Oh man, VMWare's free server setup is a gargantuan series of WTFs. The web interface simply doesn't work. The good (bad?) news is that since they're phasing out support, we're all moving to VirtualBox, which seems like a far superior setup, what with cloning VMs and such - the only issue is that it's harder to run a VM server (or maybe just more annoying) because the VMs don't start up when the server does.
Posts made by Power_Troll
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RE: Fix your virtualization with more virtualization!
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RE: Government mandated software
@FrostCat said:
Looks like WIndows 7. Install XP mode. Install program in XP Mode.
Jesus christ. I'm setting the over/under on # of posts under mine before we see "try to reboot your computer" at 8. I know 90% of you guys are stuck at dead end help desk shit shoveling jobs, but let's at least try here.
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RE: You'll Like The Way You Look - Our website, on the other hand...
@Weng said:
@Justice said:
Nah, it has more to do with the Fat Dude Tax, what looks like $1/minute+ tailoring charges, and being convinced to buy higher end because there's a chance I might have to wear this shit every working day for the next several years (and $900 amortized over 300 uses/year for a couple of years is pure piffle)
Furthermore, how the fuck did I walk in intending to spend about $400 and walk out having spent $900? I'm apparently a sucker for cute saleschicks."...but I think you'd look REALLY sharp in the one that costs twice as much."
You work 300 days a year? Sucks breh.
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RE: .Net Open Source Libraries
Yeah, it's weird dude. I think there's a real urge to use the "latest and 'greatest'" even though it might not even make sense. For example, we had this one younger guy who couldn't build one of our projects that every other new person on the team was able to build and run just fine with the given instructions. After wasting time and money, errr figuring out what the problem was, it turned out that he was trying to get the project to work with java 7, which had just come out. He then suggested to the team that we first upconvert to jdk7 because, and I'm paraphrasing here, "we don't want to fall behind the current jdk release." I'm sure there's some decent stuff in jdk7, but it doesn't have closures, and whatever features it does have certainly aren't worth the hassle of upgrading our shit. But it seems like he was ready to just furiously jerk off and use jdk7 because it was new, and therefore had to be better. Or something.
I definitely disagree that open source shit has to maintain some level of professionalism no matter what. It's a little different if they advertise it to be worthwhile, as is the case with the OP; in that case, yeah, I guess there's some responsibility to the end user. But I've known many a dude who have just uploaded their shit to give other people the opportunity to try it, and then a few dudes stumbled upon it and decided the developer should take the project in the direction that the crowd wanted it to go. Well, that's simply dumb as hell. -
RE: ConvertStringToDate: the case of redundant parsing
@blakeyrat said:
@Power Troll said:
Umm, the code that was posted isn't C#.
- It visually parses as C#. I thought it was C# as well. Don't we have a rule yet than posters must mention the language the code sample's in?
2) If it's Java, or whatever, then why the fuck doesn't Java have an equivalent to ParseExact()? ... also why the hell does anybody use Java for anything ever?
Edit: OH SHIT did I just get trolled by PowerTroll? I hang my head in shame.
Actually, you know, you're right - it uses that shitty C style where the leading brace comes underneath the method signature, try, catch, etc. So, I can see how that confused you. Besides, I've never trolled on this forum before, so you're golden.
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RE: Car Salesman
Just curious, why were you in the market for a new car, instead of say a 3ish year old car (when the performance/value ratio is typically the highest)?
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RE: ConvertStringToDate: the case of redundant parsing
@Lorne Kates said:
You can just ask him if he knows about DateTime.ParseExact. It could be that he truly doesn't know about it. Just tell him you came across this function while doing some SVN work, and you just wanted to share a tip with him that can save him time and make his life easier in the future. You're not attacking the code, or even saying it's wrong-- just that there's an easier, though maybe not well known way, of doing it. Offer to show him the syntax if he checks out the code (on his workstation, with his hands on the keyboard)
In the end you come off as helpful. You don't have to worry about territorial bullcrap, because he gets to make the change to his code with his SVN account, and has the option not to do it at all. If he does, great, everyone's a winner. If not, you can file that away, give him a point in the "incompetent" column, and tread lightly around anything he checks in.
