If it operated the door to our suite at work, I might be willing to use it. Damn thing sometimes fails to read my card through my pants.
Posts made by Unperverted Vixen
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RE: Microchips gone wild
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RE: If you could make breaking changes to C#, what would you do?
@homobalkanus Ah, that makes sense. I was only thinking of methods on the overall enum type, which obviously wouldn't be of use.
I think there's use cases for both - if it's your enum, and nobody else is consuming it, that approach from Java would work (and is better from an OOP design perspective). But if you're working with an enum you can't extend, something like @blakeyrat's suggestion would be the only way to solve it.
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RE: If you could make breaking changes to C#, what would you do?
@homobalkanus said in If you could make breaking changes to C#, what would you do?:
You cannot define methods in enums in C#?
No, but I don't see how that would help...
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RE: Issue / task tracker
@grunnen If you're already using TFS for source control, TFS work items might do the trick. If you're not, then don't bother, it's not going to qualify as cheap.
As you say, JIRA seems to tick all the boxes. But as someone whose experience lies entirely with .NET/IIS, I thought it was hell to get it installed. Maybe if you already have JVM/Tomcat experience it's not bad, though.
(JIRA's got the opposite problem of what you mentioned for OpenProject: getting it to run in port 80 instead of some random other port is hard. As is getting it to run HTTPS natively. And I think that "hard" might become "impossible" if you want other stuff on port 80/443 on the same server. We ended up leaving Tomcat running on the original port 9000, and using IIS as a SSL-enabled proxy on the desired port/domain name...)
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RE: Lorne is on vacation
@lorne-kates Visiting America: you're doing it wrong.
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RE: Recommendations for interview questions
@accalia said in Recommendations for interview questions:
@pleegwat said in Recommendations for interview questions:
@accalia said in Recommendations for interview questions:
Don't forget the Vixen! <3
The one whose mind is perpetually in the gutter, or her opposing twin who barely talks at all?
botth i think, though i only talk for one of them.
Part of me thinks I should disagree with you on principle, but in this case I really can't. Communication with coworkers FTW.
@masonwheeler said in Recommendations for interview questions:
...oh, is that why she doesn't talk much? Because you're always doing it for her?
Upvoting is easy. Coming up with replies that contribute is hard. (Although obviously that's not always a requirement around here. :p )
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RE: VAT fraud?
@boomzilla said in VAT fraud?:
There's a lot of stuff that States are supposed to be able to do (by design of the Constitution) that the Feds aren't.
Emphasis on "supposed". The Interstate Commerce Clause has been abused to devolve pretty much all of those back to the Feds when they want them. :(
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RE: Is claims based authentication the way to go here?
If you're doing claims-based authentication, the claims are really only accessible at runtime, correct? If you want a list of "all users who can access X", you'd have to go query AD to find the group members?
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RE: Help me name a data structurish thing
@adynathos said in Help me name a data structurish thing:
Low-pass filter
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RE: svn info svn+ssh://doctor_who.bbc.co.uk -r13
@blakeyrat said in svn info svn+ssh://doctor_who.bbc.co.uk -r13:
@raceprouk It's not that it was bad (although it was bad), it was that pretty much every show was "let's talk about how great our own show is! Look at how much history we have! Look at us!"
It was the 50th anniversary. I think they were entitled.
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RE: XML file confusion (wooden table, advanced edition)
@greybeard said in XML file confusion (wooden table, advanced edition):
Canada
@GÄ…ska said "country", not "region of the United States."
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RE: When did Git become terrible? Let's track down the specific commit...
@masonwheeler said in When did Git become terrible? Let's track down the specific commit...:
Just use Beyond Compare, folks. It's hands-down the best diff/merge tool I've ever worked with. It's not free, but even the premium version with a bunch of advanced features isn't expensive. (Around $40 IIRC.)
We're stuck with BeyondCompare 2 (the standard version) at my workplace. But that registry compare makes me very interested in buying my own license of the current pro version...
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RE: Dual monitor troubles
@pleegwat said in Dual monitor troubles:
And I definitely know what's wrong. I procured the wrong docking station. This is a 40A1, with only 1 digital output channel. The one at the office is a 40A2, with 2 digital output channels (and possibly fewer USB ports? Who cares).
That'd do it. Enjoy your VGA second screen. ;)
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RE: $2,666,594.03 severance?
@blakeyrat said in $2,666,594.03 severance?:
Your spoiler isn't much of a spoiler. The court system isn't a robot; in cases where it's obvious something wasn't intended, they aren't going to reward.
It's hard to tell the difference between that & the court system automatically siding with the corporation over the individual.
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RE: $2,666,594.03 severance?
@gurth The employee never got the money, because the company paid what they thought they promised, not what they actually did. Hence the employee suing to get the money the company had offered and reneged on.
