"Oh please, þat piece of shit can't even type þ"
I þink it's spelled ðat. Slightly different sound (þick, þin, ðese, ðose).
(edited for consistency)
"Oh please, þat piece of shit can't even type þ"
I þink it's spelled ðat. Slightly different sound (þick, þin, ðese, ðose).
(edited for consistency)
@Anonymouse said:
With incandescents, that could actually work (though painfully)...A local art exhibition here once featured an installation covered in braille writing... formed out of groups of lit/unlit LEDs. I never figured out if that was intentional or not. You never know with those artsy types...
@dkf said:
Not a bad plan. If you're really wanting to be annoying, the Countdown theme is perfect for when you get to the last 30 seconds.
If in the United States, substitute the Final Jeopardy! music.
@devjoe said:
When I said Unicode was TRWTF I meant because it has characters like ⒄. What, you can't just type (17) like the rest of us? Of course, in this instance, you really can't, because the ( and ) are not allowed in variable names, while ⒄ is.
Like a lot of seeming strangenesses in Unicode, this one is explained by East Asian vertical text, where it may be necessary to have the entire ⒄ in one cell (vertical text follows a grid-like structure).
@Hitsuji said:
These days though we have been seing some malformed ways of specifing currency values. e.g. one fifty, meaning either 150 euro or 1.50 euro, depending on context. where it context can be ambiguous it is then polite to go with the more traditional form.
Cue debate over "150 euro" v. "150 euros" (both of which have support from different entities within the EUrocracy...)
@AndyCanfield said:
@configurator said:
All tasks are top priority.That is correct; all tasks shown are top priority. As opposed to lower priority tasks, such as your wife, your children, your home, your sick dog, the overdue car payment, etc.
http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Priority%20List
@Cassidy said:
No, the WTF is that untested code finds its way into production. Software engineers may be coders or testers but not both
Within the scope of a given project, agreed. But I can't see why two different sets of engineers couldn't test each other's projects. (By analogy, as an accountant, I sometimes participate in generating financial information and sometimes in auditing it—but never both for the same client.)
@Random832 said:
What gets me is the fact that it's âââââââââ instead of ─── - this implies the curses library or equivalent is emitting a cursor positioning sequence for every single character.
No, it implies that it's actually interpreting 8859-1 as meaning 8859-1, in which hex 92 and hex 80 are U+0092 and U+0080 (not printable), as opposed to interpreting it as meaning Windows-Latin-1, where they are changed to U+201D and U+20AC.
Actually, the Tal Shiar are in DS9--they're the Romulan secret agency. Section 31 (which actually does have a tie to the number 14--it's authorized by Art. 14 §31 of the Starfleet charter) is the Federation one. Others known are the Obsidian Order (Cardassia) and the V'Shar (Vulcan).
It's actually a French name (the name of the explorer who found it, from the Western view), so the N isn't even an N sound--it just marks the previous vowel as nasal.