@Lorne Kates said:
Also, who is going to be the first asshole to take Ben's post and make a tag out of it?
How dare you even suggest such a thing?
Edit:
Well, that's disappointing. It gave up after like 200 characters.
@Lorne Kates said:
Also, who is going to be the first asshole to take Ben's post and make a tag out of it?
How dare you even suggest such a thing?
Edit:
Well, that's disappointing. It gave up after like 200 characters.
@Tae Wong said:
Mozilla’s credits list is now updated at Mojica, Odin which is an Mexican user. He gets corrupted when we reply with anything instead of responding to another text.
Please stop corrupting Mexicans. It reflects badly on the reputation of the software industry as a whole.
Six out of every five children can't find Jupiter on a map of Cornwall.
Are you like a Markov chain or something?
@joe.edwards said:
@FrostCat said:@flabdablet said:How is "always on top" conceptually different from "has the highest possible Z index"?Because "always on top" means just that. No other window can go higher than it. By contrast, two windows that are otherwise at the highest z-value would be at the same height.. That could be implemented by, for example, reserving Int16Max to mean "always on top."
How is that different than having two windows that are "always on top"?
Because a window that's at the highest possible z-index isn't necessarily "always on top". It may be a normal window that just happens to be on top (and there are no "always on top" windows present).
Dare I ask what the minimum value you can pass in is?
@The Bytemaster said:
@blakeyrat said:
If Google goes from $700 to under $5 in a single day, that's not a big correction, that's the Apocalypse.Nahhh... they just announce a 140 for 1 stock split... because, hey, why not 140?
If Twitter were publicly traded, I could see them doing a 140 for 1 split just as a marketing gimmick.
@Lorne Kates said:
@pkmnfrk said:
@Sparr said:I've just been informed that it's "industry standard" to prevent users from using common and easily guessed passwords, and our implementation of this "standard" is to make a list of strings that cannot appear within any user's username, password, or password hint. Here are some examples of items on that list, progressing from reasonable to WTF:admin
administrator
@dm1n
P@5sword
hello
hello123
test
12345
abc123
changeme
password
smps
bob
twi
hre
mri
ulo
tnuI feel sorry for any user named bob or someone who wants to use something like nightwing as a password, especially considering how non-specific the error message is sure to be.
So, what is your administrator's user name?
So, what is your administrator's password?
So, what is your administrator's social security number?
@ASheridan2 said:
I dug a little into it and it seems that that is only valid where sending to an email address that shares parts of the right side of the domain in common
...that would be what I said, yes.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that if you want to be 100% in compliance with RFC 822's address format, you have to allow the domain portion of the address to have only one component.
@ASheridan2 said:
@locallunatic said:
Are you sure 'com' is a valid domain? Sure it's a valid TLD, but doesn't it need more than just the TLD?ThisOneIsTechnicallyValid@com is excluded, but the chance of ever having to deal with that is so low it isn't worth fixing.
RFC 822 actually says that you only need to include the leftmost (least-significant) level of the domain part if the rest of it is the same as the sender's address. So, whether "com" is a valid domain name in and of itself or not, according to the RFC alice@example.com should be able to send email to bob@example.com by just specifying "bob@example". I have no idea if any mail server in the world actually allows this sort of thing.
@ender said:
@EncoreSpod said:These days I just track down unsecured jetdirects at my previous employer and print QR codes which Rick Roll anyone who scans them.Change the Ready message to something like "Oil level low" for extra fun.
At my last job we had a printer that cycled between "MY NAME IS FLUFFY", "BEEF CARTRIDGE LOW", and "I WISH I WAS A SHREDDER"
@boomzilla said:
@Someone You Know said:@Zemm said:The best gps are those built into a car, that can read the steering wheel angle and speed direct from the speedo. Those things will plot your course around a multi-level underground carpark quite accurately!
Until you start drifting around corners. Probably give the poor thing an aneurysm.Parking garages sound like they're...exciting...where you live.
Parking garages are always exciting! Haven't you seen "All The President's Men"?
@Zemm said:
@Zylon said:@TwelveBaud said:
The now-unsupported Motorola Devour supported inertial navigation using its gyroscopes and accelerometers, and now that those are standard equipment on phones the only reason not to support it is sheer laziness on the baseband developers' part.Or, gee, maybe because the accelerometers in cell phones are entirely inadequate for performing inertial navigation.
The best gps are those built into a car, that can read the steering wheel angle and speed direct from the speedo. Those things will plot your course around a multi-level underground carpark quite accurately!
Until you start drifting around corners. Probably give the poor thing an aneurysm.
@blakeyrat said:
What letter only has one color associated with it? Y? Was it Y?
