Your entire nation is one great big jail, of course. With random executioners.
Posts made by Matt_Westwood
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RE: Right on target, but fucking stupid
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
I'm completely with Blakeyrat on the subject of suicides. What surprises me is that the suicide rate in the US isn't a lot higher than it is.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Let's not get onto your utterly appalling traffic casualty statistics, of course, which is a WTF in itself.
You don't waltz down to a gang hideout with a camera crew, you go in with the army and heavy artillery. Thought everybody knew that. It's what happened in Waco, it can happen in Omaha, sure as shit. Where's the problem?
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Well you finance it by crippling fines imposed upon the many socially psychopathic perpetrators who believe that they should be allowed to carry on waving their stupid toys around in public without any let or hindrance.
There's guys out there who want to be allowed to open-carry their guns in Mothercare, for goodness sake. There are incidents whereby children take their mother's gun from out of her handbag and shoot her or themselves or someone else with them. This is such an unbelievable WTF that any sane and rational government (and population, FFS) would instantly respond "Allowing people to carry loaded and cocked weapons around as casually as though they were sticks of candy is insane."
But it will never happen. Americans are, as a nation, utterly fucking insane. It's a combination of utter, contemptible personal cowardice combined with a dangerously blatant paranoia, coupled with a complete inability to introspect and say to themselves: "I wonder why we have turned into a laughing-stock? I wonder why the rest of the world regards us this way? I wonder whether there's a grain of truth in what people say about us?"
Ha, ha, ha, fucking ha ha.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Call me a sociopath when your nation of clowns, lunatics and general assorted lowlife barbarians does something about your disgusting attitudes.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Been doing it for years. Just not very often.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
If you guys were serious about stopping this mayhem, you'd ban guns. But no, your sexual fetishes are more important than the lives and safety of your children. Therefore, ha ha ha. Pthwaarp.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Seriously, watching the news from the US is like watching the clowns at the circus.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
I confess, whenever I see one of these ghastly tales of woe caused by somebody in the US acting irresponsibly with a firearm, that my emotional reaction is now merely one of amusement.
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RE: Credit card surcharge -- implement *that*, suckers ...
Would have been a plan that -- but not what the customer asked us to do. The solution we offered was the one suggested by the customer, after we explained the technical problems (i.e. there is no quick and easy method to determine whether a particular card number is for a cc or dc, which we discovered after a bit of research, which we were quite surprised by).
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Credit card surcharge -- implement *that*, suckers ...
So we had a customer whose system we were upgrading to (among other things) implement a new corporate look-and-feel (since that customer had been bought by a corporate small-company-eater).
Among one of the things that they wanted us to implement was a 2% surcharge for customers paying by credit card. Yep, no problem, said the marketing guy / account manager.
So the question then arose: how do you check whether the card number which a customer enters is actually a credit card without actually connecting to that account and checking it explicitly?
We never managed to solve that problem, so what we did was provide a radio on the page: "Credit card" and "Debit card" or something like that. Both buttons led to the same code, but the credit card button added 2% to the price. So, if the user pressed "Debit card" and paid by credit card, there is nothing we could do to stop them.
Yes, that's right, we relied upon the combined honesty and naivety of the customer to press the right buttons.
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RE: I demand free WiFi!
... and if she's worth shit she says, "One moment, sir, while I put you through to the correct department," while picking up the phone and dialling the number of the service department.
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RE: This is why we have super-a r s bound to (insert-random-string)
"Oh Mummy, stop frightening the horses."
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RE: Obamacare: TRWTF
@TheCPUWizard said:
@Matt Westwood said:
TRWTF is that it seems to take an inordinate amount of effort to be able to stay healthy in the US. Isn't there anyone over there who doesn't need medical attention for longer than a month at a time?
I know food over there is desperately unhealthy (there's even sugar in tinned carrots, for fuck's sake) but come on, live without a bag of fucking pills for ten minutes, you wussies."Staying Healthy" may have nothing to do with medical care... Consider that for adults, the median time between medical visits of any type is 3.7 years [based on 2011 data]
Sheesh, that is a heck of a lot. If I go once in three decades I consider myself going through a seriously unhealthy patch.
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RE: Obamacare: TRWTF
@Mason Wheeler said:
TRWTF is the entire situation around the Affordable Care Act.
