@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
So if I understand correctly, [...]You don't.
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
So if I understand correctly, [...]You don't.
Literary exaggeration would imply a certain amount of literacy.
Interesting, though, I installed Windows Live Family Safety Microsoft Family Safety on my son's PC (he's nine years old), so he doesn't have to cover his eyes anymore whenever he sees Facebook. :)
@fph said:
That's exactly the sort of words that you need to communicate with the locals, isn't it?Given how often they've been invaded throughout the course of history, the phrase "have you seen my helmet?" is probably just as common as "could you tell me the way to a pharmacy?"
@curtmack said:
On a related note, one of the improvements slated for Java 8 is the ability to use lambda expressions for, among other things, Comparators.Well, let's wait and see. We waited 4.5 years for Java 7, and wen it finally arrived the new features were not exactly earth-shattering. Try-with-resource is nice, although I expect that opening database connections, statements and result sets still remains a mess. Catching of multiple exceptions is nice too, and there's been an overhaul in some APIs.
Other than that, though...
@pkmnfrk said:
What's wrong with GoDaddy?Their customer care, for starters. I noticed that the e-mail forwarding I used for my domain kept getting e-mails blocked. Turns outthey have a spam filter, which doesn't work particularly well (Yahoo being considered a source of constant spam, even though I'm just on a few groups there), and which doesn't have an obvious "off" switch either.
Since it's been a few years, the details are a bit sketchy, but in the end I decide to call their service number (international call, obviously) and basically get admonished for being a moron, that I want to get rid of their crappy, not-working spam filter.
Not a problem: I took my domains to their competitors (Scout web solutions).
Bunch of wankers.
@Cassidy said:
Just had a thought... what happens after Java 1.7 becomes 1.8 then 1.9...?"No, I know Java 1.4 *is* Java2, but it's not Java 2.0, that came after Java 9... look - fuck it, we need to upgrade, okay?"
Java 11g.
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
It's not exactly just a "MIDI-track editing" software. It's VST host/virtual studio, and most of the 3GB is taken by various sound banks, libraries, generators and plugins.Could have been worse. Could have been ProTools.OP: TRWTF is knowing you need a small and simple single-purpose app and instead of googling for "free midi-track editing" downloading a trial of full-blown professional musicmaking/editing software suite.
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
That's only when you have to deal with something noticeably different from what you're used to, and only because you'd rather complain about it being different than learn something that would help you operate efficiently.So, what you're saying is, we should think different? Just asking.
That ExceptionException
is a particularly nice touch, though, you'll have to admit.
Had a similar issue with DHL. Ordered some software (2x Windows 7 Professional and 1x Ultimate) in the UK, but it took a few weeks for the Ultimate to be delivered. When it finally arrived, it travelled from the UK to Germany, to France, to Malta, in something like 12 hours. And then the local delivery van couldn't find the delivery address. In Valletta. Which is a 'city' where about 8000 people live, and you can walk around it in about an hour and a half, whilst taking photographs of the sights.
@TGV said:
Cockos' Reaper is cheaper and well endowed. Other options are Ableton Live, Studio One, FL Studio (if you're on a PC), or Logic, and Digital Performer for the mac.I do hear a lot of good things about Reaper, but unfortunately, you mentioned TRWTF.
Logic.
This must be the most inaptly named software in existence. It's a bit as if C++ had instead been called 'Simple', or Perl 'Impossible To Write Obfuscated Code Even If You Tried'.
When it comes to deserved punishment for creating Logic, I'm in doubt between hanging, drawing and quartering, and death by a thousand cuts. Either one still seems mild, though.
After all, it was so bad, that Apple bought it. If that isn't a RWTF, I don't know what is.
@joe.edwards said:
I'm slightly confused. I needed it to establish a database link from SQL Server, maybe WTFy but a requirement for my current assignment. Are you saying my job is TRWTF?If it involves the regular installation of Oracle software... arguably, it might well be.
The utter mess that Oracle made of installing something simple such as drivers is beyond comprehension, and beyond redemption for that matter. If Dante Alighieri had lived today, he would have written about a tenth circle.
