@Lorne_Kates said:
That's a stupid name for a database
I name my databases "database1", "database2", etc.
@Lorne_Kates said:
That's a stupid name for a database
I name my databases "database1", "database2", etc.
Your apparent inability to understand simple variations in style may well be a symptom of the world's literacy problem.
I can only assume that I'd you saw a headline with the term "oil crisis, " you would somehow assume it meant that there was too much oil..
I quite like 3 spaces. It messes with all sorts of peoples' heads.
My tab stops are set to a sequence of prime numbers.
Sounds to me like clinical depression. This is just the specific way it manifested.
Pretty and shiny sells. Usability apparently doesn't.
Anyone who works in business software sales can tell you this.
Is programming really this hard? Am I some sort of supergenius? My actual experience with PHP can't be more than a couple man-month, but this is a trivial task. I would have to look up the functions online though, which feels like cheating.
Come on guys, with a name like Red Flag News, it must be totally legit...
Got it. I'll just imagine you using your sister's second-hand Macbook (with a bunch of Justin Bieber stickers over it) in your mom's basement.
Who told you about my setup?
It's okay. He'll get the note back from the teller.
If they are so pedantic, why are the even allowed around children?
Filed under: based on a true story
So there are fields that contain multiple, comma separated values? Ingenious.
The main problem I see with this question, is that it assumes that a non-WTF web application is an actual possible thing.
Then how about "Only using addition, subtraction, bitwise, and shift operators".
And this is exactly why I can't work in IT anymore. My boss says "here's the requirements, " I produce code matching those requirements, and he says "what about all these other requirements I didn't tell you about? "
Peel, cut them into fairly thick chunks and shove them in a hot oven with some oil.
You mean I've been shoving them in the wrong place this whole time?
The Nokia phone I used had a central button that sometimes meant CONFIRM and sometimes CANCEL.
Like how the red cancel/end-call button is not only the power off, but also the power on button on feature phones? Because that's much more intuitive than the green go/call button be power on...
I know why the double negative is there. The Microsoft Basic int() function does not truncate, but rather does a floor(), therefore -int(-x) is equivalent to ceil(x). In very old versions, that was the easiest way to do a caring ceiling function.
Filed under: I knew all those years on the C64 would pay off some day.
You would think that you could just tell them that the numbers were wrong and now here are the correct ones, but they have already printed out screen shots which they will present as evidence in court when they sue for underpayment. Then you get pulled away from development so you can testify. Even if the employer wins, the cost of litigation far outweighs the amount of the overpayment.
Filed under: been there, dealt with that.
I don't know why they have to make big campaigns like this, instead of something like a small counter or progress bar on the side that said "Hosting has cost us $15,438 so far this year. We only made $8,300 in donations. Pls gib monies or no more wikipedia for you."
Still less annoying than the campaigns run by public radio and television.
I don't much like themes, so it doesn't affect me in the least.
What percentage of Firefox users even use themes anyway?
Sadly, seeing how many people I've encountered who say "he/she took a 360 turn" to indicate they metaphorically turned around and walked away from a situation, this isn't necessarily the case.
I would hope that the union of those persons and professional programmers would yield a small result set. Not expect, mind you, just hope.
Maybe this well known web site runs on WordPress and he does everything with plugins. There are a while lot of WordPress "developers" who can't write PHP or JavaScript, and barely know HTML and CSS.
Obviously the default date should be January 1st, 4713 BC. After all it's not rocket science (otherwise it would be (November 17, 1858).
I do realize the former may lead to numbers so large that some might consider them astronomical.
So the MFT is a b-tree. That explains why is so easily corrupted.
GetVersion returns (minorVersion << 8)|majorVersion
I doubt that this is the actual implementation. My guess is that in very early versions of Windows, the version was a struct of two bytes: major version and minor version. When this is returned as a WORD the values get reversed because of Intel little-endianess. I can't find any documentation to verify this, however.
PHP handles teh CGIz for you so you don't have to...
Only if you have PHP support built into your Web server. It should be entirely possible to run the CLI version of PHP through a standard CGI interface.
This is possibly the biggest gripe I have with my staff members. How the fuck are we supposed to make better decisions if everybody keeps lying and yea-saying?
If like to live in this mythical land where you can tell your boss that they make bad decisions. In the tell world, that gets you fired.
As much of a super genius as those who can solve those 1 - 3 * 8 + 2 math problems. Yet, even the folks with the most seasoned resumes seem to struggle with it more often than not.
You would think that before the Internet and StackOverview, it would have been harder to get away with this, but even then I saw bbarely functional programmers somehow hang on to their jobs for years.
had to think about it for 10 minutes, so I don't consider that "trivial," simply because I don't use that knowledge anymore.
I would consider any solution that can be written in under an hour to be trivial. Outside of any specialized knowledge, of course, but the number of degrees in a circle should be common knowledge.
There is no such thing as trivial time-related code.
This particular problem is only tangentially time related, in that the hands of an analog clock are a ubiquitous example of an angular system.
For an actual time and/or date problem, I would hope the candidate would ask what language and/or library functions are available. IMO, using existing standardized cider rather than rolling your own, is a clear delineation between a novice and seasoned coffee.
"Well I didn't expect this kind of task. I mean, who would ever store data in this strange format?"
Comma Separated Values is definitely an unusual file type that's rarely used in the real world...
There is nothing about Seaquest DSV that is not terrible. Season 2 is transcends "so bad its good" into "plain awful". Not worth watching even to make fun of.
It was as if someone was watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and said "let's make a show like this, only worse in every way."
I needed a b-tree for something at the project I'm working I would have to implement it, because it have to run in shitty embedded platforms and MS-DOS.
That's where all the Real Programmers work. Everyone else is just a code monkey, regardless of the number of the digits in my salary.
Do they have manuals for the programming language and environment you ate using?
When I started programming there was no Google or Internet, but we still managed to write code.