It was originally thought up by a bunch of Republicans. But because a Democratic establishment was in power by the time the political mood of the country swung to a point where there was an opportunity to pass it, Republicans say they hate it and it's the most horrible thing ever and they'll do anything and everything they can to sabotage it.
It was pushed through Congress and passed into law by a bunch of Democrats, who are now willing to defend it to the death, even though it doesn't actually look anything like actual liberal legislation, (see above, re: originally a Republican idea) just to annoy the Republicans and try to score political points against them.
Meanwhile, while the Republicans are clamoring about killing it because it's major legislation passed by Democrats, and the Democrats are clamoring about implementing it because it's major legislation passed by Democrats, no one is actually talking about the most important issue, which is that it's legislation that solves the wrong problem. The Democrats who are in favor of the whole thing keep pointing out how it's going to/supposed to end up with 40 million less people in the country without health insurance. And sure, if you look at the claim at face value, that sounds beneficial. But if you actually analyze the problem, you quickly start to see it's ridiculous.
We don't need 40 million less uninsured people in this country; we need about 250 million more. When something as fundamental as staying healthy is so expensive that the average person can't afford to take care of it out of his own pocket, that is the problem we should be solving. Insurance does nothing to decrease the underlying costs of health care; it just sweeps the problem under the rug.
Between our completely broken, loophole-ridden patent system that allows pharmaceutical companies to charge monopoly rates for drugs that, in all too many cases, were actually developed using public funding in the first place, and rampant price gouging and fraud on the part of hospitals and health care providers, our health care system is among the least cost-effective in the entire world.
But no one is talking about that. That's TRWTF here.
TRWTF is that it seems to take an inordinate amount of effort to be able to stay healthy in the US. Isn't there anyone over there who doesn't need medical attention for longer than a month at a time?
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RE: Insurance..
@El_Heffe said:
@mikeTheLiar said:
I pointed out that once it crashes into his house, it's no longer a UFO, but just a UO, and those aren't covered.
When my house burned down the insurance company said it wasn't covered. I told them "That's crazy. I'm looking at the policy and it clearly says Fire and Theft". They said "That's right. It covers your house if it is robbed while on fire. You should have gotten the Fire or Theft policy"****This didn't actually happen, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
So I got the "fire or theft" policy, and when my house caught fire, a load of the local toe-rags sneaked in and pinched loads of my stuff. The insurance policy didn't cover this because it only covered one or the other, not both.
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RE: Ant-discrimination laws gone mad?
@spezialpfusch said:
@Matt Westwood said:
for a particular nation in Europe (but non-EU which might narrow it down for the geography majors out there)
Why would you be so secretive about which country it is? Ah, I see: By telling us straight away you might discriminate against that country? Or against other countries which also do stupid things but suffer from you not mentioning them? Just kidding. ;-)@Matt Westwood said:
But apparently, that approach violates the anti-discrimination laws in that nation.
Apparently? Or definitely? And who is the authority claiming that it would be a violation of their anti-discrimination laws? A lawyer? Or did you or somebody in your company actually read the text of these laws? In the original language or in a malformed translation?
And will you really be sued by new-born babies, other children or even teenagers because they can't buy car insurance since you (have to) discriminate against people having their age?
That sounds all very unbelievable...
We're just the contractors. We made the suggestions: can't we make the selector just offer up the years which are valid? The customer told us: no, because etc blah blah. Okay, we replied, we've programmed it so that the user goes to a page saying "you're too young, blah blah." The customer told us, no, you can't do that, because blah blah.
Now we don't know the details of European law from squat, we're not lawyers, but we do know how to keep the customer happy and (importantly) paying us money. If they've misinterpreted the laws, why do we care?
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Ant-discrimination laws gone mad?
So we have an application to write for people to buy car insurance on, for a particular nation in Europe (but non-EU which might narrow it down for the geography majors out there).
As is usual, one of the fields into which the user is to enter data is the date of birth field, of which we have been requested to implement the year of birth (non-optimally, in our expert opinion) as a drop-down.
What we have implemented is a drop-down for years which allows entry of years up to and including the present year. If the date of birth entered is such that it indicates that the user is younger than a particular limiting age, then (as you'd expect) the user is not eligible to purchase insurance.
The obvious solution is to provide a year drop-down that only offers up valid years (e.g. in 2013 to show years only up to a year in the 1990's).
But apparently, that approach violates the anti-discrimination laws in that nation. It is illegal to limit data entry which in some way discriminates against anyone, whatever the basis, including age. Fair enough, we say, so if an invalid age is entered, we direct the user to a page which explains "You can't buy insurance, you're too young."