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RE: Smart TV boxes
@tsaukpaetra said in Smart TV boxes:
@unperverted-vixen Now, I know NodeBB is fucking with me, nobody would have up and down-voted these willy nilly like that... Right?
In this case, you are right:
That said, I wouldn't put anything past members of this forum. ;)
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RE: Smart TV boxes
@marczellm Okay, that part of it doesn't make sense. But the separation between what's not available and what you can stream isn't arbitrary as you seemed to be implying.
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RE: Smart TV boxes
@marczellm said in Smart TV boxes:
The Netflix library here is very weird.
It does have Captain America: Civil War but not the first one. Same thing with Avengers.
From Star Wars only The Force Awakens is there.
That makes perfect sense. Star Wars pre-The Force Awakens was released by Fox, and older Marvel movies were released by Paramount (except The Incredible Hulk, which was Universal). So Netflix has a deal with Disney, but not Paramount or Universal.
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RE: Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread
@boomzilla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:
Huh? Did you never watch Star Wars? How did you not know everyone would die?
Star Wars claims that the events of Rogue One were "their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire". Generally fights where you lose 95% of your solders, and the enemy escapes unscathed, are not considered "victories".
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RE: Ages of Empires: Definitive Edition
@LB_ If it's like Killer Instinct, it'll come to Steam in two years.
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RE: Anybody got experience with Aspose Words?
@Jaloopa The docs seem to say that what you want to do should be supported (although it's possible that loading a complete HTML document & InsertHtml() use different parsers).
Are you using the current version of Aspose.Words?
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RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@Tsaukpaetra Half comedy site, half insane asylum. Depends on which poster you're talking to.
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RE: Someone poked Blakey about Git again
@masonwheeler Where else are the graphics for my website supposed to go?
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RE: Will Xbox Scorpio be released sunday at the e3?
@wharrgarbl I tried that. I even built a PC and hooked it up to my TV. But it kept needing me to break out the mouse and keyboard to deal with installs or driver updates or fixing games, which was annoying.
Eventually, once a Windows update hosed it to the point where it wouldn't boot and it needed an OS reinstall, I gave up on it as a gaming machine and made it my desktop.
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RE: Will Xbox Scorpio be released sunday at the e3?
@Magus I blame this forum. It's a corrupting influence.
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RE: Will Xbox Scorpio be released sunday at the e3?
@RaceProUK said in Will Xbox Scorpio be released sunday at the e3?:
Catching up on the XBox E3 thing.
Normally, I'm one for gameplay over graphics, but some of the stuff on Scorpio… Holy shit, the graphics are amazing :D
I'm torn. I have a PS4 (regular) and an Xbox One. I don't know if/when I'll get a Scorpio, although that will probably happen before I get a PS4 Pro (because I want a UHD player).
If I start buying upcoming games on Xbox, I'll be stuck with the lower-quality version until I get a Scorpio. But if I stay on PS4 for now, I'll have the lower-quality version for the long run.
Anybody have thoughts on which platform I should be buying games on for now?
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RE: Linux user-facing software usability
@Polygeekery said in Linux user-facing software usability:
@coldandtired
KodiDevelopers actively hate all of their users.FTFY.
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@RaceProUK You mean I'm not supposed to declare all of them as
object x;
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@RaceProUK said in Programming mini-rants thread:
And it takes about two minutes to write it. Hardly a chore.
Not hard. Just tedious. Hence resurrecting the mini-rants thread rather than making this its own thing.
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@blakeyrat That my rant was specifically about all the additional stuff you need to implement to do
IComparable<T>
"right", versus the framework doing the parts of it that are copy/paste for you.If you're not implementing
IComparable<T>
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@blakeyrat If there's no ordering, then why are you implementing
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@blakeyrat said in Programming mini-rants thread:
... how?
By calling
.CompareTo()
?Is implementing
.Equals()
and.GetHashCode()
really such a burden? It would never even occur to me to "automate" those, and I'm a lazy piece of shit when it comes to coding.Needing to override
.GetHashCode()
I have no problem with. If it was just.Equals()
I probably would have sucked it up. But having to code .Equals(), and the six comparison operators (==
,!=
,<
,<=
,>
,>=
), all of which are just going to call my custom.CompareTo()
, is a lot of boilerplate.(And yes, I know it's not "having to" in the sense of "I'll get a compile error if I don't" - well, depends on how you have your static code analysis tools set up, I guess. :) But as @Dreikin quoted from the docs, you're supposed to.)
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
Why is there no
Comparable<T>
class in the .NET Framework, akin toComparer<T>
?Given all the crap you're "supposed" to implement along with
IComparable<T>
(all of the various comparison operators,Equals()
,GetHashCode()
), it seems like there should be a helper to do most of that repetitive work for you .This library looks like it does what I want, but this feels like something that should be in the framework. (Especially when Microsoft's code analysis rules yell about skipping the other pieces.)
