Anyway, the abbreviation 'SSS' has already been taken by Sigue Sigue Sputnik, the best rock band ever.
Posts made by Severity_One
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RE: I'm always amazed that this Web Application Suite actually works
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RE: Steam WTF: "You have to wait, but WE WON'T TELL YOU!"
@TheCPUWizard said:
I am not making excuses for Steam (there are plety of WTF's), but one of the key tenets of security is to avoid giving out information that can help be used to defeat the security.
Ah, security through obscurity. Never worked, never will.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.
Anyone tried the new "TV-interface", by the way? I'm not sure what to think of it.
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RE: IOS 6 Maps
@gu3st said:
You're only comparing success though. Whose to say Apple hadn't done hundreds of UI's that they deemed "not good enough".. which does cost money to pay designers/engineers to program/design their failed concepts. Then having Samsung come in and take their successful version and copy it without needing to have the design failures. They accomplish the reward without any of the risk which is what Apple is ultimately defending. The fact that Samsung comes in and tries to reap the rewards of Apple's design risk.
What design? The design is minimalist;by thrying to enforce others to have a significantly different design, you force them to artificially cripple it. This is what Dutch court decided.As for iOS's UI, it's not fundamentally different from the Apple Lisa, and that was heavily influenced by the Xerox Alto. (I don't know if that had icons, but it did have a mouse.) The one that is fundamentally different is Microsoft's Metro, although you're not supposed to call it"Metro" any longer.
Apple is not at all good at innovating. I'm hard-pressed to think of any Apple product that was truly innovative. Maybe the Newton? But it didn't work particularly well.
That's another problem of Apple: they can't write decent software. The number one reason for me not to get an iPhone is iTunes and that horrible QuickTime they install with it. Perhaps they don't do that any longer; I don't know and I don't care. Seldom before have I seen such an intrusive and non-conforming (I'm running Windows) piece of software.
What Apple are very good at is making a product that is just easy to use, and is really well integrated, that just works and does what you want it to do. And they're very good at marketing it, and covering all the touch points. You can see that "touch point marketing" is the driving force behind their success.
I'm happy with my Samsung Galaxy S3, but I'd wish that Apple would just sod off with their lawsuits and instead focussed on building better products.
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RE: Adobe installed an update...
Well, at least Adobe are no longer putting their bloody icon on your desktop every time you upgrade. If there's one application where you NEVER need the icon to start it, it's Adobe (Acrobat) Reader. Yet, with every single upgrade you got that stupid, useless desktop icon back.
The support people said that some suits had decided that these icons were really necessary, but apparently somebody had a moment of sanity, and the icon is gone.
And hey, it only took them like 10 years or so.
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RE: Java (need I say more?)
@dhromed said:
FTFY.I just don't like using "we" in code.We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!
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RE: Email from my boss
@snoofle said:
Hi Everyone,
FTFY.I need to give my boss a list of what you are working on. Everyone please send me a list of the tasks you are working on at this time.
If you have nothing to do, please don't sit there waiting for me to give you some work; tell me.
If I find out that you've been writing about our company on TheDailyWTF, you will be very sorry.
Thanks,
<Boss>
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RE: IE is much better than Chrome...
@Ben L. said:
On Linux, chrome works better than IE.
On Solaris, too*. Internet Explorer on Solaris was not much to write home about.* Yes, I know. See 'irony'.
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RE: The data is in which table?
@Cassidy said:
No... I didn't say that. RaceProUK did....
@Severity One said:
That sounds a bit harsh; after all, this isn't a failure of the manager, it's a failure of process.
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RE: The data is in which table?
@snoofle said:
B+1 runs down the hall and brings back B+2 who goes absolutely bonkers, rips the guy a new one and fires him on the spot.
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RE: Representative line: to be and not to be
@configurator said:
Somehow
Congratulations: you've just invented the Infinite Improbability Drive.fp
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RE: Best. Scam. Ever.
@ekolis said:
@Ben L. said:
You have a very optimistic view of RFC 822.There are THREE From: addresses, all of which are from a domain with no MX record.
How is that even possible? The three from addresses, I mean...
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RE: What's your point?
@snoofle said:
You know, even forgetting that doubles can look like longs which can look like integers which could yield unpredicatable results and hard to find bugs (they pass all manner of numbers as both serialized objects and in string form), this may not be the right way to do this.
Even after all these years, I'm still baffled by the number of people that call themselves developers (a monicker I wouldn't use as liberally as they do), yet don't seem to understand the difference between a database and a file system. -
RE: The weather...
