@kazitor I feel like I should say something about this
Posts made by shoulder-alien
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RE: Resources want to be free!
@Gąska said in Resources want to be free!:
If you actually read my posts instead of listening to the abridged version narrated by your shoulder aliens
My summarization of people posts reflect precisely what people intended to say
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RE: Linux: Let's try Deepin, the Linux Desktop that will Embarrass Windows 10 and macOS in 2020....
@ask_compu said in Linux: Let's try Deepin, the Linux Desktop that will Embarrass Windows 10 and macOS in 2020....:
@Tsaukpaetra huh where did i get that idea then, confusing
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RE: Firefox is getting new icons. Again.
@boomzilla said in Firefox is getting new icons. Again.:
Look, when he says something, you can't take the words literally. But also, when you think about the meaning of the words in context and talk to him about that, he'll deny saying that because he didn't literally say it.
I can always help if @Lorne-Kates needs to understand what @blakeyrat said
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RE: WTF Bites
@scarlet_manuka said in WTF Bites:
SQL Developer:
(a) quits unexpectedly quite often, usually overnight
(b) has really connection management;
(c) just gave me an error saying "This file was modified outside of JDeveloper, do you want to reload it?"Maybe if you put your developers under decent managers and help them with their errors they wouldn't quit so often
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RE: If cold-pressed juice isn't for you, try some "raw" water
@rhywden said in If cold-pressed juice isn't for you, try some "raw" water:
@benjamin-hall said in If cold-pressed juice isn't for you, try some "raw" water:
@anonymous234 said in If cold-pressed juice isn't for you, try some "raw" water:
@gurth Well, they were slightly too optimistic with that prediction.
We'll probably colonize the moon and Mars way before we can build one fusion power plant.
We'll have working fusion power in 20 years. Which is what they've been saying for the last 50.
Well, considering the amount of effort which went into the Manhattan project and its predecessors, research regarding fusion has been chronically underfunded in comparison.
Not to mention that fission is easier to achieve.
Also, who is "they"? Shoulder aliens?
pfff, fusion power has been obsolete in our planet for a long time.
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RE: The Ideal Software Development Environment
@scholrlea said in The Ideal Software Development Environment:
you really haven't sat down and explained it all
Maybe the post quoted below isn't all of it, but it's enough:
@blakeyrat said in Microsoft fucks their developers in the ass... AGAIN:
@Bulb said in Microsoft fucks their developers in the ass... AGAIN:
There is no such thing as “open source development methodology”.
I'm talking about those meme-y pieces of shit like:
- Release early, release often
(Aka release broken shit so your users will hate you and never use your product again.)
- Do one thing and do it well
(No actual real life successful software has ever been made this way, ever. In the history of ever. What is the "one thing" Microsoft Excel does? How do you explain its success? How do you explain how it became far MORE successful when it added features that were useless for financial spreadsheets, but very useful for people making lists? Like Mail Merge. Remember what a horrible failure Napster was because it both downloaded files and played MP3s? It did TWO THINGS!)
- All eyes make bugs shallow
(I think this has been thoroughly disproven in the last few years. Just because someone is capable of looking at the code and verifying its correctness doesn't mean anybody actually will. They had to hire developers to fix OpenSSL, volunteers didn't do jack.)
There's no memes, but a few other behaviors common to open source projects:
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Ignore bug reports from users (while simultaneously telling non-technical users that their best way to contribute is to file bug reports).
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Refuse contributions from anybody who can't work Git, including usability experts, graphic designers, etc. Generally treat them like dirt so that all leave and do something more fun than interacting with the open source community, like for example pulling tree trunks with their teeth.
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Do all your communication on obsolete 1970s mediums, like email or IRC, despite the fact that far superior alternatives have existed for years.
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Have zero respect for backwards compatibility.
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Have zero respect for software accessibility. (You're blind? Fuck you, you can't use my beautiful open source program! Yes I would have gotten text-to-speech for free if I'd just used the OS' native controls instead of that GTK+ monstrosity, but fuck you!)
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Have zero respect for the user in general. If a person can't use Git, they're human garbage good only for jeering at.
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Write software by just plugging together 40,000 other pieces of buggy open source software instead of writing new code, even if writing the new code would be significantly quicker and easier than managing your new dependency. (Given: mostly a JavaScript thing.)
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(Apparently) do a somehow successful campaign to promote these bullet points to companies like Microsoft that previously had actually-healthy development practices and built reliable software.
I'm sorry that I'm not using your approved term to describe all this. Let me know what term you'd prefer.
I was going to respond to the rest of your post, but while trying to use my scroll wheel to read it this lovely open source forum software, which exemplifies the rules listed above, decided to scroll all the way to the footer of the page instead.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@zecc Why would you idiots read "Tic-Tac" and assume I meant "tic-tac-toe"?
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RE: You're welcome, front page commenters!
@ben_lubar Some commenter on the front page blamed thedailywtf for creating discourse ( https://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/an-emphasized-color#comment-488266 )
... on top of making that discourse thing which messes up and completely misses the point how a proper (*bb, SMF, vBulletin, IPB and number of others) forum system should be organized and makes navigation a mess, they're so smart and amazing.
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RE: Re: Defend something you disagree with
@magus I've muted the "civilized salon", because it's just like the trolleybus garage with sugar-coating. (except it's doesn't taste good like sugar)
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RE: Converting a forum to nodebb
@sloosecannon There was a thread about this here. Archives and libraries are different.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/22754/internet-archive-says-they-ll-start-ignoring-robots-txt/
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@scholrlea said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The fact that this guy was still alive when the story was making the rounds makes me think it might not have happened quite that way, but given that he was one of the quintessential examples at Stamford H.S. of more-money-than-sense affluenza (though that term hadn't been coined yet), it seemed at least somewhat plausible.
It wouldn't kill they guy:
When your transmission doesn't know any better, selecting reverse during forward driving is still less exciting than you might imagine. "If the transmission was not designed with a reverse inhibit feature, engaging reverse while driving forward will, most likely, stall the engine," Renneker said. "The car won't lock-up or skid, but it will slow down a bit and act like the transmission is in neutral."
source: https://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/20/reverse-transmission/
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RE: I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.
@julianlam said in I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.:
@blakeyrat I'm glad to hear that your opinion of MongoDB has changed over the years. Almost gives me hope that one day you'll like NodeBB too.
No, he hates it, when he say:
@blakeyrat said in I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.:
the problem was people not understanding what it was for and using it in inappropriate contexts.
It's because of Mongo's terrible UI and documentation people don't understand it and use it wrong.
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RE: When did Git become terrible? Let's track down the specific commit...
@blakeyrat wants recommendations on git client software.
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RE: I've hit everybody in my network, now I try here: electrical engineer experience?
@polygeekery said in I've hit everybody in my network, now I try here: electrical engineer experience?:
You should get rid of the shoulder aliens.
There is no need to resort to violence.