If you need a CYA, when you offer to show him the syntax, send him an email with "I saw line xxx in SVN, you might want to try DateTime.ParseExact(string, string) instead-- save some time". That way if there is some higher-up code review, no one can blame you for not trying.
Umm, the code that was posted isn't C#.
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RE: Fixed dialog sizes
@MrMartijn said:
yeah but why not a back button in the button space (the gray bar) like all sane software does.
and why can linux make every single piece of hardware work with a 8mb kernel image, but windows still needs downloads and disks...Hahaha, jesus christ dude - comedy gold.
"Dude, trolling requires subtlety." - someone on this forum (sorry, forgot)
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RE: Office Bullshit
My bad, I should have said project manager, not primary investigator.
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RE: Office Bullshit
@boomzilla said:
@Power Troll said:
Siding with blakeyrat here, even though I think he's a management type (just a guess, but w/e).
I don't think so, but heaven help his underlings if it ever happens.I dunno, but he's definitely not purely technical. He's got the foresight and common sense that technical people lack when it comes to some things like this. Maybe some sort of entry-level position, or a PI, etc.
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RE: Office Bullshit
Siding with blakeyrat here, even though I think he's a management type (just a guess, but w/e). You guys are pretty much huge nerds wrt the fake pics and stuff. It's pretty b-team although by no means unexpected.
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RE: Productivity Meetings
@hoodaticus said:
@Rhywden said:
@snoofle said:
Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, administer.
Sorry, but I'll have to slap you for the second part of that saying. It's the single most moronic statement ever. It's one of the reasons, why we have a massive lack of teachers (be they good or bad) - who actually wants to take that abuse by zero-clue people who think they know all about teaching just because they've been pupils once?
It's not moronic at all. Teachers are glorified baby sitters. Nothing will change my mind on this until Detroit's literacy rate exceeds at least 60%.
Bro, are you being serious right now? The problem with schools in Detroit is that the public unions are plowing the fuck out of them. For example, a philanthropist wanted to donate $200mil to Detroit schools, but that was rejected by the union; see here. Additionally, Teach for America personnel were not allowed to teach in Detroit for a period of about 5 years, because of the union. So what you're really looking to say here is that public unions are complete and utter shit whose entire existence depends on doing the least amount of work for the most amount of money, and that's something we all agree with.
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RE: CheckStyle code review.
@TheCPUWizard said:
@Helix said:
A DEV who is BLIND... sorry since when did anyone employ a developer who cannot read directly his own code.................. who ever suggested employing this guy should be awarded the "This is a stupid suggestion but we may get a 'fair employer' suggestion" award
He does "read directly his own code", just uses a screen reader (audible into headsets). He is the lead developer for a major (fortune 100 company) and if he ever became available I would not hesitate to hire him [if I could afford him] or give him the best recommendation possible.
On the topic of screen readers, if anyone is developing an application for distribution [including within a corporate environment] then this should be part of normal testing. I was contacted by one company last year who was facing bankrupcy becuase their flagship product failed ADA [Americans with Disabilities] testing, and was being forced out of use at thousands of client sites. I looked at "updating" the application, but it was way too far away from what is necessary, so they lost the sales, faced a lawsuit, laid off 80%+ of their staff. They will probably be totall gone within months, and this was a multi- $100M/yr company who simply didnt consider that not all people use displayes, keybords, mice...
That's weird. Can he use debuggers? I mean, I'm not trying to be an asshole, but there's a lot of information in the call stack, locals, etc. that would be really hard to understand without vision.
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RE: What is the point of flushing BEFORE I use it?