But no - even that violates the anti-discrimination laws as well. Not only are you not allowed to discriminate against age, but having established that a person is not eligible for a product, it is illegal even to explain why such a condition is in place.
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RE: Safari in Windows - come on, who really bothers?
@stinerman said:
"Although it lacks the sophisticated user interface of Lynx"
I've never heard anyone call the UI of Lynx sophisticated.
Oh, wait. Look at the date of the post. 4/1. Yeah. We've been had.
Although, I believe the last 2 minutes hate on Stallman noted that he reads web pages by having a program wget them and then email to himself. That's certainly doing it wrong.
What was this in response to?
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RE: Safari in Windows - come on, who really bothers?
@dtech said:
@blakeyrat said:
Safari Windows has been discontinued for like 2 years now. Do they really mean ALL browsers? Even discontinued ones? Like Netscape 3?
May 2012, so a little over a year. If your policy is based on market-share it's absolutely right to discontinue support, but if based on time it's a little too soon.
It would be "funny" to get IE4 to run and show your client the broken mess it produces... (right? right? Please tell me you didn't have to make it compatible with IE 6 or lower)Not IE6 or lower, thank goodness, but we're having a challenging time getting it straight for the non-CSS3 browsers that are IE7 and 8.
Never mind ... I'd better get back to it, there's still work to be done ...
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Safari in Windows - come on, who really bothers?
So having been burning the midnight oil getting an app ready for a customer, we have had it fail UAT because it doesn't work in Safari when run on a Windows machine.
What happens is that it spontaneously hangs up, because of some damn-fool bug with its AJAX calls whereby it appears to lose the session ID and thereby goes into alzheimer mode.
We announce this to the customer, who say, "That's no good at all, we advertise all our products as working in all browsers in all machines." And don't we know it - we had to provide a "Pure" presentation because apparently there are troglodytes out there who won't allow javascript to run on their machines. Bloody nightmare.
"But there's a bug in Safari such that it doesn't work reliably in Windows."
"Humph. None of our other applications have this problem. We don't believe you. You sort out the bug in your application, then maybe we can approach the negotiating table again.
It took us the best part of a week bashing away at some of their live web pages in Safari on Windows to demonstrate that yes, their existing sites do exhibit this problem with Safari.
"HAA-ha!" we almost said, but instead offered a compromise: on detection of Safari running on Windows, we force the application into the Pure presentation, which, as it does not run Javascript, will not exhibit those problems with Safari in Windows.
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RE: My text size is bigger than your text size
I'm working on a project which had a clause in the contract up for negotiation that required a 3-sizes-of-font button. We pointed out that (a) the amount they were charging and the timescale they wanted it in were incompatible with this requirement, and (b) had they tried (ctrl)+ and (ctrl)-?
The reply was: "Oh yeah, good point." And the clause was removed.
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RE: The backup plan
Very often the way.
Backup strategy is rarely considered early on in the process. Someone decides they want to see what happened last year. Oh shit, we don't keep data back that far. Okay, so change the code so that we do. How far back? Oh, as far back as it goes. Shit, that's a big ask ... bollocks, I'll just slap a year number on the end. 2 digits will do, by the time the next century comes around I'll probably not be maintaining this crapfile ...
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RE: One of my top 10 WTF days
@SenTree said:
@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
all your earths
Are belong to us?
What do you British people call it if the ground is on, say, the International Space Station? Is it still an "earth?"
Surely "ground" is equally inapplicable on the ISS. However, whether British, Russian, American or anything else, I would have thought one would use whatever term was designated in the ISS Electrical Systems Standards (or whatever), to ensure everyone was on common ground (sorry!).
If it's not Earth, it's not an earth is it? Do wake up.
We electrical & electronic engineers when we were being electrical & electronic engineers used to distinguish between "earth" (which was connected to Earth via usually a hulking great lump of metal) and "chassis" which was just connected to the metal frame of the equipment in question and may or may not have been connected to earth depending on, er, whether it was or not.
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RE: Communication
@blakeyrat said:
@snoofle said:
@PJH said:
@snoofle said:
We have a generic auto-generated-do-not-modify warning, but apparently it's not enough and the suffix is requiredFirst, one of the guys spent two weeks, by himself, without telling anyone, trying to understand why the changes he was making to generated files kept disappearing every time he did a build.
