Pagination? Allow me to introduce you to infini-3D-scroll (patent pending so Jeff can't use it)
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...”
There actually is a max render distance for this view, and this thread exceeded it.
Pagination? Allow me to introduce you to infini-3D-scroll (patent pending so Jeff can't use it)
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...”
There actually is a max render distance for this view, and this thread exceeded it.
Steam has issued the following announcement to all users who bought GTA5:
13 April
Dear Steam Customer,
We recently learned of an issue that can impact players attempting to install Grand Theft Auto V on Windows PCs. For those experiencing this issue, you have three options available to you at this time.
First, Rockstar Games intends to have a fix for this issue soon.
Second, customers can try the manual work around detailed below.
Third, if neither of the above works for you, the self-refund tool will continue to be available until the official fix is released.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
Please see below for more information from Rockstar Games, including details on the manual workaround.
The Steam Team
We have identified an issue where players with Windows usernames that include characters not found in the table at the bottom of this page will likely run into difficulties when attempting to download, install, or play GTAV. We are currently working on a fix for this issue.
If you do not want to wait for a fix, you need to create a new Administrator User Account for your Windows system that only includes letters A to Z, a to z or numbers 0-9 from the basic roman alphabet. For a full list of supported characters, see the table at the bottom of this page. Please note that simply renaming your current User Account will not correct this issue. To create the account, follow these instructions from the Microsoft website:
Windows 8/8.1:
Windows 7:
Windows Vista:
We will update this support article with any new information as soon as we have it, including expected timing of a fix and whether you will be able to transfer progress on the newly-created Windows username over to your original Windows user account.
If you would like to receive an automatic update via email when there is more information about a fix, please log into the Support Site and click Subscribe at the top of this page.
Supported Characters At Launch for Windows Usernames for GTAV PC
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Please select one of the following excuses:
@nagesh
@nagesh
@nagesh
@nagesh
@nagesh
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@nagesh
@nagesh
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Looks like nobody grabbed a screenshot for posterity. I just copied the title of this topic into the console to reproduce what it would have looked like.
Looks extra awesome with the burning Oracle plane, I must say.
public Exception sum(int x, int y)
{
if (x < 0 || y < 0)
{
return new InvalidOperationException("You're doing it wrong.");
}
if (x > 1000 || y > 1000)
{
return new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("This operation is rate-limited. Please try again in 23 hours 59 minutes.");
}
if (x != x || y != y)
{
return new Threading.ThreadStateException("You clicked the like button twice and encountered a race condition");
}
if (x == 42)
{
return new NotImplementedException("Not priority for V1.0");
}
return new Exception(); //should never happen
}
JTFY
Scrolling up and down is obviously doing it wrong but I think left to right isn't taking the paradigm shift far enough. I'd personally like to see X- and Y-axis scrolling phased out in favour of using the Z-axis.
BTW @kevinranks, welcome to TDWTF. Here; meet @blakeyrat. He occasionally makes valid arguments, and at other times makes death threats. Don't worry too much about it.
Our company is planning a new dev project and part of it will be outsourced (Yes! WTF#1, but not TRWTF). Said dev company claims various accreditation, so I ask them to produce it. Lo and behold, they actually do. They provide me with photos of all the certificates. Notbad.jpg.
So, first up: they are claiming compliance with ISO XYZ, certified by company A? Alright; time to go to Company A's website and check this. What? No way to verify a certificate with a registration number or certificate ID? Bah... I'll fire off an email to them.
Second: they claim compliance with ISO ABC certified by company B. Same process, and this time I'm greeted with a website that was last touched in around 2000, but it just about works. I am able to enter the certificate number and... I just get back an empty form. Is that correct? I try a few more things. Then, just for the hell of it, I try entering ' OR 1=1--
and I am presented with a Connection Reset browser error. Nice! Getting somewhere... I go back and change it to ' OR 1<2
and...
Sweet... So we can see they tried to prevent SQL injection by looking for 1=1
but not actually using parameters etc. That's a pretty neat fail, but OK, I honestly don't have time to mess around with this any further. The important thing is that I can see there is a LIKE '%'
in there, so I try a substring of my given certificate ID and presto! It works, and shows me what I want to see.
So, finally, I see they claim they are a Microsoft Certified Partner. So cue half an hour of searching for a way to check this. Nope. Neither Microsoft nor Google know nothing about it (lost count of the number of useless outdated Microsoft sub-sites I've seen over the years that are still up). But the final blow to my sanity is the 'certificates' they give to the companies. They are actually glass/plastic/metal plaques that look pretty nice, and are stamped with whatever specializations your company has. They vary from year to year, but they look similar to that below...
However, do you spot a potential problem? Go on; take another look. I'll wait.
...
...
Yeah... I have no way to verify this plaque actually belongs to said company, because there is no fucking company name or registration number anywhere on it.
So, I'm shocked to say, in this particular case, Microsoft is more of a WTF than SQL injection.
I think it's spelled browscourse over there.
Even people like Jeff know the world isn't all black and white. He will devise a graylist of words, each with an associated level of 'civilizedness' or 'discofactor' between 0 and 1. Your discoreputation will adapt according to how often you use said words. This way, you'll eventually have a forum with people who all engage in constructive civilized discourse harmonygaming the system by using words like 'Nice' and 'Thanks' and not 'Belgium'.
