Master troll trolls Instagram.
That your work? That's masterful indeed. Tell me you set it up purely for this purpose, and not for drawing people who parsed the URL slightly differently.
Master troll trolls Instagram.
While Pearson is definitely a WTF, I'm not sure they could have gotten their way without a bribe here and there. Either that, or incompetence abounds.
Because to everybody except coders, OR === XOR.
It's pathetic. It's almost as if someone just wants to make money out of it and doesn't care about the effects or the results. It's almost as if you live in Western Europe's most corrupt country.
here's what you guys did to our mailing list: http://imgur.com/EDRQhjx
The Google Docs Offline team also contacted us
Now there's TRWTF.
I've only seen Swype. I hate autocorrect. I didn't spend half my life doing NLP to get my text garbled by a bit of code that was state of the art in 1979. But since even the Highest Council of Pedantic Dickweedery seems positive, I'll give Swype a try.
Aaah. See, it says if you hold your mouse over the link button: Hyperlink <a>. So I just added that plus an href, and it formatted nicely in the preview window, which made me think it had recognized the link. Well, did it ever. So here's the link: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/36300/how-can-i-make-this-mess-of-java-for-loops-faster
Mmm, got it to work in the above post. Should have checked.
I thought this was hilarious: How can I make this mess of Java for-loops faster? The top answer is, erm, weird, and the second answer, with most votes indeed, generates all permutations of the input string, which is of course a rather high number if the string is long.
Ah, Swype. The less software is intelligently aiding me, the better.
until tomorrow...
So what's a track mat then?
This is turning very quickly into a forum where 5 people are bitching about the forum, and the rest doesn't have a clue what it's about, while the OP gets buried. What a refreshing way to kill a forum.
To be honest, it does do a conversion to BOOL as well. If you manage to somehow pass it something like @"YES", NULL or -3.14, it will still return just YES or NO. That's so wonderful.
We had something like this here, but on a slightly larger scale: http://www.amsterdamherald.com/index.php/rss/1090-20131216-amsterdam-investigating-technical-error-caused-188-million-benefits-overpayment-netherlands-dutch-administration
I've only heard it in my German lessons. I think it's just scoops of different flavours of ice cream.
That was the whole idea, wasn't it? To enable people to search and avoid undesirable results. Now you get pictures of sharks, not even toting lasers, and as an added bonus "great breasts" does show NSFW content.
In the localized version (google.nl), they also remove "tieten" (literal translation of "tits"), but if you search for "grote memmen" you do get results, and if you search for "great tits" or "tetas gordas", they remove it. So there is one big list of blocked words?
This is worthy of a WTF.
Perhaps you should type "great breasts" (I know that's not a bird). Mmm, lemme try. O yes, indeed, and NSFW as well (so don't try this search at work). What a bunch of morons.
Google, breaking what has been working fine since 1998.
Oldest file: 13 Jul, 1987. It's a sound sample that could play on a Mac SE, and it's from the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey.
Wiggles squiggles. Always coming. Always wiggling. Little fiends, dancing through your code.
I actually use Typescript sometimes, but for something that doesn't require an external library, but has to run in a browser, 'cause reasons. Typescript is a neat idea, but not for web development.
I like Javascript. Live fast, die dangerously. You can always use Typescript, if you want typing, of course.
Cue Typescript rant in .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
I remember helping someone with a bizarre regexp in PHP that required 13 backslashes in the end.
Long ago, embedded CPUs didn't support multiplication...
To me, the code doesn't seem so bad - it obviously looks like somebody was thinking in assembly while writing it, but that's the charm.
but seven fucking thousand (7,000) database queries
Isn't that the Belgian flag? Why would anyone mask Belgium?
google fails miserably at recognizing the typo and translates "Flensburg" in this case with "Dover". WTF?
And I am surprised at the fact that putting a hash in front of a text embiggenboldens the text. Is this a forum for short-sighted Commonwealtheners or for programmers?
Why no LANGUAGE_INDIAN then?
#define BIG_INDIAN 4
#define LITTLE_INDIAN 5
@levbor said:
You can't judge somebody by a sentence taken totally out of context. When a politician's saying is reported in a newspaper, you can be sure that said politican indeed uttered those words, not necessarily in the same order, withing the space of 5 minutes.
