Ours is currently 3-monthly, but no repeats for, uh... 64 years.
Posts made by ThePants999
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RE: Password change frequency
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RE: Br /illiant XHTML Converter
@derula said:
I never said my regex is correct or complete, only that it matches some more cases than the chain of replaces... to show that there are cases in which simple find/replace isn't enough. To do it 100% accurate, you'd probably need an XML parser (at least a partial HTML parser). Or lots of patience.
The object is to turn it into well-formed XML. If you can run it through an XML parser, it already is!
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RE: Live. Messenger. 2011.
@blakeyrat said:
If you're an early adopter, you use ICQ or AIM.
Man. ICQ. I haven't even THOUGHT about ICQ in the last decade, much less had it installed, but no sooner did I read "ICQ" in your post than "47335259" popped into my head. That's disturbing.
Edit: closely followed by the foghorn sound. Dammit.
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RE: Ours are big and take forever..
@Zecc said:
Am I the only one sensing a lot of innuendo in the OP?
I thought that was the whole point of the thread.
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RE: Bad practices that have their roots back to VB - code review
@dhromed said:
Potato potato = new Potato()
And where's the benefit in that? It looks like line noise.
Something go you on thinking until one day you write...Potato potato = new MarisPiper()
:)
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RE: Russell's paradox strikes again
@El_Heffe said:
If the game allows it, what's the problem?
Poor game design/balancing. The developers aren't perfect, you know.Plenty of MW2 players calling for dedicated servers a la CoD4 so that they can disagree with the game designers about what makes it fun and what doesn't. The CoD4 designers thought it would be fun if everyone around you dropped live frag grenades when they died. They had a minority opinion there...
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RE: Marty! We're going Back to the Future!
@Auction_God said:
This sounds similar to another company....When you order a pizza over the web, the individual store receives a FAX so that they can make it.
Argh. I've ordered a couple of times lately from a place that does exactly that. The first time, they didn't notice the order at all until I rang up 45 minutes later to ask where the pizza was. The second time, they couldn't READ the fax properly, so they- missed half the order
- got the other half wrong
- and tried to charge me a second time.
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RE: How to invert a boolean
@Carnildo said:
blink_mode = (++blink_mode) & 1;
I particularly like the brackets. Y'know, just in case the pre-increment operator randomly decides to post-increment for a change.
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RE: Please specify your reason for absence...
This is awesome. Amputation of Toe is my favourite, simply because it's the only amputation option you get. No idea what you specify if it's a finger instead.
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RE: Form handling WTF
I recently did some integration work for a small business involving jobs board software. The software in question used a session ID it passed around everywhere in query strings (REALLY annoying for maintenance - forget to include it in a URL and the user gets logged out when they click the URL). Alas, when the site was launched and the business sent out an email to their "interested" list to publicise it, they copy-pasted the URL of the registration page into the email, containing - you guessed it - the session ID. Everyone who clicked the link found themselves already logged in. As an administrator, no less. <sigh>
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RE: Java SQL interface exception
Replies to posts should be banned in this forum. We should just have posts, no discussions. I wonder how many awesome WTFs are out there not being posted because the potential posters are worried about getting flamed (or at least mugged) by people who are more interested in judging than in laughing...
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RE: How not to spend your hours
Any time someone introduces "a code", especially "a PHP code", you know it's going to be worth reading.
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RE: Neteller...
We've hired a web development company to provide a jobs board for our website. I went through testing, tried the "forgot password" link, and sure enough, got my original password in plain text in an email. I raised an issue asking for some half-decent security, and it got immediately closed as "This feature is not a part of the <product name> system." Keep up the good work guys. :-/
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RE: A Business Analyst's Views on QA
@merreborn said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
MMMM. Relish.
Yes:Relish, v.: to be pleased or gratified by : enjoy
Thank you for insightfully pointing out that the same word can also be used to mean a pickled garnish. You've really raised the level of discourse in the thread. Where would TDWTF be without you?
MMMM. Donut.
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RE: What are merge lanes for?
@clively said:
If I turn on my signal, and you purposely speed up to physically block me, I will run you over. Period. There's your need.
...because deliberately causing collisions is good driving? <confused>
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RE: A painful but useless attempt to hide a source code
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
And it is still useless to quote the entire OP.
As I said, I agree with that. But your original comment said "quoting the OP" rather than "quoting the entire OP". I'd like to see something that indicates it's a reply to the OP, not to someone else. I'd be happy with "@OP:" at the beginning of the post though, or something like that.
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RE: Speaking of unstable databases....
I can't believe this entire thread is all about semantics. From my reading of the thread, everyone actually agrees on the key points - you've got this concept of running different bits of a task on different processors or cores, and multithreading usually allows you to take advantage of that to reduce the total elapsed time, as long as you have multiple processors/cores. But MPS is refusing to allow superjer to use the word "parallel" to describe this, having some other (and unstated) definition of "parallel". In a sense, maybe you're both right - there probably is a technical definition of parallel that implies the different bits of the task are proceeding in lockstep, starting and finishing simultaneously, but equally, 95% of people will not only know what superjer means by "parallel", but will use it exactly the same way - making it perfectly valid in my book. What a waste of a thread! :)
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RE: A painful but useless attempt to hide a source code
Since we still seem to be on this topic...
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Why do you insist on quoting the OP everytime?
We can all see the OP too... no need to quote it everytime you reply.
I disagree. I assume you use threaded view, but I use flat view - and while there's obviously not much point in the first reply in the thread quoting the OP, from then on it's useful to be able to tell at a glance whether it's a reply to the OP or a post since. Though quoting the entire OP is unnecessary, just quote a line and snip the rest.
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RE: Just in: Microsoft preps hostile takeover of Yahoo
@Jonathan Holland said:
They would be paying $41 B for the name and domain.
...and about $6.5B in annual revenue (2006 figure).
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RE: Redneck company
The price difference is accounted for in the word "upgrade" :-P
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RE: Redneck company
@El_Heffe said:
WTF is the deal with widescreen monitors? I see them all over the place and generally they are cheaper that a "normal" monitor of the same size. A 19 inch wide screen and a 19 inch regular monitor are both 19 inches diagonally. So WTF is the deal with making one shorter and calling it "Wide Screen"? Is this just some sort of weird marketing?
Yes, it is just marketing. The clever marketing is the idea that you're supposed to compare the 19" widescreen with the 19" "regular" monitor. It's no surprise that the widescreen is cheaper - the widescreen has an area of about 154 square inches, whereas the regular has an area of 173. Yes, you get to watch movies a bit bigger (the 19" 4:3 can only display a 16:9 movie 8.5" high, rather than 9.3" on the widescreen), but everything else gets smaller due to the shorter height.
To my mind, the real "widescreen upgrade" to a 19" regular monitor is a 23" widescreen. Same height (ish), extra width. The advantage of bigger movies, without any drawbacks for other stuff.
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RE: Java packets you should know and use
Shouldn't the Java keyword "package" give him a bit of a hint as to which is correct?
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Email? What's that?
I just signed up to online billing with BT. They immediately sent me a mail to thank me, and remind me of all the wonderful benefits to the environment from helping them reduce their paper usage. When I say a "mail", of course, I don't mean an email - they sent me a paper letter, in a paper envelope. Smooth.
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RE: Don't use WTF for anything else
In case you're unaware, this site has always had WTF in its name, but wasn't always called Worse Than Failure...