@djhic said:
I would rather spend my time trolling for bass on a lake than on a forum about stuff I do all day every day.
But would you rather create a new thread in order to reply to an existing thread or fish?
@djhic said:
I would rather spend my time trolling for bass on a lake than on a forum about stuff I do all day every day.
@Joost_ said:
So because you can use VIM after you learn all the shortcuts, it doesn't suck because you first have to learn all the shortcuts. Clever rhetoric, that. It's true that VIM and Emacs don't follow the Windows princples and shortcuts. They also don't follow any other platform principles because they're platforms unto themselves.
There's this new thing, called interface design. IBM put it nicely in their User's Bill of Rights[1]:
"10. Usability: The user should be the master of software and hardware technology, not vice-versa. Products should be natural and intuitive to use. In the case of VIM and Emacs, this right only applies after having learned the commands."
None of the hundreds of interface design guidelines on the net say: commands should be short and cryptic, hidden away in tutorials and manuals, to maximize the user's efficiency. Most do have a thing or two to say about switching modes all the time, and about learning curves as well.
@Power Troll said:
But, security theatre is better than nothing, I guess.
Security Theatre is my favorite program on PBS!
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="Iago"]No. Then again, my country has a decent educational system with competent teachers who actually encourage students to think for themselves. Oh, they told us what they thought books meant, sure, but they didn't insist we agree, or test us on that - they tested us on whether we could support our own own opinions with reasoned arguments.[/quote]
Implying that the poster comes from a country with a broken education system - based on a single statement from a single source. Your powers of deduction are amazing.
Guess what - there were poor teachers just as bad as the teacher referenced in the post you replied to in your "country"; don't take such pride in your country, it is very small-minded of you. In fact, the story could be about a teacher FROM YOUR PRECIOUS COUNTRY!! Think about that a bit and let your mind explode from trying to understand it.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="triso"][quote user="AliceInDilbertLand"]
<font face="Gill Sans MT" size="2">...This is an “Employee Only” event. (no spouses, significant others, pets, children, etc.)</font>
[/quote]<font size="+1">P</font>eople without children often treat their pets as children, buying them expensive gifts, giving them their own bedroom and taking excessive amounts of pictures.
ps: I mean pets as dog or cat not goats or other farm animals. [/quote]
Excessive amounts of pictures? Who are you to judge? I do not own any pets but I know people who fawn over their pets quite a bit; it seems a little strange to me but why judge them like that? If that's what they enjoy and that's what they want to do with their life, I say more power to them.
People are so interested in making sure everyone else enjoys exactly the same things and the correct amount of enjoyment as everyone else; it's sickening.
Personally, it looks like you do an excessive amount of judging of others.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="sinistral"]Well, for now it's an instance of Google Whacking, where you manage to find a term that in fact has 0 return hits.
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Ha Ha! Yeah, that sounds really hard. I couldn't possibly come up with something that returns 0 hits. No, google whacking is finding terms with 1 hit.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
Is the moderation history script no longer a supported feature?
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="Saint"]So, here's the situation - we're a small web shop internal to a larger advertising company. 4 developers, 2 designers, 2 account people. We are working up an Org chart with fitting titles. Being in the advertising world, position titles for designers are easy, account people ditto, but we're trying to name the developer positions. Any thoughts from you guys? Technical Architect, Lead Developer, Jr. Developer, what are titles / heirarchy do you guys have where you work?
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General Secretary of Laying the Smackdown.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="GoatCheez"]
[quote user="Abscissa"]Oops, just saw the glaringly-obvious "Contact Alex / Share Your WTF" link... I guess I'm my own WTF grin.[/quote]
Makes me wonder what you'd submit lol....
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ZING!! Good one.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="obediah"]Don't get me wrong, driving without a seatbelt is a WTF in and of itself. [/quote]
So is government as parent figure. If I want to live dangerously and not wear a seat belt, I don't see how that's any business of the government.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="VGR"]
Hyphens are also ever so slightly faster to type, seeing as most (all?) keyboards do not require pressing Shift to type them.
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No they're not. Pressing shift runs in parallel to pressing the _/- key. It takes just as long to reach the _/- key when your other hand is headed to the shift key as when your other hand is remaining still.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon
[quote user="Jeff S"]I get so fed up when people make excuses and blame their own shitty code on other factors. It's never their fault, it's always what they work in. It's too simple. Too complicated. Too easy to use. Too hard to use. It writes bad code for you. It doesn't write enough code for you. It forces you to write bad code. It forces you to use a certain indenting style that you don't like. It doesn't support X. It only supports Y ... and on and on and on ....
Be a man. take responsibility and stop making excuses. Prove that you are a real programmer and get it done. And, of course, by that same token, the person deciding to use the wrong tool for the job of course gets equal blame when things go wrong.
It's about people, their attitude, their decisions, and their skills - NOT the technology that they ultimately use.
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Equal blame for dictating the wrong tool for the job? That's rather foolish. Ex: I tell you that we need an application to do some magnificent task that is only feasible on modern hardware but I want you to do it in the confines of an old Pac-Man board and it needs to run very quickly (where I define very quickly), then after you fight with me on this and say we need more modern hardware to do it properly, and I tell you to do it anyway, you go to work. You fail. And thus, 50% of the blame falls on me for dictating the wrong tool/hardware and 50% of the blame lands on you for being a "fake programmer"? Come on...
I agree that people use the tools they use to explain their own shortcomings but there are very real limitations imposed by the tool you select. If you select the wrong tool, even a "real programmer" might not be able to work around it.
sincerely,
Richard Nixon