Whahahaha! Brilliant! I immediately shared that one Facebook!
For the record, I'm Dutch, married to a Maltese woman (who largely agress with the description given above).
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RE: Has anybody ever done a usability study on the Linux CLI interface?
Blakey, my respect for you went down a couple of notches. I'd expect you'd be able to find your way around a command line. In the past, I've installed packages from source when they weren't available on Solaris – try that for a laugh.
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RE: But we have to stick to our budget!
@snoofle said:
My boss figures we can have this done by tomorrow, and promised that if we do, he's buying the drinks tomorrow night.
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RE: The weather...
@dhromed said:
STOP LIVING THERE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.
24 paid leave days and 14 public/national holidays a year comes to mind. Although a couple of years ago, they changed it that you no longer get compensated with extra days of leave if a public/national holiday falls in the weekend. Other than that, the climate is like that of California (Mediterranean climate), but without the wildfires, earthquakes or Hollywood. -
RE: But we have to stick to our budget!
@snoofle said:
Now, when it hits the fan, I won't need to run around like a chicken without a head - because I planned ahead.
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The weather...
After a particularly hot summer, we had no less than three thunderstorms in the span of 24 hours. Now, this is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, so buildings are everywhere, including on roads that have been built at the bottom of a valley. Mind, there aren't any rivers here, but there are a couple of flash floods every year, and over the course of millenia, these have carved out dry river beds.
The first thunderstorm, at 5:00 PM on Sunday, wasn't that much of a problem. The second one, at 5:00 AM the next day, flipped the circuit breaker of our house and because of an unfortunate design of the drain on our roof (single point of exit, next to the door downstairs, and that exit was somewhat obstructed), caused a veritable waterfall inside our house. Not fun.
The third thunderstorm hit at about 3:00 PM on Monday, and caused yet again a flash flood in the road where I work. I captured a couple of videos, including this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqk2uA1yoNs
The black thing is a brand new and rather expensive (well, it is no longer) Range Rover Evoque. Then there's a light truck for transporting glass. Somewhere in between the two should be a white car.
Anyway, we didn't get much done that day, not because of the weather, but because of the second storm. See, it hit our data centre. And tripped the fire alarm. Which released the argon. Straight on top of our SAN. Release gas from pressure, rapid loweing of the temperature, condensation of moisture... that's at least my theory.
Some days, you wich you'd just stayed in bed (after getting all the water out your front door, that is).
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RE: Representative Line
@TGV said:
Are you a Perl programmer on parole or something?
They let them off early these days? For what? Surely not good behaviour? At least the Soviets got that one nailed: nobody would use Perl there, unless they wanted a state-sponsored move to Siberia. -
RE: Valve Job Posting Indicates Hardware Plans
@blakeyrat said:
As for the actual topic, Valve hired hardware people like a year ago, and there's literally no other reason for them to port Steam to Linux other than to have a platform for a Valve set-top box (seriously, like they gave a shit about Ubuntu users? Hah!) plus the whole "Steam TV-mode" beta/whatever so it's not news either unless you've been blind and deaf for like 2 years.
Valve have been complaining about Windows 8's closed app shop, or whatever it is that Microsoft is concocting, so what you say makes perfect sense, but I just don't see it taking off. It's a bit like Microsoft buying SoftPC, which let you emulate an x86 CPU on PowerPC hardware. This happened around the time that Apple moved to the x86 architecture (which would have killed SoftPC anyway).The idea was obvious: so they can run x86 code on the XBox 360. But that hasn't taken off either.Even though I worship Valve, as I mentioned, I'd never buy one of their consoles. I don't like consoles.
@blakeyrat said:
I think we should talk about Skyrim.
I've noticed something really strange about Skyrim, which is that it magically makes hours disappear. You travel from Whiterun to Windhelm, clear out some barrows on the way and next thing you know, four hours have just gone. -
RE: Valve Job Posting Indicates Hardware Plans
@Cassidy said:
@Severity One said:
Um, no, sorry, I'm actually married to a woman that is considerably better looking, and an avid fan of Star Wars and Star Trek. Having said that, there aren't enough women doing geeky/nerdy things.Once, I saw some article about a woman who (a) was not bad looking, (b) was a developer, (c) played a bass guitar/keytar that she built herself out of a Commodore 64 and (d) worked at Valve. OMG! Valve!
I understand. Others wouldn't. It's a geek thing.In case anybody is wondering, I wanked myself into a vacuum at such nerdporn.
But hey, good luck with your fantasies about Jeri Ellsworth and Ceren Ercen. To each his own.