Wow, two incredible WTFs in one post - first, that urinals were flushed on a "timed basis" (presumably without user control) periodically during business hours, and second, that multiple urinals flush when someone walks up to one. Good stuff, dude.
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RE: Fun with touchscreen terminals
@Xyro said:
@tOmcOlins said:
What do they do with the soap?
Ignore it and use REST architecture like any sane human being.Well done. Thread's over, go home fellas.
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RE: CheckStyle code review.
I swear, you guys who post this kind of stuff have the shittiest programming jobs on earth. But at least it's entertaining on my end.
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RE: Git vs. SVN and what NOT to do...
@blakeyrat said:
If my mom can't figure out how to use Git to track revisions of her church bulletins in an hour or less, it's a bad product.
Uh, no. If your mom can't figure out how to do that in less than 10 minutes with Git she's probably got some serious dementia issues and/or Parkinson's (trouble hitting the correct keys). I know you're trolling, but my goodness, let's at least try to make some progress here.
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RE: Favorite Code Mangles
@blakeyrat said:
Zelmak sounds like a bad Doctor Who villain.
He probably posted that before looking at the code base, and now he's like "oh shit I can't back that up!" frantically trying to find WTFs.
Agreed. He's probably one of those hipster, Gentoo-linux, Ruby-on-Rails posers who just got a job as a legitimate programmer, thought it would be angsty/counterculture/cool to post shit on TDWTF side bar forums, but now realizes how terrible he is at coding as he's crawling through the repository.
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RE: WinSCP and the Adventure of the Retarded Error Dialog
@Weng said:
@Power Troll said:
Windows explorer still can't do FTP file transfers?
We've been over this - it can. WinSCP isn't for that.Jesus fucking christ.
Oh, my bad. I just figured WinSCP was an FTP client.
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RE: WinSCP and the Adventure of the Retarded Error Dialog
Windows explorer still can't do FTP file transfers?
Jesus fucking christ.
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RE: The Mother Monster Matrix
You frequent ilovephilosophy.com? Guess that's TRWTF here.
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RE: I've touched information_schema in its naughty place
If it's not MongoDB, it's the wrongo DB.
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RE: Teaching C++ WTF.
Someone else may have nailed this, but I couldn't be fucked to finish reading the entire thread when I saw herpius derpius like the following:
@Heron said:
Of course, I haven't even mentioned the economic disaster you two seem intent on creating. Hint: there's a reason economies flourish when people are allowed to specialize. Go take Econ 101 at your local college. There is absolutely nothing wrong with ensuring that people who specialize in a field aren't going to do more harm than good.
Are you completely and utterly retarded? Apparently you haven't followed your own advice and taken Econ 101 at your local college. Specialization emerges naturally in economies because sometimes people figure out that they're better at making a particular type of instrument, say ink, than they are at making a pen and ink set. The cool thing is that nobody gives a shit whether or not their ink sucks - if it does, and there's an alternative, people just don't buy it. That's a result of a market. Similarly, if an influx of ultra-shitty programmers showed up and produced a bunch of garbage tomorrow, you wouldn't have to worry, because nobody would care about their trash (unless you're a scrub yourself?...). Again, that's something you'd learn in Econ 101.
When people specialize and are relied upon for important shit, like health care, it's nice to have some entity like the government make sure people know what they're doing. In fact, some liberatarians purists would argue that even that's not necessary, and that eventually the people who don't get well/die would drive the market to avoid those particular health care providers. But that's pretty ridiculous, and developing computer software is definitely not on that level, unless you're doing some nuclear power plant automation or something (food for thought: most appropriate language for nuclear power plant automation?) Anyway, it would hardly be an "economic disaster" if programming was easier for lay persons (unless you're worried because you're a no-talent asshole, of course). Let me give you an example.