@joe.edwards said:
I knew I hated Ruby as soon as I saw you could put the conditional test AFTER the statement.You're not a big fan of Perl either, I suppose.
Perl has the 'unless' statement. You can write an entire block of statements and at the very end write 'unless ( expr )'.
@CodeNinja said:
Probably the same thing that's keeping me at my job, an intense desire to not be homeless.Why would you become homeless if you lose your job? Where are you from? Some third-world country?
@joe.edwards said:
I tried to install an Oracle ODBC driver.This is the essential part of your message, and TRWTF.
@Weng said:
Oracle's BETWEEN operator?Expressing schedules in SQL is a colossal fuckpain anyway. My kingdom for a DATETIMERANGE, DATETIMESPAN datatypes and operators liike the MSSQL geometric operators.
When deleting a couple of columns in Oracle's SQL Developer, this appeared in the log window:
DELETE FROM "SCHEMA"."TABLE" WHERE ROWID = 'AAAXWdAAAAADclPAAM' AND ORA_ROWSCN = '11650064594086' and ( "ID" is null or "ID" is not null )
To be (null) or not to be (null), that's the question.
@snoofle said:
What scares me the most is that the folks who do stuff like this are out there, driving cars, voting, ......having the constitutional right to bear arms...
@ubersoldat said:
Also, putting ANY CODE IN THE CONSTRUCTOR IS A WTF!... except of course of variable initialization.Why, pray tell?
@dhromed said:
@Cbuttius said:It does not matter to the compiler, but it matters to me. What's so difficult to understand about that? Your car won't run any better if you clean all the bird shit off, yet people still do it.so they match up vertically with the closing ones.this doesn't matter
@snoofle said:
But c'mon, what modern language does NOT support bitwise operations?SQL. That's why he needed all those functions and that stored procedure.
@blakeyrat said:
You know if so many developers didn't live in fucking 1972 they could just auto-format the code to their preferred style while editing it, then auto-format it back before committing it. Using this revolutionary new technology called the "IDE".Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make, but according to some people here, I'm either irrelevant or a liar.
@TheCPUWizard said:
@Severity One said:And auto-indent (or any other stylistic element) influences compiler errors HOW? Yes, "pretty" code is easier to read, but it is still a human effort. If you run a SED script against 5,000 source files, are you going to open each one and read the code? Having the compiler (or other tool in the chain) throw an error is always prefferable to somethan that depends on a person.[/quote]I dont know how they do things where you work, but where I work, we find an IDE easier when it comes to writing code than sed.[quote user="TheCPUWizard"]Regarding the empty else... I dont personally follow it (nor do I recommend it), but it does cause some editing mistakes to become compiler errors that could otherwise slip through. Being rigorous about always using braces on the "then clause" is also a key element [and this is one I do endorse]Or you could just auto-indent your code.
This code has to be written at some point. Write it properly, press Alt+Shift+F or whatever else you need to reformat, and silly mistakes stemming from indenting quickly become obvious.
@boomzilla said:
@TheCPUWizard said:Well, I must be very bad then, because I leave out braces for single-statements blocks, andput the braces on a new line.And auto-indent (or any other stylistic element) influences compiler errors HOW?Obviously not a fan of pythong.Seriously, though people who don't use braces for single statement if / for / while blocks are worse than those who always put the opening brace on a new line.
Discussions about coding style are about as useful as discussions that the Big Endians and Little Endians had in Gulliver's Travels. There's not one style that is "best", because I find excessive use of braces, and especially putting the opening brace in a different column than the closing brace, impossible to read.
Does that mean that I'm mad? Quite possibly, but I find that I work better if I format code in that particular way. And because Netbeans quite happily formats code in whatever way you want, even adding braces for single-statement blocks, it's not a problem either that my colleagues prefer the style that you do.
It's just the way my mind works, which is very much in a visual way. For me, an 'if' and '}' don't have anything to do with one another, but a '{' and '}' do.
@TheCPUWizard said:
Regarding the empty else... I dont personally follow it (nor do I recommend it), but it does cause some editing mistakes to become compiler errors that could otherwise slip through. Being rigorous about always using braces on the "then clause" is also a key element [and this is one I do endorse]Or you could just auto-indent your code.