Journalists are not called "hacks" for nothing.
When a politician doesn't know his words are going to be quoted, he's an incompetent fool.
What The F* is happening with the side bar? There were several later stories than mine, and but now mine is back on top. Are they slowly moving the posts one by one to /dev/null or /dev/discourse?
@Gurth said:
I suspect he hit Shift+Command+4, then pressed the spacebar and clicked in the window. That grabs a shot of the window from the screen buffer, so it doesn’t matter how big the window is or if other windows are displayed over it.
Yup. It's on a mac, and surprisingly, it doesn't matter how big the window is. The error message is from an Eventide plugin installer, BTW.
Screen shot of an installer error message. Screen width wasn't the problem.
Seems like RDBMS proponents have a vastly superior sense of humor, as compared to this:
Yes, and that was basically my point. There are already plenty of suitable languages for Cocoa development.
Python doesn't run on the iPad and iPhone, AFAIK.
Well, it *is* electronic, after all, so an "e" is almost a given. But perhaps better -e at the end of the word, because e- in front is so 2000. The "i" could then go between the R and the M. Yeah, looks appropriate. After all, they promise it keeps your weekends free of work, which is stealing from the company.
That pretty much excludes anyone from putting out any experimental functionality or alpha/beta release. And those are generally considered good practice
They have a perfectly working text rending engine now. They're adding a new experimental one that should provide better quality but apparently still has major bugs (hence the experimental). How is that incompetent?...Because they could have tested it a bit before releasing? It's not as if it's a two man project.
It's batshit level stupidity. It's almost as if these decisions are being taken by people that don't know a thing about security.
Check your Video BIOS.Seriously though, it can only be enabled via chrome://flags, right? So it's an experimental feature, no wonder it breaks.
If it can break, don't let users enable it. And not getting text rendering right in a browser, how incompetent is that? Next thing you know, they not longer know how to support jpg.
I also have avoided it so far, and the new experience hasn't made me happy. It'll be quite a lot of fixing before it gets acceptable. Changing layout and interaction (UI/UX) has always been a successful tool to drive away people.
Jezus Christ on a bicyle! These people should be shot. How can such morons rise to such heights?
@flabdablet said:
URL escaping? Base64 encoding? Mysteries to these fucking clowns.O, come on man, you're being too harsh. It's not as if they are this huge and successful site that's had enough time and money to hire a few real programmers.
@blakeyrat said:
You gotta use the "reset password" link from the email you were sent. EDIT: Rather, you have to follow the link in that page and then, when it asks you to log in, you need to use "reset password" instead.And no, there's no way you would have known to do that based on the content of the email. Especially if you haven't followed the one topic in General Discussion where people are talking about this new forum bullshit. I guess telepathy is required.
I hope Alex posts his own WTFs on his own homepage. I'm sure there's more to come.
AFAIK, that's the nr.1 way, chosen by 90% of all professionals when they want to ruin a successful forum.
You've got to admit there won't be many people called L. where Ben lives.
@gramie said:
On the surface it's funny, but you do know that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament), right? And someone had to translate it. Have a Bible signed by the translator isn't WTF at all.
It's not only funny on the surface. It's funny deep down.
And depending on what you mean by "The Bible", it was written in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, or English. I don't think there is one set of texts universally acknowledged as The Bible.
@DaveK said:
And even if it wasn't, you could sniff it off the wire. Or set up a local netcat listener and redirect the ftp server's name to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file.THAT'S HACKING! You must be fired immediately. For reasons! Reasons, yes, reasons. Known to IT management.
@bstorer said:
I started conceiving of a system based on information theory that asked questions pertaining to linguistic construction of the word, the dissonance between connotative and denotative definitions, how abstract the word is, etc. But then I realized that this was the saddest thing I had ever done in my life.It's what some people do for a PhD...
You are not very inte-lligent, are you?
Anyway, the method described for guessing letters is pointless. The one of the mathematicians was optimal, but even without a dictionary, there are better, information theory based ways. Indeed, assuming an 'r' when you have "INTE" is a sure bet, (558 in 635). But it won't make the game any more interesting.