Best posts made by 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
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RE: WTF is up with Ukraine (no, seriously)?
Didn't stop Cleggy from Being Sorry about the tuition fees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDjRZ30SNo
Huh, curious. In the preview, if I leave out the
https://
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RE: Thanks, Discourse, for the mental image
It's Google Inbox, it displays sender names according to some algorithm I can't be bothered to find out for messages it considers 'Low Priority' if the Low Priority 'bundle' is collapsed.
Inbox is actually kinda weird when you think about it.
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RE: This is the last drop /.
This can happen anywhere. Possibly because ad systems still do a shit job of sanitising the ads themselves.
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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
About the entire [a-zA-Z0-9] class, I'd guess; and I didn't dare to try in case something broke horribly. Maybe I should've tried
' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE customers
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RE: WTF is up with Ukraine (no, seriously)?
can feel strong enough to suggest something like that
Or stupid enough. For reference that's the PiS leader. He's still distraught about this whole Katyń thing, is unbanked and a crazy cat person. He was prime minister for a while.
linguists are butt-hurt
They need to be more cunning then.
I'll get my coat
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RE: WTF is up with Ukraine (no, seriously)?
The question is, will any of the main parties want to enter a coalition with UKIP?
I can reasonably see some backbench Conservatives pushing for it.
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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: In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
I curse thee, Average L. User!
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In which @Minkovsky applies for a student loan
Good thing Dischorse now lets you resize the editor, because boy will I need that.
Signing up is "easy"
The signup form only accept National Insurance Numbers* think Social Security Number, but for the UK without spaces but don't tell you about this. Normally, when you get your National Insurance Number it is printed with spaces, of the form
AA 99 99 99 A
, but good luck using that in the form - it truncates everything after 9 characters so if you add in spaces the last99 A
will be thrown out. What the fuck?! If you don't want spaces in there, remove them your own goddamned self! It's like those home-rolled credit card forms! Jeez!Security... what security?
Password rules: minimum 8 characters (yay!) maximum 16 (boo!), and no special characters (so only things that match
\w{8,16}
because I guess the fuckers were lazy). WTF! It's a goddamned student loan application, it better have some good fucking security!As a bonus WTF, the password creation screen somehow inhibit's Chrome's "It looks like you're creating a password" popup which I quite like, and does not permit me to fucking paste in the password if I generate it somewhere else. WHYYYYY. (You can paste the password in when logging in later, so yay discoursistency?)
I thought I was through the security WTFness until I noticed this in my console: (yes I check it sometimes for goodies)
POST https://www.student-finance.service.gov.uk/customer/apply/ft/1516/pages/currentcourseandfees.xhtml net::ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Oops. Looks like their SSL may be shitty anyway so my password may as well have been
0000
.Also, what kind of dumbass secret answer UI is this?!
We're clueless!
Does your course lead to a healthcare profession?
What part of "COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE" screams "healthcare profession" at you? Also they should know this, either from their own goddamned records or from the information the universities sent them.
I selected a course where 'with industry experience' is in the title and the type is 'sandwich' - which means that as part of my course I will be doing about a year's work somewhere in the industry - but then they seemingly forget about this and ask me if I'll be employed during my course.
While writing this, I discovered another bug in Discourse. Try typing in a long post, then scrolling in the editor or the preview. Sometimes, when you scroll to the end, the page behind the editor keeps on scrolling, and you can't go back to scrolling the editor. Or maybe that's just what I get from using Chrome from the future on Linux hardware.
Anyway, there will be more to come...