn't.
But I find angled edges on my tabs both aesthetically and practically intolerable.
Practical, probably. Effective may depend on whether it is intended for actual violence or for intimidation, and if intimidation, then of what audience.
@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.
Edit 2: Actually fixed link. Apparently, you can't just put a link on the word "poll"
How apolling.
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...
LunascapeThat browser is hilarious.It looks 90s as hell and is more chaotic than Eclipse.
I concur, but I still have to admire the fact that they actually got three engines working side by side without it being any worse than it is.
Was there ever? Serious question BTW, 'coz in my experience every browser since Mosaic sucked - just in a different way.
For me, Opera 12.17 is still the best option (worst offense: no support for the onbeforeunload event) on any webpage that isn't too new or retarded to work with it, followed by Firefox with Tab Utilities installed, then...probably Qupzilla, Lunascape, IE (as long as you aren't stuck on XP), etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, the new Opera, Lynx, Chrome as kind of a last resort, and then sort of a pile of stuff that either hasn't been updated in ages or is just a stupid idea to begin with.
I wrote a stylesheet for converting wddx to json once. Fun times.
"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).
it did take me a while to see the error. And by "a while", I mean "two seconds instead of one".
I had to go back and actually read it, because I'd been reading the comments first and then the code blocks, and that threw me off for almost three seconds.
I'm not sure I understand how a jughandle improves over a protected left unless the road the jughandle splits off from has at least about an order of magnitude more traffic than the crossing road. Is that how they're usually used?
None of that "47 people are all stuck in the same place, and number 48 honks his horn" bullshit you get on the East Coast. (WTF is up with that, anyway? Does number 48 think everybody else was just waiting for a reminder that roads are for driving on?)
In my experience, at least on my part of the east coast, horns are used for three things while driving (so I'm not including "oops I banged the horn with my elbow trying to get out of the car with stuff in my hands"). In descending order by frequency:
all of these protected left lights now have a red left turn signal when when the straight lanes are green instead of a flashing yellow like the older ones did.
I just saw the kind with the flashing yellow instead of a red in that situation for the first time within the last several months. The first three times I encountered that, I was trying to figure out how they had managed to make something go wrong with ONLY the left turn lane's signal and not the rest of the intersection. Pretty sure every other time I'd seen an intersection regulated that way it was like what Buddy and Frostcat described: you get an arrow if the oncoming straight lanes are stopped, and a regular green circle if they aren't.
Now that I've seen it explained, I acknowledge that in the context of what a flashing yellow signal normally means, it makes sense. However, in the context of what a green light means at an intersection where you can turn left but it isn't protected, so does the green circle...I wonder which is more common.
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.
Well, I should have specified, but I was actually wondering (assuming he meant IDEs) whether he has ever bothered to identify a runner-up to Visual Studio.
I'm guessing the "full stop" means you don't think he has.
Personally, despite its warts, I find Eclipse to work pretty well for what I do...but that is admittedly partly because (1) I really like Mylyn/Tasktop and (2) the Eclipse compare editor was the first compare editor I ever used enough to understand it.
Given the choice between Python and Ruby, I'd rather work in Ruby. But I don't particularly dislike Python. It just has shitty tools. But so does Ruby. And Java. And GoLang, and Node, and etc.
Out of curiosity, what do you think are the least shitty tools? And are we talking IDEs and the like or did you mean something else?
Reading the weird picture didn't give me a problem, but then, my eyes are apparently peculiar. I thought lavender text on a dark blue background was a perfectly readable contrast until someone told me otherwise.
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
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.
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.
I don't know about trucks, but you can kill yourself or others in a tank pretty easy if you're not careful.
I could probably kill myself or others pretty easily in a truck. Heck, some of the methods are probably pretty similar.
I have experienced a situation that involved at least six conference calls with an insurance company (each consuming at least four man-hours between both ends) before a C-level on our end stepped in to ask why we were wasting so much time without getting a developer on their end on the call.
There was further delay after that (apparently their developers are allocated to projects for months in advance) but now we have a process in place that monitors to confirm that what they receive from us is, in fact, what we send them...and it doesn't even use Excel!
So, basically, functions which can only fail in various spectacular ways and never return an actual result of processing.I like the idea.
I don't. I inherited it. I keep looking for time to rewrite those codebases...I got rid of one of them by converting it to Powershell.
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.
Would you believe I worked on the Intel AppUp project?
For the sake of argument, let's say I would. I'll look up what it was later.
Care to guess how many Meego customers they had? (Actually I can't remember but it was, within experimental error, zero.)
You didn't let me guess! I would have guessed about twelve. Granted, that was without looking up what AppUp was, yet.
I was a Maemo user, but I picked up a Meego device to play around with very late in the game, so I kinda missed out on whatever was going on with it while anyone was actually still pretending it might be relevant.
Meego was a huge failure in 2010. People wanting it in 2014 is just embarrassing for them.
I said it was a rabid community, not a big one. And what they want isn't what Meego was then, or even what they think Meego could have been then, any more than what the average consumer today wants is the smartphone that was new in 2009...they really want the result of four years of improvements and updates on top of what they were hoping Meego would be before it was released.