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RE: Swapping WD external disks
This is the same WD who decided to prevent people from swapping drives in their 2.5" externals by building USB onto the drive's board, instead of just having a SATA->USB adapter in the case. I can't say I'm surprised the 3.5" external drives are also being hinky.
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RE: Dear web developers,
@dkf said in Dear web developers,:
@anotherusername Why would a portable media player need an accurate location fix? (I can see the point for the other devices listed…)
If it's an Android or iOS device (like the iPod Touch), to support existing apps that demand those hardware features.
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RE: Who stole my RAM?
@Tsaukpaetra said in Who stole my RAM?:
@Atazhaia said in Who stole my RAM?:
shocking 8.5MB of RAM
You could store almost a hundred books in that space!
Not by my math. Assuming 5-character words (so divide by 6 to include spaces) and 100,000-word books on average, you get 14.85 books.
Compression might up that somewhat, but not by a factor of six!
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RE: Who stole my RAM?
@xaade said in Who stole my RAM?:
I'm interesting in increasing my RAM, I'm currently at 8 gigs. :(
What's a good way to determine what to get without cracking open the box?
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RE: Who stole my RAM?
@Atazhaia said in Who stole my RAM?:
It also translated aperture (from AGP Aperture Size) into the photography term, which doesn't seem quite right.
And that's why
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RE: The UK is becoming a police state.
@boomzilla said in The UK is becoming a police state.:
Additionally, I can't believe that you actually believe that. There are a lot of people confused about what sorts of speech are not protected, but you'd be the first person I've heard who believes that States aren't subject to the First Amendment.
To be fair, that is what the text says; as written it only applies to Congress and the states are welcome to be more restrictive if they'd like. It was only in the 20th century that the judiciary decided that wherever the Constitution says "Congress", it really means "Congress except when they don't feel like it(1), and the state legislatures (2)".
(1) See also: religious exemptions to the ACA, anti-Muslim immigration support.
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RE: Product naming rant
@anonymous234 said in Product naming rant:
While I used iPhones and MacBooks as an example, they have problems too. Apple doesn't call them "MacBook 2015" and "Macbook 2016", they call them all "MacBook" and it gets confusing as hell (same with iPods, iPads, etc.). The point was this is how they should be named.
While MacBooks aren't identified at the point-of-sale like that, they do name them like that. (Since you can only buy the newest one, there's little point in giving the year at that point. It displays the details in the About This Mac screen, or you can look it up based on the serial number. Just like an iPhone.)
For iPods and iPads, they're numbered sequentially within each form factor. Sure, they could use years instead, but is that really a substantive difference?
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RE: The episode where Microsoft won't tell me what's REALLY going on
@TimeBandit Before installing from USB was feasible, it likely made perfect sense. And it just hasn't been updated since.
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RE: Bad code? As in *really* bad?
@hungrier Unless their C++ product is a hell of a lot better than their C# one, that'd be my guess too.
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RE: Deploying a .net Core app
@Magus said in Deploying a .net Core app:
@RaceProUK I find that .NET Standard is the one thing they're doing that does make pretty good sense. Core, not so much. If they deliver what they promised at Build, Standard will be the new PCL.
.NET Standard 1.0 - 1.6 were the new PCL. .NET Standard 2.0 is just going to cause frustration.
My understanding is that since it now exposes the entire .NET 4.6.1 API, you can reference "legacy" assemblies from .NET Standard 2.0 assemblies. But when you try to use them on .NET Core, you're going to get a bunch of PlatformNotSupportedExceptions at runtime (not even at compile time!).
Did I miss something?
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RE: Deploying a .net Core app
@RaceProUK said in Deploying a .net Core app:
@Weng All this does is further add to my opinion that .NET Core just isn't production-ready. At all.
I'm hoping that 2.0 is the new 1.0. But I'm sure not going to bet on it, especially after the infighting over whether or not they can drop full framework support from ASP.NET Core.
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RE: If you give a coder a ticket
If you let a coder commit some code, he's going to want an IDE.
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RE: Utility company WTF
@masonwheeler The bonus and extra bonus s sound like business-as-usual for companies to me...
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RE: Mod maker thinks he's the police
@RaceProUK said in Mod maker thinks he's the police:
GOG sells games with DRM now
#citationneeded
(Unless you count a CD key as DRM...)
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RE: Pronoun conflict
@ben_lubar said in Pronoun conflict:
The wiki lied to me.
In that cutscenes, he's acting independently, so I'd say he did it. (It sounded like she literally rode Scruffy, from what I read before.)