Ehhh, don't forget about yellow-orange. It's on a crayon label, so it counts.
@notchulance said:
Me clicks ATT forgot password, tries to guess security questions. Gives up and clicks forgot password.TheyThem ask what is my favorite color.Me guesses wrong.
TheyThem tell me that it begins with a certain letter.Me guesses the only thing it could be.
Boom
theythem reset my password and let me in to the account.http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/ATT is pitifully lame. Don't go there.
Account details from entering ipad id in the url:
FTFY. If you're going to use object pronouns as subjects for no reason, don't be half-assed about it.
@blakeyrat said:
@Someone You Know said:I never really grasped what that phrase was trying to convey. I mean, obviously it's some mysterious alien artifact so maybe it shouldn't entirely make sense, but I didn't understand what it was supposed to be. I assume it loses something in the translation.Also: wow, someone else besides the STALKER developers has actually read that book.
It's only the greatest Russian science fiction novel.
I think I'd give that honor to "Tale of the Troika" by the same authors. It's often found in the same book as "Roadside Picnic" and it's one of the most bizarrely awesome things I've ever read. Like a weird Soviet acid trip.
@blakeyrat said:
@topspin said:I'd propose "I don't give a fuck and I bet 100$ QA won't either. See you in release". That would at least give us all a good laugh....Or, to borrow a phrase from Roadside Picnic, a full empty.
I never really grasped what that phrase was trying to convey. I mean, obviously it's some mysterious alien artifact so maybe it shouldn't entirely make sense, but I didn't understand what it was supposed to be. I assume it loses something in the translation.
Also: wow, someone else besides the STALKER developers has actually read that book.
@Lorne Kates said:
Doesn't PHP at least have the concept of "only output debug commands to certain IP/subnets that are local to the server?" or something like that?
If it does (I honestly have no idea) it's almost certainly off by default and poorly documented.
With PHP, the question is not Does feature X exist in PHP? but rather Does any PHP developer know that feature X exists in PHP? PHP's documentation is so awful, and there's such a wealth of incredibly bad example code easily found on Google, that it doesn't really matter if a good way of doing something exists — the bad ways are almost always more discoverable and easier to implement.
@this_code_sucks said:
Why must everything suck? :(
It's actually all your fault. If you'd only stop referring to it (i.e., making it "this code") it wouldn't necessarily have to suck anymore.
@OzPeter said:
@Someone You Know said:Though they lack the dual flush power levels that Australian toilets have.Dual flush is starting to appear in the US. I have toured display/model homes in the last couple of years which have had dual flush toilets and had to put up with the sales people explaining to me (in an over eager manner) what this "brand new feature" was.
Yeah, it's totally unknown here. The first dual flush toilet I used, which was in a hotel in Sydney, didn't have the buttons labeled in any way. I had no idea what they meant.
@OzPeter said:
@zelmak said:Flushing of toilets can work in one of two ways to move waste around the S-bend: 1) suction or 2) pressure. US toilets use suction by injecting a plug of water (mainly from the bottom of the bowl) ahead of the waste which sets up a syphon effect pulling waste with it. Other toilets use pressure by injecting the water (mainly from the top of the bowl) and hence behind the waste and pushing it forward. The difference can be seen in that US toilets will totally drain the bowl before refilling to their preset fill level, while other toilets will maintain a water level equal to the height of the S-bend. I posit that the in order to achieve maintainable levels of suction with reasonable water usage, US toilets require a narrower cross section traveling around the S-bend.@OzPeter said:
@Lorne Kates said:The custodial staff is tired of unplugging the toilet every day after that one fat cheese eating bastard.IMHO most of the blame should be on the toilet bowl design rather than diet. I never had issues with blocked toilets until I started using US ones. The fancy "use a water stream to generate suction" maybe clever, but the design decision imposes compromises in cross sectional area.What kind of toilet do you use "at home", then? Composting? How else do flush toilets work?
Composting toilets are another thing all together.
Both of these kinds of toilets are widely used in the United States.
Though they lack the dual flush power levels that Australian toilets have.
@blakeyrat said:
@Vanders said:Read the bug if you dareFrom the bug report:
@Martin Pitt (pitti) said:
Indeed, I see absolutely no reason to disable suspend on unknown machines. It works on the vast majority of hardwareout thereon my desk, and if it doesn't, then you'll learn to "just don't do that" on that particular machine.SPOTTED A REAL PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPER THERE, EVERYONE!
That seems rather more likely, given the way open source projects usually go.
As someone who knows next to nothing about hardware, I'd be really curious to know why there's such a problem with this feature not working on new machines without "software fixes". In Windows it pretty much always works out of the box, regardless of hardware, regardless of what software fixes are applied. It usually works in Windows on the same hardware that it fails on in Ubuntu. If there's a legitimate reason why that isn't a massive fail on Ubuntu's part, I'd love to know what it is.
