@El_Heffe said:
Later, the CEO is fired ("asked to leave" according to his Wikipedia article)
That will teach you to bad mouth your Redmond overlords!
@El_Heffe said:
Later, the CEO is fired ("asked to leave" according to his Wikipedia article)
That will teach you to bad mouth your Redmond overlords!
You guys may be great programmers but I see few insightful economists here. Taxes are a necessary part of a modern economy. Why did Alexander the Great not impose taxes? Because in his time the monarch owned everything and could take all that he wanted. They didn't have problems with wealth concentration because anyone silly enough to get rich either paid off the government (a sort of tax) or got everything taken away from him (yes, only males were allowed to get rich). Today's problem is the complexity of the tax rules as government tries on the one hand to make the burden fair and on the other to placate the powerful backers that got the politicians elected.
When Marco Rubio gave the Republican response to the State of the Union message they had simultaneous sub-titles available in both english and spanish. But the spanish subtitles were created by a program that was typing out what a simultaneous translator was saying. Not in itself a WTF necessarily. TRWTF was that the program that they used tried to make the spanish into english words so the spanish subtitles were just a stream of random nonsense - in English.
They are posting on Spanish Monster for a job in Germany. I'll bet they are looking for refugees from the Spanish economy who don't know how expensive Munich is. If the 'personality' attribute has two values (acceptable, not_acceptable) they will take the cheapest / most desperate.
@snoofle said:
Stuff like this always seems to involve offshore developers. Always.
Because off shore developers don't understand the business and no one is spending the monlths of time it would take to educate them. If you give a goal and say "get to that goal" but don't define the rules of the game then don't be surprised if the players take short cuts that go agains the rules.
You are lucky. You grew up in an environment where the rules were taught along with growing up. "Work hard, make money for the company, get along with the boss and you'll get promoted" is a rule. But what if the rule was different, as it is in many developing parts of the world - "Work hard, make money for the company, and the boss's son will be able to get hired as your supervisor".
In addition to the obvious WTFs, on a multi processor machine the request variable wiil be cached in each processor and. well, another reason it won't work.
@piskvorr said:
... the answer in question is now at -4 and counting. Nothing to see here, move along.
It has now gone so low it is invisible. Also the question has been viewed 484 times which for StackOverflow is a pretty good number of hits.
My favorite way to grab "protected" images is with the WebDeveloper plugin for Firefox. Image/View lmage Information brings up a new tab with each image on its own row with dimensions and size. Works great with things like Amazon's previews.