@blakeyrat said:
Guys we already know Bridget99 is always wrong, we don't need to get into the details.
But it's so much fun, especially when it's a slow day in the office.
@blakeyrat said:
Guys we already know Bridget99 is always wrong, we don't need to get into the details.
But it's so much fun, especially when it's a slow day in the office.
@bridget99 said:
Computer programming is not a profession. A profession has a code of ethics and barriers to entry. Also, programmers don't get sued, and aren't licensed by the state. Generally, both of these things ARE true of real professionals (physicians, accountants, lawyers, and such). I see people misuse "professional" in amusing ways (e.g. professional golfer), and I see people misuse the word to mean "in conformance with [one's own] preconceived notions of correctness." These usages are plain wrong.
Webster's dictionary would disagree with you on this:
Definition of PROFESSIONAL
1 a: of, relating to, or characteristic of a profession
b: engaged in one of the learned professions
c (1): characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession (2): exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace
2 a: participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs <a professional golfer>
b: having a particular profession as a permanent career <a professional soldier>
c: engaged in by persons receiving financial return <professional football>
3 following a line of conduct as though it were a profession <a professional patriot>
And one of their definitions of Profession:
4 a: a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation
So you assumptions that there has to be a code of ethics and barriers to entry is pulled from what dark hole? And programmers can get sued, just like anybody else.
I'm assuming troll, but perhaps just someone with no access to a dictionary or just ignorance of the English language.
@russ0519 said:
I see nothing wrong with securing the username. It's a little weird, but if someone is looking over your shoulder, they wouldn't know the username or the password. If they knew the username, it would be a lot easier to brute force the password. Since I don't believe dd-wrt has secure password requirements, not having the attacker know the username adds a layer of security.On a side note, we have the same password : "hunter2"
Except it doesn't have you confirm the user name, but it masks what you type. So if you mistype your username when you first enter it then you've fubared yourself because even if you know the password you don't know what the username actually is.
A good rule of thumb is if you are masking a data field which will be used for validation or verification at a later time then you should ask for it twice and make sure the values match. Otherwise you are just creating a hole for someone to fall into.
@blakeyrat said:
@sabbott64 said:BTW, the measure did pass, but that probably means next year someone will pay lots of money to get an initiative on the ballot to overturn this one. And I thought New York politics were messed up. They set a whole new standard of "WTF is up with the political system" here on the West Coast.Hey at least our Initiatives have to justify themselves financially. We're not the disaster area that is California's Initiative system.
And frankly, I love the Initiative system. It's a lot better for expressing the will of the people than relying on thugged-up fat-cat politicians... you just need 20k signatures from granola-munching hippies, and bam, you're in.
Agreed. It does make it a lot easier to say "I told you so" when people vote yes for something stupid.
The initiative system is interesting, and it makes going to the store an adventure during signature gathering time. You never know what reason the scary guy with the clipboard is going to ask you to sign an petition.
"We're trying to get enough signatures to require mandatory anal probing as part of getting a drivers license. It's the best way to figure out who the biggest assholes are before they get on the road."
(Just wait, it'll happen. I guarantee it. :) )
@dhromed said:
@blakeyrat said:
@boomzilla said:Seems like a reasonable measure, except for this bit (pdf), "Require that a retail store must have ten thousand square feet or more of fully enclosed retail space within a single structure in order to get a license to sell liquor, with limited exceptions."I don't think that's as bad as it sounds.
I don't think the small shops dedicated to booze measure 33×33metres, which is quite a lot in my head, but maybe they all have an extensive In The Back.
Fuck what do I know about retailing. I hate clients!
The state has to sell the existing stores, which are a lot smaller than 10,000 sq ft and are grandfathered in, allowing them to continue sales in those locations. The size constraint was to keep 7-11's from selling hard liquor.
The funny (sorry?) thing is that the state of Washington is $1.2 billion in the hole this year and these changes would provide and estimated additional revenue of $250 million or so dollar over the next five years.
What I want to know is where the firemen and teachers got $12 million dollars to fight against the measure, since they are the ones who are always being said to be against it. I can understand big businesses like Costco invest $23 million in trying to get it passed since it impacts their bottom line. But the same must be true for those fighting against it since $12 million is quite a chunk of change to drop on this. Imagine how many alcohol education classes or training seminars could be put on for that.
Bah, that's me being cynical again. :P
BTW, the measure did pass, but that probably means next year someone will pay lots of money to get an initiative on the ballot to overturn this one. And I thought New York politics were messed up. They set a whole new standard of "WTF is up with the political system" here on the West Coast.
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The-Disgruntled-Bomb.aspx?pg=2#340740
As noted it sets String.Empty to a space instead of null.
But still a phenomenal trick to play.
@smxlong said:
IT in charge of development? Really?
In my current company, and the last one I worked at, IT was responsible for all application development. Not all companies write software for publication and when it's being written for internal use, or is exposed to external customers, it is not uncommon for IT to be responsible for the development.
@dhromed said:
@blakeyrat said:2) I work with a lot of (seemingly) amnesiac co-workers. This means I pretty regularly have to prove to them that they actually told me something. "Where is that report? I said it was due on the 20th." "You said it was due on the 27th." "No I didn't!" "Here's your original email." Me: 1. Amnesiac: 0!Agreed that this is eminently necessary sometimes, but what does saving the email file have to do with this? You could have just hit up Search in your email client (though I expect Lotus' search to be broken). I assume it's related to:
@blakeyrat said:
3) When I get emails relevant to a specific project, a project a half-dozen people might work on through its lifetime, I just drag&drop them into the project's folder on the network drive. Sure, we'd be better off using something like Basecamp or a Wiki, but this is how we do our work at the moment.Consolidation instead of spreading shit around. I can totally get behind that. +1.
At my company all email has a 90 day lifespan (and is automatically deleted) unless you move it to a specific retention folder (1 year or 3 year retention). And then it is automatically purged at the end of those timeframes within those folders. But since we're required by law to retain internal and external correspondence for up to 7 years after the completion of a project we're required to save project related emails in the project folder on a shared network drive. This alone drove a stake through the heart of IBM's push to try to get us to adopt Notes last year when they were trying to sell higher management more "features" to our existing Portal, ClearCase and other IBM products that we use. As soon as it came out that there is no drag and drop feature for messages in Lotus Notes they stopped considering it.
Now if they would just realize hw f'd up ClearCase it would be a good start to the year.
Sure sounds like Seattle to me. Just seeing things like "Fortune teller every Wednesday and Saturday", $40/day for parking (plus the over 10% combined city and state taxes) and of course 25% off parking for people with Hybrid's really shows the mentality of the city.
Steve
Hopefully they don't have any data retention requirements. The company I work for has to keep, for legal reasons, various information (including emails) for government mandated periods of time. It's very easy to do with an email server. Not so much with Twitter.
And who the hell can follow a Twitter conversation? Unless you are getting all of the feeds then all you see most of the time is random responses to questions or comments from people whose feeds you aren't seeing.
I don't see how this could make things easier, but then again I'm not in management so I've still got all of my higher brain functions, at least after I get my morning caffeine.