The "Resource Viewer" default(!) plug in of the otherwise astonishingly sane VB 6 IDE actually loads some resources at startup that way - Which has the very annoying effect that you lose all clipboard content as soon as you fire up the IDE - everything in there gets replaced with some stupid icon...
PSWorx
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RE: Using clipboard for application communication
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RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
@morbiuswilters said:
@Planar said:
Or take a few math courses above elementary-school level...
WTF does that have to do with anything? The math involved is extremely basic arithmetic.
@Planar said:
1-based causes a lot more bugs than 0-based.
[citation needed]
You want to implement a simple XOR-based encryption obfuscation. Or an animation script. Or anything else where you have to continuously loop over your array, depending on a counter.
Which one is more intuitive?
This:
currentValue = array[counter % array.size]
Or this:
currentValue = array[((counter - 1) % array.size) + 1]
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RE: Bumping Threads WTF
@CDarklock said:
@MrsPost said:
This action actually has a name - "Threadomancy"
No, "Necroposting".
While I generally believe that necroposting has its excuses, can you still actually call it "necro" if the dead topic in question is already buried under several layers of limestone? I propose "archeoposting" for such occasions.
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
ITT: A forum RP about posting in a forum RP.
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RE: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
@esoterik said:
I remember comming accross this years ago, its entirely possible that this thing was written back before google took over the search world, and all that was available for search was shitty sites like webcrawler, yahoo, and excite. I am almost certian that the article is over a decade old.
*EDIT* Or at least those particular quotes quoted above are over a decade old. The article linked by the OP seems to be a re-hashing of this by some teacher in san antonio, i.e. this is what the teacher does every year, but now decided to blog about it, and has little to no actuall information in it. I do know this is actually a very common lesson plan among teachers of the lower grades.
The quotes may be, but either the whole tree octopus operation isn't or it became an internet meme without anyone noticing. At least there is apparently new tree octopus merchandise from december 2010.
<edit><ot> Somewhere else on that site there is also this hilarious conspiracy theory spoof involving SpectateSwamp's former employer and... um... Big Foot. Coincidence? I think not! </ot></edit>
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RE: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
@blakeyrat said:
Some things go in 20-year cycles.
For TV shows at least, the reason is quite simple. All the people who watched shows as children in the year t are in the year t+20 just old enough to have children on their own and/or go into the OMG CHILDHOOD MEMORIES phase.
Time will tell if this effect works on internet memes as well, but I find it very likely.
@Weng said:
LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET.
Exhibit A.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@stupidestmanonearth.com said:
"This sure doesn't look good for NetSquares.org. Treating Me like that, is almost like snubbing the [Medicine] Stones. Not a wise move.
Oh yeah I got the same birthdate as [Rolling Stone] Mick Jagger. I'm 5 years less old."
In the context of the original discussion, Pederson was clearly referring to his magic Medicine Stones. However, he abruptly changed the subject to the Rolling Stones, for no apparent reason. Is it possible that Pederson himself forgot what he was talking about?
@stupidestmanonearth.com said:
Further proof of Pederson's propensity for pithy puns can be found on random forums at an internets near you:
"I started working for Capital Cable. They went through a name change to Shaw Cable. Making me a Shawman."
@SpectateSwamp said:
The Tokin stone popped out of a gravel crusher in 1972. Nothing pops out of gravel crushers. The company I was working for changed it's name to Shaw Cable making me a ShawMan. I have the same birth date as the lead singer of the Rolling Stones. And that is just for starters. There is a lot more. Sometimes the spirits choose the MM. The larger one's face remained hidden until it was handed to me. The one on the left came up in the family garden.
Wow. That's two previously meaningless ramblings coming together and actually making a (sad kind of) sense. I feel like I'm in a Shyamalan movie.
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RE: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
[quote user="That tree octopus article"]They are accustomed to typing in the name and adding ‘.com.’ That often doesn’t work for real academic research.[/quote]
It doesn't?
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
I'm not an expert of Wikipedia, but is it normal for trolls to have a whole category dedicated to their sockpuppets?
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RE: The absolute dumbest startup advice ever
I think we have the perfect canidate for them to hire. I find it very unlikely that he has ever touched .NET, he can clearly think outside the box, his build system doesn't use any of those complicated config files, and I'm pretty sure he can cook squirrels over a campfire, too.
Latest posts made by PSWorx
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RE: Here, let me put some Javascript in your Java
@joe.edwards said:
So now we need to see a JVM running inside JS running inside a JVM running inside JS...
See here, then nest to your liking... -
RE: Can SQL (relational databases) do this?
Does any post in this thread have anything to do with it's predecessor?
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RE: Computer science degrees
I do like that paper he (indirectly) linked to.
"So we're confronting a group of 1st year students with an ambiguous piece of code that describes a concept that's known to be hard to understand if no one ever explained to you. It's also known about half of the students already have multiple years of coding experience under their belt (due to hobby projects) while the other half has exactly zero. Then, after a three week programming crash course, we repeat the test an find no improvement. So, do we conclude that the course was shit? Or that people can't gain several years worth of experience in three weeks? Nah, obviously some people must have been born as programmers while others were not!"
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Microsoft
(Actually, this thread should be called "XBox One", but that wouldn't line up so nicely with the Google thread.)
So, after Microsoft presented the XBox One, reception seems to be less than stellar. But aside from all the typical George Orwell style conspiracy theories (as a developer, it's interesting to know that a vast part of today's consumers are apparently physically incapable of turning devices off if they only have a standby switch), there is an interesting patent Microsoft apparently registered last year. What do you think about that?
In other news, I'm thrilled by one of the lesser-known killer features, according to (For up to two apps at the same time) I never thought I'd see the day!
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RE: A quick experiment in dumb (Chrome)
Not that the lastest versions of Windows couldn't do that all by their own, without any help from misbehaving programs. Try to switch back to "classic style" in Vista or anything more recent and be amazed.
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RE: The flow chart
Is it just me, or did the sidebar turn somehow... meta ... in the last month? Or at least more meta than usual.
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RE: Now that we have sufficiently beaten Go into the ground, what about Dart?
@morbiuswilters said:
@alphadogg said:
COBOL has been around even longer than C, is still in widespread use and is in fact being actively developed by IBM. And it sucks even more than C! By your logic, you should guve it a try. You'll love it!@morbiuswilters said:
@alphadogg said:
So, what's your favorite language now?
I don't know that I have one. Maybe C, because it's stuck by the principle of being portable assembly
So, for you, C is the best language out there, but it sucks, and all other established languages also suck, and new languages suck even more?
That sums it up pretty well.
Besides, I didn't say C was the best at everything, I just admire their spirit of "Fuck the fucking programmer". It's like Go, except people use it.
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RE: A quick experiment in dumb (Chrome)
@blakeyrat said:
Could not reproduce on Win7 x64. Also, before I see it, I won't believe that's not just chrome freezing and/or your mouse doing weird things. If you think about it, that bug would need a VERY weird interaction between chrome's custom windowing, aero glass and private data of a listview that belongs to another window of a different process (the desktop).
If that bug really exists, I want to see the code behind this on the front page ASAP.@everyone said:
PONI!!!
I'm still not quite sure how blakey can be a furry hater and a brony at the same time, but that was amusing in any case. Have another one.