I found one solution to that problem round here - top line of the files reads :
#Auto generated by [in-house] config system - edit at your stupidity
You need to actually tell people why not to edit it, that's the problem.
#Auto generated by [in-house] config system - THIS MEANS IF YOU EDIT THIS FILE YOUR EDITS WILL BE ERASED
Effective communication, man, effective communication!
"I didn't want my edits to be erased, so I deleted the comment at the top of the file. Then I edited the file to put my changes in, and after I'd performed a build, my new changes were erased again! Why, why, WHY?"
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RE: "Possible Contamination" neighborhood
The State of California is contamination.
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RE: OOP fail
Now you're seeing them doing this stuff, you can tell who's written the worst of the shit you've been mopping up after this last couple of months. The question is: do you educate or eradicate?
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RE: SharePoint is just so smooth ...
@bannedfromcoding said:
@dhromed said:
@bannedfromcoding said:
And, don't forget about spatial navigation from keyboard
You mean support for navigatinal LINK tags in the head, that respond to keypresses? Yeah, I guess that's a good feature, and it's unfortunate that pretty much zero sites today use it, even though every is still a hierarchy of pages.
Nonetheless, I don't use opera because of its stupid full-page zoom and lack of customisation components. Text-zoom + Stylish + Greasmonkey pretty much define my base browsing experience, but there are a hundred little details that annoy me about Opera even though obviously it's a perfectly fine browser.
No, I mean the ability to move between active elements, i.e. links, fields, and stuff, using Ctrl+arrows, based on their relative locations. So, if I want to reach item in second CSS column, that's to the right of where I am, I can just Ctrl+Right, instead of holding Tab and waiting till it scrolls down through all the elements in this column, before wrapping to the next one (i.e. following the order stuff's defined in HTML). Tab of course is still available, if you like this mode.
Blakey will eat me, but official name of this is "spatial navigation", and it's quite crucial to me.
What do you want from zoom? Text-only? Well, I find that one sick, as it breaks the page layout as a whole. But if you want to get this effect, write a single line of UserCSS, select it from the list in View menu, and enjoy. Same as with Stylish, I guess, except integrated. Same song for "UserJS" vs "Greasemonkey", "Adblock" vs "urlfilter", and Noscript vs. F12 key and rightclick -> Site Preferences. Btw, have I mentioned you can have separate, per-site, settings about allowed scripts, allowed plugins, blocked ads, and so on? And it's all in the stock version. Firefox is nearly useless without a bunch of plugins.
As of the "100 tabs" thing, well, I often file things to "read later". Some of those linger for months now, I think. Not really proud of it, but hey, it's kind of an accidental load test.
And "dirt cheap" for RAM is still too much for me. I wouldn't be using a 6 year old mainboard and CPU if I could afford parts.
Yes, I'm a fan of Opera. No, I don't expect everyone to "explicitly support" it, but truth is, you need to go out of your way to support Firefox and not support Opera "along". Amusingly, most of the cases is broken agent sniffing, and switching the user-agent string to Firefox or IE (both options available in Site Preferences, per-site) makes the site "magically" work, despite Opera not enabling any compatibility in the rendering engine.
And no, I'm not saying "you should switch". I'm saying "IMO, it's perfectly fine browser, downsides you mention come mostly from being used to things being done the Firefox way, now you would know how it really is, except it's tl;dr". Firefox good for you? Use it!The specific problem with SharePoint is that the drop down menus at top of page (crucial because they contain mgmt /config tools) don't work in Opera. I haven't inspected the source code (life's too short, I have other work to do) so I haven't been able to tell exactly what fnality of Opera this is incompatible with.
Personally I quite like Opera. I switch between it and GC at work, use GC exclusively at home. Tend not to use FF unless I use a couple of specific tools which are better in FF, and I never use IE at all if I can get away with it. Safari sucks golf balls through a hose pipe, and to the East I go not.
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RE: ... In practice, though...
@PSWorx said:
@superjer said:
I find it interesting that we ARE sure enough it won't be reached to go ahead and skip handling or logging the error, but NOT sure enough to just leave out the try-catch altogether.
I feel like that's some negative middle ground.
Like, I can't decide whether to turn left or right at the end of the street, so I'll just drive into the ocean.
There are some valid use-cases for this pattern, at least in java.
Specifically, when checked exceptions meet the Decorator pattern, pointless things like this are often the result.
