Minkovsky
@Minkovsky
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
More WTF-ness:
I need to name two people who will be named as contacts in relation to my application. One of them is living outside the UK, but fortunately there is an option to enter an address outside of it. Their harebrained attempts at validating that info, though...
That's how you enter postcodes in Poland you monkey!
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RE: Website design taken to new levels
I like how he keeps stating that he has "10 years experience". Clearly he must be referring to the 10 years he spent in a room with padded walls.
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The new Polish ID card system.
For very rare occasions, like the first full moon after the equinox, I visit Poland, the country of the election Kalkulator. Today I needed to pick up my new ID card (since I can't do it in, say, the nearest consulate). In the relevant office, I witnessed the new ID card management system. Here are some WTFs:
- The front end is mobile first. That's not necessarily a bad thing unless we are talking about a system that will only be used in local government branches. Which it is (and requires a smart card login so unless some new generation of ID cards will be NFC-enabled, ordinary citizens won't be able to use it). This makes actually getting to the relevant page in the app, like printing out the receipt confirmation, an unnecessarily multi-step process.
- Random session timeouts less than a minute after logging into the app (and app actions not extending the timeout). This may be caused by...
- Random exceptions with stack traces sent to the client - normally the staff using the system won't need them or know what they are. I on the other hand know that the system is using enterprise Java on the back end and runs JBoss 6.
I'm not saying the government wasted their money, because the old system probably ran on Cobol and was even more WTF-licious but having to sit through 2 screens of stack barf and then having to fill out the current date on the form myself even though the form was printed from a web app which I think was more than capable of things like looking it up for me is a waste of our tax zlotys.
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
dragging.
Not if they did something like this (screenshot from Orange Poland's top-up service):
why the flying fuck do people do this i can't even
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
Which to me says "hey this field is stored in plain text". I wonder what else is.
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RE: WTF is up with Ukraine (no, seriously)?
- Stalin planted the trees the rebels hide behind
- This is all part of China's plot to destabilise Russia
Germany, which is de facto the overlord in west Europe, wants to drive USA off the European politics and reinstitute the German-Russian alliance.
You know, I wouldn't exactly be surprised if this were true.
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RE: :fa_eye: The Official Lurkers' Thread™
Hi. I've been lurking both the forums and the site for a while now. Must say it did teach me some things about what not to do when programming.
okay the real reason I've registered is to try Discourse and see how bad it really is before potentially rolling it myself or whether I should suggest it to my company
Latest posts made by Minkovsky
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
right-click|paste
Not in the registration form. Oddly, the login form does not face the same restriction and does in fact let me use Chrome's password manager. Very discoursistent.
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
actually a 30 year university tax
I'm surprisingly fine with that
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RE: Helvetical Fronting
There's a command to export a bash prompt from your current powerline config.
As for Atom, that's not strictly Node. That uses a special shell that seems to work slightly better.
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RE: Helvetical Fronting
powerline
That's depreciated in favour of Airline
Also, try GitHub Atom. Yes it's a single-threaded memory hog, but it works quite well.
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
It works if I put in a space instead of a dash but this is not how you format postcodes around here.
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
More WTF-ness:
I need to name two people who will be named as contacts in relation to my application. One of them is living outside the UK, but fortunately there is an option to enter an address outside of it. Their harebrained attempts at validating that info, though...
That's how you enter postcodes in Poland you monkey!
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
dragging.
Not if they did something like this (screenshot from Orange Poland's top-up service):
why the flying fuck do people do this i can't even
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RE: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
can't get rid of them in bankruptcy
Depending in which country. In the UK, if you're earning below £21k/yr you don't have to pay anything at all. OTOH if you step over that, those payments will automatically kick in as a form of tax. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...