Suppose I'm a social scientist who is interested in how people express their sentiment towards others through social media. Since you don't have any imagination/creativity at all, the next part might be hard, but bear with me. Suppose I had a hypothesis/an idea (!) that I could create a list of "positive" and "negative" words, look at all the posts on a particular person's social media page (like Facebook wall posts), and somehow infer the sentiment towards that person in someone's comment based on the counts of positive and negative words. Obviously this idea is not very useful - for example, sarcasm might have a lot of positive words, people use emoticons, etc. - but this is an example for example's sake. Unfortunately, since I'm a social scientist, I don't have a lot of training in computer programming - perhaps I've only done some scripting here and there. So, as a researcher, how can I leverage machines to help me with my research?
Now I'm sure you're furiously scouring Google for some Facebook API implemented in C# that automatically writes to an SQL Server Express instance or some bullshit. Maybe there's already a library that does the entire shebang for you. But see, you've already lost the game - you're thinking like a programmer who has been assigned some task. I'm sure you would assert something like, "boy, this is so easy to set up, I just need to open VS2010, create a Windows service, add this .dll to my project, throw up a timer or two, generate a simple DB schema, hit up LINQ2SQL, and bam, I'm all finished!! Anyone who can't do this is dumb!!" Or maybe you'd rather do it in C++ or Python or whatever else. The bottom line is that in order to accomplish his goal, the social scientist needs to wade through a ton of shit that isn't his speciality. This is not efficient and hinders science's progress.
Now, a particularly resolute social scientist may realize that this might all benefit him in the future and learn it all on his own. And I can guarantee you that his first working version would be a steaming pile of complete and utter shit that would break the record # of comments for a front page story if it were posted here, especially if it used PHP, VB, Oracle, Perl, or some combination thereof. But the beauty is that it doesn't matter at all as long as he gets his data and can investigate his hypotheses. I don't see why this bugs you, to be honest. Alternatively, he could ask his computer science colleague to ask his graduate student to write something like this. Or, he could hire a professional. But in any event, we're not really talking about a mission critical system here, so the "quality of code" means nothing, IMO anyway. The stuff probably won't see a home outside of his own rig. The worst outcome would be if he just gave up altogether, and didn't investigate his idea due to the technological hurdle that exists in getting his idea from his brain into the computer. Then not only does science lose, but society potentially loses on an idea that could have significant impact.
Unfortunately this happens all of the time with "lay people", who have brilliant ideas all of the time despite a lack of degree and/or technical training. Think about a dance teacher who wants to document all her knowledge on a Wikipedia-type site for her students to use and other instructors to contribute to/correct. Or, think of the two guys kicking back brewskis, discussing how they could leverage the massive amount of data created and recorded in a baseball game in order to predict which statistics are meaningful, and which aren't. Bottom line is, if we could just leverage more brains in society, we'd make a shit ton of more progress in every part of society, even if the people don't have any technical training at all. An important step in that direction would be making it easier for anyone to generate a computer program that investigates what they're curious about, or helps them investigate it themselves. And despite all of that, there'd probably be some weird place interested in C++ developers, so don't trip about your job.
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RE: Oh how we laughed in those golden days, before ...
What the hell? You mean that, in your opinion, when an individual asks for a BLT, it should be made with only bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes unless the person ordering states otherwise? Do you get all pissed off when people make "lasagna" that is anything but pasta? Fuck it, maybe I just got trolled.
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RE: Mozilla have lost their mind - Part 2
This thread has some of the funniest material I've seen on this site. A++ to all trolls, errrr parties involved
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RE: Bumblebee
Wow, you seem really upset. It's almost like something similar to this has happened to you before.
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RE: Password change frequency
@snoofle said:
This place is undergoing the changeover from wild-and-free-startup-3-years-in to established-corporation-with-procedures-for-everything.
I just this minute received email regarding a conversation amongst C-level executives, the head of the DBAs and the head of security, regarding password complexity and expiration periods.
The complexity rules are standard fare, so I won't bore you with them.
The expiration debate ranged from 3-months-is-too-long; to so-is-two-months; so ok-let's-make-them-expire-monthly.