Suppose you have an interface Foo with a method that can throw the checked exception Bar. Your actual implementing class FooImpl, however, never throws Bar - in fact, it even has it removed from the throws clause, which is legal in java.
Sadly, though, you're not directly working with FooImpl, but with FooDecorator, a decorator that can wrap arbitrary instances of Foo and itself implements Foo, too. That decorator has no idea if its inner Foo instance throws Bar or not, so it has to declare Bar in its throws clause - and you somehow have to catch it, even though FooImpl couldn't even throw it if it wanted to.
If you prefer practice instead of theory (u c my great pun?), replace Foo with InputStream, FooImpl with ByteArrayInputStream and Bar with IOException.+1
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RE: SharePoint is just so smooth ...
@blakeyrat said:
@ASheridan said:
Yeah, because the Ukraine and Kazakhstan aren't countries worth considering are they?
Nope.
Wait, Ukraine has nukes, right? ...hm. Still nope.
@ASheridan said:
Opera was a better browser before other browsers were.
Wow I love fanboys. You know back when I used Mac Classic, around the System 8-era, I'd type speeches very similar to yours. And the funny thing is that they were true: Mac Classic was a better OS than Windows at the time in all of the ways that mattered except, arguably, one. (Linux was a non-entity then.) I mean, when people now, decades later, start saying you gotta learn the CLI so you can script applications, we all just chuckle to ourselves-- we were using super-powerful scripting tools that not only didn't require a CLI, but ran on an OS that literally didn't even have a CLI.
But here's another funny thing: nobody gave a shit. That didn't stop me, of course, because I was (am?) an obnoxious snot. But man, I've love to apologize to pretty much everybody I did that to back then if only I could.
So anyway, Opera? Nobody gives a shit. Also stop being a fanboy, it's obnoxious, and it's sure as fuck not going to increase the number of shits given.
(Oh and here's a bonus pro-tip for free: nobody gives a flying fuck which browser had the feature first. That's a classic Lotus Notes tactic that really, really weakens your position. People aren't selecting a browser in 2003, so it doesn't fucking matter what features Opera had in 2003, so don't waste our time with it.)
@bannedfromcoding said:
And, don't forget about spatial navigation from keyboard
What does "spatial" mean in this context?
Fuck off the lot of yer. Nothing beats the BBC-B.
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RE: SharePoint is just so smooth ...
@serguey123 said:
I'll bang yer heads together the lot of yer.@Matt Westwood said:
@Kyanar said:
@Xyro said:
Doesn't support Opera, though.@dhromed said:
Sounds like you haven't used SharePoint 2010, which supports (first class support even) Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE > 7. In fact, using SharePoint 2010 with IE 6 results in it constantly harassing you to get a real browser. It's less clunky and slow too.
It's clunky x100 and slow and wishes it was Web 2.0 but only works properly in IE. Although it does earn a point for its WebDAV interface.Tell us more.
It's very popular, apparently, and it has been suggested to me by two independent parties that furthering my career may involve learning to work with it.
LMBRPFY(Let me bold the relevant part for you)
It's not so much the quality of the browsers that's important to us so much as the degree of flexibility we are able to offer our customers. It's neither here nor there to me whether Opera is or is not better than whatever shit you prefer, but it does matter when your customer wants your product to be compatible with it.
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RE: SharePoint is just so smooth ...
@Kyanar said:
@Xyro said:
@dhromed said:
Tell us more.
It's very popular, apparently, and it has been suggested to me by two independent parties that furthering my career may involve learning to work with it.
It's clunky x100 and slow and wishes it was Web 2.0 but only works properly in IE. Although it does earn a point for its WebDAV interface.
Sounds like you haven't used SharePoint 2010, which supports (first class support even) Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE > 7. In fact, using SharePoint 2010 with IE 6 results in it constantly harassing you to get a real browser. It's less clunky and slow too.
Doesn't support Opera, though.
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RE: Saved And/Or NotSaved
@PJH said:
@thistooshallpass said:
According to the client's logic, the current model is okay because it can give
What about the unknown unknowns?
him the Saved records, the NotSaved records, and the Saved or NotSaved records.
What about FILE_NOT_FOUND?
Sorry but someone had to say it.
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RE: ... In practice, though...
@Renan said:
Some code I read today:
try {
// ...snip (dozens and dozens of lines doing something)...
} catch (e) {
// in theory, this point can never be reached.
