Oh dear. Someone took that a little too literally (ha!) methinks?
It's not even attractive HTML :(
Oh dear. Someone took that a little too literally (ha!) methinks?
It's not even attractive HTML :(
@GeneWitch said:
@luke727 said:What happens when a negligible force meets an easily movable object?You get the "Movable Object" and the "Stoppable Force"
:-)
Chance on block: The Moveable Object shreds like tissue paper.
"Get a better shield, cheapskate!"
Alpha on a publicly-advertised product is just marketing-speak for "we know there are a lot of bugs in our application and we're not going to bother fixing them."
@smbell said:
Years ago I was 'the tech' for a small computer store. As you might guess my job was to build and repair computers. A customer came in for a new processor. They bought the processor and had me install it. The install went fine and, being the good tech I was, I noticed their firmware was out of date so I grabbed the latest firmware for their motherboard. I made the boot floppy and started the firmware update. A message popped up that basically said 'Warning this firmware does not match this model'. Normally this would have sent screaming red flags off in my head, but I was tired and it was closing time so hit hit 'continue anyway'.The customers motherboard (which they did not purchase from us) was now dead. Worse, the BIOS was not the removable type so there was no way to resurrect the board. It's now after closing time, it's just me, the customer, and the store manager as I tell them the firmware update failed and the board was toast. I spent the next two hours getting their computer going with a new motherboard, that we of course didn't charge them for, and getting them back to a working computer.
Two weeks later I called in to let the manager know I was going to be 15 minutes late getting to work. I was met at the door with a 3 day suspension. The day I got back from my suspension I was fired. :(
The big WTF here is that they fired you for that. O_o
Back when I was still in high school I was working in a similar position (a tech at a mom & pop computer shop, a three-man operation including me). One day (this was when 1GHz processors were the brand new thing on the block), we got our first order for a 1GHz Athlon machine for a customer build, so we started work on it one afternoon. After getting the CPU and motherboard seated, it was closing time so we left it there and went home. The next morning, the boss was in to do some paperwork (he usually just came in for that; me and the other guy pretty much ran the place), and he says "Oh, cool! A gigahertz processor? I gotta see how fast this goes!" and fires up the machine, despite there being no CPU fan or heatsink on the processor. Exactly six seconds later, a small popping noise can be heard (like a piece of bubble wrap being stepped on) and a little spiral of smoke wafts up from the (then quite expensive) processor.
And that was the owner of the company. I can't believe your manager didn't just shrug it off and tell you "don't worry about it, that happens to everyone once. But do it again, and it's coming out of your pocket" :P
I bet they could make Half-Life be returned in the results for every query, no matter what you typed in and nobody would care given that that's pretty much the only game that anybody cares about from them these days. :D
@AbbydonKrafts said:
When I toss it in the bag and tells me to put it in the bag, I give the self-checkout attendant a glaring look that basically reads "If you don't press the button in the next 3 seconds, I'm going to come over there and do it myself."
I bet that wins you all kinds of courtesy points with them.
I'm reminded of every "bad customer horror stories" community I've ever read.
I just love the new verbs "dollarfy" and "commify."
I believe the OP is saying that his professor uses the word "fail" when he means to use "file." e.g., "data fail" instead of "data file."
Not a WTF in any case.
Front page. This. Now. /poke Alex
If it were me, I probably would have called up Initech (the company that he was supposed to design the web site for) and let them know what he was up to. It would've been more rewarding to see him get his contract terminated by the company, but your way was good too. The series of panicked e-mails from him must have made your day for weeks on end. Some people like that just deserve what they get.
@AbbydonKrafts said:
@CDarklock said:I particularly like how the first ingredient is WHEAT FLOUR. Can you get more obvious?
Yes.. I've bought nuts (cashews, etc) with notices that state it may contain nuts. A picture is definitely more obvious than an ingredient listing, especially since the nuts aren't ground into flour or anything like that.
(on a jar of peanut butter)
"This product was manufactured in a factory that processes peanuts."
@aikii said:
OLE ? Perl ? This is so pre-00's.Hey it's 2007, man. Emulate Photoshop in AJAX and add a "invite a friend to this filter" button to every dialog. Have a Layers>Add>Chat window in your menu that interfaces with google talk. You'll get nice features, like when in light/contrast dialog, a popup will show "your friends fatbeard and nerdishteen are currently using this filter too", so you'll never feel alone in any software anymore.
I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time. It's so true. :/
Pretty soon, EVERY application will have a friends list and a blog component so that when you're working in Visual Studio debugging code you can use a dropdown to say "Mark is debugging his module and listening to Linkin Park :(" and then a dialog will pop up to notify you when somebody else is using the same formatting style as you so that you can both chat together about how great K&R style is. Then you can upload a snippet directly to your MySpace.
@GettinSadda said:
It's not just the website that gets confused.Can you tell what's wrong here?