@snoofle said:
And of course, in those cases where we reflect:It befuddles me. I made a joke about reflection in another post of yours, and now it turns out that reflection is actually used – in the most depraved way imaginable.Class abstractWidgetClass = Class.forName("path.to.AbstractWidget");
AbstractWidget aw = abstractWidgetClass.newInstance();...which befuddles our junior developers.
@snoofle said:
@Rick said:But were you too?This sounds very much like an alcohol related incident.He was completely sober.
@MathNerdCNU said:
At least they aren't sending me positions in the UAE, cause that's totally within 40 miles of anywhere on the Eastern US Seaboard.Well, don't ditch the UAE out of hand. I've got two family members (and their spouses and children; interestingly, both from the Maltese side as well as the Dutch side) living in Abu Dhabi, and whereas the first ones pay about as much in rent as I earn in a month (and the salary is obviously to match), the other ones live in a house the size of Buckingham Palace overlooking the beach.
Presumably, using reflection was not an option? Given the previous stories you've contributed, the performance impact should not be an issue. :)
We had a colleague for a while who was a former Miss Maltese Islands. The woman was not exactly ugly.
@OzPeter said:
Struth mate, ya tryin to get me aggro? I may not have been home for yonks but I ain't no flippin' pommie bastard. So shut your cakehole and use your loaf before tryin' to come the raw prawn with me again sonny jim fella me mate.Oh, bugger, we've got ourselves another bushwacker. Now we're stuffed.
But has bush week come early or something? Fair dinkum its the only reason I think of that a drongo like you wants to start a blue. But I ain't no mug. I've got a bonza arvo lined up - plenty of hard yakka lined up with a stubby or 2 (and if you could get some 'round here - all while wearing my stubbies) that I picked up from the local servo. And the weekend's going to be a rip snorter as well!
So get stuffed, rack off and don't be such a yobbo (although bogan may be more descriptive for ya)
It runs on Android, too.
And, of course, there are the soft toys.
@curtmack said:
This makes perfect sense to me. For example, whenever I want to split a sandwich with someone, I cut the sandwich in half, and then throw away the halves and make two new sandwiches. I mean, you never know when there might be some quantum entanglement between the two halves. Then they wouldn't be fully separated!There's a much more elegant solution to that. (From my son's favourite cartoon show.)
That's... that's... that's...
...fairly typically Japanese, actually.
Well, we all know this site: http://www.wtfjapanseriously.com/
@gu3st said:
@Severity One said:Well, the point is, why come up with the distraction of a pretend sport to look at sexy women? I could go to a Dutch beach and see scores of them, wearing significantly less clothing.Anyway, the comments are coming from someone from a country that invented the Lingerie Football League, so they can safely be disregarded.I dunno.. I think LFL is a lot better than NFL. Sexy women tackling each other or fat men? Take your pick.
It's like WWF (and I don't mean giant pandas). I've never understood the point.
@Cassidy said:
@Severity One said:At least 50% of the English language is French in origin ('language', 'origin' for example) and what isn't French is probably Dutch or German (like the word 'rat').The old sport immediately noticed a phrase that could only have come from his erstwhile colonial masters.Incorrect. "douche" is French in origin.
Anyway, the comments are coming from someone from a country that invented the Lingerie Football League, so they can safely be disregarded.
Yeah, like complainging that someone writes British English. Oh dear, Blakey is spot on! The old sport immediately noticed a phrase that could only have come from his erstwhile colonial masters.
@JimLahey said:
@Severity One said:I can't help but notice, though, that you use the word "fuck" an awful lot when you're talking about her. Just saying.So, you fancy a date with her?No. Not only no, but fuck no.
@blakeyrat said:
@Severity One said:How often do we have to tell you? Don't forget your medication. It's the green box labelled "rat poison".According a friend who disassembled some of the Mac OS code, the code quality of OS 9 is piss-poor. Things like checking the serial port whilst reading from disc, because a bit might have walked in when you weren't looking.Ok first of all, only the biggest douche in doucheland types "whilst". Secondly, what does that even mean? What about checking the serial port while reading from disk? A bit might have walked in? From what? To where? Huh?
