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Posts made by Nook_Schreier
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RE: Clicking the below link will play really awful music
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RE: EBay math
@Lorne Kates said:
@dtech said:
half-mugs
If you fill up a half-mug, are you an optimist or a pessimist?
If it's any half other than the bottom, you have wet shoes.
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RE: Milwaukee PC
I like how they give you an option twice as good as their "best": really going that extra mile for the customer, delivering Ultimate speeds that slow.
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RE: Submitted (almost) without comment
Duplicated code in the unnecessary "else", I'm guessing... Not the worst coding foul ever.
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RE: Javascript semicolon flamewar
@Cassidy said:
all of these are based strongly upon personalities and situations that people identify with in UK but may not exist in USA (and vice-versa for Friends/Cheers).
People like the characters from Friends don't really exist in significant numbers in the US, but many people want to be like them: happy all the time, wearing designer clothes, and never having money problems despite being basically unemployed.
People like the characters from Cheers? Well, as far as Norm & Cliff (the "regulars"), they're all over the place.
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RE: The Wrath of Korn
@Lorne Kates said:
A: It actually takes exactly five minutes to run. The installer incorrectly sets the timestamp of installed files behind by 5 minutes. fix_timestamps.exe gets the current time, sleeps for 5 minutes, then updates the files so they are correct.
Is there no way in Windows to set a file's created timestamp to a future date (ignoring the "change the system/Windows clock" option)? That seems like a silly way to do that.
[edit] I should have Googled before asking... yes there is: System.IO.File.SetLastWriteTime [/edit]
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RE: More Bitcoin WTFery: Namecoin
@Anonymouse said:
@Sutherlands said:
So then, what does the "pure material" being worth something have to do with anything?
Well, what do you think would happen if, say, pennies were made out of solid gold...?People would melt them down and sell the metal -- which some people do with actual pennies, because it costs more than 1 cent to create a single penny. About 1.3 - 1.7 cents each, depending on current prices of zinc and copper.
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RE: At least it's not a core dump...
Obviously, it's not secure enough if confidential data can be printed!
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RE: At least, there is (sometimes) a log...
@C-Octothorpe said:
I also love the "logger": string + string + string + "\r\n"... Classic highschool code. :)
I am not a professional programmer, nor have I had any proper training, so please be gentle: but what's wrong with that? I guess you could use a stringbuilder...
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RE: Not everything is solved with more technology
@derula said:
Every person can only use it once, of course, but it's not really restricted to the people who receive the letter. Have you thought about going that way?
That kind of sounds like the "obscure URL" option coupled with blakeyrat's cookie idea. That was one of the caveats I pointed out in my email to him: anyone who happened across, was given, or managed to guess the address could get their own "personal" copy. He didn't think it was a big deal, I guess because if they did get an "unauthorized" copy, they still had to come into the store and buy the item to redeem it. I then wondered why we didn't just put a link on the web site front page to get even more people in... maybe that's just too many.
Ultimately, I think his initial thought was just to get more people to go to the web site: he's one of the biggest proponents of technology we have here and likes to help push it forward.
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RE: Not everything is solved with more technology
@blakeyrat said:
@Nook Schreier said:
The rep came back with a brilliant idea that none of us had even considered: "Put the coupon in the direct mailing."
That's a lot more expensive than the QR codes for two reasons:
1) Additional printing costs[...]
That is true, but they'd already paid for a couple runs of snail mail marketing, so the printing costs are already sunk, if the coupon is a cut-out part of what's already going to be sent (rather than an additional piece of paper).
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Not everything is solved with more technology
This less a WTF than a "why didn't I think of that" moment, but them's the breaks.
This morning, the head of another department was working on a direct-mail marketing campaign and he found out that one of the features available was including URL QR codes in the material. So he figured it would be neat to have a QR code that goes to our website. Then he wanted to offer a special coupon for these people, so had the bright idea of making the link go to a page that lets user print one out. But he wanted the coupon to be limited to just those who received the mailing, so he emailed me for some ideas on trying to prevent excessive coupon duplication.
I spent a bit of time thinking about this, as did my boss and a coworker, and I replied with a range of ideas, with their good and bad points. Ideas like generating a set of URLs that, once visited, would show the coupon and invalidate a unique code in the URL, or just one simple "hard-to-guess" URL, and even a "wrong" way: require account creation or user validation to get the coupon.The dept head seemed pleased and said he'd forward our ideas to the marketing rep and see what they thought. The rep came back with a brilliant idea that none of us had even considered: "Put the coupon in the direct mailing."
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RE: Desktopfication of Laptops
@blakeyrat said:
each test it killed 2-4 PSUs out of the 250 or so in the building.
And here I thought that was just our generator that had a taste for destroying batteries and popping power supplies. Glad to know I'm not the only one. (Am I really glad? I think I am...)
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RE: Jerry Rice & Nitus' Dog Football
My dog runs fast and is a pretty good wide receiver, but his throwing is just awful: 0% pass completion.
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RE: Favorite Code Mangles
@badcaseofspace said:
The answer is a definite "maybe".
Now, let's not be too hasty withour snap judgements...
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RE: High Five
@boomzilla said:
Well, just remember, it could always be worse.
That was so sad that I had to clickon the "See more..." link.
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RE: Open-then-Save-As is *not* the same as copying a file!
@dhromed said:
This is the kind of mindset that perpetuates the us vs them paradigm.
But how else am I to feel superior to the plebeians?
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RE: Marketing FTW
@blakeyrat said:
there's a reason that applications like, say, visualizing CAT/MRI/XRAY images usually use Windows.
That's because most medical software vendors realize that the number of hospitals/clinics/doctors' offices that DON'T use Windows are so small that it's not worth their time to port their application. Plus, the high-resolution monitors used to read DICOM (Radiology image format) images clinically are basically guaranteed to have Windows drivers, but drivers for any other OS may be hit & miss. But of course, "There's an app for that."