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RE: Valve Job Posting Indicates Hardware Plans
@boomzilla said:
So TRWTF is that the Brits are backwards enough to bother to talk about vacuum tubes?
Huh? Korg (Japanese synthesiser manufacturer) and others produce musical instruments with built-in valves/vacuum tubes; in Korg's case, the Electribe series of groove boxes.Once, I saw some article about a woman who (a) was not bad looking, (b) was a developer, (c) played a bass guitar/keytar that she built herself out of a Commodore 64 and (d) worked at Valve. OMG! Valve!
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/05/20/jeri-ellsworth-her-commodore-64-bass-guitar-thing/
In case anybody is wondering, I worship Valve.
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RE: Chicken and egg dependency
@mott555 said:
All Mac problems are best solved using liberal amounts of diesel fuel and a good lighter.
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RE: Just make damned sure it isn't null
@zelmak said:
Fair enough. I guess I was reliving what I saw over someone's shoulder here:
FTFY. Or even more elegantly, save a few loop cycles:. . . } else { for( int index2 = 0; index2 <= 20; index2++ ) { index++; } }
. . . } else { for( int index2 = 1; index2 <= 6; index2++ ) { index += index2; } }
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RE: So do I use a browser in their store, or...?
@gu3st said:
Proud owner of an iPhone 4S on Bell with Unlimited data.
Proud owner of a Galaxy S3 and working at a mobile phone company, so guess how I pay for my subscription. -
RE: So do I use a browser in their store, or...?
@C-Octothorpe said:
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!
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RE: Just make damned sure it isn't null
@zelmak said:
in my own code, as I was surfing back through it in an effort to refactor some bits:
Perhaps you were trying to do double-checked locking? :)if (entry.getMode() != null) { if (entry.getMode() != null) { list.add(entry.getMode()); } }
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RE: The story of Microsoft and the towel
Yeah, I'm really getting pissed off when they put him in the room with the stuff walls, wearing a straightjacket. :)
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RE: The story of Microsoft and the towel
@pbean said:
Some might say we just have to get used to it, [...]
That's what manager of mine said, after I complained that Microsoft Sharepoint has an absolutely attrocious UI from the usability point of view. "You have to get used to it." I pointed out that we're in the 21st century. -
RE: The story of Microsoft and the towel
@ObiWayneKenobi said:
I don't know... I think it's pretty cool. Very sleek and slim, it meshes well with the "Metro" look of Windows 8.
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RE: Nope, wasn't a bad internet connection
@PJH said:
By the way - that pic looks nothing like Newcastle, England. Possibly Eton...
Apart from that, those boys are far too handsome to be British.
There's no lasses, and the (non-existant lasses) aren't wearing crop-tops/boob-tubes and belts posing as skirts. Unless you've been watching 'Geordie Shore'? In which case I'm sure I have some news for you... -
RE: Web 0.1 journal website
@fph said:
But the best part is their homepage. Makes me want to put my eyes out...
This is not proper web 0.1, because only part of the text is centered. There were very clear design guidelines back then:- Predominantly black animated background
- Different (preferably hard-to-read) colours on each line
- All text and images must be centered
Really, you people have no idea of historical accuracy.
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RE: The REAL problem
@tchize said:
I know a place which has similar rules. Login / email adress is set up as initial + 3 first letters of lastname. Unfortunately for Edouard Jackman (name slightly changed for anonymity), his emails with "from:ejac@thecompany.com" gets blocked by all spam filter :)
Many, many years ago, on alt.humor.best-of-usenet, there was a story about a university or college where the login/e-mail address consisted of the first six letters of the last name of the student, followed by the two initials.For Mary Ellen Cummings, that was rather unfortunate.
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RE: Nope, wasn't a bad internet connection
@Ben L. said:
Except that the United States of America is the only country in either of those continents with the word America in its name.
That's because you guys were too lame to come up with a proper name.Couldn't you have called it New Britain or something? After all, you have New York, New England, New Orleans...
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RE: Representative line
@dynedain said:
In the amount of time it took the author to write this script, they could have just done a global search and replace of the source HTML files to correct the UTF error to begin with.
You're assuming that themoronsnon-technical people that write the pages will write a proper <sup>®</sup> next time they edit or write a page. -
RE: BT small print WTF
It sounds plausible indeed. Having once worked at BT, an alternative explanation could be that the company is completely bonkers.
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RE: Oops
@flabdablet said:
Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million
Gee, I feel really sorry for them. No, really.Honestly... these firms are trying to make money out of basically nothing, and in doing so, rely on computer software that makes decisions at a split second, to buy or sell hundreds of millions worth of financial products. Trying to make as much money as possible by relying on computer software. Darwin would have been proud.