@Vanders said:
@ubersoldat said:since 12.04 I've changed to using Xubuntu basically because of Unity
I switched to Xubuntu after 11.04, but after discovering what they did to "Hibernate" in 12.04 I've decided my next upgrade will be to Mint, where hopefully things will be slightly more sane.
What exactly did they do to Hibernate in 12.04?
I've never gotten hibernate to work properly on my Ubuntu laptop, but it seemed to be a hardware problem.
@Zecc said:
I don't think providing autocompletion for such a dynamic language is an easy task:
To be honest, I don't care if it can autocomplete the JavaScript stuff; I really only want it to autocomplete the names of methods in the Java API that's called from the JavaScript code.
I need this mostly because the people who wrote the Java API have not been good about keeping to any kind of naming convention. For instance, if there's some object Foo, and it has a name, the method to get it might be Foo.getName(), or it might be Foo.getFooName(). Or Foo.getTitle() or Foo.getFooTitle(). Each of those schemes is in use for at least one value of Foo in the API. Fortunately there's a collection of Javadoc that lists all of it, but I hate having to look this stuff up all the time.
@blakeyrat said:
@Someone You Know said:Which IDE do you use for JavaScript development?Visual Studio, which has pretty awful intellisense for JS. But it's smart enough to catch two variables with the same name in the same scope at least.
Interesting. I have very little experience with Visual Studio. I'm writing JavaScript code that runs on Rhino (a Java-based JavaScript interpreter) and there's a Java API that it often needs to interact with. Do you know if I can configure VS to do autocompletion and such based on that Java API somehow?
@blakeyrat said:
@Someone You Know said:They call this "hoisting", and while I've never actually been tripped up by it, it's one of those things that you just know is going to cause a really, really difficult to track down bug at some point.I actually forgot about that when I posted. (SEE ASHERIDAN!!!!!)
Fortunately, my IDE is smart enough to remind me I'm reusing "i" as a variable name if I put two for() loops in the same function, so if your IDE doesn't suck then it shouldn't bite you in the ass. So yet again, a problem that doesn't exist if you actually do development using modern development tools.
Which IDE do you use for JavaScript development?
@Ben L. said:
@Someone You Know said:@Cassidy said:Variable scope - you can localise vars within braces.
No, you can't. Not in JavaScript. This is a common mistake, because similar-looking languages like C and Java do work this way.
JavaScript does not have block-level scope. It only has global scope and function-level scope. A local variable declared within a particular function is in scope everywhere in that function even before its declaration in the function.
FTFY
Very true. That would be what I meant by "everywhere".
They call this "hoisting", and while I've never actually been tripped up by it, it's one of those things that you just know is going to cause a really, really difficult to track down bug at some point.
@Cassidy said:
Variable scope - you can localise vars within braces.
No, you can't. Not in JavaScript. This is a common mistake, because similar-looking languages like C and Java do work this way.
JavaScript does not have block-level scope. It only has global scope and function-level scope. A local variable declared within a particular function is in scope everywhere in that function.
@Anketam said:
What really bugs me is when the security questions are case sensitive. Even though my personal favorite security question was not one that required me to provide an answer at all. It was one of the credit score companies. They asked what company I have my home loan with. I freaked out when I saw it, since I was living in an apartment and had no home loan, and was immediately thinking someone had taken a loan out in my name. It was multiple choice with 5 options with the fifth being none of the above. I choose that and it passed. I then spent a good 5 minutes looking at the report to find nothing about any loans on it. Apparently it was a trick question in my case.
I think they do that to try to trip up identity thieves or something. I got a similar question once: What is the monthly payment on your [car make and model]? I owned such a car at the time, but I'd bought it with cash; there was not and had never been a loan involved. One of the choices was $0.00, which was accepted as correct.
@robbak said:
No, you put the results of a random text generator into all three, and forget about it. Yes, my mothers maiden name is <font color="black" face="courier new,courier" size="2">{J}sj}reFm)iq6Rcb}ehIs!`=@S!q7uba[lZ72kB6o0$R20mb\nmRUJXoT8oO+7</font>
This sort of thing works if only a machine is going to be verifying the answer. If it's a person (over the phone or something) and that's the answer they have on file, it's very likely that you can just say the words "a bunch of random characters" and be accepted.
I did this with some ISP years ago. I had a security answer like that, and when I was asked for it over the phone I said "Oh, I don't remember — it was something stupid I just typed in there". The person responded by reading my answer out to me and asking me if it was correct.
@zelmak said:
Why the hell didn't you just import java.lang.StrictMath for clarity?
