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.
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.
actually a 30 year university tax
I'm surprisingly fine with that
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.
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.
It works if I put in a space instead of a dash but this is not how you format postcodes around here.
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!
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
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...
IT support in a hospital is not a medical profession.
Which to me says "hey this field is stored in plain text". I wonder what else is.
I curse thee, Average L. User!
On a computer,
Not everyone will be using this site on a computer - some might be doing this on a tablet. Why would you do that is another WTF entirely but hey, it's a gov site so they should be accessible to everyone.
the interaction is exactly the same as 3 text boxes.
But not everyone knows this. That's why I think it's badly designed.
What I'm trying to get at is that dropdowns are evil and need to die. In most situations that I saw a dropdown, the question could've been framed better as a text field or a radio group.
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
.
One where I have to select the character from a dropdown list. I know I can just focus on it and type it, but many people don't. If they're worried about keyloggers, an on-screen keyboard in JS is not a bad idea either. This should be the fallback in case for some reason the page is viewed with JS disabled.
Good thing Dischorse now lets you resize the editor, because boy will I need that.
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 last 99 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!
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?!
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...
obowiÄ…zek meldunkowy
So far I never saw it go away completely. Someone will require the registration address sooner or later.
For the benefit of the other 90% of the forum, obowiÄ…zek meldunkowy is about having to register your current address with the ID card office, and a remnant of the communism days.
Watch Discourse fuck up your formatting in the quoted post 😒
Citizen's. It may be a rubbish citizenship, but at least it's an EU one.
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:
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.
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://
, it just turns the above into a link. Add the https://
, and it's suddenly a oneboxed video.
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.
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.
I've heard about the plans quite a while back, but it seems nothing came out of it.
Ah, good old FUD then.
Is this the state of Firefox nowadays?
They really let themselves go.
I have just been informed that there may have been a census of (some?) military-aged citizens, ostensibly for non-committal purposes. Before I put my crazy hat on all the way, is that a) actually true, and b) what's the actual purpose of this.
Paging @Gaska and @Maciejasjmj.
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.
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
This can happen anywhere. Possibly because ad systems still do a shit job of sanitising the ads themselves.
Ah yes, I vaguely remember all that apple extravaganza last time I visited.
It's been a long time.
So the way I understand it, some protesters were tragically shot at a peaceful demonstration gone sour, and in the space of a year, Russia has claimed a chunk because apparently that's the only way Old Vlad can express his feelings of solidarity with the Russian-speaking people in Crimea. A small war was had. But then I kinda lost track of it all because too many seemingly different groups kept popping up pointing heavy-duty-gloved fingers at each other and occasionally engaging in a friendly chatter using the hot-as-lead IP over gunfire protocol. Since that, a) allegedly the UK has 'catastrophically misread' the situation which resulted in them doing seemingly nothing (as opposed to having gained clear insights and therefore deciding to do absolutely nothing?), b) the comically-named PiSs party wants to go to war with Russia (because of course), and c) something about apples in Poland and farmers attempting to settle debts with manure in Siberia.
Can someone please tell me what the Belgium is going on ?!
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.
Not particularly, no. Why do you ask?
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