So now our PC, linux (they don't use YP so each box has to be set independently), source control, etc all need to be a) different, b) changed monthly, with no repeats for 2 years.
*headdesk*
Easy. Here's your algorithm:
password for pc month one
password for vc month three
etc.
Why people don't use spaces and words in passwords is beyond me. It's like they think a space character ruins 'teh integritee' of the password or something when in reality it just makes for an virtually impossible dictionary attack. It's really weird. Well, that and some services don't allow them, I guess...
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RE: Microsoft Virtual PC...
@TheCPUWizard said:
You would love working in environments where I get to spec the developer's laptops. Standard configuration: i7 processor, 8 [for juniors, and "line" developers]or 16 GB [for seniors, leads, architects], 256GB SSD, 500GB SATA (both internal).
Also, EVERYTHING is run inside of Hyper-V VM's - and there are NO performance issues.
Makes sense. Less experienced developers tend to use about half as much RAM as their senior counterparts.
Also, this forum software is horribad.
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RE: How to apply a sticker
What sucks is if you've had the same car/plates for a few years, your "sticker stack" gets really big. So that when you apply the next one, if it's not really aligned, it looks totally dumb and retarded.
But yeah, the DMV undermines democracy more every day.
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RE: This explains a lot about labview (Lotus Notes strikes again)
I know, guys, I know... I was just trying to be funny, you know? By seeing the first blob of text and saying "wow, that's a big WTF" then by saying "what's the picture for" I thought that... ah well.
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RE: This explains a lot about labview (Lotus Notes strikes again)
Haha, yeah, that's a pretty big WTF. What's the picture for though?
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RE: How many languages you know?
West coast is the best coast. LanKASTER. One love.
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RE: Today's nominee for "Way too much free time"
An oldie, but the undefeated champion still reigns supreme.
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RE: Text-Only CAPTCHA
TRWTF is that on that web site, the link to page 2 is index_ss2.html, but the link to page 3 is index_ss1.html. Of course, page 1 is index.html
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RE: Someone forgot to publish and insert map.
What an odd video you have on your bookmarks bar.
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RE: NIST is really, really hip
Thanks for the replies, but the deliverable requirement is specifically for FIPS. The data might be the same, but whatever - I've already finished writing a parser. I don't make the rules, I just play by them. But yeah, the problem is do-able - that's not the issue, really. The issue is that this data is in an absolutely terrible format for doing anything programmatically despite coming from a "look ahead" organization.
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NIST is really, really hip
Okay, so I'm trying to find some acronym soup known as FIPS codes from NIST.
Now, if you know anything about (The) National Institute of Standards and Technology, you'd figure they'd spend at least some of their $862mil FY2010 budget to make this data programmatically accessible. I mean, it's their goal to advance "measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life" after all.
So how do you think that this data would be made accessible? Perhaps it exists as an XML file with a decade old, over-engineered schema? Would it be in a MySQL, or, perhaps more enterprisey, an MS Access database? Or... does it live in an Excel spreadsheet?
Okay. Well, the worst thing that could possibly happen is that there will be some need to scrape some HTML elements. Don't trip.
Getting googly leads us here: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip6-4.htm
Okay, so far it's just a plain old site. However, we see our first red flag at the bottom of the page:
Last modified: May 10, 2002
Well, whatever. Surely they had Excel back then! Let's continue to "teh codez": http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/co-codes/states.htm
Oh... oh god. This looks like it's out of some hellish 1990s "web development" craze. Looking at the source confirms this: it still uses the <center> element, deprecated in 1777. But whatever, we're just going to access this data via C# so we don't really need to do anything with the site, just get the link to "all the states and US territories in ASCII format *without* HTML tags" - wait, what?
...why is this a text file? Why is there no consistent column numbering? Why are there comments associated with tildes and hyphens?
Why hasn't this been updated since nineteen fucking ninety?!?!