}I felt weird when I noticed that what annoys me about this is not the fact that the exception is bound to happen and that it's going to fail silently (just to break something else down the stack) because of the rather catch - but rather the fact that the comment says 'theory' but that's actually an hypothesis.
Argh, yes. When I've seen stuff like this in the past I've simply add a line something like:
logger.error("In theory, this point can never be reached.", e);
... and quietly checked it back in again with the rest of my changes.
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RE: SharePoint is just so smooth ...
@dhromed said:
Tell us more.
It's very popular, apparently, and it has been suggested to me by two independent parties that furthering my career may involve learning to work with it.
They may well be right. It's certainly one of those tools that facility with it indicates a serious ability to wrestle the sotftware equivalent of Grendel's mother into submission.
We have a client who requires that the service they buy off us is integrated into ScarePoint, so CTO canvasses all his staff for any experience in it. Myself and one other have encountered it before, so we have bravely volunteered to ascertain the feasibility, and having done so, propose an architectural design for it.
The problem I have is that it's so big, and there are so many features, that finding out the information that a technical architect needs is a larger job than "just googling". What's more, the real technical detail is contained in manuals that you have to pay for. So not only are you paying lots of money for the tool itself, you also need to pay through the nose for the knowhow to use it. Very much on a par with Micturatorsoft's business model. Shrug. At least we haven't bought into it ourselves.
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SharePoint is just so smooth ...
Reformatted for convenience:
Technology: Administration
Platform: WSSv3; MOSS 2007
Highlight: No
Author: ***** (Censored to protect the innocent)
URLStatus:
Month: (1) - January
Year: 2,007
Well hell, that date formatting is damn tricky to get right ...
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RE: Getting security almost right
@da Doctah said:
@Matt Westwood said:
Check this one out - it's a riot: http://oeis.org/A002487
I don't really get why it's a riot, but I've run across the site before. I'm the original author of the list at http://oeis.org/A133377 though it shows someone else as the author; they rejected it when I submitted it earlier because it wasn't an infinite series.
Email him about it - he's a reasonable enough guy. As for its index, is that a lleeet number or what?
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RE: Getting security almost right
@Kuba said:
@RHuckster said:
I, personally, use a very specific pattern to answer my security questions to thwart any possible attack. I won't divulge you with details, but I will tell you that my answers are never one-liners and require good mind-reading (or I suppose a keylogger) to successfully get into my account. There's simply no way to figure them out simply by knowing me personally or reading my Facebook page.
What, initial few numbers from some juicy selections from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? ;)mod: fixed yo link -dh
Hey, cool link. I met the guy behind that website (over a video link, but that counts, dunnit?)
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RE: Solitaire
@Lorne Kates said:
@derula said:
@The_Assimilator said:
@QJo said:
The real WTF is playing Solitaire in a virtual machine.
FTFY
Nah, a real WTF would have been if he'd been trying to run KPatience (KDE's clone of Solitair & Co.) on his Windows inside the VM.
No, the real WTF would be if he ran Linux on a virtual machine on his Windows machine, and used Linux's text-based webbrowser Lynx to access an online Solitaire site.
Wonder how it would work in the Android Emulator that comes in the Android SDK configured for the PhoneGap plugin for Eclipse? That would wow 'em ...
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RE: You're now in charge of the schedule - but don't change it!
@frits said:
@bjolling said:
@Matt Westwood said:
If you Frisia this thread, it will be a Laos for all.@RTapeLoadingError said:
Will get right on it after I finish my Belgian waffle. I'm feeling absolutely Flemished
Indeed. We need to attack this thread with new zeal, and then we can fiji some decent material. Hawaii, by the way?@frits said:
@C-Octothorpe said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
@Matt Westwood said:
@DescentJS said:
@joe.edwards said:
@frits said:
@UrzaMTG said:
@dohpaz42 said:
Is this pun war Finnish, or Canada another one?@flop said:
Iran from this thread, and hid under my Afghanistan. It Congo suck a Cuba salt.@Zemm said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
Vatican say, everybody here should get summarily executed.@flop said:
We stand united. State this to your friend!@dhromed said:
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I'm outta here. Abyssinia!@boomzilla said:
Norway I'll tell somebody about this whole mess...@flop said:
I think this thread just got Britain in the ass.@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
Yeah, like a Brazilian of them. If Uraguay who doesn't like this sort stuff, you should just not be Reading.@boomzilla said:
Bhutan-other thread started the same way! Bahrain, on some other parade.@pjt33 said:
France, this is getting out of control.@RTapeLoadingError said:
You just gotta Prussia right button.@Zemm said:
Guinea a moment to work out how to do that.@Mason Wheeler said:
Denmark this thread and ignore it@blakeyrat said:
Oman, I hate these puns.@El_Heffe said:
Trying to figure out exactly what that means. Near as I can tell, you said something and Blakey doesn't Bolivia.@RTapeLoadingError said:
Bangladesh!@DaveK said:
But don't go Russian into something too quickly.@havokk said:
You need to be Hungary for new challenges.@dohpaz42 said:
Polish up your CV. Then Czech out!This definitely reeks of a no-win situation.