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RE: Guess what I bought today!?
@blakeyrat said:
Seriously do I have some kind of coating on my fingers where when I touch an electronics device it starts giving out inexplicable errors? Because that happens to me a lot.
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RE: Sweat the Small Stuff
@OhNoDevelopment said:
Huh, I thought Spring and Hibernate could play perfectly together and use the same connection pool.
Hmm, we use our in-house (database connection) pool, which works well enough, even though the code isn't exactly cleanly written. It actually implements javax.sql.DataSource (that was my idea), but it took a small library to hook it up to Hibernate. -
RE: The greatest XCode feature yet!
@Gurth said:
@gu3st said:
Cool. My Amiga did that, 25 years ago, and it wasn't very useful back then either. Although admittedly, there wasn't any iTunes or ATunes or whatever at the time, so here's one of the few examples of Apple offering something genuinely new.You can actually do it on any text in the entire OS.
Not just from the GUI, either.
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RE: <%= Fail_Whale.png %>
Well, nothing wrong with JSP, except perhaps... oh scrap that,TRWTF is JSP. I would have thought that they'd built a custom engine for Twitter. Still in Java, mind, but custom.
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RE: LibreOffice: Still a WTF
@havokk said:
Yes, it is. The spec doc for the Microsoft Word ".doc" file format is 600+ pages!
Come to think of it, I once used a document from Microsoft (for which you need to sign an NDA, god forbid that somebody would tell the world what a crap format it is) to write a Word importer. It's not a nice format. Apart from the pure binary structure, the blocks of data are all over the place. You need to open it as a random access file and jump all over the place. Obviously, this information was not present in the document they sent us, presumably because they supposed that we'd be using some Microsoft library to open the files. -
RE: Old Computer Challenge
@Weng said:
I have an IBM PC, XT and PC AT in the basement. Yeah, the entire family minus the godforsaken PCJr.
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RE: Of all the builds to fail...
Had to Google that, which admittedly is a little embarrassing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek
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RE: Wait, its what type again?
@ekolis said:
@RichP said:
In Java, 'byte' simply means an 8-bit integer, 'short' means a 16-bit integer (discouraged for performance reasons), 'int' means a 32-bit integer and 'long' means a 64-bit integer. Also, all integers (and all numeric types for that matter) in Java are signed.2) the "byte" type in Java is a signed byte.
This is TRWTF!
Whether this is a good idea or not is open to debate, but the thinking behind this is that in the C of 1995, the size of 'int' was not defined, and therefore 'int' on one machin/architecture could be something different from 'int' on another. That, at least, Java solved.
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RE: Of all the builds to fail...
@boomzilla said:
I'm currently reading The Mother Tongue, which discusses the history of the English language. Some of the more amusing bits talk about British snobbishness in reaction to things Americans say or write which the Brits believe have been created by Americans. Often, however, the words had been used in Britain before (even in Shakespeare's plays) but had fallen out of use in Britain. From Google Books: @page 173-174 said:
Yeah, I know. I'm not British and didn't even learn English until the age of 13.To this day (1989) you can find authorities in Britain attacking such vile "Americanisms" as maximize, minimize, and input, quite unaware that the first two were coined by Jeremy Bentham more than a century ago and the last appeared more than 600 years ago in Wycliffe's translation of the Bible. Loan as a verb (rather than lend) is often criticized as an Americanism, when in fact it was first used in England a full eight centuries ago.
I think they just miss being the most influential English speaking country. And they should leave silly language snobbishness to the French.
From what I understand, there's a certain similarity between British and American English on the one hand, and Dutch and Afrikaans on the other. Now (modern) Dutch and Afrikaans are two similar but distinct languages, so the comparison is somewhat crippled, but certain elements in Afrikaans come from 17th century Dutch, which then evolved into a different direction from Afrikaans. Likewise, certain things you see or hear in American English come from Britain – but they stopped being used there. In fact, there are certain localities in England (I think) where you could easily mistake the accent for a North American one (East Coast obviously).
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RE: Why pass parameters?
@Anketam said:
I did not even know that you could create a public object of a class inside of itself even if you made it a static. I would have thought it would throw some kind of compile error about circular or recursive referencing.
That's one way to create singletons in Java.public class Woof { private final static Woof INSTANCE = new Woof();
private Woof() { // perform initialisation } public static Woof getInstance() { return INSTANCE; }
}
Please note the private constructor.