@blakeyrat said:
Usability-wise, it's a HUGE downslide from Mac Classic and basically throws the millions of man-hours Apple spent on usability research back in the 80s into a dumpster. Then pees on it.I never found Mac OS <= 9 particularly usable, because it would crash if I as much as looked at it.
According a friend who disassembled some of the Mac OS code, the code quality of OS 9 is piss-poor. Things like checking the serial port whilst reading from disc, because a bit might have walked in when you weren't looking.
@belgariontheking said:
@El_Heffe said:I'm reading the Wikipedia page about this film (for want of a better word):"What time is it in Malta" works, but, "Where is Joe Don Baker" does not.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087258/MST3K riffed this movie once. Not sure anyone here would know what it was otherwise. I certainly wouldn't.
Joe Don Baker plays Texas "lawman" Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III, a beefy sheriff and avid milk drinker. His partner, the former sheriff, is killed by an Italian mobster. He finds the criminal, a man named Joseph Palermo, and escorts him back to Europe, only to lose him in the capital city of Valletta in Malta. He then thumbs his nose at local law enforcement and uses all the tactics of Texas justice to pursue Palermo. A cat-and-mouse game follows, rife with car chases, gunfights, fistfights and boat chases.How the hell can you lose somebody in Valletta? The place is smaller than the average Emirate mall. OK, you can lose a cat in the smallest of appartments, so theoretically you could lose someone in Valletta. But a car chase? Malta combines one of the highest population densities in the world with one of the highest car ownership rates, which means that having a car chase in Malta (especially so Valletta) is about as likely as successfully landing a 747 in your front yard. Whilst being blindfolded. Things were perhaps a bit different in the mid eighties, but still.
@blakeyrat said:
@Severity One said:Now you're just being a troll. I think I ran through some of your buddies with my Ebony Greatsword (Exquisite). Or were those orcs?By the way, am I the only one for which Steam is working like crap today?I have a JOB. Go to work you unemployed loser.
Anyway, yes, Steam worked like crap. It improved later on in the evening (probably, around the time that the janitor walked into Valve's server room and switched on their servers) and I managed to download the high resolution pack.
By the way, am I the only one for which Steam is working like crap today?
@Zecc said:
@The_Assimilator said:Apple says you can't. Apple aren't using Java either, are they? Well then.At this point I hate everything Java-related and hope that anyone who willingly uses Java and its associated technologies dies of ebola.But... I like my new Android phone... :(
@snoofle said:
But we passed the formal corporate audit without a single demerit; we are a mature and stable organization; we are SDLC Compliant!You obviously have no idea what auditors are for. Even if you hire an external auditing firm, the conclusion is determined by the customer, not the auditor.Excuse me, but WTF does that say about a) the auditors, and b) what our parent company considers SDLC compliance?
@belgariontheking said:
However, my experience was still sub-optimal as Windows never recognized my 360 controller when I plugged it in. I used my HTPC which has onboard ati graphics. Good enough for HTPC but not gaming quality. Even the main Big Picture screen stuttered quite a bit.Odd. It works perfectly well for me. I actually got a 360 controller because of the many console ports, and drving in games like GTA or Saints Row is practically impossible without a controller.
In fact, because I have a 360 controller, Skyrim, refuses to work with the keyboard and/or mouse. Which makes shooting an arrow or fireball at somebody a bit of a challenge.
@blakeyrat said:
@Severity One said:Ah, I'd have to try that, then. Although already the airco is working overtime trying to get some cool air towards my graphics card when playing Skyrim, so maybe I shouldn't push it any further.As for the sizes, Steam reported that Skyrim needed 14 GB. Fourteen! So I started clearing out disc space, only for it to turn out that it needs "only" about 4 GB.My Skyrim's 13.2 GB. Remember to add in the HD textures DLC (which is free; it's basically the higher texture resolutions they couldn't fit on the DVD for Xbox 360), and it might account for Dawnguard as well. Although probably 2-ish of the GB on mine are mods. Either way, 14's a better estimate than 4.