Agreed. Polish up your CV and work on your networking.It's really not that Spain-full.
Oy. Someone already mentioned Britain, you Turkey. I don't know what's gotten India all.
Belize show some sensitivity with respect to all the African-American people had to Andorra.
I'm starting a petition to have this thread locked. Signatures so far are us, Becky, Stan and Georgia.
Don't listen to him, he always Wales like that.
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RE: Solitaire
@Lorne Kates said:
@QJo said:
The real WTF is playing Solitaire on your PC. Aren't there enough sites online which offer you a better solitaire experience?
Are you saying I need an always-on Internet connection to play the single-player version of a game? Why? So I can be an infoslave to THE MAN?
What, you haven't got an always-on internet connection? What sort of a luddite anti-technological societal parasite are you?!?!? -
RE: You're now in charge of the schedule - but don't change it!
@RTapeLoadingError said:
Indeed. We need to attack this thread with new zeal, and then we can fiji some decent material. Hawaii, by the way?@frits said:
@C-Octothorpe said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
WASSUP MY NIGER!!!@Matt Westwood said:
@DescentJS said:
@joe.edwards said:
@frits said:
@UrzaMTG said:
@dohpaz42 said:
Is this pun war Finnish, or Canada another one?@flop said:
Iran from this thread, and hid under my Afghanistan. It Congo suck a Cuba salt.@Zemm said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
Vatican say, everybody here should get summarily executed.@flop said:
We stand united. State this to your friend!@dhromed said:
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I'm outta here. Abyssinia!@boomzilla said:
Norway I'll tell somebody about this whole mess...@flop said:
I think this thread just got Britain in the ass.@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
Yeah, like a Brazilian of them. If Uraguay who doesn't like this sort stuff, you should just not be Reading.@boomzilla said:
Bhutan-other thread started the same way! Bahrain, on some other parade.@pjt33 said:
France, this is getting out of control.@RTapeLoadingError said:
You just gotta Prussia right button.@Zemm said:
Guinea a moment to work out how to do that.@Mason Wheeler said:
Denmark this thread and ignore it@blakeyrat said:
Oman, I hate these puns.@El_Heffe said:
Trying to figure out exactly what that means. Near as I can tell, you said something and Blakey doesn't Bolivia.@RTapeLoadingError said:
Bangladesh!@DaveK said:
But don't go Russian into something too quickly.@havokk said:
You need to be Hungary for new challenges.@dohpaz42 said:
Polish up your CV. Then Czech out!This definitely reeks of a no-win situation.
Agreed. Polish up your CV and work on your networking.It's really not that Spain-full.
Oy. Someone already mentioned Britain, you Turkey. I don't know what's gotten India all.
Belize show some sensitivity with respect to all the African-American people had to Andorra.
I'm starting a petition to have this thread locked. Signatures so far are us, Becky, Stan and Georgia.
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RE: You're now in charge of the schedule - but don't change it!