The Meego project was gutted, rushed to market, and then basically abandoned before it even hit the shelves, and the one device they put out (with Meego Harmattan, which was actually more of a Maemo 6 than it was Meego) was a halfhearted attempt at a main-market smartphone, not a device for tinkerers and developers...which on the surface makes sense, except that the tinkerers and developers were the ones who had been waiting for a successor to the n900 and Maemo and actually already had high hopes for the thing. So it's not really a surprise that it was never a commercial success. Heck, it might have been a surprise for it to be a commercial success if it hadn't been end-of-life on release.
Anyhow, that rabid little community wouldn't actually want to tighten your necktie, really...they just wanted Elop kicked out (of technology in general, but at least out of Nokia) and consider Nokia's deal with Microsoft to have been the last nail in the coffin of what innovation Nokia might have had left to offer the mobile world.
On the bright side, the big names in mobile OS space took probably 70% of the good ideas in Harmattan and started using them too, and Jolla is still trying to make a success out of the grandchild of the rest of it, with Sailfish. Which...actually I have no idea how that's going. And for the N900 fans, the http://neo900.org/ project actually looks rather astonishingly non-hopeless.
Let's just bow down and say: thank God Microsoft is writing Nokia's software for them.
I've got a rabid community of Maemo and Meego advocates who would like to tighten your necktie for that.
Although personally I think if the next version of Windows Phone supports powershell and WinRM, they might actually hook me.
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."
Holy crap, I think I played this. Doesn't it have a class who fights using books?
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.
I also never understood why laptop manufactures suddenly started to value the function-keys over the f-keys (yeah, be pedantic and tell me what the f stands for... you know what I mean anyway!)
It's less my tendency to be pedantic than it is my amusement at how different people think of things, but...were I trying to distinguish between the two, I would have used the terms exactly the other way around. But that's because the special toggle button for which thing those keys (and some others on the board, I think) would do was labeled F. Well, specifically, F inside a rhombus, I think.
Now you folks have me trying to remember what the Belkin product I had that I liked was.
...Oh, now I remember. Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52. Definitely not networking. But a good enough product in terms of design that even after one of the keys started registering multiple presses sometimes, I was happier to change how I positioned my hand for gaming a little bit than to stop using it.
I think the last specific positive thing I heard anyone say about anything Yahoo had to offer that wasn't part of the Yahoo Developer Network was back when ICQ was still one of the main instant messaging networks I heard about (I say that more to identify timeframe than anything else). I knew people who really liked Yahoo's one account/multiple profiles offering for instant messaging, as compared to ICQ and AIM and such where you were pretty much just you. Of course, I also knew people who thought that sounded like a horrible idea.
No, wait...I also read a positive review of the ease and breadth of customization of the My Yahoo page, oh, about seven versions of it ago.
The Yahoo Developer Network and its offerings have, in my experience, had an odd tendency to generate either positive buzz (possibly brief) or no buzz at all.
@blakeyrat said:
The FOSS version/ripoff is called Godot. Honestly, it might be good, who knows.
From their homepage: "It took a long time but it’s finally ready for everyone."
From this I deduce that they believe everyone was waiting for Godot. I approve.
@oheso said:
@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生Not in this neck of Tokyo. Maybe in Beijing?
My first thought was "I wonder how many necks this person would say Tokyo has."
This is one of the most thorough explanations I've seen around here. Kudos.
Man, I haven't had a Kudos bar in ages.
I do sometimes wish my phone had Powershell.
That's really pretty much the only Windows-related thing I ever wish it had, but I suppose if I actually tried using a Windows phone I might come up with more. However, I don't have a contract and I only use unlocked phones, which makes trying out WP8 just for the heck of it a bit of an awkward proposition. I'm waiting for the Neo900.
@ender said:
@PJH said:No, that's not how they make their money; they take a slice of the transaction, either a fixed amount, minimum amount, and/or a percentage of the transaction; anything from 2-5% depending on the network (Amex tend to charge the most, hence the reason some businesses refuse to take them.)Isn't the main way how they make their money by having people pay interest because they don't pay off their cards in time (or only pay some minimum amount)?
I have heard, secondhand but with the first hand supposedly having been someone who worked for a credit card company, that what the CC companies internally call "deadbeat accounts" are the accounts that are paid off in full every month and seldom incur any special service fees.
@Buttembly Coder said:
Any geographic region of sufficient size [spurious - discuss] will have differences in subregions.
Taking "sufficient size" to mean "sufficient size to have differences in subregions," and taking Earth as an example of a possible size, I find this assertion plausible.
@El_Heffe said:
http://flexcoin.com/103.html"Flexcoin solves nearly every problem that exists with the Bitcoin currency today."Every problem except having all your money stolen.
In fairness, that is arguably only one problem. For all I know, that's the only one they didn't have licked.
@Rhywden said:
Well, then, while we're comparing apples to oranges, my duck won't fly because the elephant next door isn't grey.
So give the duck a new primary key.