If it's in the java.lang package, you don't even need to import it — you can just use the name StrictMath as is, as long as there's no other class with that name floating around.
@PJH said:
@Cassidy said:@The Bytemaster said:
So, they decide to share the workload and hand it off to an offshore team that had been trained in our procedures. They decide they don't want to take so much time and they know betterBUSTED!
Would it ruin this joke too much if you explained it to us dumb Americans?
@boomzilla said:
@El_Heffe said:@blakeyrat said:
@Severity One said:It's 8:30 pm in MaltaBy 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.
Do you know where Joe Don Baker is?
If you do, then go ahead on.
@Anketam said:
But in the same spirit Brits need to not say "I will knock you up this evening" around Americans.
Or "Bum a fag?", especially in the South.
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
Yes, but the typical practice is to only shout keywords.
Well, of course. You don't want the data to be shouted back at you.
@dhromed said:
@Someone You Know said:
@MiffTheFox said:Obviously it's pronounced tuhp-LAY.
WOULD YOU LIKE TUPLE A GAME?
I only tuple tyrants and dictators.
Here there lies a tupled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We but built his purple dildo,
A narrow and a tall one.
@Cassidy said:
@superjer said:
Is there even anything that dangerous in about:config?It's possible to jack up the number of outgoing connections the browser makes to a website and trigger antiflood mechanisms if you're not careful. That's about the most dangerous I've heard of.
There are a number of security settings in there that could be harmful if unwisely messed with: file URL origin policy, attack site blacklist, etc. Not dangerous in and of themselves, but potentially harmful when combined with other unsafe behavior.
@blakeyrat said:
@boomzilla said:@Someone You Know said:@boomzilla said:@blakeyrat said:@El_Heffe said:@keithmiller said:the transmitter relies on a pair of metre-high glass valves that last between one and ten years. There were less than ten remaining in the world, and it is not feasible to manufacture new ones.
But the existing supply of tubes (valves) should last between 9 and 90 years.There's a PAIR of tubes.
RARE BLAKEYRAT PEDANTIC DICKWEED POST!!!
Also, the BBC may not have any (OBPedanticDickweed: aside from those in active use) in their possession.
Also, those they don't possess may be in use elsewhere, and thus have a shorter useful life remaining than a new one would.
They could break during shipping!
It's probable that at least one of the spares has been made a home by rabid squirrels and is no longer functional.
There's also at least a 20% chance that one of them is an object of reverence for some minor religion, and therefore taking it is a hate crime.
@boomzilla said:
@blakeyrat said:@El_Heffe said:@keithmiller said:the transmitter relies on a pair of metre-high glass valves that last between one and ten years. There were less than ten remaining in the world, and it is not feasible to manufacture new ones.
But the existing supply of tubes (valves) should last between 9 and 90 years.There's a PAIR of tubes.
RARE BLAKEYRAT PEDANTIC DICKWEED POST!!!
Also, the BBC may not have any (OBPedanticDickweed: aside from those in active use) in their possession.
Also, those they don't possess may be in use elsewhere, and thus have a shorter useful life remaining than a new one would.
@dhromed said:
@dtech said:
tupleI've always wondered if it's pronounced topple or toople.
I say "tuh-ple", but only because I think saying "too-ple" makes you sound like a twat. I've always though "too-ple" was the "official pronunciation, because everyone I know says "too-ple". And they sound like twats doing it.
@RaceProUK said:
@Mo6eB said:
@blakeyrat said:
I DID NOT TRY!!!!!SHAMEFUR DISPURAY
COMMIT SUDOKUhas image of the numbers 1-9 falling on blakeyrat
That's possibly the most uncool way to die, ever.
@dhromed said:
@Someone You Know said:
Help out a non-Christian here. Isn't Jesus supposed to be some kind of supernatural being?The correct answer to that is fuck that shit let's grab something ot eat!
Well said. Lunch!
@dhromed said:
@blakeyrat said:
@dhromed said:The idea is good but you can't do it because the hole is already too deep.So the idea is bad. Got it.
Lots of ideas are awesome if you ignore reality for a moment.
Communism and bacon-wrapped helicopters spring to mind.
@Anketam said:
As a Christian the 23 chromosome thing is so stupidly wrong. Jesus was a man, and so if he only had 23 chromosomes, then he would only have 1 X chromosome and no Y chromosome and thus not a man. They apparently missed the passages saying he was fully man, what part of fully do they not understand.
Help out a non-Christian here. Isn't Jesus supposed to be some kind of supernatural being? Like...the son of god, or part of god, or something? If that's the case, then does he even chromosomes? If he does, surely he can have however many he wants?
In the tab bar, Chrome is displaying this website's title in a different font from all my other tabs.