@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.
@morbiuswilters said:
@ogilmor said:
I'm pretty sure that stores are NOT compelled to sell at a price if they make a mistake advertising - I've seen corrections in supermarkets where mistakes were made in the weekly specials. I've seen "rain checks" offered for out of stock sale items, but I'm not sure if this is compulsory or stores just do it to make their customers happy....This is usually governed by state law, IIRC.
And a lot of ad's state that the sale is limited to quantities on hand and/or no rainchecks will be issued. That's the typical wording that allows them to avoid having to provide rainchecks. It's normally in very small print somewhere on the page but they just have to include it to be covered.
In most advertising flyers that I see there's also a disclaimer that they are not responsible for misprints in the ads. That way if the layout person forgets a number or transposes a couple of prices or some text the store isn't on the hook for it.
Think about it. If you wanted to sell your car and you submitted an ad request to the paper saying it's for sale for $10,000 and they printed it as $1,000, would you want to required to sell it for that amount?
Here it depends a lot on whether this was an honest mistake on someone's part or if the merchant did it intentionally just to get people into the store. Since the negative publicity isn't worth it, I imagine it was an honest mistake so while the customer may not be happy, that's not enough to force the store to sell at such a big loss.
@snoofle said:
...$40K less......$20K less...
...$10K less...
If you're making $200k/year now that first offer is a 20% pay cut. If you are making less (which I expect is the case for almost anyone) then it's even more of a pay cut.
If you are such a "perfect fit" and they are "having trouble finding qualified candidates" then why would the lowball the offer so much in the first place? And making new offers $10k at a time just seems moronic. Are they hoping you will have suffered a head injury since the last offer and will think that their less than you are making now offer is suddenly wonderful?
Seems to me if they were balking at paying you your current salary because "times are tough" then I'd worry about their stability. You could end up taking that 20% pay cut because in 9 or 10 months they might suddenly go away. Or you will.
I'll never understand headhunters. Too much like car salesmen to me, and I hate car salesmen.
@tx_ said:
TRWTF:
Reverse IP lookup relates saymix.com to http://ltsun.com/ a site for an apparently php4 compatible CMS. Its installation instructions include gems such as chmod'ing webroot to 777. The demo site is 100 types of WTF: http://ltsun.com/demo/index.php
I thought you were joking until I read the installation instructions:
Root CHMOD
Make sure the directory that contains the "LTSun-Engine/" directory has full writting and reading permissions (chmod -R 0777)
GOOD Example: chmod -R 0777 /var/www/my_website/
BAD Example: chmod -R 0777 /var/www/my_website/LTSun-Engine
Um, right. I'm going to give full access to any location on my web server just so somebody can use this software. If this is an example of "leet" programming skills then I'm very happy to not be "leet."
It is possible that this person is just hosting a site for someone else as a sub-domain on his server. Even so, if they are like minds...
@AndyCanfield said:
What we are talking about here is why microcomputers took over the world. When a computer became cheap enough to hide in your own budget, you no longer needed IT department authorization to create a program. Instead of months of IT assessment, you could grab an Apple II and VisiCalc and make your own spreadsheet to do the job. Then you handed copies around to your co-workers and no authorization was necessary. That's why you've got a PERSONAL computer on your desk today.
This is also why IT has an intense dislike for these sorts of homegrown applications, because once they get distributed then whenever someone has a problem with it the first place they go for help is to IT. And then they get upset when IT says, "Huh? What are you talking about? That's not one of ours."
I work in an IT department and have no problem with people wanting to put together their own applications to do whatever they want/need to do. If they can do it without invoking the corporate process then more power to them. But if they want to do that I also want them to be aware that they are on their own with regard to support. I've got enough "official" work to keep me busy without having to dig through someone else's spare time code.
@lincoln said:
I had to change a password yesterday.
6 characters, don't use an old one, ..?
It means you can't change to a password that you've used in the past two weeks.
What
they are preventing is someone being told that they need to change
their password and them changing it 24 times so they can, on the 25th
change, change it back to use their current password.
@morbiuswilters said:
@sabbott64 said:
A bit late in responding, but the past few weeks are a blur with the arrival of a new spawn last month.I figured this was sort of an "open" thread that people can respond to continuously.
I was hoping so, but after being scolded on other forums for "resurrecting" old threads by responding to them even a few days after the last post I was a bit gun shy. (Although the fact that if they didn't want responses to a thread after a certain time then why didn't they just lock them seemed to be to unique a concept.)
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Most unique request I ever got from someone begging for money:"Can you spare a dollar so I can get these staples in my head removed?"
A bit late in responding, but the past few weeks are a blur with the arrival of a new spawn last month.
I'm 45 and got my start in programming using a teletype in high school to connect via a 1200 baud modem to an HP mainframe in the fledgling computers course. Wrote programs in basic and had to save files using punch tapes that recorded everything typed on the teletype.
Graduated to my first home computer the next year (1981), a Commodore Pet with 64k of memory and a cassette tape storage system!
At least my college had gotten rid of their punch card readers and moved up to VT terminals the summer before I started.