@Bulb said:
@kilroo said:For some reason (despite how little it played into the events in question) I think I would have found this story a lot less interesting without the note at the beginning that Benny is "a fairly skilled programmer." Possibly because I kept expecting that to be more relevant than it was.
I'd argue that note was wrong. A fairly skilled programmer knows when to save work by reusing the previous solution and knows when it's time to stop architecting castles in the sky and just slap the damn features together.
You're right, of course, but given the context of the rest of the article, I just took it to mean the quality of the code he writes isn't the problem. Or to put it in your terms, when he actually gets around to BUILDING his castles in the sky, they don't fall apart.
For some reason (despite how little it played into the events in question) I think I would have found this story a lot less interesting without the note at the beginning that Benny is "a fairly skilled programmer." Possibly because I kept expecting that to be more relevant than it was.
@Ill Stew said:
1. The SSD Support contact form does not work in any browser. (Technically I only tried Chrome, FF, and IE, but that proves the site sucks, even if Opera and Safari work).
Speaking as a diehard Opera 12 user, I wholeheartedly agree.
@ceasar said:
The way I see it: if the one support person can get in to work - from the next town over - then why can't everyone else also get in to work? Either the roads are impassible or they are not.
We have pre-snow road treatment. We have snowplows.
Snowplows don't always get side roads, and they definitely don't get them early. And then, in some cases, there are apartment complexes involved that can't be arsed to clear the steep incline at the exit of the parking lot. It's far from unlikely for someone not to be able to get to the roads that are clear enough to drive without volunteering themselves to shovel out a couple hundred feet of road or parking lot. (Although at least one such coworker in the apartment complex situation just got someone to pick him up at the side of the road.)
And there are LOTS of people around here that we don't WANT on the road when it's snowy, even if the snow is driveable, because they don't know what the heck they're doing. Especially if they own a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
@blakeyrat said:
It'd break VBA.Excel will NEVER introduce a change or fix that'll break VBA.
Because something like 60% of the world's economy is reliant on VBA scripts embedded in Excel sheets and if they stopped working for any reason the shit would hit the fan.
I'm barely exaggerating.
Shoot, with some of the stuff people do with VBA, that might even be literally true. Bets on sewage treatment facilities with Excel VBA controlling mechanical processes?
I still like Dragonfly.
Then again, I also still like an actual email client and rss reader that works as a sidebar and tab in my browser, rather than either a separate window or webmail.
Yes, that means I'm one of the two dozen people still stubbornly using Opera 12. I suppose eventually I will probably switch, either back to firefox or (if they keep making its UI look more like Chrome) to Qupzilla or something.
Where on earth did browser makers get the idea that tabs with slanted sides aren't ugly and annoying? Do they think they are designing manila folders, or does a significant portion of the world actually think that looks better? (I readily acknowledge it could be the latter. I do not have a conventional sense of aesthetics.)
@Mason Wheeler said:
@blakeyrat said:
@j_p said:- I'm not a git user, but I'd be very, very surprised if you couldn't tell it which diff program you wanted to use.You can, but why should you have to? Looking at diffs is like... 50% of what people do with source control programs. And Git basically skipped completely over implementing it. Because Git was written by idiots.
No, viewing and editing diffs is like 50% of what people do with source control programs, and apparently a good diff editor is a surprisingly hard thing to create, because I have only seen one, ever, that did not absolutely suck: Beyond Compare. Maybe they just decided "let's leave this part to someone else and focus on the core functionality of version control."
I think I tried Beyond Compare once and thought it was pretty good.
So far, my favorite thing for dealing with diffs is actually the Eclipse compare editor. This is less a case of thinking it's great for the purpose and more a case of finding it good enough that I'm rarely motivated to look for better...its main disadvantage is that I have to run Eclipse to use it. Fortunately, I like some other stuff in Eclipse enough that I usually have it open.
This has been a somewhat interesting thread to read, though. It's like two groups of people, with each group having an argument with the other group, except neither group is having the same argument that the other group is having back with them... Several parts of it have come across to me as Blakey (with chorus) saying something that more or less amounts to "Have a CLI if you want it, but the GUI is more important, and the CLI and the GUI should both be making calls into the same API; the CLI should not be the API that the GUI uses; that is why *nix is stupid" and some other people retorting "Stop saying there shouldn't be a CLI; it should have a CLI first; that's also the API; if someone wants a nice GUI they can write one that performs the CLI calls in the background."
I may be reading that into it because I think that sort of situation is funny, though, rather than that actually being what's going on. Lots of times arguments are funnier if I make them up on my own.
@Rhywden said:
Let me tell you about a small secret about standardized tests: They're not worth their salt.
Speaking as someone who has achieved an unusually high score on both an IQ test and the SAT (for those who don't know, a standardized test given to high school students in a lot of the US), let me tell you: Standardized tests are a pretty accurate measure of how good someone is at taking that kind of standardized test.
I don't especially believe that's a useful thing to measure, but...
Incidentally, based on my own highly anecdotal evidence, practicing and training to achieve a better score on the SAT (particularly the English portion) reduces one's measured IQ.