[IMG]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m105/Matt-Beard/SkyGuide.jpg[/IMG]
Whose Line Is It Anyway has certainly become more serious in recent years.
Signing up on a certain subsection of my bank's web site yesterday, I typed in my username, default password (that had to be changed), and new password. However, when I clicked Submit, I noticed that I had forgotten to type my new password into the "confirm new password" box.
It accepted it anyway. Hope I didn't typo it!
That's one of those good "representative line" WTFs. Even if it's two lines.
I, for one, am tired of all of the "the real WTF is that he's using VB/C#/Java/Emacs/Windows/MacOS/any Microsoft product" posts around here. Just because a project isn't done on Unix in embedded C with nothing but vi, that doesn't mean that it's doomed to fail, contrary to popular belief. Access can be used for a few (very simple) tasks. VB.NET is fine for a good number of things. Unix isn't the only OS that a business app can be usable and reliable under.
The one time I've said that was to steal the thunder of the people who really would've posted it and meant it.
But, then again, some people are quick to latch onto the fact that a person isn't using their particular platform/language of choice (the horror!) and ignore the more glaring problems altogether.
I shivered while reading that.
No technical interview whatsoever? Hell, no questions about you at all? No actual office? No security? A warehouse with cubicles and bare metal chairs?
I don't care what the offered salary is, not even seven figures is worth that kind of environment.
@clevershark said:
how stupid people are for (for example) expecting you to show up at a job interview with clothes on.
And what's wrong with wearing a powder blue leisure suit to a job interview as an actuary anyway? </sarcasm>
Or why:
* Any and all multimedia players try to associate everything that's even remotely sound- or video-related to itself.
* Any and all CD/DVD burning software try to set up their own autorun feature that launches their software when you insert a disc.
* Any and all compression tools try to associate themselves with anything that could even remotely be construed as an archive/compression format. Didn't WinZIP at one point try to associate itself with JARs as well? And WinRAR with ISOs, etc.
* Every application under the sun tries to install a system tray icon for god knows what reason.
At least it sounds like he tried to get you a job in your geographical area. After I graduated, I made it very clear in my resume and cover letter that I was specifically only seeking jobs in a certain city. Nonetheless, I got probably a dozen recruiting spam messages a day for jobs on the opposite side of the country.
I, for one, am in favor of keeping this going because everything relating to this guy is hilarious.
Oops, sorry, gotta reload Windows real quick! BRB
This log is almost older than time, it seems like, but it makes me laugh every time I read it :D
Absolutely no information on their site, but hey, at least it has Google Ads!
Well, for starters, doesn't "daisy-chaining" usually refer to hooking multiple devices into each other end-to-end (i.e., in a chain) rather than splitting anything into multiple paths? So the guy in the story here was just speaking nonsense (while trying to appear that he was giving a real solution) to our dear OP.
@unklegwar said:
Wow. You just follow her around to towns with nothing to offer you? there's the WTF
Yeah, man. He should totally just get a divorce. She can't have any influence on where they live! Screw his wife's life plans or needs.
FTR, I'm in the exact same situation. My wife is a grad student and I'm working in this city until she finishes her Ph.D, at which point we'll end up moving wherever she can get a professorship, most likely, especially given that the tech job options in any given city are drastically greater than the number of professorship positions, quite obviously. Nothing wrong with that. It's called compromise.
I think that having everyone in the entire company log off to troubleshoot one user's problem is almost a bigger WTF than the icon thing.
Both are great, though. Front-page material.
@AbbydonKrafts said:
I see this type of abbreviating all the time. Just recently someone decided to name their variable for an Excel worksheet this: sht. At first glance, what does it look like to you? In another company I worked for, they actually had to send out an e-mail telling people to quit abbreviating "Association" with "Ass." and use "Assoc." instead. Some people are really ignorant of what those things look like to an outside observer.
One of our modules on my current project -- the "Analyzer Simulator" -- is abbreviated AnalSim.
Greeeeeat.
Assembly-line JavaSchools. Become a programmer in only two years and have all sorts of buzzwords for your résumé but no actual skills!
@djork said:
I saw a resume come by for consideration at my last job, and the guy was asking $80 per hour. That's ~ $160K. One. Hundred. Sixty. Thousand.For what? Web development in ASP.NET.
That's right. Because he had 4 years experience in .NET and an MCSE/MCSA he thought he was worth that much. Whenever I look around at jobs in certain areas I see that the salaries actually are as high as $100K for relatively run-of-the-mill programming tasks. The only thing is, you either have to drive 2 hours in hellish traffic to get there, or move to an area where $100K barely pays the bills. Companies in the rest of the country (outside of major metro areas) seems to have their heads on straight. I am in a smaller city where pay for decent programming skills is more along the lines of $50K.