Filed under: Don't forget the 'nice language' badges
When did our forum turn into StackOverflow?
Oh, silly question. When Discourse was installed.
Sockpuppets are awesome, but they are even better when everyone can use them.
If you make a sockpuppet, or own one of the accounts listed below, please contribute!
Format: * **username** - password - email (using Mailinator aliases, must be unique1)
1 Using addresses at mailinator.com and safetymail.info doesn't work - perhaps Discourse auto-blocks them. However, mailtothis.com works.
PS. No, Nagesh isn't going on this list until proven guilty!
Hope you choke.
Calm down a little? I don't think even Blakey would say stuff like that, and if he did, it would be presented in an obviously-for-dramatic-effect manner, such as all-caps.
Sure, we like to find and exploit bugs in Discourse, then joke about it and troll Jeff. We also like to insult each other and be pedantic. But it's all fun and games really. It doesn't warrant actual death threats.
Or maybe my sarcasm detector needs fixing?
Fine!
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You do realize this time is billable by the hour, right?
If all the different div layers were represented by different tones, we could hear what Discourse sounds like. Probably more like a discord.
So the real @system can also be used as a sockpuppet? Discourse just gets better and better!
Does the woman in front of him have a shirt with 'Reading' on the back?
I wish I had the time and patience to do it!
However, this Meta article on auto-flagging comments is very interesting.
example.com used to be a reserved, empty domain for illustrative purposes only. Then some dimwit decided that it should actually be a domain that shows an info page... This means that the owner of example.com could take over a bunch of Discourse forums if the admins didn't change this file!
I'm running my fingers along the screen, but it's not working!
Are Jeff & Co in this list of developers? Yes, bundle a backdoor into every distribution by default!
More like it skids off the road into a ditch.
Had similar troubles in Firefox, but moved it out to a separate window and it worked fine.
Listened to 10 minutes of Gangnam Style. Hmm... I might be going crazy.
Well, we could work around that issue by making a plugin. It rewrites the Like button so that instead of liking a post, it replies to it with "+1" and submits.
DBAs updating to the latest version of SQL Server 2012 started getting this issue back in July:
Using an ID with an autonumber will suddenly stop producting sequential numbers for the sake of performance, regardless of actual metrics. As you can imagine, this has caused havoc. And yes, our DBAs just updated to it, which was what caused me to research this. Now I have to explain to accounting why Microsoft decided there should be giant gaps between invoice numbers.
If MS said specifically in the docs that autonumbers may not guarantee sequential numbers when they first invented it, perhaps we wouldn't be in this mess. Then again, the previous developers would have used it anyway and I'd be in the same situation.
It's still better than Oracle, right?
Time for someone to write a plugin! And yes, it should be one that doesn't understand word boundaries.
Bad Ideas Thread is at the end of the line:
Don't forget to punch out.
Infinite music loop - internal thread links are very meta, and this is a great idea. Kept me entertained all afternoon.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/infinite-music-loop/1894 Added link again so Discourse would add it to the gutter.
Barrier Man is a barrier to picking superheroes.
CBA to do actual work for the last half-hour on a Friday. So here you go.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php#107968
Yes! Code highlighter got it right.
With close.js, you can close an iOS web app right from javascript! Just use the closewebapp() function.
function closewebapp() {
document.write("<section id=\"sectionndjfrjvbjreiajjzkf\"></section>");
document.write("<style>");
document.write("#sectionndjfrjvbjreiajjzkf {");
document.write(" height: -webkit-calc(0% + 0px);");
document.write(" -webkit-transition: height 1s ease-in;");
document.write(" z-index:-999;");
document.write("}");
document.write("</style>")
}
Ctrl+Enter has become commonplace in desktop apps and web apps using multiline or rich text fields over the years. As loopback0 said, use plain old Enter or Shift+Enter instead.
This is one of the few things that Discourse does right. Seriously, legitimate case for WONTFIX here.
public enum BugStatus {
CANTFIX,
BECAUSEJEFFSAIDSO,
WONTFIX = BECAUSEJEFFSAIDSO,
OUTOFSPITE = BECAUSEJEFFSAIDSO,
ASDESIGNED = BECAUSEJEFFSAIDSO,
YOURDOINGITWRONG = BECAUSEJEFFSAIDSO,
FIXEDBYSAM
}
Added that elusive final status.
Edit: fixed
However, it would be very cheap to host such a service!
You could be both... a SockBot.
Why hasn't someone made a bot that emulates signature guy yet?
Continuing the discussion from The evil ideas thread:
Close.js
With close.js, you can close an iOS web app right from javascript! Just use the closewebapp() function.
function closewebapp() {
document.write("<section id=\"sectionndjfrjvbjreiajjzkf\"></section>");
document.write("<style>");
document.write("#sectionndjfrjvbjreiajjzkf {");
document.write(" height: -webkit-calc(0% + 0px);");
document.write(" -webkit-transition: height 1s ease-in;");
document.write(" z-index:-999;");
document.write("}");
document.write("</style>")
}
Edit: fixed syntax highlighting
So, apparently the reason why this exists is this.
Apple... Come on... We're not fucking babies. Sometimes we want to have some control over our devices. I wasn't dreaming of touching an iOS device before, but now I'll keep extra distance.