@RTapeLoadingError said:
Indeed. We need to attack this thread with new zeal, and then we can fiji some decent material. Hawaii, by the way?@frits said:
@C-Octothorpe said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
WASSUP MY NIGER!!!@Matt Westwood said:
@DescentJS said:
@joe.edwards said:
@frits said:
@UrzaMTG said:
@dohpaz42 said:
Is this pun war Finnish, or Canada another one?@flop said:
Iran from this thread, and hid under my Afghanistan. It Congo suck a Cuba salt.@Zemm said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
Vatican say, everybody here should get summarily executed.@flop said:
We stand united. State this to your friend!@dhromed said:
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I'm outta here. Abyssinia!@boomzilla said:
Norway I'll tell somebody about this whole mess...@flop said:
I think this thread just got Britain in the ass.@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
Yeah, like a Brazilian of them. If Uraguay who doesn't like this sort stuff, you should just not be Reading.@boomzilla said:
Bhutan-other thread started the same way! Bahrain, on some other parade.@pjt33 said:
France, this is getting out of control.@RTapeLoadingError said:
You just gotta Prussia right button.@Zemm said:
Guinea a moment to work out how to do that.@Mason Wheeler said:
Denmark this thread and ignore it@blakeyrat said:
Oman, I hate these puns.@El_Heffe said:
Trying to figure out exactly what that means. Near as I can tell, you said something and Blakey doesn't Bolivia.@RTapeLoadingError said:
Bangladesh!@DaveK said:
But don't go Russian into something too quickly.@havokk said:
You need to be Hungary for new challenges.@dohpaz42 said:
Polish up your CV. Then Czech out!This definitely reeks of a no-win situation.
Agreed. Polish up your CV and work on your networking.It's really not that Spain-full.
Oy. Someone already mentioned Britain, you Turkey. I don't know what's gotten India all.
Belize show some sensitivity with respect to all the African-American people had to Andorra.
I'm starting a petition to have this thread locked. Signatures so far are us, Becky, Stan and Georgia.
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RE: You're now in charge of the schedule - but don't change it!
@DescentJS said:
@joe.edwards said:
@frits said:
@UrzaMTG said:
@dohpaz42 said:
Is this pun war Finnish, or Canada another one?@flop said:
Iran from this thread, and hid under my Afghanistan. It Congo suck a Cuba salt.
You guys are Jamaica me laugh my Asia off!@Zemm said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
Vatican say, everybody here should get summarily executed.@flop said:
We stand united. State this to your friend!@dhromed said:
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I'm outta here. Abyssinia!@boomzilla said:
Norway I'll tell somebody about this whole mess...@flop said:
I think this thread just got Britain in the ass.@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
Yeah, like a Brazilian of them. If Uraguay who doesn't like this sort stuff, you should just not be Reading.@boomzilla said:
Bhutan-other thread started the same way! Bahrain, on some other parade.@pjt33 said:
France, this is getting out of control.@RTapeLoadingError said:
You just gotta Prussia right button.@Zemm said:
Guinea a moment to work out how to do that.@Mason Wheeler said:
Denmark this thread and ignore it@blakeyrat said:
Oman, I hate these puns.@El_Heffe said:
Trying to figure out exactly what that means. Near as I can tell, you said something and Blakey doesn't Bolivia.@RTapeLoadingError said:
Bangladesh!@DaveK said:
But don't go Russian into something too quickly.@havokk said:
You need to be Hungary for new challenges.@dohpaz42 said:
Polish up your CV. Then Czech out!This definitely reeks of a no-win situation.
Agreed. Polish up your CV and work on your networking.
Everybody just Chile out, Italy too many puns in this thread.It's really not that Spain-full.
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RE: Android SDK - first impression
PEBKAC. Works perfectly (except somewhat slowly) on my 64-bit machine.
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RE: Maine's database software incapable of analyzing how much Maine's gas stations are ripping off customers
Well-known mafia-run scam that local government are in on. Investigators have been rubbed out so as to keep the scam going.
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RE: You're now in charge of the schedule - but don't change it!
You're bound to find bugs. Although you've been given only 2.5 weeks to QA the whole shebang, when it does take 3 months you need just to say, "We would have got it done in 2.5 weeks if only those useless programmers had got off their fat behinds and a) coded it properly in the first place, and b) fixed the damn things when we found them - but no ..."
Oh, and polish up that CV. -
RE: Pre-employment drug screening.
@dhromed said:
@DaveK said:
@FrostCat said:
@dhromed said:
If you go down to the lab today you're sure of a big surprise.What if your bladder isn't brimmin'?
Then you don't go down to the lab right then.
Coz ev'ry bladder that ever there was will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the programmers get their piss nicked.
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RE: Pre-employment drug screening.
@Weng said:
@pnieuwkamp said:
@Weng said:
The DOT drug test (which is required to hold a CDL) means a dude has to watch you pee in the cup. Like literally watch your penis.and they even made sure I didn't have a CDL and that I didn't want a DOT test done at the same time
Google to the rescue, but what do a commercial drivers license and the Department of Transportation have to do with your drug test?
Since we're supposed now to quote from artistic works in order to back up our arguments, I'll point you towards Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.