Ever been to the Joel on Software forums? That place seems to be populated almost entirely of either A) people with overinflated self-images, or B) the best programmers on Earth, all collected in one place.
There was one guy that said that "$75k/yr is a garbage salary in any part of the country." Excuse me? Most people in America would kill for that. Living in LA is one thing, but in "any" part of the country that's great. These same people also regularly push people to not accept contracting rates for less than like $150/hr. If you're employed 6 months a year (absolute worst case), that's still 156,000 frigging dollars a year.
On what planet did he learn English? I don't think I've ever seen "jz" as an abbreviation for "just" before.
[quote user="unklegwar"]Best time to learn that the "boss' doesn't know best is RIGHT NOW. Do it the right way, not the boss' way.[/quote]
...And receive an F on the assignment for not using arrays (which I'm guessing was the whole point of the exercise, to test their knowledge of arrays which they just learned)?
[quote user="shadowman"]On a related note, I'm reminded of this guy, who wrote a game called "Tic Tac Toe Plus," and thinks so highly of it he's spamming about 100 programming and game related usenet newsgroups about it's "pre-alpha release." With updates every week! He even responds to replies -- one of them claimed something to the effect that once he can solve a difficult algorithm like tic tac toe, he'll be ready to tackle almost any ai problem![/quote]
Can anybody paste (or link to) a place where I can read "The Story Behind Tic Tac Toe Plus"? I want to read what he has to say but you have to request permission to join his stupid community to do so.
Just for a laugh. I mean, I did a Tic-Tac-Toe playing thing in like three days as the first assignment in my AI class in college and I'll be the first to tell you that it's trivially simple. The code was about a page long. I don't get how this guy thinks it's so revolutionary. I'm curious if he'll try to charge money for it?
[quote user="petvirus"]http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5120564[/quote]
Some sort of red sticky substance started leaking from my ears shortly after I started to read that code. That's without a doubt the stupidest and most trouble-filled program I've ever seen. This took more diligence and effort than a simple "Brillant" job; this is a guy who's really trying, but failing miserably and violating every programming rule in the book in the process.
Seriously, I mean:
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor1 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor2 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor3 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor4 = 500;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor11 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor22 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor33 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor44 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor111 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor222 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor333 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor444 = 500;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor1111 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor2222 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor3333 = 0;
<font color="#000080">public</font> <font color="#000080">int</font> cometcoor4444 = (<font color="#000080">int</font>)(Math.random() *500);
WTF is he even trying to do there?
[quote user="Brendan Kidwell"][quote user="Saladin"]I stopped reading as soon as I saw "M$."[/quote]
Then what are you doing here in this thread? :^b [/quote]
Pfft, semantics. :P
The ad looks like it says something like "Myth #3: A can of Coke can blah blah blah." So, it's not saying that Coke can do that, just that it's a common(?) misconception? It's hard to read at that size.
I stopped reading as soon as I saw "M$."
[quote user="CDarklock"]I was particularly amused by Albertson's, which had a horrible self-checkout system. I bought three cans of soup. I put them in the bag. The checkout said "please remove last item from bag". I removed a can of soup. "Please place the item in the bag." I put it back. Guess what? "Please remove last item from bag."[/quote]
I've had that happen to me all the time. Whenever it happens, though, I can motion to the person at the little podium that supervises all of the self-check machines and they'll override it since apparently it happens so much that they don't even bat an eyelash about it.
It doesn't seem that it's specific to one store, though -- I've been to probably four or five different chains that all use the same checkout system (same lady's voice, everything, the only difference being the store logos displayed and the color scheme), and it happens at all of them that use this system. Albertson's, Fry's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart...there are probably a couple I'm forgetting too.
Oh, and before I forget -- at an Albertson's once I wanted to buy garlic. Now, you'd think that would be a common enough produce item that it would be no problem, but when I went through the little picture-menu there 1) wasn't an appropriate category; 2) after going through every remotely possible category, garlic wasn't in any of them. I called to the attendant and they said that apparently garlic isn't in that menu so I guess that whenever anybody wants to buy some garlic via the self-checkout, someone has to come over and enter it for them. WTF?
They forgot to change the images?
[quote user="mare"]has almost every link implemented via the DoPostBack() function. Yeah, why use the plain old hyper link when you can have a bunch of javascript code do exactly the same. Surprisingly, it works even in Firefox and Opera, BUT, of course, you can't frickin' open it in a new tab!![/quote]
ARRRGH. I hate web sites that have all of their links like that -- you can't open them in a new tab, and even if you can they'll navigate your main tab to the new page as well. Petfinder.com comes to mind. Those are just one notch above are the straight-up Javascript links and popups for things that don't need them (Best Buy's web site is a huge offender in this regard).
It can do string manipulation and length calculations but not even a simple x = y + 1?
I say, WTF?
The Real WTF(tm) is that his indentation is incorrect. Right?